Iran

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.

An explosion rocked the city of Shiraz in Iran’s central province of Fars on Monday.

Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi here on Monday said supporters of the usurper regime of the Zionists should account for Israelis’ crimes to world public opinion.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described the US president’s recent allegations about Iran as a grave mistake, saying that Bush’s threats to Iran would bear no fruit for Washington.