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TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a meeting with the participants at the ECO Interior Ministers’ meeting here on Wednesday, stressed the need for the independent countries to reinvigorate their regional cooperation to get rid of hegemonic and unilateralist powers.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran starts staging its extensive maneuvers in the Persian Gulf with the launch of its long-range Shahab series missiles on Thursday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said security concerns are among the main root causes of ECO’s lack of progress in establishing a positive regional convergence.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Expediency Council Chairman Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that radical prejudice has unfortunately turned into the root cause of some incidents in Iraq. Speaking in a meeting with a number of leaders of Iraqi Sunni and Shiite nomads here on Tuesday, Rafsanjani, noted the role of …

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The meeting of the Interior Ministers of the Economic Cooperation Organization’s 11 member states kicked off work here on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Deputy Foreign Minister assured that the United Nations Security Council draft resolution on Iran won’t be approved by the member states.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly one of every 25 weapons the military bought for Iraqi security forces is missing, a government audit said. Many others cannot be repaired because parts or technical manuals are lacking.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here Monday said that the era of bombs has passed and that today is rather the time for reasoning, thinking and culture.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a phone talk on Monday night surveyed the most significant international developments, including Iran’s nuclear dossier.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here Monday said that any measure taken by the US in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine will be detrimental to the country itself.