TEHRAN The Cuban President Fidel Castro is to visit Iran in the near future at an invitation extended by Iranian President Mohammad Khatami. The invitation was submitted to the Cuban head of state by the Iranian Health Minister Mohammad Farhadi in New York Wednesday night. Castro accepted the invitation and agreed to visit Tehran at an early future occasion. According to IRNA, President Castro also recalled Imam Khomeini's personal letter to Gorbachev at which he had predicted the fall of communism, and said after the fall of the former Soviet Union he had appreciated the veracity of Imam Khomeini's outlooks in that respect.

He observed that the world would for ever remember Imam Khomeini's forwarning to Gorbachev. The Cuban leader also said that a world order based on the Qoranic model which was proposed by Imam Khomeini as a substitute for Western models of state administration must figure in the agenda of every future forum for alternative world orders.