Deputy FM Araghchi urged accession to the Convention for the Suppression of Financing of Terrorism, saying cutting off lines of financial support for terrorists is impossible without international cooperation. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araghchi appealed for Iran’s accession to the Convention for the Suppression of Financing of Terrorism at today’s parliament session, saying the […]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry dismissed any prospect of talks with the US government on any issue unless Washington respects the Iranian nation and refrains from the ‘language of threat and sanctions.’ In a statement on Friday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi decried the US president’s paradoxical comments about plans for the most severe US sanctions on […]

Iranian Army’s Navy Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi has reiterated Iran’s special attention to the development of Makran region. Speaking in a local ceremony in Konarak, Sistan and Baluchestan province, on Sunday, Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi said “after the Islamic Revolution, the Navy has developed dramatically on Makran Shores as the golden gate of the country.” […]

Addressing the 18th Summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Sunday, President Hassan Rouhani described the United States’ attempts to impose its own policies on others a growing threat, stressing that “unilateral sanctions damage the process of legal international business.” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addressed the 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in China on […]

In a letter to his counterparts around the world, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned that the U.S. exit from the multilateral 2015 nuclear agreement shows that “the specter of an extreme unilateralism is once again hovering upon the world, and we all should rise up and resist it.” Following is the text […]

TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani of Iran said in a meeting on Saturday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that more dialogue is needed between Tehran and Moscow now that Donald Trump has withdrawn the U.S. from the multilateral 2015 nuclear deal. Rouhani and Putin met in Qingdao, China, where the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit […]

Following the relative completion of building a 144-km (90 mile) security wall on its northern border with Iran, Turkey will begin another 43-km security wall on its southern border with the country. President Tayyip Erdogan said last year Turkey would build walls along its border with Iraq and part of the border with Iran similar […]

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani met and talked with his Afghan counterpart Ashraf Ghani on the sidelines of the SCO summit in China to discuss expansion of bilateral ties. The Iranian and Afghan president held a meeting on the sidelines of the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the Chinese port city of Qingdao on Saturday. In […]

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Pakistani counterpart Mamnoon Hussain held talks on expansion of bilateral ties on Saturday in Chinese city of Qingdao. The meeting was held at President Rouhani’s residence in Qingdao in China’s eastern Shandong province. During the meeting, the two leaders highlighted the need for expansion and development of political and […]

TEHRAN – There will be no outlook for talks with the American regime until it speaks with the great Iranian nation with the language of “respect” instead of “threats and sanctions”, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Friday. Qassemi slammed U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to re-impose sanctions on Iran, saying, “Mr. Trump should […]