Iran

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s permanent envoy to the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization condemned Israel’s crimes in Gaza, and urged the UN body to take urgent measures to rescue lives of innocent Palestinian citizens, specially teenage patients under treatment in Gaza hospitals.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Senegal’s Defense Minister Becaye Diop is scheduled to arrive here in Tehran on Sunday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel is due to pay a visit to Cairo to attend the fifth meeting of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of the Islamic Conference Member states (PUOICM) in Egypt on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki underlined the need for the UN Security Council to return his country’s nuclear case to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s foreign minister and Malaysian prime minister in a meeting on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland on Friday discussed arrangement of a ministerial meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran joined 9 other iodine-producing countries of the world after starting extraction from its mines in the northern province of Golestan, a local official said here on Saturday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki met with Iraqi deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf advised western countries to not deprive themselves of advantages of interacting with Iran.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Senior Lebanese cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah said the US and Israel intend to force Arabs to enter an anti-Iran war.

TEHRAN (FNA) – The Sri Lankan president and Iran’s commerce minister Masoud Mirkazemi urged expansion of economic ties between the two countries.