Iceland’s Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir voiced her country’s support for the current cooperation between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

US seeks to dissolve the central government in Baghdad through dividing Iraq into Shiite, Sunnite and Kurd-residing regions, advisor to the former Iraqi prime minister said, adding that the US troops have handicapped Nuri al-Maliki’s administration.

Lebanese groups can disappoint the Untied States through cooperating with each other in the presidential elections, deputy head of the Lebanese Hezbollah group Sheikh Naim Qasem said.

The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said its defense troops have launched a new system which brings all movements in the Persian Gulf and the Straight of Hormoz under Iran’s online control.

Senegalese Prime Minister Cheikh Hadjibou Soumare described Iran as a large country with abundant and high potentials, and voiced enthusiasm for paying a visit to the Islamic Republic.

Pakistan has agreed to details of a deal for buying gas from Iran, officials from both sides said on Friday, adding that the proposed tri-nation pipeline would be viable even if India, the third party, walked out.

Bolivian President Evo Morales welcomed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Bolivia on Thursday.

Iran’s parliament on Saturday approved a nonbinding resolution labeling the CIA and the U.S. Army “terrorist organizations,” in apparent response to a Senate resolution seeking to give a similar designation to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

KABUL, Afghanistan – The International Committee of the Red Cross has established contact with the armed group that kidnapped four of its workers but no progress has been made, officials said Friday.

As of Friday, Sept. 28, 2007, at least 375 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Sept. 22, 2007.