TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki expressed hope that Saudi Arabia would use its influence in the region to help end the protracted Lebanon crisis.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s unemployment rate dropped to 10.3 percent in the 2007-2008 Iranian year from 11.3 percent the previous year, a senior government official said on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as well as the army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commemorated Farvardin 12 (March 31), i.e. the Islamic Republic Day, in separate statements here on Monday.