Eurasia Press & News

WASHINGTON — Leaders of the new Democratic-controlled Congress are vowing to fight it. An elite panel on Iraq has shown little enthusiasm for it. And even some military commanders are deeply sceptical about it.

TEHRAN (AP) — Iran and Syria on Thursday denounced a new Iraq strategy announced by US President George W. Bush that blames them for fuelling violence in the war-torn country. Tehran and Damascus said the plan to send more US troops would only increase bloodshed in Iraq.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Two International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors arrived in Iran on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An Iranian MP here on Wednesday warned Saudi Arabia against the adoption of provocative measures, stressing that any regional crisis will be detrimental to Riyadh’s interests as well.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini here on Wednesday condemned US air raid on villages and refugees in southern Somalia.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An Iranian MP said here on Wednesday that the United States is seeking to misuse the concerns of some dependent Arab statesmen so as to provoke them into hostility and violence against Iran and Muslim Shiites.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Sudan’s Defense Minister Field Marshal Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein, heading a high ranking military delegation, is scheduled to arrive here in Iran on Friday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned that the world’s hegemonic powers have targeted the religious beliefs and self-reliance of the different countries, including Iran, in a bid to block their progress.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An Unidentified Flying Object crashed in Barez Mounts in the central province of Kerman Wednesday morning.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced that Iran is fully prepared to launch cooperation with all regional states in a bid to reinvigorate stability and security in the strategic and sensitive Persian Gulf region.