Providing basic goods to people a priority for govt.
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 MPs to meet with Leader on Wed
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 […]
Interior min. urges governor-general to follow serial rapist case
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 […]
Terrorists targeting Afghanistan’s security: FM spox
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 […]
Iran, Canada started no talks on resuming ties: Vaezi
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 […]
MP pessimist about success of talks with E3
TEHRAN – The spokesman of the Iranian Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Committee has said that the European companies’ withdrawal from Iran shows a huge gap between Europeans’ words and actions regarding the fate of the 2015 nuclear deal, aka the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). “The Europeans have shown that they are […]
No country can use Incirlik airbase against Iran
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced, “Incirlik airbase in Turkey is used only in line with fighting against terrorism, so that Turkey will not authorize any country to use this airbase to attack another country.” He pointed to the US possible request to use Incirlik airbase to attack Iran, he said that his country will […]
Iran, Turkey call for continued fight against terrorism, organized crime
Iranian deputy interior minister held a telephone conversation with Undersecretary of Turkey’s Ministry of Interior Muhterem Ince to urge the continuation of fight against terrorism and organized crime. During the telephone call on Sunday, the two sides voiced satisfaction over the expansion of bilateral ties, and called for the continuation of cooperation in the fight against terrorism […]
‘Saudis seeking to starve Yemenis into submission’
TEHRAN – Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, a senior foreign policy advisor to the parliament speaker, says the Saudi-led blockade on Yemen is aimed at forcing Yemeni people to give up under starvation. “Under KSA-UAE-US-Zionists’ occupying war against Yemenis, humanitarian disaster is rife,” Amir-Abdollahian tweeted on Saturday, Mehr reported. “The invaders lost the Yemen battlefield, but want to […]
Trump’s anti-Iran remarks ‘empty rhetoric’: ex- defense chief
TEHRAN – Whenever the Americans tried to pressure Iran into doing something, their attempts failed miserably and did not produce the results they wanted, says former defense minister Hossein Dehqan, noting that U.S. President Donald Trump’s anti-Iran remarks are just “empty rhetoric”. Speaking to ILNA, Dehqan rejected Trump’s claim that his Iran policy has curbed […]