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At a second meeting with his Iranian counterpart in two months, the US ambassador blasted Tehran on Tuesday for arming and training Shiite militias but agreed to set up a security subcommittee with Iran and Iraq to carry forward work on stabilising the country.

Turkey warned Saturday that it could send troops into northern Iraq after Sunday’s general elections if talks with Iraqi and US officials fail to produce effective measures against Kurdish rebels based there.

Iranian President Mamoud Ahmadinejad mocked Israel and called for Lebanese unity during meetings in Damascus Thursday with his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad and Hizbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

KABUL (Reuters) – Iranian arms are entering Afghanistan and reaching Taliban insurgents in such quality and quantity that the Tehran government must know about it, the U.S. ambassador to Kabul said on Tuesday.

Israel has been passing messages to Syria for months through Turkey and has yet to receive assurances peace talks would lead Damascus to sever ties with Iran, Hamas and Hizbollah, officials said on Wednesday.

The head of the UN’s atomic energy agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, has welcomed Iran’s decision to allow inspections of its heavy water reactor at Arak.

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Iranian and US envoys will soon hold talks in Baghdad to discuss security in Iraq, following up on a landmark meeting in May, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s new ambassador to the United Nations Organization Mohammad Khazayee left Tehran for New York on Tuesday to start his mission in the world body. Khazayee told FNA here today that he would start his mission at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Omani Foreign Minister Yusef Bin Alawi described Iran’s nuclear power plant in Bushehr as highly safe, stressing that there is no need for the inspection of Bushehr. “We believe that inspection (of Bushehr nuclear power plant) is not needed because we are confident that this power …