An Iranian military official said here on Thursday that the US efforts to label the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group are aimed at launching a psychological war against the Islamic Republic.

With Libya at the helm, and Iran, Cuba and Pakistan among the 20 nations participating, a United Nations-convened meeting in Geneva next week will begin to lay the groundwork for a global conference on racism in 2009.

Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran has warned German banks that their withdrawal from the country may result in business disadvantages in the future, the bank’s vice governor Mohammad Jafar Mojarrad said.

The production line for manufacturing an Iran-made intelligent bomb called ‘Ghased’ will launch operation next week.

 Attorney of Haleh Esfandyari, an Iranian national who is a resident of the US and was arrested by Tehran officials on charges of harming national security, said Esfandyari can now travel abroad after she was let out on bail on Tuesday.

Iranian Government Spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham here Wednesday spoke of a mafia group in Iran which seeks to control the country’s giant oil industries to use its huge revenues for family and partisan interests.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad conferred with Azerbaijan’s Prime Minister Artur Rasizade about bilateral ties and regional and world issues in Baku on Wednesday.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel called on Muslims to be watchful of enemies’ plots for undermining Islamic unity.

A prominent Iranian lawmaker, noting the United States’ recent military build-up in the region, warned Arab countries to be watchful of colorful revolutions.

Iranian oil ministry caretaker Gholam-Hossein Nozari is expected to pay a visit to Turkey next month to sign energy agreements with the Ankara officials, a Turkish official said.