Iran's top nuclear negotiator will meet the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency this week as part of a push for a new round of talks over his country's disputed nuclear program, officials said Wednesday.
The kidnappers who snatched five British contractors last month were funded, trained and armed by Iran, the US commander in Iraq said in an interview published late Wednesday.
A Kuwaiti diplomat who was assaulted in front of his country's embassy in Iran was flown home Wednesday for medical treatment and was greeted at the airport by his foreign minister, who said Kuwait was angered by the attack.
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani is set to meet UN atomic agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei on Friday, a day before renewed talks with the European Union about Tehran's nuclear programme.
Russia on Wednesday bluntly told the United States it saw no threat from Iran's ballistic missiles and was perplexed how Washington could use this to justify a planned US defence system in Europe.
Iran's top nuclear negotiator will meet the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency this week as part of a push for a new round of talks over his country's disputed nuclear program, an Iranian nuclear official said Wednesday.
Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani will have talks with the U.N. atomic watchdog chief on Friday but will not discuss big powers' demands for an Iranian nuclear halt, an Iranian official said on Wednesday.
Russia sees no threat from Iran's ballistic missiles and does not understand why the United States needs to speak of such a menace to justify the presence of a US missile defence system in Europe, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Russian President Vladimir Putin are supporting Iran's right to develop a nuclear energy system.
All Things Considered , June 20, 2007 ยท Iran continues to make progress building its uranium enrichment facility as claims spread that the nation is sending conventional weapons to Iraq and Afghanistan that are being used against U.S. troops.