Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad on Monday stressed the importance of the friendly relations between Tehran and Damascus for the entire region.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit on Monday termed Iran's presence in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) as vital.

Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Teyyep Erdogan said his country will continue efforts to have Iran in “Naboko” gas pipeline project.

The president of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences held talks with a visiting Iranian delegation from Khaje Nasir Toosi University of Technology on Monday on mutual academic cooperation.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said on Monday that Iran’s new package of proposals for the West would help resolve the major international economic, cultural and moral problems.

The foreign ministers of Iran and China discussed the recent developments and unrest in the Chinese Xinjiang province in a telephone conversation on Sunday.

Iran’s junior freestyle wrestling team clinched the title of the 2009 Asian Junior Freestyle Wrestling Championships in Manila, the Philippines, on Sunday.

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday that Iran would preserve the right to pursue the case of five released Iranian diplomats who had been taken hostage by US troops in Iraq in 2007 a

Five Iranian diplomats taken hostage by US in Iraq, for almost two years, came back home on Sunday.

They were welcomed by Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki at Mehrabad Airport.

Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Abdul Basit, here on Sunday said that there is absolutely no pressure on Pakistan to cancel the gas pipeline deal with Iran.