Lebanese Shiite Leader Allamah Muhammad Hussein Fadhlallah called for actual and practical solutions to his country’s current crisis.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to leave Tehran for New York next Sunday to attend the annual meeting of the Untied Nations General Assembly.

In a blatant violation of diplomatic norms, the US administration refrained from issuing an entry visa for Iran’s ambassador to Geneva and chairman of the Group 15.