Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar is scheduled to pay a visit to Armenia on Tuesday at the head of a high-ranking delegation.

An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale jolted the area in the vicinity of the city of Sorkheh in Iran’s northern province of Semnan on Sunday.

President of Turkey’s TRT television met with the head of Iran’s state-run TV, Ezzatollah Zarqami, on the sidelines of the 44th general assembly of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) here in Tehran on Sunday.

There has been a flurry of diplomatic activity involving Tehran, Baghdad, Ankara and Washington to defuse tensions along the border between Turkey and northern Iraq.

Iran welcomed a recent Arab proposal to set up a consortium to provide Mideast countries with enriched uranium but said it would not halt its own enrichment activities

China urged Iran Saturday to further cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and create favorable conditions for further talks on the nuclear issue.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated on Saturday that his country’s nuclear issue is already closed.

The Islamic Republic of Iran and Kazakhstan do not feel restricted in expanding mutual cooperation, Iran’s First Vice-President Parviz Davoudi said in a meeting with Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Karim Masimov on Friday.

Iran-Khodro auto-manufacturing company announced that it would export half of its products to other world countries in the next five years.

If the Untied States embarks on adventurism, all the world nations would soon realize that it has committed a big mistake, Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers leader Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said.