An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale jolted the city of Tabriz in Iran’s northwestern province of Eastern Azarbaijan Sunday morning.

Enriched uranium fuel is ready to be shipped from Russia to Iran’s first nuclear power plant, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Saturday.

As a way to draw attention from American shortcomings in Iraq, the US is accusing Iran of trying to destabilize the war-torn country, the Iranian ambassador to Iraq said.