A Belgian man taken hostage by bandits in southeast Iran last month was reunited with his parents in Tehran on Saturday after Iranian forces helped secure his release, Iran’s foreign minister said.

I ask all Iranian literati to help financially with the publication of a new version of the Shahnameh which I have compiled over the last 30 years, Professor Fereydoun Joneidi said.

Iranian health ministry voiced preparedness to help control cholera in Iraq.