Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said that government encourages and supports foreign investments in Iran, specially by Muslim countries, adding that the world of Islam is in need of such participation and partnership.

An earth tremor measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale jolted the city of Khonj in Iran’s southern province of Fars on Saturday.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammed Ali Hosseini Saturday denounced the hijacking of a Turkish passenger plane this morning, saying that the Islamic Republic would not issue the landing permission for the hijacked plane under any conditions.

Iranian Government Spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham described as baseless and unfounded the recent words and efforts made by the US to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terror group, saying that nobody in the world would buy such worthless words.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the historical defeat and failure of the US and its allies in Iraq shattered their global awe.

Iran and Tajikistan have agreed to exchange foreign tourists who take a trip to either country, an Iranian tourism official said here Saturday.

Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said that his country’s security coefficient has increased.

India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that Iran had the right to have nuclear energy as an NPT member.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the bolstering of the Islamic Republic’s cooperation with Kazakhstan, reminding that the two countries enjoy intact investment, agricultural, industrial and energy potentials galore.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday extended his congratulations to Bamir Topi and the Albanian nation and government on his election as the country’s president.