Washington  - An Iranian drone that wandered deep into Iraqi airspace last month was shot down by American warplanes, a US military spokesman in Baghdad confirmed Monday.

The US jet fighters downed the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on February 25 about 100 kilometres northeast of Baghdad, after tracking it for more than one hour and determining it was not a coalition aircraft, the spokesman said.

Sana'a, Yemen - A Yemeni state security court on Monday postponed for the second time the pronouncement of its verdict in the case of three Yemenis charged with spying for Iran.

The court was due to deliver its ruling during a session Monday, but court officials told reporters the verdict session was rescheduled one more week.

The verdict was initially scheduled for March 9, but the court's presiding judge Muhssien Alwan adjourned the pronouncement for one week, without giving any reason for the delay.

Tehran  - Presidential candidate  might quit in favour of former prime minister Mir-Hossein Moussavi in Iran's presidential race on June 12, ILNA news agency reported Sunday.

Khatami, Iran's former president, would meet Moussavi later Sunday and it was expected that one of them might quit the race against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the report said.

The news agencies Fars and Mehr reported Sunday that Khatami had

already quit the race.

ILNA also reported that Khatami himself did not want to compete against his close aide Moussavi but the reformist factions wanted the moderate cleric to stay.

Tehran  - Iranian presidential candidate and former prime minister Mir-Hossein Moussavi on Saturday criticized the economic programmes of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and blamed him for not considering the hard times when the oil price was high.

"When we had a lot of foreign currency income (through oil exports), we did not plan anything for the (current) recession phase," said Moussavi in his first campaign speech in a mosque in the southern Tehran district Nazi Abad.

Tehran, Mar. 13: Iran beat the United States in a wrestling competition in Tehran on Thursday, the same day President Obama announced that the U. S. is extending sanctions against that nation for one more year.

Six U. S. wrestlers participated in the two-day Takhti Cup at Tehran's Azadi (Freedom) sports complex, along with athletes from Cuba, Turkey and other nations.

The Iranians took ten of the competition's twelve medals.

"We made some pretty critical mistakes," U. S. head coach Zeke Jones.

"It is always a wonderful opportunity to compete with the Iranians. They are such a great wrestling country. It is one of the best tournaments in the world," he added.

Tehran - Turkish efforts to improve Tehran-Washington ties were dampened Wednesday when Iran's leader said that no change has yet been witnessed in the policies of US President Barack Obama.

"The US government is continuing its previous course and there are no signs indicating that the Americans would make up for their previous mistakes," Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told visiting Turkish President Abdullah Gul.