Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani stressed that the world of Islam should have a permanent seat at the UN Security Council.

An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted the town of Ghaleh Tal in Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan on Tuesday.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel met with his Syrian counterpart on the sidelines of the second General Assembly meeting of the Asian Parliaments Assembly (APA) here in Tehran on Tuesday.