TEHRAN – Iranian Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri said on Tuesday that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is lagging 40 years behind the time, pointing to the 1979 Islamic Revolution as a backlash against foreign influence. On Monday, Pompeo said the U.S. will aim to “crush” Iran with economic and military pressure unless it changes […]

TEHRAN – Hossein Amir Abdollahian, a senior foreign policy advisor to the parliament speaker, met on Tuesday with chairman of the Egyptian interest section in Tehran Yasser Othman, where the two sides discussed the recent U.S. embassy move to al-Quds (Jerusalem). The two sides exchanged views how Islamic countries can confront Israel’s atrocities in the […]

TEHRAN – Majid Takht-Ravanchi, deputy director of the presidential chief of staff for political affairs, has said that the U.S. government is under the influence of the Zionists and the terrorist groups. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the U.S. will apply economic and military pressure against Iran and will impose […]

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said preventing Muslim women from participation in sporting events is contrary to Islamic justice between men and women. President Rouhani in a cordial meeting with athletes on Tuesday evening said “our country’s athletes have always generated hope for the Iranian nation and the young.” The President expressed happiness that women are active in […]

Spokesman for the Iranian Administration Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said the American officials who have reneged on the international 2015 nuclear deal approved by the United Nations Security Council do not deserve to negotiate with the Islamic Republic. Speaking to reporters during his weekly press conference in Tehran on Tuesday, Nobakht rejected the possibility of any […]

Chairman of Iran’s Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said Tue. that possibility of blocking Iran’s support for Axis of Resistance is behind lawmakers’ refusal to pass FATF-related bills. Speaking on the sidelines of a parliament session today to review the bill on Iran’s accession to International Convention for the Suppression of Financing of […]

Following lawmakers’ protests and the subsequent voting at today’s parliament session, the bill on Iran’s accession to International Convention for the Suppression of Financing of Terrorism was once again returned to National Security Council to be evaluated within two weeks. The parliament has been reviewing three FATF-related bills, including the bill on amendment to the […]

The state railroad monopoly Russian Railways considers its project on the electrification of the railway in Iran completely civilian and not subject to US sanctions, the company’s CEO Oleg Belozerov said in an interview with Sputnik before the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Russian Railways has signed a contract and is preparing for the electrification of the […]

Iran’s deputy foreign minister stressed that exit from JCPOA will lead to US isolation in the international arena, adding they will lose the deal if they try to link it to other issues. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyed Abbas Araghchi who was one of the key negotiators in the nuclear talks with […]

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described US diplomacy as “sham” and said the White House was repeating “the same wrong choices” after the US Secretary of State said Washington will increase its financial pressure on Iran by a series of new sanctions. “US diplomacy sham is merely a regression to old habits: imprisoned by […]