On the Christmas Eve, the parliamentary foreign relation commission in Latvia decided to back the current presidential Chief of Staff as the country’s next ambassador to the United States.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Sudan’s visiting Defense Minister Field Marshal Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein met with Iran’s Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel here in Tehran on Sunday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A slow landslip which started in recent weeks in a highland region called 2000 in the vicinity of Tonekabon in northern Iran has deteriorated since Saturday, a local official said.