OTTAWA – Canada’s Foreign Affairs Department offered a muted response Tuesday to the execution of 15 prisoners in Afghanistan.

Iran has developed a new 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) smart bomb called ‘Ghadr’.

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade demanded Iran to launch extensive business and industrial activities in the free trade zone of his country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to pay a visit to Tehran next Monday to attend a summit of the Caspian Sea littoral states.

Iranian Parliament Speaker in a meeting with his Swiss counterpart complained that a wrong image of the Islamic Revolution has been presented in the West, and called on Switzerland, as an impartial state, to portray the correct image of the Iranian revolution in the West.

Delegations of Islamic countries participating in the 117th meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva voiced their strong support for Iran’s opposition to a US Senate resolution which called for the disintegration of Iraq.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel underlined Iran’s continued political support for Lebanon.

Iran and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are scheduled to start a next round of talks in Tehran on Tuesday.

The Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) and the Caspian Shipping Co. have jointly launched two new shipping lines in the Caspian Sea, TPOI Director and Iranian Deputy Commerce Minister Mahdi Ghazanfari said.

Persian carpet which depicts the heritage of the country, is now facing serious threats from imitations of Pakistan, India and China in the global arena.