The allies of Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, were unable to attain victory in the elections held in the Islamic Republic during the weekend.

The Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has continued his verbal attack on the State of Israel, this time stating that the ?Zionist regime will soon be wiped out?.

Larjani met with envoys from China, Britain, France, Russia, Germany and Switzerland in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Tuesday to discuss the Islamic Republic`s options. Larjani was quoted as saying, "Iran now is ready for serious talks with the six world powers from this Wednesday over the package."

Yesterday, the response arrived. It is a very long document, very complex, we are going to study it, Douste-Blazy said. "I noticed that certain Iranian officials were saying that they would like to negotiate."

An Iranian student leader, who went on a hunger strike to demand his release from jail after first being released and then being rearrested, died in prison this week as the Islamic Republic went before the UN Security Council over its nuclear program and as Iran has come under increasing scrutiny over its support for the Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon

Wanna-be "martyrs" claim to want to be part of the holy war against Israeli forces and Tehran, opposed as it is to Israel`s existence, is not stopping these volunteer terrorists from seeking to join in the violence in Lebanon.

More national teams are undergoing personnel changes. With Italy, Argentina, and England replacing their national team`s coach, now Iran is joining the list.

U.S. Navy sailors aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Gonzalez rescued six Iranian mariners after an engine malfunction left them adrift for 10 days. The Gonzalez, currently on deployment in the Arabian Gulf, spotted what they describe as a "crippled dhow," and immediately changed course to assist.

U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad, at a news conference, criticized what he described as the Islamic Republic`s playing a "negative role" in Iraqi affairs. Last October, Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain said his government was investigating evidence that Iran had sold sophisticated bombs to insurgents in Iraq.

With more than 1,000 trained martyrdom-seekers, we are ready to attack the American and British sensitive points if they attack Iran`s nuclear facilities. If they strike, we have a lot of volunteers. Their sensitive places are quiet close to Iranian borders, says a leader of the Martyrdom Seekers group.

Throwing fuel onto the flames of the cultural fires burning as a result of what many have termed "hypocritical" Muslim overreactions to cartoons that first appeared in a newspaper in Denmark last September depicting Islam`s prophet-founder Muhammad, Iran`s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said this week that the United States and Europe should pay a price for the publication of the cartoon.

Iran`s president and other government officials of the regime lashed out this week at the United States and other critics, vowing to resist the pressure of "bully countries," as European nations circulated a draft resolution urging that Teheran be brought before the U.N. Security Council for its nuclear activities.

Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is proving too radical even for some Iranian conservatives. Ahmadinejad`s supporters seem unfazed by the latest criticism. Ahmadinejad often points out that he was an underdog who won the June presidential vote with little formal backing from Iran`s power centers.