The Supreme Council of Economic Coordination convened on Saturday in a session that was chaired by President Hassan Rouhani and discussed next year’s budget with special attention to people’s needs, especially those of the lower-income classes. According to the official webiste of Iranian Presidency, at the session that was held with heads of the other […]

 A new generation of Moudge-class destroyer, ‘Sahand’, with twice the defensive and offensive power of Jamaran destroyer, has joined Iran’s naval fleet in the Persian Gulf on Saturday. At the order of Commander of Iran’s Army Major General Seyed Abdolrahim Mousavi, ‘Sahand’ destroyer, a next-gen Moudge-class, has joined Iran’s naval fleet in the Persian Gulf […]

 Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said on Friday that the Asian countries should take step to establish fiscal pacts and expand banking cooperation. “Now that the U.S. is imposing sanctions on various countries, many countries have considered finding other ways and they are studying fiscal pacts among Asian countries to reach a new criteria,” he […]

 Iran and Russia can turn the sanctions led by the U.S. on both countries into some unique opportunities for the expansion of bilateral ties, IRNA reported on Friday quoting Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian. The minister made the remarks speaking to the media on Thursday before leaving Russia in his tow-day stay in the country. […]

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reiterated on Friday that Iran’s four-point plan is still the only viable option to resolve the Yemeni crisis. “I said this on the crisis in Yemen in April 2015. Today, after untold human suffering & war crimes by the Saudi coalition & its U.S. accomplices, & efforts to whitewash […]

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh announced on Tuesday that some 77 terrorist operations have been diffused in western and northwestern borders of the country during the current fiscal year (started on March 21). Addressing a gathering of military commanders in Falavarjan County in central Isfahan […]

The fourth round of Iran-EU high-level political talks were held Mon. in Brussels, where the two sides conferred on a wide variety of issues, including bilateral cooperation and regional developments. The fourth round of Iran-EU high-level political talks were chaired by Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Helga Schmid and Iranian Deputy […]

 Head of Iran’s Foreign Policy Strategic Council Seyed Kamal Kharrazi said on Monday that the occupying Israeli regime is the main reason behind division in the Islamic World. During a meeting with former Jordan prime minister, Taher Nashat al-Masri, in Tehran, Kharrazi pointed to the Zionist regime and its allies’ role in creating divisions among […]

Qatar Airways will add more flights to Iran from January, the state-owned Persian Gulf airline announced on Monday just weeks after the United States reimposed sanctions on Tehran. Qatar Airways will add two weekly flights to its existing Doha-Tehran route and add three weekly flights on its Shiraz service in January. It will also launch […]

 Iranian lawmakers on Monday approved the country’s membership to the Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (APLAC), which was proposed by President Rouhani last May. In today’s open session of the Parliament, lawmakers passed a bill on Iran’s membership to the Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (APLAC). The bill had been submitted to the Parliament by […]