Iran’s Kurdistan and Iraq’s Suleymanieh provinces signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Monday to boost mutual cooperation in the economic, cultural and educational sectors.

The World Qods Day is a proper opportunity for displaying the oppressed status and defenselessness of the Palestinian people as well as the oppressions and cruelties of the usurper region of the Zionists to the entire world, head of Iran’s Judiciary said here on Monday.

Lebanese Shiite Leader Allamah Muhammad Hussein Fadhlallah said the call by the US Congress for labeling Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group should be viewed as a declaration of war on the Islamic Republic.

Chancellor of Iran’s Ferdowsi University extended an invitation to the US President, George W. Bush to travel to Iran to give a speech and respond to the questions of his university professors and students.

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.

Iran’s first Vice-President Parviz Davoudi extended his congratulations to the Guinean government and nation on the country’s independence day.

Chinese ambassador to Tehran, Liu Zhentang, said on Sunday that “China will never do anything against Iran’s interests”.

A senior aide to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signaled in comments published on Monday that he would nominate Acting Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari to take the post permanently in OPEC’s second largest producer.