Iran-Iraq parliamentary friendship group in a statement released here on Monday strongly condemned construction of a partitioning wall in Baghdad by occupying troops, saying that the measure is in line with Israel’s failed plots for sowing religious and ethnic discord in Iraq.

Gambia’s incoming ambassador to Tehran met with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here on Monday.

Head of Iran’s state-run TV Ezzatollah Zarqami, heading a high-ranking media delegation, arrived in the Syrian capital city of Damascus on Monday.