Foreign Ministry has rejected US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s claim on the status of the country’s economy, saying Iran’s economy has kept an over 8% growth throughout all the years fighting terrorism in the region. In a statement on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi reacted to the claim made by US Secretary […]

Iranian Parliament’s specialized commissions will study the proposal on impeachment of Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli on Monday (Nov. 5). 25 MPs, in a letter dated Oct. 3, submitted their request for impeachment of Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli to the Parliament’s presiding board, over criticism that he has failed to fulfill several critical factors […]

The spokesman for Iranian Foreign Ministry Bahram Ghasemi has rejected Danish officials’ claim that an Iranian intelligence service had tried to assassinate a dissident as an attempt against the growing relations between Iran and Europe. After Danish officials’ accused Iranian intelligence services of attempting to kill an Iranian dissident in Denmark on Tuesday, Bahram Ghasemi strongly rejected […]

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has condemned terrorist attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh which left 11 people dead. “Extremism and terrorism know no race or religion, and must be condemned in all cases. The world deserves better than to have to live with weaponized demagoguery. Thoughts and prayers with victims of terrorist attack […]

Foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey and the Republic of Azerbaijan concluded a trilateral meeting in the city of Istanbul with a joint statement that entails closer political and economic cooperation among the three neighbors. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Turkey’s Mevlut Cavusoglu and Azerbaijan’s Elmar Mammadyarov held their sixth trilateral meeting in Istanbul on […]

 First Vice President Es’hagh Jahangiri said that free and special economic zones enjoy high capacities and are a great opportunity for the development of the country. Free and special economic zones can play a leading role in sanctions period, the issue of which should be taken into consideration, Jahangiri noted. Speaking in a meeting of […]

 Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali, the head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization, has said “cryptocurrencies are untraceable in the financial and monetary system of each country, but internationally they can provide us with great opportunities.” He told the state Channel 2 News on Monday that passive defense is “deceptively simple”, since we are always faced with threats in […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, heading a high-ranking delegation, has landed in Turkish city Istanbul to take part at the 6th ministerial meetings of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Iran. Foreign Minister Zarif is in Istanbul on a working visit to take part at the 6th trilateral meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the […]

The Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has criticized the US ‘blind support’ for Saudi Arabia and Israeli regime which has led to disaster in the Middle East region. “The United States is continuously and persistently on the wrong side,” Mohammad Javad Zarif said earlier today in interview with CBS TV network in Tehran. When […]

 Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri, chief of the Iranian Joint Staff of Armed Forces, is scheduled to visit Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, on Wednesday. Heading a delegation on his two-day visit, General Baqeri is going to hold meetings on border cooperation, countering terrorism, and regional developments, IRNA reported. The visit comes […]