Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, Iran’s Attorney General, announced on Monday that the claim of serial rape in SE Iran was a total lie. Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, Iran’s Attorney General, dismissed on Monday the claims that a number of women were raped in Iranshahr County in southeastern Province of Sistan and Balouchestan. He recounted that the issue […]

TEHRAN – In telephone conversation on Monday President Hassan Rouhani told Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani that Iran will “stand beside” Doha in difficult days. On June 5, 2017, Saudi Arabia along with the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt cut ties with Qatar and introduced sanctions on the country for its relations with the […]

TEHRAN – Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a senior aide to Iranian foreign minister and Iran’s representative in Syria talks, left Tehran on Monday to attend a four-sided meeting in Geneva to discuss a future Syrian constitutional committee. High representatives of the countries acting as guarantors of ceasefire in Syria – Russia, Iran and Turkey – met […]

Hossein Mousavian, a Princeton University researcher, has said that the Middle East, and the world at large, are entering a new dangerous era after the U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Mousavian made the comment as he spoke to the Windham World Affairs Council last month at Centre Congregational Church, according to […]

Chairman of Iran and Turkey Joint Chamber of Commerce Reza Kami revealed the considerable reduction of trade volume exchanged between Iran and Turkey from $22 billion to $11 billion following Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA). He pointed to trade volume between Iran and turkey at $30 billion and said, “various obstacles in the fields of banking, […]

 People should be certain that production or provision of required goods for the society and solving any issue in production sectors are government’s priority, according to Iranian president. At a meeting for managing recent foreign currencies market fluctuations that was held on Monday, the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said “as the government provides the required services and foreign […]

Iranian lawmakers will meet with Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei on June 20, a parliament member told MNA on Monday. Mohammad Dehghan told Mehr News correspondent on Monday that members of Iranian Parliament will meet with the Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei on June 20. Ali Larijani, as the Parliament’s speaker, will present […]

 Issuing a formal decree on Sunday, Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli urged the governor general of Sistan and Balouchestan Province to follow up the case. After the news of some moral insecurity evens in Iranshahr, a county in Sistan and Balouchestan Province in southeastern Iran, was spread, Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli issued […]

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi strongly condemned the suicide attack in Afghanistan, saying “the terrorists and enemies of Afghan nation have been targeting the stability and security of the country.” A suicide bomber blew himself up in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Nangarhar on Saturday as mostly Taliban fighters gathered to celebrate a three-day cease […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s presidential chief of staff Mahmoud Vaezi has said that Iran and Canada had started no talks on resuming relations that the Canadian parliament decided to stop it. “No talk was even started to be stopped,” Young Journalists Club quoted him as saying on Sunday. He noted, “A number of signals for holding […]