TEHRAN, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has postponed his scheduled tour of Latin America indefinitely, the local semi-official Fars news agency reported on Monday.

    "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has postponed a preplanned three-day visit to Latin America indefinitely," Fars said.

    In a similar report, IRNA news agency said on Monday that "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has canceled a regional tour of Latin American states and will instead leave Tehran for Damascus (Syria) on Tuesday."

    In an announcement on Sunday, Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Ahmadinejad will pay official visits to Brazil, Venezuela, and Ecuador from May 7 to 8.

    Israel has expressed its concern over Ahmadinejad's visit to Brazil, but Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim has rejected the concerns and said that the "planned visit would go ahead as scheduled."

    "If we stop taking visitors because certain countries disagree with them, we would not be able to accept hardly anyone," Amorim was quoted as saying.

    The United States has also accused Iran of engaging in "subversive activity" in its backyard Latin America, particularly South America and Central America, under the cover of economic cooperation.