TEHRAN – Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh-Hashemi announced on Saturday that Iran is ready to dispatch medical aid to Syria if needed, IRNA reported. It came after a coordinated missile attack by the U.S., Britain and France on Syria in the early hours of Saturday over an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburb of […]

TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that Iran will continue supporting the countries in the Middle East region. “The Islamic Republic of Iran has always been and will be supporter of the oppressed people and has always agreed to help regional countries fight terrorism upon their governments’ request,” Rouhani said at a meeting […]

TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has strongly denounced joint airstrikes by the U.S., UK and France on Syria as a “crime,” saying the leaders of the three countries are “criminals”. Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks on Saturday on the occasion of Eid al-Mab’ath, the anniversary of the day Prophet Muhammad […]

The Council of the European Union on Thu. extended the sanctions imposed on Iran over alleged human rights violations by a year until April 2019. The sanctions include asset freezes and travel restrictions against 82 people and one entity. The EU move comes as US President Donald Trump has set European sides a May 12 […]

Senior adviser to Iranian Leader Ali Akbar Velayati said in a meeting with President Bashar Assad that the 7-year-old war against Syria led by US has not weakened Syria or strengthened Americans since then. Ali Akbar Velayati, who is in Damascus to attend a conference on Palestine, as well as to hold talks with senior […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Namibian counterpart Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah have held talks on bilateral and regional issues.  During the Thursday talks, the Iranian foreign minister highlighted the significance of Iran’s cooperation with Namibia in Southern Africa. He then called for further enhancement of the two sides’ relations in all areas, especially in the field of banking, to facilitate the operation of Iranian and Namibian private sectors. Zarif also voiced the Islamic Republic of Iran’s preparedness to develop cooperation with Namibia […]

 Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi says the current rulers of Saudi Arabia have turned themselves into symbols of aggression and crime in the Middle East. In a Wednesday statement, Ghasemi vehemently slammed therecent anti-Iran remarks made by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeirduring their visit to France. He said the Saudi rulers have put their names and that of their country in […]

Iran’s foreign minister said Wed. that Iran and Uruguay geographical distance cannot put obstacles in the way of expansion of bilateral relations between the two countries. Speaking in Iran-Uruguay joint economic meeting in the Uruguayan capital city of Montevideo on Wednesday, Mohammad Javad Zarif praised the long-standing bilateral relations between the two countries and nations, […]

TEHRAN – When Daesh (ISIL) forces approached Iran’s borders almost four years ago, the Army Aviation took action against them similar to what it had done against to Monafiqeen (Mojahedin-e Khalq operatives in the Mersad operation) in 1988, Iranian Army Aviation chief Yousof Ghorbani has said. In an interview with Saf Monthly, Ghorbani said the […]

TEHRAN — The “turquoise solitaire of Azarbaijan”, Lake Urmia, is meeting its end by turning into a barren field of exposed salt water and there are a few options available to restore the lake, most probably not to its former glory. The lake, located in northwestern Iran, used to be the largest salt-water lake in […]