An informed source privy to Iran-US talks denied earlier reports on an incoming meeting between Iran’s deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and Advisor to the US Secretary of State David Satterfield, describing the news as unfounded.

An Iranian lawmaker who devised the plan for the formation of Iran-US parliamentary friendship group said that his proposal is intended to display good intentions of Iranian and American nations.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed that bullying powers should give up their plots and leave the Persian Gulf region.