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Velayati meets with Syrian tribal leader, stresses Syria’s unity 03 May 2018

Velayati meets with Syrian tribal leader, stresses Syria’s unity

The senior adviser to Iran Leader Ali Akbar Velayati received a representative of Kurdish tribes in Syria during which he stressed unity among all Syrians from all ethnic and religious backgrounds. In the meeting which took place in Tehran on Tuesday afternoon, Velayati said “fortunately, in Syria, different tribes, including Arabs and Kurds, and followers […]

Leader pardons, commutes sentences of 715 convicts 03 May 2018

Leader pardons, commutes sentences of 715 convicts

TEHRAN – On Tuesday, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei agreed to pardon, commute or substitute the sentences of 715 eligible inmates, including those found guilty in public and Islamic Revolution courts, the Judicial Organization of the Armed Forces and the State Discretionary Punishment Organization. The decision came in response to a request […]

Iran’s defense minister warns Israel to stop ‘dangerous behaviors’ 03 May 2018

Iran’s defense minister warns Israel to stop ‘dangerous behaviors’

TEHRAN – Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami on Tuesday warned the Israeli prime minister to stop “dangerous behaviors”, saying Iran’s response to any provocation will be “surprising” that will make the Tel Aviv regime to feel “regretful”. “I warn the occupying regime of Israel and its allies that they must stop hatching plots […]

Iran says ready if U.S. scraps nuclear deal 03 May 2018

Iran says ready if U.S. scraps nuclear deal

TEHRAN – Government spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said on Wednesday that Iran is ready if the U.S. scraps the 2015 nuclear deal. “We are ready for change in the country’s situation when the U.S. administration pulls out of the JCPOA [the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action],” he explained. In a statement on January 12, U.S. […]

5.2 magnitude quake hits southwest Iran, injures dozens 02 May 2018

5.2 magnitude quake hits southwest Iran, injures dozens

A 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province in southwest Iran injuring dozens. The epicenter of the powerful earthquake was Sisakht which is a city and capital of Dana County in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province. According to the head of Iran’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Pir Hossein Kolivand, the earthquake struck at 8:38’ local time on […]

Spox rejects Moroccan FM claim over Iran’s support for Polisario 02 May 2018

Spox rejects Moroccan FM claim over Iran’s support for Polisario

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has dismissed the Moroccan foreign ministry statement claiming that Iran financially and logistically supported Polisario Front. In a Wednesday statement, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi rejected Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita’s accusations as “incorrect and unfounded.” Ghasemi said “as in the contacts between the two countries’ authorities in recent days, […]

Iran relies on own people as main source of power 02 May 2018

Iran relies on own people as main source of power

 Iranian foreign minister says that the people of Iran are the main source of its power, criticizing the Saudis for spending huge amount of money on foreign military equipment. Speaking at Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran on Tuesday afternoon to commemorate Iranian “National Teachers’ Day,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that there […]

US-Israel nuclear coop. violates NPT 01 May 2018

US-Israel nuclear coop. violates NPT

 Iranian ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says that the nuclear cooperation between the United States and the Israeli regime is in clear violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Reza Najafi made the remarks on Monday in the ongoing second session of three planned sessions of Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference […]

UK, US launch biggest-ever study of Antarctic glacier 01 May 2018

UK, US launch biggest-ever study of Antarctic glacier

Britain and the United States on Monday launched a research programme billed “the most detailed and extensive examinations of a massive Antarctic glacier ever undertaken” to gauge how quickly it could collapse. Teams from Britain’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) will visit the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica […]

01 May 2018

‘Netanyahu had nothing to say but a pack of lies’

Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman has denounced the latest “propaganda show” by Israeli regime prime minister, saying he had nothing to offer but a pack of lies. Bahram Ghasemi said that Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest allegations accusing Iran of once pursuing nuclear weapons were a “propaganda show.” Ghasemi added through lies and charlatanism as well as using […]