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Two Omani warships to dock at Iranian port of Bandar Abbas 07 May 2018

Two Omani warships to dock at Iranian port of Bandar Abbas

Two Omani warships will dock at Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas on Tuesday on the occasion of the 14th biannual friendship conference of Iran and Oman in Tehran. Concurrent with the holding of the 14th biannual friendship conference of Iran and Oman in Tehran, two Omani warships will dock at Iranian port city of […]

Ghasemi dismisses agreement with EU on curbing Iran regional influence 07 May 2018

Ghasemi dismisses agreement with EU on curbing Iran regional influence

 FM Spokesman Ghasemi said Mon. the recent talks between Iran and E4 in Rome aimed at reaching a political solution to Yemeni crisis and that the two sides have made no new agreement on curbing Iran’s regional influence. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi made the remarks in his weekly press conference on Monday in […]

Leaving JCPOA to remain one of Iran’s options after May 12 07 May 2018

Leaving JCPOA to remain one of Iran’s options after May 12

 Iranian Foreign Minister said that exit from the JCPOA will remain to be one of Iran’s options after the United States’ decision is announced on May 12. Speaking in Tehran after attending a Parliament session on Sunday, Mohammad Javad Zarif said during his recent trip to New York, he had talked with people who are […]

MPs discuss Telegram, house arrest with Judiciary 07 May 2018

MPs discuss Telegram, house arrest with Judiciary

TEHRAN – Members of the pro-reform Hope parliamentary faction have met with Judiciary deputy chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i to discuss the ban on Telegram app and other issues, ISNA reported. Bahram Parsaei, the parliamentary faction’s spokesman, said on Sunday that during the meeting, which was led by Mohammad-Reza Aref, Mohseni-Eje’i said the Supreme National Cyberspace Council […]

Senior MP: U.S. JCPOA exit would be ‘double win’ for Iran 07 May 2018

Senior MP: U.S. JCPOA exit would be ‘double win’ for Iran

TEHRAN – Deputy Majlis Speaker Ali Motahari on Sunday shrugged off Washington’s possible move to leave the 2015 nuclear deal, called the JCPOA, saying such a step would be a “double win” for the Islamic Republic.  If the U.S. leaves the JCPOA, not only its international status would be undermined, Iran would also no longer […]

Strong Iran is ‘unconquerable’: general 07 May 2018

Strong Iran is ‘unconquerable’: general

TEHRAN – A senior advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said on Sunday that a strong Iran is “unconquerable”, IRNA reported. Major General Yahya Rahim-Safavi, who was IRGC chief from 1997 to 2007, said Iran has defeated the U.S. on several occasions and the Americans cannot challenge the great Iranian nation. He further […]

Berlin wants U.S. stay in nuclear deal: Iranian envoy 07 May 2018

Berlin wants U.S. stay in nuclear deal: Iranian envoy

TEHRAN – The Iranian ambassador to Germany has said that Berlin prefers that the United States stay in the nuclear deal. Elaborating on the official position of Berlin on the 2015 nuclear agreement, Ali Majedi told Shargh daily in an interview published on Sunday that in his many meetings with German officials in recent weeks, […]

Tehran prosecutor: 16 female Daesh members sentenced 07 May 2018

Tehran prosecutor: 16 female Daesh members sentenced

TEHRAN – Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said on Sunday that 16 female members of Daesh who had been operating in Syria have been sentenced on various charges. They were arrested immediately after arriving in Iran, Jafari Dolatabadi added. The Daesh women have also been sentenced return over 3 billion rials (about $70,000) that […]

Zarif urges Europeans to make more effort to salvage JCPOA 07 May 2018

Zarif urges Europeans to make more effort to salvage JCPOA

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday in a meeting with a Swedish diplomat in Tehran that what Europeans have done to protect the JCPOA is not enough. “The Europe should do more to preserve the JCPOA and push US to deliver on its commitments,” said Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Minister of Foreign […]

FM Zarif convinces opposing MPs 06 May 2018

FM Zarif convinces opposing MPs

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who attended Parliament on Sunday to answer the questions posed by Iranian legislators managed to convince the opposing MPs. In response to questions posed by MPs from Sistan and Balouchestan Province who were angry with Afghanistan’s mismanagement of water of a river which feeds a lake in Iran, Iranian […]