Tehran - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will visit Tehran at the weekend to discuss further expansion of bilateral ties, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told state television Friday.
Rome - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marked Tuesday his arrival in Italy - the first visit to a European nation since his 2005 election - with remarks against Israel which drew immediate condemnation.
"The European people have been subjected to most of the Zionists' damage and today the costs of this falsified regime, both the political and the economic, fall on the shoulders of Europe," Ahmadinejad said referring to Israel.
Italian Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa said the Iranian president's comments provoked "great concern."
Tehran - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that the country's nuclear work would continue but he rejected allegations that Iran is pursuing a secret nuclear weapons program
Tehran - Iran on Tuesday commemorated the 19th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic republic, at a ceremony in the Khomeini Mausoleum in southern Tehran.