Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has condemned the US president’s jubilation after inflicting economic sanctions on Turkey. “Trump’s jubilation in inflicting economic hardship on its NATO ally Turkey is shameful,“ Zarif has just tweeted in a reference to the recent sanctions imposed by the United States government on Turkey, causing a sharp decline in […]

Iran’s Guardian Council has approved an amendment bill on combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) as part of standards set by the FATF, according to the Council’s spokesman. Spokesman for the Guardian Council, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, told reporters in a press conference on Saturday that the Council has acknowledged the amendment bill on combating the financing […]

Parliament Planning and Budget Commission Spokesman Mohammad-Mehdi Mofatteh said that liberal policies are not ‘appropriate and suitable’ for economic war. He termed the adoption of liberal and free market theories in the current situation of economic war as ‘wrong and incorrect’ and said, “in the current situation of economic war waged against the country, production […]

Iran’s economy minister said on Friday that the country can respond to the challenge of the US unilateral sanctions.Surely, Iran can fight off the challenge of sanctions by regulating the government’s financial behavior, resisting the excessive demands and taking decisive action against corruption, Iranian Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance (MEAF) Masoud Karbasian said in […]

Trade relations between Iran and China will not harm interests of any other country, Reuters quoted China Foreign Ministry statement as saying in opposition to US unilateral walkaway from Iran deal.“For a long time, China and Iran have had open, transparent and normal commercial cooperation in the fields of business, trade and energy, which is […]

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Iranian Parliament Director General for International Affairs condemns Saudi and UAE-Led coalition strikes on a bus, killing dozens of Yemeni students. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian tweeted on Friday “on the eve of Hajj rituals, UAE and KSA have very recently slaughtered Yemeni innocent students in Saada and are keeping mum on going along with killing […]

Deputies of Iranian and Russian foreign ministries met and held talks on the latest developments in the region and across the globe, and conferred on ways to counter terrorism. The meeting was held on Friday in Moscow between Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, Gholamhossein Dehghani, and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Syromolotov […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s deputy director of the presidential chief of staff for political affairs believes that the ground is still not fertile for a potential meeting between President Hassan Rouhani and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September. Majid Takht-Ravanchi told ISNA in […]

Chief of Staff of Iran’s president met with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara on Thursday to deliver Iranian president’s message to him. In the meeting on Thursday, Chief of Staff of Iran’s president Mahmoud Vaezi discussed the latest developments regarding Iran nuclear deal also knows as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action […]

Iranian Navy team of divers claimed first place in the Depth Competition event at the 2018 seven-nation Army Games in Nowshahr on Thursday after nine days of fierce competition. The Iranian Navy team of divers managed to set records in all of the seven items of Depth Competition that was held in the northern city […]