Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to pay a visit to Tehran next Monday to attend a summit of the Caspian Sea littoral states.

Iranian Parliament Speaker in a meeting with his Swiss counterpart complained that a wrong image of the Islamic Revolution has been presented in the West, and called on Switzerland, as an impartial state, to portray the correct image of the Iranian revolution in the West.

Delegations of Islamic countries participating in the 117th meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva voiced their strong support for Iran’s opposition to a US Senate resolution which called for the disintegration of Iraq.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel underlined Iran’s continued political support for Lebanon.

Iran and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are scheduled to start a next round of talks in Tehran on Tuesday.

The Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) and the Caspian Shipping Co. have jointly launched two new shipping lines in the Caspian Sea, TPOI Director and Iranian Deputy Commerce Minister Mahdi Ghazanfari said.

Persian carpet which depicts the heritage of the country, is now facing serious threats from imitations of Pakistan, India and China in the global arena.

A memorandum was signed recently between Iran and Bolivia pronouncing the participation of Iran in 25 industrial projects.

Iran has played a vital role in the agreement between the two Iraqi Shiite leaders Abdul Aziz Al Hakim and Muqtada Al Sadr to avoid an “open war” among the Iraqi Shiites, Iraqi politicians and analysts said.

Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) — The execution of 15 prisoners in Afghanistan, the second confirmed use of the death penalty since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, is a concern, the United Nations envoy in the country said.