The two-month deadline the Group 5+1 has given to Iran to suspend its enrichment activities is considered as a mandatory, and not a political or tactical, withdrawal of the 5+1, a presiding board member of the Iranian parliament said.

An armed man entered a shop in western Tehran Monday morning and took the shop owner hostage.

 An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale jolted the western parts of the Iranian province of Northern Khorassan on Monday.