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 […]

 FM Spokesman Ghasemi has condemned a politically-motivated US court default judgement requiring Iran to pay compensations to victims of September 11, 2001 attacks in absence of any evidence of Iranian involvement. In a statement on Sunday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi forwarded Iran’s strong protests against the issuing of such politically-motivated judgments based on unfounded […]

 Iranian deputy foreign minister and economy minister attended a public session at Iranian parliament to defend government’s bid to fully abide by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) obligations. The law makers in Iranian Parliament are discussing two bills (Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism) drafted by government of Hassan Rouhani in order […]

Iranian president has stressed once again that Iran will never negotiate over its “defensive weapons” with anyone, declaring that it is none of anyone’s business to decide for Iran’s defensive power. Hassan Rouhani made the remarks in Sabzevar in northeastern Razavi Khorasan Province on Sunday. Rouhani said that his government entered serious negotiations on Iran’s […]

TEHRAN – The number of foreign visitors to Iran rose 4.3 percent during the past Iranian calendar year 1396 (ended March 20) compared to the year before, said the deputy director of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization. Mohammad Moheb-Khodai made the remarks in Zanjan on Thursday during the closing ceremony of the 4th […]

Gholamhossein Dehghani, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, said on Friday that it is vital to have international cooperation in order to eradicate terrorism. “In order to eradicate terrorism, it is necessary and vital to have international cooperation doubled with serious political will and regional agreements and mechanisms,” said Gholamhossein Dehghani, Iranian […]

 Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, the Secretary of Iran’s SNSC listed his reasons for ruling out the possibility of any war against Iran, during an address in Tehran on Saturday. “The formation of any war against Iran is impossible,” said Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) of Iran. The […]

Vladimir Yermakov, the director general of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control at Russia’s Foreign Ministry, said on Friday that a U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, does not necessarily mean the end of the deal. “It might even be easier for us on the […]

Commander of IRGC’s Ansar-ol-Mahdi Corps, responsible for protection of senior Iranian officials, said the Corps have thwarted 15 aircraft hijack attempts since 1984. General Ali Nasiri, commander of IRGC’s Ansar-ol-Mahdi Corps, made the remark in a press conference held Sat. on the occasion of the anniversary of Imam Khomeini’s order that put the Revolutionary Guard Corps in charge of protecting senior […]

The head of an Iranian delegation tasked with examining reasons behind the collision of a Chinese vessel with the Iranian oil tanker “Sanchi” that sank in the East China Sea earlier in January said the Chinese ship’s change of direction was the main cause of the incident. Addressing a press conference in Tehran on Saturday, […]