Iran

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed that the development of ties with independent European countries sets a principle of his country’s foreign policy.

Iran and South Korea on Saturday signed an agreement to form a joint investment committee, Iranian Economic Affairs and Finance Ministry said.

During the last 27 years, Iran has always safeguarded its territorial borders and it is needless of theatrical measures and scene-setting, an Iranian informed source said in reaction to the recent statements of the German Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is scheduled to mark April 9 as the ‘Day of Nuclear Technology’ during a ceremony due to be held in Natanz nuclear facility, where President Ahmadinejad will announce the good news about nuclear progress.

Head of Iran’s forensic medicine organization Seyed Shahaboddin Sadr and Sudanese Health Minister Tabita Sokaya Saturday endorsed an agreement on the development of forensic medicine in Sudan.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said that during his sojourn in Pakistan, officials of that country promised to counter insecurities along shared borders with Iran’s Sistan and Balouchestan province.

A prominent Iranian lawmaker said that imposition of international sanctions on the Islamic Republic serves Iran’s interests in the long run as the measure leads into the activation of the potentials of the talented Iranian youth and scientists.

Friday Prayers leader of the Iraqi city of Najaf here in Tehran on Friday stressed that there exists no civil war in his country and that the present unrests are originated and led from outside Iraq.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei stressed the need for the compilation of an Islamic unity charter, saying that the vigilance of the world of Islam is a great threat to arrogant powers and system of the world hegemony.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel stressed the need for Muslim scholars to show enhanced activity in promoting Islamic vigilance and defusing enemies’ plots.