TEHRAN, June 20 (MNA) -- Iran’s unemployment rate was 13.5 percent in the previous Iranian calendar year (ended March 20, 2011), the head of Statistical Center of Iran announced on Sunday.

TEHRAN, June 20 (MNA) -- The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) and the Export Development Bank of Iran (EDBI) signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday.

TEHRAN, June 20 (MNA) – Some 9.5 million tons will be added to Iran’s cement production capacity by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2012).

TEHRAN, June 20 (MNA) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) won another landslide victory in the general election on June 12.

TEHRAN, June 20 (MNA) – Iran announced on Sunday that it has received the first images and telemetric data sent by the country's second domestically-manufactured satellite, 'Rasad' (Observation in

TEHRAN, June 20 (MNA) – Iran is keen to sign an agreement with Iraq on visa free travel, a Foreign Ministry official has said.

TEHRAN, June 20 (MNA) – Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Hassan Mansour will attend the Global Campaign against Terrorism Conference in Tehran on June 25.

TEHRAN, June 20 (MNA) -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a message on Sunday extended his congratulations to the Russian government and nation on the country's national day.

TEHRAN, June 20 (MNA) -- The Human Rights Committee of the Iranian parliament has decided to take measures to prohibit the entry of the newly appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on Iran, MP

TEHRAN, June 20 (MNA) – Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi says the outsiders have undermined security in the region to serve their illegitimate interests.