Lebanon appointed prime minister said that the next government will take steps toward developing ties with Iran.

– Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki stressed on Saturday that the Zionist regime is the main culprit in the abduction of Iranian nationals in Lebanon in 1982.

Head of Japanese Parliament’s foreign commission Taro Kono said his country favored closer cooperation with Iran on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Iran's ambassador to Berlin Alireza Sheikh Attar said, according to the Vienna Convention, local employees of an embassy are subject to their own country's laws.

Turkish Minister of Public Works and Housing Mustafa Demir held talks with Iran’s Ambassador to Turkey Bahman Hosseinpour in Ankara Wednesday on broadening bilateral housing cooperation.

Iranian and Afghan officials stressed expansion of bilateral relations on Tuesday.

Syrian Minister of Finance Mohammad al-Hussein on Tuesday called for holding a four-sided meeting with his Iranian, Iraqi and Turkish counterparts aimed at promoting regional cooperation.

– Iran and Russia on Tuesday discussed new ways for the expansion of peaceful nuclear cooperation.

An informed Iraqi source said on Tuesday that the five Iranian diplomats who were captured by US forces in the Iraqi city of Erbil would soon be released after being handed over to the Iraqi govern

The Arab League on Monday opposed the idea of isolating the Islamic Republic by certain Arab states.