Tehran an Pyongyang stressed the need for the further development of their relations in a meeting between caretaker of North Korea’s foreign ministry and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here in Tehran on Friday.

Tehran’s Interim Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani said that the Islamic and Iranian culture play a vital role in the campaign against corruption.

An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale jolted the town of Dasht-e Kavir in Iran’s northeastern province of Semnan on Friday.