Tajikistan’s culture minister and governor general of Iran’s northeastern province of Khorassan Razavi in a meeting on Wednesday stressed the need for the preservation of the two countries’ joint identity and utilization of all potentials for the development of both states.

Iran and the US are to hold ambassadorial level talks on Iraq, the Iranian foreign minister said today, in the first substantive contacts between the countries for years.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) approved that Iran has the required knowledge for enriching uranium.