Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel said he is slated to pay an official visit to Baku next week.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday extended his congratulations to Girma Woldegiorgis and the Ethiopian nation and government on his election as the country’s president.

Iran has the capacity to meet a major part of Asian and European markets’ natural gas need and is prepared to export the commodity to Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates, said the Iranian deputy oil minister on Saturday.