President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his aides visit the shrine of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini in Tehran on Saturday.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday chaired the last session of the Cabinet in his first four-year term.
During the meeting he appreciated the efforts made by the government and said the Cabinet members had all been loyal to their pledge of serving the masses and performed under difficult working conditions, IRNA reported.
Referring to the revolutionary management style the late president Mohammad-Ali Rajaei and former premier Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, who were both martyred in a bomb blast in the presidential office by the MKO on August 30, 1981, Ahmadinejad said his outgoing government had followed in the footsteps of the two martyred officials.

Tribute to Imam
Prior to the Cabinet meeting, the president and his aides visited the shrine of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini in Tehran to renew their allegiance to the founder of the Islamic state.
At the mausoleum Ahmadinejad paid tribute to the late Imam and described the 9th administration as one affection, endeavor and sacrifice which dedicated itself to serving the nation and reviving the values of the Islamic Revolution. Ahmadinejad, who was re-elected in the bitterly disputed June-12 election, is working to form his new cabinet.

At least 17 people were killed and 32 injured in two separate attacks in Iraq on Saturday, security sources said.
Ten of the victims died in a suicide bombing in Shirqat, a town in the northern Salah el-Din province. The attack also injured 14, sources said.
Four policemen were among the dead while four others were among the injured, DPA reported.
A police station, several houses and vehicles were severely damaged as well as 10 shops when the bomber blew up his car near a market in the town, located 170 kilometers north of Baghdad.
Sources added that the Iraqi civil defense troops continue the search for victims in the debris, as police and soldiers cordoned off the area.
In Nineveh province, four people were killed and 17 wounded in a car bomb attack in Sinjar town, 100 kilometers west of the restive northern city of Mosul.
Sinjar is home to the Yazidis, members of an ancient Kurdish sect who have been victims of a string of attacks in the past. In August 2007, around 400 people were killed in Sinjar by explosions targeting Yazidis. Two Iraqi soldiers were killed Saturday and a civilian was injured during a bomb blast that targeted a police patrol in eastern Mosul, a local police source said.
The source added that a girl was killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire on her in the Wehda district in Mosul.
Some 400 kilometers north of Baghdad, Mosul and its environs are the most ethnically and religiously diverse of Iraq’s regions and have been the scene of numerous deadly attacks.

Terrorists intend to disturb security and stability in Iraq with bombing campaigns and terrorist attacks, Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said.
In Baghdad to attend a memorial service for the Iraqi political leader Abdulaziz Hakim, he made the remarks in a meeting with Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki on Saturday, ISNA reported. Referring to the recent terrorist attacks in the war-ravaged country that claimed the lives of dozens of innocent people, Mottaki said that the Islamic Republic condemns such barbarity and believes that the terrorists have targeted Iraq’s stability. Restoration of peace and stability in Iraq is in the interest of all regional states, he stressed.
At least 95 people were killed and some 500 wounded on August 19, when a series of bomb attacks and mortar shells hit several ministries in the heart of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
The attacks drew strong condemnation from several countries including Japan, Turkey, the United States as well as the UN Security Council. Mottaki lauded Hakim’s role in fighting the former president Saddam Hussein and his feared Ba’athist regime.
He also praised Iran’s efforts in extending the medical care to the deceased Shiite leader during his stay in Tehran.
The Baghdad government will strongly confront any measures which weaken the country’s stability and sovereignty, he added.
The senior cleric’s body was laid to rest in the holy city of Najaf in southern Iraq on Saturday.

Britain Prime Minister Gordon Brown has given a strong indication that more British troops will be sent to Afghanistan, during a surprise visit to the country.
Speaking from Helmand province, he said he wanted to speed up the training of Afghan soldiers and police, which needed the support of British troops, BBC reported.
He also pledged greater protection for troops from home-made roadside bombs.
There are currently 9,000 UK troops in Afghanistan - mostly in Helmand - and 207 have been killed since 2001.
Brown - in his fourth visit to the country in a year - said stepping up training for Afghan troops would enable them to “take more responsibility for their own affairs“.
“I think we could get another 50,000 Afghan army personnel trained over the next year. “They [would be] backed up by partnering and mentoring done by the British forces.“ He said new equipment was being brought in to the field, such as more armored vehicles.
“That - working with a big lift in the Afghan forces - is going to be the next stage of the post-election effort in Afghanistan.“

Bloodiest Summer
British troops had been involved in attempts to shore up security ahead of the country’s presidential elections, held earlier this month.
In April, while in Helmand, Brown said he wanted to see the Afghan army expanded from 75,000 to 135,000-strong by the end of 2011, as well as thousands more police. He now wants this program brought forward by a year.
BBC deputy political editor James Landale, who was in Afghanistan with the prime minister, said some had accused Brown of not doing enough to support British forces.
“After the army’s bloodiest summer so far and weeks of controversy over possible helicopter shortages the prime minister wanted to show not just his support for British troops, he also wanted to restate his case for war - namely that unchecked terrorism in Afghanistan could reach the streets of Britain.“