[caption id="attachment_155741" align="alignright" width="165"] An Iranian woman registers her candidacy for parliamentary elections at the Interior Ministry in Tehran, Dec. 24, 2011. (photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] Nine out of 290 members of the Iranian parliament are women. This 3% membershipputs Iran near the bottomof the international ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian and North Korean officials in a meeting in Pyongyang explored avenues for bolstering and reinvigorating bilateral ties, specially in parliamentary fields. During the meeting in the North Korean capital, a team of visiting Iranian lawmakers and their North Korean counterparts underlined the need for the further expansion of ...