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©Institute for Political and International Studies 160 THE IRANIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Aug. 22: An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delegation led by deputy director general Olli Heinoen started a new session of talks with Iranian national security official Javad Vaeedi in Tehran.
Sep. 4: Speaking as the Chairman of the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the NonAligned Movement (NAM) on Human Rights and Cultural Diversity, Iran's Foreign minister,· Manouchehr Mottaki said the issue of human rights ' ©Institute for Political and International Studies 162 THE IRANIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS has been exploited as a tool to exert political pressure on independent states.
Sep. 6: Iran calls for progress in Afghanistan, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in a meeting with his Afghan counterpart Rangin Dad far Spanta in Tehran.
Sep. 13: Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki who was in Moscow at the head of an economic delegation conferred with Russia's Atomic Energy chief Sergei Kiriyenko on expansion of mutual cooperation.
Sep. 24: Iranian President Ahrnadinejad arrived in New York and said in a television interview that Iran was neither building a nuclear bomb nor headed to war with the United States.
Oct. 18: Iran's Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had brought a special message for Iranian officials.
Oct. 31: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov headed to Iran for a surprise visit to meet President Ahmadinejad, amid growing differences between Moscow and the West over the Iranian nuclear drive.