The Saudi air attack on Taiz, southwestern Yemen claimed the lives of at least 3 civilians and injured scores of others.

A group of International professors and intellectuals in a letter sent by Mehr News Agency and Tehran Times newspaper called on the United Nations Secretary General to remove structural violence in international system in order to achieve true peace (Positive Peace).

An Iranian official said that over 900,000 legal Afghan refugees are currently living in Iran, adding that the number of Iraqis residing in Iran has declined as security has been restored to that country.