TEHRAN, May 5 (UPI) -- The June 12 presidential elections in Iran play no role in ongoing talks on its controversial nuclear program, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

TEHRAN, May 4 (UPI) -- An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Monday criticized a U.S. report calling Iran a state sponsor of terrorism," saying the Islamic republic fights terrorism.

TEHRAN, March 13 (UPI) -- Iran hasn't officially accepted a U.S. invitation to take part in an upcoming conference on Afghanistan, a, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday.

TEHRAN, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- The execution order for writer Salman Rushdie remains valid even though the issuing cleric has died, the Iranian foreign ministry said Wednesday.

TEHRAN, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Technical difficulties could further delay completion of Iran's $1 billion Russian-built nuclear power plant, an Iranian Foreign Ministry official said Monday.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Iran strongly condemned the abduction of a diplomat in Pakistan's insurgency-plagued northwest region, an act Pakistan blamed on the Taliban.

TEHRAN, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- The Iranian Foreign Ministry Monday called for the preservation of Iraqi sovereignty as negotiations on the long-term security deal with Washington wind down.

TEHRAN, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The government of Iran called on Baghdad to release Iranian pilgrims held by Iraq for crossing the border illegally to visit Islamic holy sites.