TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The deployment of the mine hunter USS Gladiator in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday was not aimed at Iran, a US Navy spokesman said.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran stressed on Tuesday that his country was still cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency despite announcing a day earlier that it had banned 38 of the UN watchdog’s inspectors from working in the country.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The United States is incapable of inflicting “serious damage” on Iran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday.