In a phone call with Interior Minister Rahmani Fazli and Kermanshah Governor General Houshang Bazvand, President Hassan Rouhani called for providing immediate relief and assistance to victims of the earthquake which hit Kermanshah province early hours of Sunday. A magnitude 5.9 quake stroke Tazehabad, Western Kermanshah province, around 3 AM on Sunday. The tremor occured […]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has sent a letter to Foreign Ministry, tasking the body to seriously follow the case of Hour al-Azim wildfire in Iraqi part of the wetland, said chief of Khuzestan provincial department of environment on Saturday. The chief of Iran’s Department of Environment Isa Kalantari had requested for the help of president […]

Two people were killed and more than 200 injured in a strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake that struck western Iran near the border with Iraq early Sunday, officials told local media. The shallow quake hit 26 kilometres (16 miles) southwest of the city of Javanrud in Kermanshah province, the US Geological Survey said, near the site of […]

The first public court trial of individuals involved in major economic corruption cases in Iran was held on Saturday, with name of defendants released after Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei’s recent letter to the Judiciary chief. In one of the court hearings, prime suspect Hamid Baqeri Darmani was on trial for […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says that the EU is expected to take some steps to save the nuclear deal including preserving Iran’s oil sales and its banking relations. Zarif made the remarks on Saturday afternoon on the sidelines of a conference in Tehran in response to questions put forward by reporters regarding the package […]

TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that the country will pass through problems with unity and resistance. “Undoubtedly, we will pass through all problems with unity,” he said at the ceremony of renewing allegiance to Imam Khomeini’s ideals. He noted that the country is currently through difficult times and attached great importance […]

Iranian Hajj pilgrims are planned to start returning home from Monday all through Sep. 15, according to an Iranian airports official. The director of Iranian Hajj Operations Department at the Air Fleet and Airports Company Mahmoud Razavi said on Saturday that the first return flight will leave Medina for Iran’s Bushehr airport on August 27 and […]

Senior parliamentary official Alaeddin Boroujerdi says the United Nations has failed to do its duty to settle the seven-year long crisis imposed on the Syrian nation. A member of Iran’s Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi made the remarks on Saturday in response to some news about the UN extending an invitation to Iran […]

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi categorically condemned the Saudi-Emirati attack on a camp of internally displaced families near Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeida on Thursday. Bahram Ghasemi, the Spokesman of Iranian Foreign Ministry, categorically condemned the bombardment of dislocated Yemeni women and children by Saudis. The Iranian diplomat held those countries which […]

 Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahhedi Kermani said on Friday that Iran’s deterrence power has made lowered the possibility of US attack on Iran to zero. Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahhedi Kermani led the Tehran Friday prayers on August 24 and touched upon a host of political issues in the second sermon of the weekly ritual. If officials […]