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MPs to challenge Khatami's "insulting" speech
May 7 - A group of hardline lawmakers plans to complain to the Intelligence Ministry about comments by moderate former President Mohammad Khatami deemed insulting to Iran's revolutionary leader, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The daily Etemad-e Melli said 77 lawmakers would ask Intelligence Minister Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei "to confront" Khatami for the remarks they say insulted the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
The newspaper did not say when the formal complaint would be lodged and did not give further details./-
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Nine million Iranians illiterate: report
May 7 - Nine million Iranians cannot read or write out of a population of at least 71.5 million, a newspaper reported on Wednesday, quoting the state-run literacy organisation.
"At the moment, there are 9.45 million people who are completely illiterate in the country," the deputy head of the Literacy Movement Organisation, Parviz Kosari, was quoted as saying in the Kayan newspaper./-
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Iraq Sunnis urge Arabs to act against 'Iranian occupation'
May 7- An Iraqi Sunni delegation on a visit to Cairo on Wednesday urged Arab countries to act against what it called the "Iranian occupation" of Iraq.
"We would like a common Arab position to save Iraq and its people ...(in the face of) the Iranian occupation," Sheikh Majid Abdel Razzak al-Ali Suleiman said after a meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit.
"Such an Arab position, led by Egypt, is necessary to weaken Iran's role in Iraq, because if Tehran occupies this country, it will occupy other Arab countries too," said the head of the Dulaim tribe, which is concentrated mainly in Anbar province, west of Baghdad./-
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Iran, China to discuss promotion of mutual ties
May 7 – An Iranian delegation led by head of ran-China Chamber of Commerce Assadollah Asgaroladi and some other officials will hold negotiations on bilateral relations in Beijing, China.
The Iranian delegation arrived in Beijing Tuesday evening to exchange views with Chinese officials on promotion of joint economic.
The two sides will confer on banking policies which are the main theme of such bilateral talks.
Boosting trade relations between the Iranian private sector and Chinese producers is another issue to be reviewed at the meeting by the Iranian economic delegation and Chinese officials.
Besides, the delegation comprising a number of representatives of Iran's private and state-run banks are due to attend a seminar on nvestment opportunities in Iran that will be held in Shanghai next Friday.
Some 200 Iranian and Chinese traders are expected to attend the seminar./IRNA-
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