King Abdullah to visit Tehran

The speaker of the Jordanian parliament Abdullah al- Majali said that the Jordanian King Abdullah II will visit Iran next month and hold meetings with the Iranian President Muhammad Khatami and with high ranking Iranian officials.

In press statements he made in Amman on Sunday on the occasion of the visit held by the chairman of the Iranian Islamic Shoura council Mahdi Karoubi to Jordan which started on Sunday, al-Majali added that the visit of the Jordanian King to Iran will be an important station to backing bilateral relations between the two countries and to develop them.

He commended Iran's stances in support of the cause of Palestine and the Palestinian people in "their just struggle against the Zionist aggression." He added that " Our palestinian people are linking forward for the support from our Arab and Muslim brothers for realizing their legitimate rights and halting the repressive aggressions against them."