TEHRAN, Dec. 7--National Students Day was marked on 6th December in memory of students’ protest at Tehran University in 1953, three of whom were killed.
Iranian students protested the dangerous amity between Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the deposed shah of Iran, and the former US vice president, Richard Nixon.
The students’ hatred of United States sprang from the CIA-instigated coup against the government of late Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq on August 18, 1953, Presstv said.
Nixon’s trip to Iran in December 1953 fueled an anti-American uprising in Iran.
Tehran University students staged a demonstration on December 6, 1953, which was attacked by police, killing three of them.
Iranian universities have always been an important platform for demanding people’s freedom, rights and a humane society.
Prior to the Islamic Revolution, the occasion always met with police interference. After 1979, the government supported these annual events as an expression of the nation’s strong disapproval of the US policy.

Mohammad Javad Larijani

TEHRAN, Dec. 7--A senior Iranian official said Iran, Yemen and Iraq will join the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council in the near future.
Mohammad Javad Larijani, director of the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, was speaking on the sidelines of the first meeting of the judiciary heads of Muslim countries in Tehran, Presstv reported.
Larijani, also a former deputy foreign minister, described the president’s Persian Gulf policy as “correct and successful“.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had attended on Monday the summit of PGCC members, which include Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait.
Larijani assessed the diplomatic measures as ’significant’ in the Persian Gulf and described Ahmadinejad’s presence at the Doha summit as “a historic development“.
The PGCC group was established to oppose the victory of the Islamic Revolution at the instigation of some western states. But over the past 30 years, PGCC members have realized that they have to be wary of foreign states, as Iran has proved its good intentions.

TEHRAN, Dec. 7--Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan held a joint meeting to boost security along their marine borders.
The visiting Azeri delegation headed by Major General Elchin Ghuliyev called for Iran’s cooperation and assistance in their campaign against drugs, IRNA reported.
Ghuliyev said the two countries cooperated positively in the past to confront illegal immigration and human trafficking.
“Drug smuggling has assumed crisis proportions for Azerbaijan,“ he said.
Referring to the good performance of the Iranian police in confronting drug smuggling, Ghuliyev requested Iran’s cooperation.
The two sides also agreed to meet within six months to devise a comprehensive agreement for border cooperation.
Brigadier Qasem Rezaei, commander of Iran’s Border Police, said the two countries should cooperate to make the joint borders more stable and secure.
Rezaei said illegal immigration, drug smuggling and bootlegging are three major problems facing the police based at Azerbaijan’s borders.

TEHRAN, Dec. 7--Some 24,690 complaints have been received by Majlis Article 90 Commission since the start of the current parliamentary term, a lawmaker said on Thursday.
Mohammad Madani, who heads a confidential committee of the commission, added that about 4,000 of these complaints were rejected because of lack of documents and evidence, IRNA reported.
“Some 6,000 complaints have also been handed over to the judiciary for further investigation,“ he said.
Madani, an MP from Gonabad, added that the commission has scrutinized 14,690--mostly economic--complaints in the past three years.
“Scrutinizing a case related to infected blood and problems of teachers who were not paid for undertaking missions as well as repealing the contract related to Imam Khomeini International Airport are some of the most important dossiers concluded in the commission,“ he said.
Majlis Article 90 Commission, a parliamentary body stipulated by Article 90 of the constitution, investigates complaints by citizens against any of the three branches of power.

TEHRAN, Dec. 7--Xie Xiaoyan has been appointed as the new ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Iran.
Xie Xiaoyan, who was named on Thursday by Chinese President Hu Jintao, will succeed his predecessor, Liu Zhentang, IRNA reported.
China’s president has recently delegated new ambassadors to 15 nations in accordance with a decision made by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature.
Iran and China enjoy good political and economic relations, with trade exchanges estimated to reach $20 billion by the end of 2007.