Iran’s foreign minister arrived back in Tehran late on Friday after completing his 4-day visit to Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic. Mohammad Javad Zarif first arrived in Turkey to accompany President Hassan Rouhani on his visit to attend the three-way Ankara summit. Zarif next traveled to Azerbaijan following Turkey. When in Azerbaijani capital Baku, […]

Iranian ICT minister reported late Friday that some of Iran’s data bases had come under cyber attack from outside the country disrupting the Internet. “A number of small routers have shifted to factory default,” the Minister of Communications and Information Technology (ICT) Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi posted on his Twitter account on Friday evening. Azari Jahromi went on to […]

TEHRAN – The air quality of Tehran may deteriorate in the current [Iranian calendar] year 1397 [March 2018–March 2019] and accordingly days with unhealthy air pollution may increase compared to the year before, said the director of Tehran’s Air Quality Control Company. Normally, Tehran has just 15 days of clean air annually, most of which […]

TEHRAN — Head of the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) Morteza Barari has said the private sector could help enhance space technology in the country. The private sector would be a great help to improve space-based marketing, Barari announced in a press release on Wednesday. Regarding emerging space economy and improving space-related applications, there is a […]

“The claims of Saudi crown prince show the fact that he had studied neither history nor geography,” said Bahram Ghasemi, the Spokesman of Iranian Foreign Ministry on Friday. “An Islamic country with pompous claims had degraded itself to the level of Zionist occupiers,” said Bahram Ghasemi, the Spokesman of Iranian Foreign Ministry. Ghasemi made the […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addressed the the NAM Ministerial Committee on Palestine on Thursday and condemned states supporting “savage moves of the Israeli regime”. “The new round of repression and massacre of unarmed Palestinian peaceful protesters in Gaza, including women and children, is the latest in an old pattern followed by the Israeli […]

TEHRAN – A senior Iranian lawmaker has said he has a “positive” view of the tripartite summit on the Syria conflict hosted by Ankara, IRNA reported. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said the Ankara summit attended by the presidents of Iran, Russia […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has talked with his Pakistani counterpart Khawaja Muhammad Asif the situation in the Indian-administered Kashmir, IRNA reported, citing Pakistani media. According to reports, Asif also contacted Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on the phone to discuss the Kashmir dispute. Meanwhile, Pakistan and India have hinted at lowering […]

TEHRAN – Tehran’s city council has launched #Tehran_without_plastic campaign in a bid to fight detrimental effects of plastics on the environment, ISNA reported on Wednesday. Inviting all citizens to join the campaign, the city council’s head of health commission Nahid Khodakarami emphasized that the challenge of plastics can be solved through public awareness and participation. […]

TEHRAN – Wildfire swept through some 150 hectares of forests across northern Iran during Noruz holidays (March 21 – April 2), said an official with Forests, Range, and Watershed Management Organization, noting that the extent of fire was unprecedented for the last decade. Nearly 10 percent of the area have been severely burnt, ILNA quoted […]