Representative of the Supreme Leader in Gilan: One of the reasons for the backwardness of some countries is the lack of leadership like Khamenei

Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran's representative to international organizations based in Vienna, wrote on Twitter که that he hoped wisdom and "cooperation, goodwill and reciprocity" would prevail at next week's meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors. He added that any unconstructive action would disrupt the negotiation process

Robert Mali, the US special envoy for Iran, called his meetings with Russia's deputy foreign minister "good and constructive" and said they discussed the US-Russia common goals of returning to talks and reviving the UN Security Council.

"Trump has asked the Pentagon to reject and delay reports of brain damage from Iran's missile strike on Iraq last year," Alyssa Farah, a former Pentagon spokeswoman, told the Guardian. "Almost 80 percent of American casualties were able to return to work after a few days," he said.

The head of the Taliban government, Mohammad Hassan Akhund, said in his first interview with Al-Jazeera that the war in Afghanistan was over and the Taliban controlled the entire country. He called on former Afghan officials to return to the country, calling the Taliban a "kind and compassionate" group.

Former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took to Twitter to refer to the "strategic catastrophe" in Afghanistan and wrote: "No domestic or foreign power has been able to overcome this zealous nation by force. Three superpowers tried this method and failed with humiliation. "The fate of any claimant to a coercive government will be no other than this."