An assailant who attacked a guard outside Iranian ambassador’s residence in Vienna on Sunday night has been shot dead, police said. The assailant was a 26-year-old Austrian who was shot dead “on the spot” after the guard who sustained a knife injury opened fire at him. The soldier, who was standing guard outside the building, […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamad Javad Zarif arrived in Islamabad on Sunday evening to hold talks with senior Pakistani officials. During his three-day visit, Zarif will meet his Pakistani counterpart Khawaja Asif to discuss bilateral and regional issues. He is also scheduled to meet Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and military chief General Qamar […]

TEHRAN – The level of water in Lake Urmia, northwestern Iran, has increased thanks to releasing of water from dams and also good precipitation in the region. Lake Urmia is one of the largest permanent hypersaline lakes in the world. The volume of water at the lake in 1997 measured at 30 billion cubic meters […]

TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accepted the resignation of Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati as the interim Friday prayer preacher of Tehran, the Leader’s website announced on Sunday. Jannati had tendered his resignation in a letter to the Leader thanking him for his trust and support over the years. Jannati, 91, had been […]

Mohammadreza Sabbaghian, Iranian MP from Bafq Constituency, said on Sunday that Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif should stand up against what US and France are doing against the JCPOA. “The foreign minister of our country must firmly withstand those who have violated the JCPOA,” said Mohammadreza Sabbaghian, Iranian MP from Bafq Constituency on Sunday. The Iranian […]

UK ambassador to Tehran posted a message on his official Twitter account on Sunday reassuring that UK is abiding by diplomatic conventions regarding the security of diplomats and diplomatic missions. Nicholas Hopton, UK ambassador to Tehran tweeted a post in Farsi on Sunday saying that he was “very saddened” by what happened in London on […]

Hossein Zolfaghari, Iranian Deputy Interior Minister, and his Turkish counterpart held a telephone conversation in the last week to share concerns over common borderlines. Hossein Zolfaghari, Iranian Deputy Interior Minister, and his Turkish counterpart held a telephone conversation last week to discuss concerns over security along the share borderlines. It is worth mentioning that talks […]

During a meeting on Sunday in Tehran, Peter Maurer ICRC’s President and Mohammad Javad Zarif Iranian Minister of Foreign affairs called for an immediate halt to war in Yemen. The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer who is visiting Tehran met with Iranian Minister of Foreign affairs Mohammad Javad […]

Iranian First Vice-President Es’hagh Jahangiri says that putting into practice the policies of the Resistance Economy, the Iranian government is ready to deal with shocks of western sanctions. “One of the things which has got at the top of the current administration’s agenda is the policies of Resistance Economy,” said Es’hagh Jahangiri, the Iranian First […]

Head of Iran-Indonesia Parliamentary Friendship Group Mahmoud Sadeghi says that Iran and Indonesia can join hands in fighting against extremism and terrorist groups. An Iranian delegation led by Mahmoud Sadeghi met with the Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian People’s Representative Council Fadli Zon in Jakarta, Indonesia on Saturday, during which Sadeghi pointed to the friendly and […]