In an interview with Al Jazeera, Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran (SNSC) said Iran will not agree to negotiate any limitations on its missile development and it does not seek permission from anyone to defend its missile program. “The United States is not trustworthy to negotiate with at […]

TEHRAN – A top official at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has reiterated Tehran’s position that Iran will resume nuclear enrichment activities with a greater speed if the remaining parties fail to save the 2015 nuclear agreement. On May 8, Trump withdrew the U.S. from the internationally binding nuclear agreement and vowed to […]

TEHRAN- Platform SPD-22, which is the first platform of the phases 22, 23, 24 of developing Iran’s South Pars gas field (in the Persian Gulf) was installed on its designated offshore spot at Friday night, Public Relations Department of Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC), which is in charge of the gas field development, announced. […]

Doğu Perinçek, the candidate in the upcoming presidential election of Turkey, told Mehr News in an interview that he sees no barrier in expanding ties between Turkey and Syria, to the point that he would invite Pres. Assad to Ankara should he become the next Turkish president. Doğu Perinçek, the Chairman of the nationalist Patriotic […]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that the situation in US and the upcoming congress election in that country means that US current approach towards JCPOA and Iran may not stay the same. “The difference between our today’s enrichment of uranium and the pre-JCPOA enrichment is that at that time UN was claiming that […]

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi has dismissed the recent remarks by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Tehran must stop enriching uranium and import the material instead. Speaking to Iranian media on Saturday, Ghasemi said, “we welcome Mr. Pompeo to the world of foreign policy and diplomacy. But I believe he has entered […]

Commander of the Khatam al-Anbia Air Defense Base said Sat. that no flying object with malicious intent can trespass into Iranian airspace, adding that 3,700 spots across the country are under coverage by air defense systems. Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili added that Iran is fully covered by air defense systems, promising a severe response to […]

Iranian Minister of Defense Amir Hatami said Fri. that Iran’s regional influence is one of the country’s major facet of power that has kept the enemies’ aggression at bay. “Today, the enemies of Iran, led by the criminal United States, are pushing the agenda to counter the defense power of the Islamic Republic, all the […]

Iranian President Rouhani has forwarded a message of felicitation to Nicolas Maduro for his re-election as the president of Venezuela. “The successful and peaceful holding of the electoral process with the looming shadow of economic sanctions and threats by foreign powers is indeed a great victory for the government and people of Venezuela,” wrote Iranian […]

TEHRAN – Development of space industry requires national willpower, Communications and Information Technology Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has said. There are several institutes in Iran who are active in the field of space studies, however, sometimes they are working in parallel due to lack of appropriate connections, ILNA quoted the minister as saying at […]