President Rouhani said Tue. that if the nation were once again asked to take part in a referendum, 98.2% would still choose independence and liberty over foreign intervention. President Hassan Rouhani appeared at a large gathering of governor generals, ministers, heads of economic organizations and directors of financial and credit institutions on Tuesday to discuss […]

Iran’s Leader Ayatollah Khamenei says Sunni and Shia Muslims have always stood united to defend their own country against the enemies at the most difficult times of the Islamic Republic. Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting with a group of families of martyrs from Iranian eastern Sunni-dominated province of Sistan and Baluchistan. Referring […]

Iran’s Army Commander-in-Chief Brig. Gen. Mousavi said Tue. that the country would build its defense walls even higher against any intrusion by ‘thieves’. Speaking to Mehr News Correspondent about the insistence of the US and certain European countries on holding negotiations over Iran’s missile program and defense capabilities, Brig. General Abdolrahim Mousavi said it was the […]

TEHRAN – The commander of the Iranian Air Force on Monday strongly dismissed Western proposals for negotiations on Iran’s missile program, asserting it is “a state red line”. “Iran’s defense might does not threaten the region,” Hassan Shah Safi told a conference of foreign military attaches in Tehran, stressing that missile capability “is attached to […]

Western countries like the U.S. and Middle Eastern ones such as Israel and Saudi Arabia like to put the Islamic Republic of Iran down as some kind of medieval state that presents a threat to the region and, at least from the standpoint of the U.S. government, the world, but it’s all a big lie […]

TEHRAN – Muhammad Abdusalam, the spokesman for the Yemeni Ansarullah, held talks in Tehran on Monday with Hossein Jaberi Ansari, the special assistant to the Iranian foreign minister, discussing ways to settle the Yemen war politically. The two sides exchanged views how to end the cruel war on the Yemeni people. In a similar meeting […]

TEHRAN – The first water ambulance in Iran was launched in the southern province of Hormozgan on Saturday with Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi in attendance, Tasnim reported. Costing nearly 33 billion rials (around $750,000) the water ambulance is bought with the contributions made by benefactors active in the health sector and equipped by Hormozgan […]

Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani denounced as a new plot the US claim that Iran has supplied missiles to Yemen, saying a total blockade that has barred even the delivery of medicine to Yemen shows that Washington’s accusation is ridiculous. Addressing a meeting of Judiciary officials on Monday, Ayatollah Amoli Larijani took a […]

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman offered condolences to the Russian government and people over the deadly air crash which claimed the lives of 71 people. Bahram Qassemi expressed his deep sorrow for the sad event and sympathized with the bereaved families of the victims. Russian passenger jet crashed several minutes after takeoff from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport […]

The bodies of 3 Iranian crew members who lost their lives in Sanchi oil tanker incident last month will be flown to Tehran on Tuesday night. Iran’s General Consul in Shanghai Alireza Irvash told IRIB News Agency that all the necessary measures have been taken to transfer the three corpuses to Tehran from Shanghai later on Tuesday. The Iranian, […]