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 […]

Approaching the time of Iranian parliament mid-term internal election, different fractions lobby to push forward their desired MP for the post of Iranian parliament speaker. Omid Fraction in Iranian Parliament announced that it has decided to support MP Mohammad Reza Aref in the race for the job of Iranian parliament speaker. The members of Omid […]

Enemies have aimed to harm Iran’s economy through damaging its currency reserves, said Iran’s First Vice-President Es’hagh Jahangiri. Making the remarks on a meeting with representatives of petrochemical companies, he added, “we need to get the currency from the sale of petrochemical products to the country’s economy.” “We are now in a new situation and […]

Iran will soon resume direct flights from Tehran to Sulaymaniyah, a city in Iraq’s Kurdistan, almost 9 months after Baghdad imposed an air ban on the region in retaliation for an independence vote. Dana Mohammad, media manager at Sulaymaniyah International Airport in Iraqi Kurdistan, said Tuesday that Iranian airliners are getting ready to resume inbound […]

The enemies seek to quickly curb Iran’s oil income amid new sanctions, while the government is trying hard to tackle people’s problems, according to the Iranian government spokesman. “The enemies seek to curb Iran petro dollars, but the government is trying hard to tackle people’s problems,” the Iranian government spokesman Mohammad Bagher Nobakht said in his […]

 Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei said Tue. in a meeting with Switzerland ambassador that the relations of other countries in the region with the United States do not concern Iran. “We chant slogans like ‘Death to America’, but we do not prevent any country in the region from having relations with the United […]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman condemned the US court’s verdict convicting Iran of involvement in the 9/11 attacks in New York city. Speaking to reporters on Monday afternoon, Bahram Ghasemi said that the Islamic Republic of Iran has always strongly condemned the biased, political, baseless and default judgments by US courts against Iran. “Issuing such an […]

In a meeting with university students and representatives of students’ unions, Ayatollah Khamenei said that students need to continue fulfilling the objectives of the Islamic Revolution. “Within the revolutionary forces, after the Islamic Revolution, there was a false assumption that the ‘revolution’ would last up until the formation of the Establishment, and after that goal was achieved, […]