Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stressed Iran’s resolve to cement ties with Azerbaijan, noting a major development in the level of relations between the two countries. President Rouhani made the remarks in a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev on Sunday on the sidelines of the 5th Caspian Sea Littoral States Summit in Kazakhstan. “Tehran and […]

TEHRAN – In separate letters to the WHO director, health ministers of Islamic countries, and the UNICEF executive director, Iran’s health minister has warned about the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Yemen and called for a response from the international community against the tragedy. Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi condemned the brutal murder of the defenseless Yemeni people, […]

TEHRAN – Iran will soon receive a second batch of 20 percent-enriched uranium which has been kept in Russia under the 2015 nuclear deal and now will be used at the Tehran nuclear reactor, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said on Saturday. “We received the first batch nearly seven months […]

 Overall Iranian teams participating in International Army Games gained one gold, one silver and four bronze medals and stood at the fifth place team ranking after Russia, China, Kazakhstan and Belarus. The International Army Games, initiated by the Russian Ministry of Defense, was co-organized this year by China, Russia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Iran. […]

 Iranian Police Chief Brigadier General Hossein Ashtari said that joint borders between Iran and Iraq is completely safe, so that movement of terrorists in the region has been mitigated due to such enhanced security. Speaking on Sunday morning in a meeting with Brigadier General Hamed Aabdullah Ibrahim al-Hosseini Iraqi Border Commander and his accompanying delegation, […]

The head of city council of Iranian Yazd says that efforts are going on to reach a sisterhood agreement between Yazd and Austrian city of Linz. “There are a lot of cultural similarities between Yazd and Linz, thus a number of Yazd city council members are seeking to create sisterhood between the two cities,” Gholamali […]

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described the ongoing Caspian Sea Summit in Kazakhstan as a “day of solidarity” of the five Caspian Sea littoral states. “Day of solidarity of Caspian Littoral States: Codifying cooperation on environment, shipping, fisheries, sustainable development & security w/o foreign military presence. Agreeing to continue friendly dialog on unresolved issues […]

The Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi has told Iranian media that he did not have any knowledge of reported Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s visit to Iran. “I have not received any prior notification or witnessed an official announcement on the visit” Bahram Ghasemi told Fars News Agency yesterday. Prior to this, ‘Iraqi Alghad […]

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Convention on Caspian Sea’s Legal Status will urge all legal regimes of the sea to be implemented through unanimous decisions made by its 5 littoral states. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani briefed media prior to departing Mehrabad airport to attend the Caspian Sea summit in which a number of important and […]

TEHRAN – Ali Najafi Khoshroudi, the spokesman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, has shrugged off the renewed U.S. sanctions against Iran, contrary to the past there is no consensus against Iran. Except the Zionist regime, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the entire world have shunned the U.S. exit from the […]