Iran will attend the upcoming Geneva II conference on Syria without accepting any preconditions, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman was quoted as saying by official IRNA news agency on Monday.
Iran has halted the a series of most controversial nuclear activity regarding the deal with six major states, an UN nuclear agency report obtained by Xinhua on Monday showed, which might facilitate the easing of the Western sanctions imposed on Iran.
Iran will participate in the upcoming Geneva II conference on Syria without accepting the 2012 Geneva communique, a top Iranian lawmaker was quoted as saying by Press TV on Monday.
Iran has received UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's invitation to attend Geneva II peace talks on the Syrian crisis, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Monday.
Syria's main opposition group in exile Syrian National Coalition (SNC) said here on Monday that it suspends its participation in Geneva II conference due to UN's invitation to Iran.
Iran will suspend 20 percent uranium enrichment on Monday voluntarily, Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali-Akbar Salehi said.
Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi said that Iran would halt production of 20 percent enriched uranium by noon (0830 GMT) on Monday, the official IRNA news agency reported.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday that he had invited Iran to attend this week's Syria peace conference in Switzerland, also known as Geneva II.
Israel handed over on Sunday evening the body of a Palestinian militant to the Palestinian Authority, the first of the 36 bodies of Palestinian militants Israel agreed to return.
One man was killed and 55 others were injured Sunday in tribal clashes in the Algerian province of Ghardaia, about 600 km south of the capital Algiers, a local medical source told Xinhua.