The strong stances voiced by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his visit to New York thwarted the United States’ attempts to pass a new resolution at the UN Security Council against Iran, a prominent Iranian MP said.

Iran’s Small Industries and Industrial Townships Organization signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Afghanistan’s Trade and Industries Ministry on economic cooperation.

An Iranian state institution gifted 100 volumes of books on the US occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan to the library of Columbia University.