A senior military official said that the bandits who abducted 21 citizens on Chabahar-Iranshahr road in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan this morning are members of Abdul-Malik Rigi’s group.

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

An Iranian military official said that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is vigilantly watchful of each and every move made by enemies in the Persian Gulf.

Armed bandits kidnapped 21 passengers, including an education ministry official, on Chabahar-Iranshahr road in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan on Sunday, an informed source said.

Resistance is the legal right of the Palestinian people, Iran’s Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said.

World and Olympic weightlifting gold medalist Hossein Reza-zadeh escaped unhurt from a car accident on the way to the weightlifting camp in northern Iran on Saturday.

Iranian and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts will a start a third round of talks in Tehran on Monday to resolve the remaining issues between the two sides.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to leave Tehran for Baku, Azerbaijan on a two-day visit starting on Wednesday.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said that Iranian nation will not allow the US to stage a coup de tat similar to what it did in Iran in 1963.

The decisions made by certain countries against Tehran can never block Iran’s progress and development, the country’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini said on Sunday.