Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Tuesday, sending a clear message that Russia intends to stand by Syria.

Speaker Ali Larijani says that the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee is studying the question of cutting oil exports to Europe.

The Foreign Ministry spokesman says that the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council would soon send a letter to EU Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton.

Turkish sources announced that eleven Iranian pilgrims who had been recently abducted during a trip to Syria have been set free.

Russia has warned against U.S. policies on Iran and Syria, saying more pressures on Iran would result in nothing but a stalemate.

With less than one month to go before the ninth parliamentary elections in Iran, officials say that 3250 candidates have so far secured the nod of the Guardian Council to run for the March vote.

Islamic Revolution leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says that the Islamic Awakening movement will continue with no stop and that the history of the Islamic world will undergo changes.

A large number of people on Sunday staged a rally outside the U.S. embassy in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, to voice support for Iran’s peaceful nuclear program and call on Washington to abandon its interventionist polices in the Middle East.

Occupy London protesters camping outside St. Paul’s Cathedral are standing on their ground despite the bitter cold and frost.

Head of the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) says that the homemade Navid satellite has rotated 50 times around the earth since it was put into orbit three days ago.

Iran's minister of Industry, Mine and Commerce says that the country will put on the agenda efforts to downgrade trade ties with European countries if they put in force an EU ban on Iran's oil.