All 11 bodies on board the Turkish private jet that crashed in the west of Iran have been found, according to the Iran’s Red Crescent Organization. A Turkish private jet heading towards Istanbul from UAE’s Sharjah caught fire while crossing over Iranian air space and hit Mount Helen in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province of Iran […]

 Iranian Ambassador to London, Hamid Baeidinejad, said Sun. that he has received death threats by a member of Sadeq Shirazi community, a Britain-based Shia extremist sect, days after a raid on the embassy building. The Iranian ambassador posted on his Twitter account a screenshot of a series of threats on his life made by Hossein […]

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 […]