Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araghchi said on Wednesday that Iran’s foreign ministry won’t allow Americans’ animosity against Iran to damage the JCPOA or Iran’s interests. “We will not allow Americans’ animosity against Iran to damage the JCPOA or the interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” said Iranian Deputy Foreign […]

TEHRAN – Kioumars Heydari, commander of the Army Ground Forces, said on Tuesday that Iran sees no serious foreign threat. “Today, the armed forces are ready and the enemies are aware of this preparedness. So, they [the armed forces] feel no serious threat against the system,” Heydari said in a televised interview. He said that […]

Bahram Ghasemi, the Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman, referred to the statement issued by the Chairperson of African Union Commission on Syria on Monday, and hailed the approached undertaken by the African body. “We welcome the statement issued by the African Union on developments in Syria in which the chemical attack was condemned and at the […]

Iranian President’s Office has issued an order banning the government offices from using dominant foreign messengers such as Telegram. According to Reza Javaheri from Iran’s President’s Office, all the government offices and institutions are banned from using social messaging services like Telegram. Earlier this month, Iranian officials had announced that Telegram would be blocked at the end […]

TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that foreign spies have been working behind the scenes to create a foreign currency crisis in Iran.  “The role of foreigners and their intelligence services was obvious in the recent chaos in Iran’s currency market,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with […]

TEHRAN — As per the figures and data collected in Iran on cancers, certainly cancer tsunami is not happening in Iran, Deputy Health Minister Reza Malekzadeh, a gastroenterologist, has said. The “population-based cancer registry of the Islamic Republic of Iran” which is the first reliable and official data collected on cancer incidence in Iran was […]

TEHRAN – Ali Khorram, a senior analyst and former Iranian ambassador to UN bodies in Vienna, says the recent U.S.-led attack against Syria was an act of retaliation against Russia and Iran. Speaking with ISNA, Khorram said the U.S., Britain and France could not have launched an extensive war against Syria due to fears of […]

TEHRAN – Iran will soon resume direct flights from Tehran to Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan, Erbil, Iranian consul general in Erbil Morteza Ebadi announced on Tuesday. Speaking with ISNA, Ebadi said flights will start again on April 27, almost six month after Iraq’s central government imposed an air ban on the region […]

TEHRAN — A group of environmental activists affiliated with an NGO has made a statement questioning the directive from the Supreme Council of Environment on revision of national protected areas. Under the directive, issued on February 21, during a session headed by President Hassan Rouhani, the protected areas which have caused difficulties for different sectors […]

President Rouhani stressed Wed. that the strategy of Iran’s Army will always remain deterrence of aggression and coercion as the country continues to boost military capabilities of its Army and IRGC. President Rouhani made the remarks in his address during a ceremony at the Mausoleum of Imam Khomeini in capital Tehran, marking Iran’s Army Day on April […]