Tehran - Iran and Arab states have become involved in a renewed dispute over the term Persian Gulf, Tehran media reported Wednesday. The dispute this time concerns the Islamic Solidarity Games to be held in Iran and a request by Saudi Arabia to remove the term Persian Gulf from game medals and brochures.

Two Saudi officials of the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation told the Iranian side that Arab states would only participate in the games if the term Persian Gulf was replaced with the Arabian Gulf or just Gulf.

Tehran - The main challenger of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June 12 presidential election called Tuesday for a "return to rationality", ISNA news agency reported. "For me the first task of the new government should be return to rationality," Mir-Hossein Moussavi said in a speech in the western city Kermanshah.

Jerusalem, Apr. 28 : Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak has described Iran as the country posing the most central threat not only to the Jewish state, but also to the entire world.

"Iran was "a threat to the entire world, as it is interested in changing the entire international order and is a source of instability in the Middle East and throughout the world," the Jerusalem Post quoted Barak, as saying.

Luxembourg - European Union foreign ministers Monday called on Iran to respond positively to the United States' recent diplomatic overtures and help find a negotiated solution to the nuclear standoff. "The EU warmly supports the new direction of US policy towards Iran, which opens a window of opportunity for negotiations on all aspects of Iran's nuclear programme," ministers said in a joint statement issued during talks in Luxembourg.

London, Apr 27: The latest security threat to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is likely to come from poisoned pens, feels his bodyguards.

Not content with plunging into crowds during his frequent public appearances, Ahmadinejad has been known to drive alone and unprotected at night to deprived neighbourhoods to meet families who lost relatives during Iran''s 1980-88 war with Iraq.

He has dismissed advice that his habits could make him a sitting duck for potential assassins, The Guardian reports.