VATGAR NEWS AGENCY

Iranian Air Force pilots successfully conduct low-altitude, long distance flights in the final phase of the Milad-Noor-Velayat aerial maneuver over the Persian Gulf.

"By continuing trainings in the future, we would be able to fly at an altitude of one meter above the sea level," Air Force pilot Brigadier Hossein Chit-Foroush, spokesman for the maneuver told Fars News on Friday.

Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki speaks out against Western efforts that seek to dramatize the post-election unrest in the country.

Washington and a slew of European powers, in recent days, have lashed out at governmental moves to restore security in the country.

Iran's deputy police commander says that 400 police personnel were wounded in violence erupting after the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the Friday vote.

"Families of those killed or injured in the events since June 12 have filed 2,000 complaints so far," Fars quoted acting Police Chief Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Radan as saying Saturday.

Two people have been killed and eight others have been injured in a suicide bombing attack on the mausoleum of Imam Khomeini in southern Tehran.

The suicide bomber was also killed in the blast that rocked the northern wing of the mausoleum of the founder of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini, on Saturday, Tabnak reported.

The injured pilgrims have been taken to hospitals.

US commander in Iraq claims the military has largely honored the security agreement with Baghdad amid, what he claimed to be, a relative lull in militant activities.

On Monday, General Ray Odierno said the pullout from urban areas was on the go with the troops having left the Iraqi forces in charge of 142 former US bases, Xinhua reported.

The Hezbollah secretary general says the recent remarks by the Israeli premier served to re-assert the eternal Tel Aviv policy of disregard for the Palestinian interests.