TEHRAN – The radiation level of base transceiver station (BTS) is persistently controlled in different cities of the country, communication and information technology minister told IRNA on Saturday. A BTS is a piece of equipment that facilitates wireless communication between user equipment (UE) and a network. There is no concern about the increase in number […]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Sunday that the two countries should increase bilateral transit relations. “The vast capacities of the two countries in different fields can be complementary and should be used more and more in the interests of the two nations and the other nations of the region,” said […]

 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 […]