Iran’s deputy foreign minister plans to raise a proposal at the next meeting of the group of 8 developing Muslim countries (D-8) for the joint manufacture of cars by the D-8 member states.

The World Bank (WB) in its latest report on Iran’s agricultural status confessed that it has not provided due financial support for the Islamic Republic’s development programs in recent years, particularly in the agriculture sector.

Tehran said that it would send former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and deputy foreign minister Saeed Jalili to Rome on Tuesday to meet with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana in a next round of talks aimed at resolving Tehran-West nuclear standoff.