Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here on Tuesday described the recent allegations by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown while visiting the occupied territories in total contradiction with the dominant atmosphere in Geneva negotiations and called on the UK to adopt a constitutive stance by revising its approach. Mottaki made the remarks in a meeting with the UK Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Office Peter Ricketts in Tehran on Tuesday.

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad-Ali Talebi said that his latest film “The Wall” targets teenage girl film watchers. “Due to the film’s theme and its young star Golshifteh Farahani I believe that the film will catch the eyes of young girls,” he told the Mehr News Agency on Tuesday. The film is about a teen girl Setareh, who plans to continue her father’s job as a performer of motorcycle acrobatic stunts after his death. The film has been scheduled to premiere in Iranian movie theaters on July 24, which was described by Talebi as timely.

State Expediency Council Chairman, Hojjatoleslam Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, said in Tehran Tuesday in a meeting with a group of Iraqi cultural and arts figures that Iran wishes to see a secure, free and united Iraq. According to IRNA, Rafsanjani reiterated that the blame game of the US occupiers on the Islamic Republic's alleged interference in Iraqi affairs is big lie. The baseless claims of the US occupiers to establish security, fight terrorism and pursue humanitarian objectives in occupied Iraq has been fully exposed today, he said, adding that the occupiers through a blame game are making a vain attempt to justify their continued illegal presence in that country.

Advisor to pakistani Prime Minister on Interior A. Rehman Malik met Iranian acting Minister for Interior Affairs Syed Mehdi Hashmi here on Tuesday.Hashemi also called on with the president Parviz Mosharaf.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says US is seeking ways to relate to Iranians and make it easier for them to access her country. Without identifying its sources, Britain's The Guardian newspaper announced last Thursday that the Bush administration plans to establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran shortly. Reacting to the news, the Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that the United States has not officially asked to set up an interest section in Iran and the proposal has only been exposed through the media. Mottaki, however, said Iran would consider the request if presented officially.