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.

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to visit the United Arab Emirates May 13, 2007 on the first visit by an Iranian head of state to this Persian Gulf littoral state since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.