Iran

Seven of the 15 British Royal Navy personnel held captive by Iran are back in the Persian Gulf searching for smugglers, Britain’s military said Tuesday.

Iran-Iraq parliamentary friendship group in a statement released here on Monday strongly condemned construction of a partitioning wall in Baghdad by occupying troops, saying that the measure is in line with Israel’s failed plots for sowing religious and ethnic discord in Iraq.

Gambia’s incoming ambassador to Tehran met with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here on Monday.

Head of Iran’s state-run TV Ezzatollah Zarqami, heading a high-ranking media delegation, arrived in the Syrian capital city of Damascus on Monday.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei called on government to regulate laborer-investor relations in a proper manner and remove the two sides’ feeling of insecurity to pave the way for the country’s economic prosperity through increased investment and value added.

A seven-member parliamentary delegation left Tehran for Havana on Monday.

Iran’s visiting Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar met with Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmonov in Dushanbe on Monday.

Owing to the vigilance of Iran’s armed forces, enemy is seeking to escape from the region, commander-in-chief of the Islamic Republic army said on Monday.

Iran has decided to take square strides in its economic activities and transient political pressures cannot deter Tehran from making progress.

Iran’s Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Hamid Reza Asefi on Sunday met with UAE’s Foreign Minister Abdallah bin Zayid al-Nuhayyan and discussed with him expansion of bilateral ties.