Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed that the development of ties with independent European countries sets a principle of his country’s foreign policy.

Iran and South Korea on Saturday signed an agreement to form a joint investment committee, Iranian Economic Affairs and Finance Ministry said.

During the last 27 years, Iran has always safeguarded its territorial borders and it is needless of theatrical measures and scene-setting, an Iranian informed source said in reaction to the recent statements of the German Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is scheduled to mark April 9 as the ‘Day of Nuclear Technology’ during a ceremony due to be held in Natanz nuclear facility, where President Ahmadinejad will announce the good news about nuclear progress.

Head of Iran’s forensic medicine organization Seyed Shahaboddin Sadr and Sudanese Health Minister Tabita Sokaya Saturday endorsed an agreement on the development of forensic medicine in Sudan.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said that during his sojourn in Pakistan, officials of that country promised to counter insecurities along shared borders with Iran’s Sistan and Balouchestan province.

A prominent Iranian lawmaker said that imposition of international sanctions on the Islamic Republic serves Iran’s interests in the long run as the measure leads into the activation of the potentials of the talented Iranian youth and scientists.

Friday Prayers leader of the Iraqi city of Najaf here in Tehran on Friday stressed that there exists no civil war in his country and that the present unrests are originated and led from outside Iraq.

A suicide bomber slammed his car into a police checkpoint on Friday in the restive western city of Ramadi, killing at least 20 people and wounding another 30, police said.

Washington, April 6 (Prensa Latina) The Washington Post revealed on Friday that there was no direct cooperation between the Al-Qaeda network and late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, as the US government has stated.