Moscow - Iran's ongoing long-range missile tests prove the uselessness of US plans to build a missile shield in Eastern Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday.

Tehran - Nuclear talks between Iran and the European Union will resume on July 19 in Geneva, official news agency IRNA reported Friday.

London - French energy company Total has withdrawn from investing in Iran because of the growing political risk of doing so, its chief executive said according to a report Thursday.

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Berlin- The German government called Wednesday on Tehran to halt "all form of sabre rattling" following Iran's testing of nine missiles over the Gulf.

German government spokesman Thomas Steg said the tests had been noted "with concern" and drew attention to the possibility that the missiles were suitable for carrying nuclear warheads.

"The German government calls on Iran to halt all form of sabre rattling," Steg said.

European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana had visited Tehran in mid June with a renewed offer from the international community intended as demonstrating good will and aimed at bridge-building, Steg said.

Tehran - Iran on Wednesday distanced itself from a documentary film on the assassination of the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, saying the film had nothing to do with the Iranian government, the official news agency IRNA reported.

Iran's state television network aired a documentary film called Assassination of the Pharaoh, which glorified Sadat's assassin Khaled al-Islamboli and portrayed him as a martyr who killed a traitor.

"The producers of the film were from the non-governmental and private sector, and the film was in line with freedom of expression in Iran, but the contents of the film have nothing to do with the official stance of Tehran," an unnamed official from the Foreign Ministry told IRNA.