Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to President George Bush proposing “new solutions” to their differences in the first letter from an Iranian leader to an American president in 27 years, government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said today.

Iran’s negotiations with Russia over its plan to enrich Iranian uranium on its soil have been indefinitely postponed, presidential spokesman Gholamhossein Elham said today.

IRAN will only consider a compromise offer from Russia on its nuclear programme if the deal acknowledges its right to enrich uranium on Iranian soil, a government has said.

Iran’s hard-line constitutional watchdog has decided that women can run for president in June elections, state-run television reported today.

TEN Palestinians, including a four-year-old girl, were killed during Israeli swoops in the Gaza Strip yesterday that touched off fierce battles with gunmen, witnesses said.