Armed bandits kidnapped 21 passengers, including an education ministry official, on Chabahar-Iranshahr road in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan on Sunday, an informed source said.

Resistance is the legal right of the Palestinian people, Iran’s Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said.

World and Olympic weightlifting gold medalist Hossein Reza-zadeh escaped unhurt from a car accident on the way to the weightlifting camp in northern Iran on Saturday.