Europe’s scientific development is undoubtedly indebted to Muslim, and specially Iranian, scientists and scholars, Iran’s Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, heading a high-ranking delegation, arrived in the Kyrgyz capital city of Bishkek on Wednesday to meet with senior officials of that country and attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit.

Two Chinese nationals have been arrested on charges of taking photographs from a military site in the city of Arak in central Iran, Judiciary Spokesman Alireza Jamshidi said.