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 […]

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 […]

TEHRAN – Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Thursday strongly condemned the Saudi-led coalition’s latest assault on the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah. The spokesman also expressed concern about the worsening humanitarian condition in the impoverished Yemen, the official website of the Foreign Ministry reported. Tehran has always emphasized that there is no military solution […]

Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said on Friday that Zionist regime will be uprooted surely with the efforts of Muslim nations. He made the above remark in the presence of a group of officials, Islamic countries’ ambassadors and people from different walks of life on the occasion of advent of Eid al-Fitr. […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has felicitated the Iranian people on the national football teams victory over Morocco in its first match in the FIFA World Cup. In a message on his Instagram account, Zarif said the Team Melli showed how hard-working and zealous Iranians are. He also offered congratulations to the Iranian nation […]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi has blasted the Saudi-led coalition’s latest attack on the port city of Al Hudaydah in Yemen. In a statement on Thursday, the Iranian spokesman censured the attack saying, “there is no military solution to Yemen crisis and aggressors should stop their assaults.” The Iranian diplomat expressed concern about aggravation […]

 Iranian ambassador to UK, Hamid Baeidinejad, said the agreement reached between US and North Korean leaders on June 12 has reduced the possibility of war between the two sides. “One positive aspect of the agreement between the US and North Korea is that the possibility of war and military conflict between the two sides, escalated […]

Iranian Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar said that government is determined to meet the pre-requirements for women and families being able to watch public sport events at stadiums.  “The issue of women watching sport events at stadiums and sports venues is still being followed up,” said Masoumeh Ebtekar, the Iranian Vice President for Women and Family […]

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman condemned a motion in Canada’s parliament which demands immediate cease of all negotiations on restoring diplomatic ties with Iran. Bahram Ghasemi in a statement on Wednesday called the motion a ‘counterproductive move’, adding “while the bill is not yet passed into law and is still in its early stages, it would be a […]

Mohammad Javad Zarif has met with the president of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa on Wed. to discuss the future of the nuclear deal and economic issues of mutual interest. Zarif and Ramaphosa held their meeting on Wednesday afternoon in Pretoria to discuss the future of Iran nuclear deal and bilateral economic relations between the two […]