Tehran - In a move to questions the historic dimensions of the Holocaust, Iran has published a cartoon book on the massacre of Jews during World War II, state television reported Friday.

The book is titled Holocaust and contains satirical cartoons and texts aimed at questioning the Holocaust and how the issue was misused by Israelis.

The book was presented to mark the so-called "Quds Day" and state-organized anti-Israel rallies held on Friday throughout Iran.

Tehran - Thousands are expected Friday at Iran's annual nationwide anti-Israeli demonstrations with the standard slogans "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" to be echoing throughout the country.

The late leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had declared the last Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan to be the "Quds Day," intended to be a day to call for the liberation of Jerusalem from Israeli occupation.

After Mecca in Saudi Arabia, Jerusalem, or Quds in Arabic, is the holiest place for Muslims.

Tehran  - Iran's Central Bank (CBI) Chief Tahmasseb Mazaheri was on Tuesday replaced by his general secretary Mahmoud Bahmani, ISNA news agency reported.

Mazaheri is the second CBI governor to resign within President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's three-year presidential tenure. The first governor, Ebrahim Sheibani, resigned in August last year over differences with the president in the country's economic management.

Tehran  - The world powers cannot stop Iran's nuclear progress, state media on Monday quoted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying upon his arrival in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly.

"The talks made by some (countries) will be no hurdle in the course of progress of the Iranian nation," Ahmadinejad told state television network IRIB in New York.

The president was referring to the demand by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (5+1) for Iran to suspend its controversial uranium enrichment process or face further political isolation and financial sanctions.

Tehran, September 22 : Anthropologists have deciphered the meaning of nails around the ancient Pahluj skeletons in Iran, saying that it implies an unknown style of burial carried out for females during the early Islamic era.

According to a report in Tehran Times, the graves were discovered during the rescue excavation, which has begun at the site near the village of Mirar-Kola in northern Iran in late August.

“We face an unknown style of burial, in which nails have been located upside down on the earth, maybe in order to hold a sheet of wood above the bodies in the graves,” Farzad Foruzanfar told the Persian service of CHN.

Tehran - Iran on Sunday categorically denied Western media reports that the country was making nuclear warheads, official news agency IRNA reported.

"Reports of Iran making or using nuclear warheads are totally baseless as we regard nuclear weapons as useless and not in line with our national interests," the air force commander of Iran's revolutionary guards, General Hossein Salami, told IRNA at a military parade in Tehran.