Middle Orient

Iran says it will send some 1 mln Afghan refugees back to their embattled homeland this month.

Iran’s Expediency Council is seeking to impose a ban on politically-motivated administrative changes in Iran.

Iranian Diplomat Jalal Sharafi who was released after being kidnapped in front of Iran’s embassy in Baghdad around two months ago said that CIA agents and their Iraqi affiliates had tortured him severely during interrogation.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini on Saturday called on the British government to show respect for the national sovereignty of the world countries and international rules and avoid distortion of realities.

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.