Iran’s FM Zarif has left for Tajik capital of Dushanbe on Monday to take part in the 23rd Meeting of the ECO Council of Foreign Ministers (COM) on April 17. Accompanied by a political entourage, Zarif is due to attend the 23rd ECO Ministerial Meeting who will host ministers and deputy foreign ministers of countries, members of […]

TEHRAN – There are many reasons behind Anzali Wetland’s degradation in recent years among which one can refer to poor waste management policies and locals’ lack of knowledge regarding benefits of the wetland. Covering more than 19,000 hectares, the wetland is located near the northern port city of Bandar Anzali, neighboring the Caspian Sea. The […]

TEHRAN – A top lawmaker said on Sunday that commanders of the IRGC Quds Force as well as officials with the Foreign Ministry were scheduled to report to the parliament on Sunday evening on the recent U.S.-led attacks on Syria. Speaking to IRNA, Kamal Dehqani-Firouzabadi, the vice-chairman of the Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy […]

TEHRAN – Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says he would discuss the latest developments in Syria in meetings with the Vietnamese and Sri Lankan officials in his tour to Hanoi and Colombo. “One of the most important issues in talks with Vietnamese and Sri Lankan officials will be the Syrian issue,” Larijani said before departing Tehran […]

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the latest developments in Syria during a telephone conversation on Sunday. The Presidents of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation, Hassan Rouhani and Vladimir Putin, had a conversation on the telephone and discussed the latest international and regional issues, as well as […]

 Iranian ICT Minister Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi who was called to Parliament to answer the questions posed by two MPs managed to convince the chamber and return to his office safe. Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi, Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology (ICT), who was summoned to Iranian parliament to answer the questions posed by two MPs, […]

The top adviser to Iranian Leader Ali Akbar Velayati said the US and its allies attack on Syria violated international rules, adding it will not reach its goals. Ali Akbar Velayati, who has just arrived back in Tehran from a 4-day visit to Syria, described the US, France and UK assault on Syria as an […]

 239 Members of Iranian Parliament issued joint statement on Sunday condemning the tripartite attack on Syria by US, UK, and France and reassured that the westerners’ new set of goals in Syria will fail. A joint statement, signed by 239 Iranian lawmakers, was read at the end of the public meeting of Sunday at Iranian […]

Parl. Speaker Ali Larijani said Sun. that the recent attack by the United States, Britain and France against Syria, while contravening international law, was merely a show of ‘bullying tactics’. Ali Larijani made the remarks in an open Parliament session on Sunday in reaction to the Western missile attacks on Syria under the pretext of a […]

 The Chief of General Staff of Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri says the US-led attacks on Syria are result of the aggressors’ anger at terrorists’ defeat. Major General Mohammad Bagheri made the remarks in a phone call with Syria’s Defense Minister General Ali Abdullah Ayoub yesterday afternoon, a while after the United States, […]