Tehran  - Iran had no hostility toward the United States but requires signs of amity to put an end to three decades of diplomatic estrangement, ex-president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani said at a Friday prayer ceremony in Tehran.

"We have no hostility with the American nation, but there should be some signs of goodwill to change the status quo," said Rafsanjani, who still plays an influential role in the Iranian political scene as head of the Experts Assembly, a powerful religious body.

Washington, Mar. 27 : The chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry has said the United States may seek cooperation from India, China, and Iran to stabilize Afghanistan.

"We also need to reach out to Afghanistan's other neighbours, including India, China, and Iran," the Dawn quoted Kerry, as saying at the confirmation hearing for the new US ambassador to Afghanistan.

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Tehran - Iran on Thursday confirmed its attendance at the regional conference aimed at stabilizing Afghanistan to be held on March 31 in The Hague, local media reported.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi however said that the level of the Iranian delegation has not yet been clarified as Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is being on a trip abroad.

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said earlier this month that it was expected that Iran would be invited to the conference.

Tel Aviv  - Iran has "crossed the technological threshold" for making an atom bomb, Israeli Military Intelligence Chief Amos Yadlin said Wednesday.

Achieving military nuclear capability was now "mainly dependent on a political decision by Iran" to actually do so, Israeli media quoted Yadlin as telling an Israeli parliamentary committee dealing with security.

Sydney - Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has urged Australia and other western nations to withdraw from Afghanistan, news reports said Wednesday.

"We see that some troops are coming all the way from the other side of the world to establish peace and security there," Khatami told students at the Australian National University in Canberra. "We tell them, leave them alone, they would not cry any more."

Khatami, speaking through an interpreter, is on an visit to Australia sponsored by Melbourne's La Trobe University.