Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in a meeting with Swedish parliament speaker in Stockholm on Monday underlined the need for the deepening of parliamentary relations between the two countries.

A prominent lawmaker said the election of mayor should not be politicized or influenced by lobbies.

Iran needs to postpone until September a plan scheduled for implementation this month to ration petrol that is expected to have a huge impact on the economy, a prominent MP said on Monday.

Persian carpet exports are tied to global market demands and customer preferences.

Iran’s deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Mostafavi termed support for Iraq as a religious duty, and underlined that seeds of discord among Muslims are sown by enemies.

Following Iran’s agreement to a request made by the Chemical Weapons Ban Organization for inspecting Iranian sites, a team of inspectors from the organization paid a visit to a petrochemical complex in Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan from April 29 to May 3.

Iranian parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel in a meeting with a parliamentary delegation from Oman here on Monday described strife among Islamic faiths as the most serious danger threatening the Muslim world.

Chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaoddin Boroujerdi viewed establishment of security in the region as a prerequisite for the exploitation of resources existing in the Middle-East.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad extended his condolences to Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz on the demise of the King’s brother and ruler of Mecca, Abdul-Hamid bin Abdul-Aziz.

Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana are likely to continue their new round of talks in Switzerland, an informed source told FNA here on Monday.