President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Ezzatollah Zarqami, in a meeting with Armenian Culture Minister Hasmik Poghosian, voiced Tehran’s preparedness to launch joint cultural cooperation with Yerevan.

Iran’s First Vice-President Parviz Dawoodi said that the pressures exerted by the US and certain countries on foreign investors to prevent them from investing their capitals in Iran have all proved unfruitful.

If Mr. Bush has any power, he’d better spend it on the establishment of security and freedom inside his country, Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said pointing to the recent manslaughter at Virginia Tech University.