Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini here Wednesday stressed that the testimony of the two US senior officials to the Congress on Iraq war would not rescue the United States from the Iraq quagmire.

Iranian officials said on Wednesday that Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American arrested on charges of harming national security earlier this year, would not be allowed to leave the country after he is released on bail.

A polymer update team member reported that the Islamic republic is slated to export petrochemical products amounting to 21 million tons in the current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2007 to March 20, 2008).