TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said on Sunday that Tehran is continuing its consultation with Saudi Arabia on the Lebanon crisis.

Lebanon’s political deadlock has left it without a head of state since Emile Lahoud’s term expired on November 23.
Parliamentary sessions to vote for a new president were postponed 17 times as the ruling coalition and the opposition failed to settle their differences.
Hosseini expressed hope that other countries would also take steps in helping to resolve the Lebanese crisis so that the country “would be able to extricate from the current situation through reaching an internal consensus.”
----------------------Security Council should distance itself from wrong policies
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany (Group 5+1) should abandon their “wrong policy” toward Iran, Hosseini said.
“Our advice to the 5+1 group... is that they should try to leave behind their wrong policy,” Hosseini told reporters at his weekly press briefing.
The United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany are scheduled to meet on April 16 in Shanghai to discuss what the next steps should be against Iran.
The Western countries should revise their approach toward the Islamic Republic’s voluntary cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, he said, adding, “Those countries are aware of the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear activities, and are sure that the Iranian nation and government will not back down from their tights.”
------------------------ Imposing sanctions is futile
Hosseini criticized the recent statements by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner about Iran, saying, “Imposing sanctions is a futile policy.”
Kouchner said the international community must consider “reinforced” sanctions if Iran does not respond to what he called concerns about its nuclear program.
It has been proven that implementing such policies, especially when they are based on illegal UN Security Council resolutions, are inefficient, the spokesman stated.
He advised the French officials to admit the realities surrounding Iran’s nuclear issue and adopt a correct stance.
---------------------- Iran writes to UN on Israel’s threat
The Islamic Republic has sent a letter to the United Nations to react to the Zionist regime’s military threats against the country, Hosseini stated.
The UN, specifically the Security Council, should not remain silent in face of the repeated threats from a regime with a “history of occupation and aggression which also owns nuclear weapons,” the foreign ministry official insisted.
Through a letter on Friday, Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Mohammad Khazee referred to comments on April 7 by Israel’s Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who warned Tehran that any attack on the Jewish state would result in the “destruction of the Iranian nation”, AP reported.
Khazaee told the Security Council that Israel “has continued with its insolent, outrageous and unprovoked threats against the Islamic Republic of Iran” and in violation of the UN Charter.
The envoy sent a similar letter to the council in late February demanding that Israel stop military threats against Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.
------------------- FM to attend meeting on Iraq
Iran has always been among the most active countries to help establish peace and stability in Iraq and reconstruct the country, Hosseini noted.
Iraqi officials have always appreciated and acknowledged Iran’s support for their country, he added.
“Within the same framework, the foreign minister (Manuchehr Mottaki) will attend the meeting of Iraq’s neighboring countries,” Hosseini said.
A ministerial-level meeting of Iraq’s neighbors is scheduled to be held on April 22 in Kuwait to promote the country’s economic, security, and diplomatic issues.
On the U.S. official request for holding a fourth round of talks with Iran on Iraq’s security, he said, “The American officials should know that their past policies in Iraq have been impractical.