UAE, Iran parliamentary friendship on the cards?

UAE, Iran to boost parliamentary collaboration: Federal National Council speaker Saqr Ghobash met with Iranian consultative assembly speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on the sidelines of the latest Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly in Geneva to discuss ramping up parliamentary ties, Wam reports. The two leaders mulled setting up a parliamentary friendship committee to swap expertise and practices, and addressed “several issues of mutual concern.”