TEHRAN – Saidi Jalili, who served as Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator under former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says the issues surrounding the 2015 nuclear deal authorizes Iran to remove limits on its nuclear program. Recently the United States said it will no longer comply with the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – the official […]

TEHRAN – A top IRGC commander said on Tuesday that no country can undermine Iran’s missile power or its regional influence. The remarks by Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the second-ranking official at the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, was in response to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s anti-Iran speech at the conservative Heritage Foundation on […]

TEHRAN – Head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization says the Americans were pursuing projects such as Nitro Zeus when the nuclear agreement was reached, stressing such facts show that U.S. threats have changed from full-scale wars to cyber-attacks. “The recent remarks by the U.S. secretary of state showed that they have maintained their cyber tools […]

TEHRAN – A top foreign policy adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution has laid out ways to respond to U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear agreement, also called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Fars reported. In a meeting dubbed “Lasting Experience”, aimed at reviewing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s stances on the JCPOA, Ali […]

 A conference titled “Lasting Experience” was held in Tehran to study Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei’s stances on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the international agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. The Islamic Revolution Institute organized the conference in Tehran on Wednesday morning. Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to […]

Hossein Panahi, the Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Iranian Affairs said Wed. in the past, Iran was under 6 UN resolutions but now the situation is much better than few years ago. “Let’s compare the current situation of the Islamic Republic with a few years ago, when we were under 6 UN resolutions, […]

Obtaining 147 votes, Ali Larijani was re-elected as Iran’s Parliament speaker in the second round of election. In the first round of election, Mohammad Reza Aref, Ali Larijani and Hamid Reza Hajibabaei won 114, 101 and 54 votes respectively. This led to holding the election in second round where Hajibabaie withdraw from his candidacy in […]

TEHRAN – The vice chairman of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said on Tuesday that the bill on joining the convention on Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) was approved earlier in the day during a meeting of the committee. Kamal Dehqani Firouzabadi said the committee has conditionally approved the bill to […]

TEHRAN – Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Monday strongly denied claims of indirect talks between Iran and the Zionist regime on fighting in southwest Syria. Saudi-owned news site Elaph has claimed that Iran and Israel engaged in indirect negotiations this weekend in Jordan. According to Fars news agency, Elaph sources also alleged that “the […]

In a commentary published on May 29, the CNBC said Afghanistan can become a victim of a new plan by Trump’s administration to reintroduce U.S. sanctions on Iran as the penalties could block development of Iran’s Chabahar Port by India. Following is an excerpt of the commentary by the broadcaster: Afghanistan is at risk of become […]