In a phone call with Turkish counterpart, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that Iran is ready to expand bilateral relations in all fields with Turkey, emphasizing that their ties should be promoted to a strategic level. The telephone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan which took place on Thursday evening, Iranian president appreciated the congratulations […]

TEHRAN – Half of the funds that Iran receives from the contract to supply oil to Russia will be spent on financing joint projects, Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Mehdi Sanaei has said. “We do not have a contract on oil swap for goods,” Sanaei said in an interview with RIA Novosti published on Wednesday He […]

TEHRAN – Ayatollah Khamenei predicted a grand turnout to this year’s Feb. 11 rallies in support of the Islamic Revolution due to the recent US anti-Iran remarks and the enemy’s pounce for an attack against the country. Leader of Islamic Revolution received a group of commanders of the Army Air Force this morning on the […]

Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said here on Wednesday that war-torn Syria will be released from terrorist groups very soon, adding, “recently, we were witnessing the complete failure of ISIL in Iraq as well.” Speaking in Resistance Economy Headquarters in Kerman province, he congratulated the 39th victory […]

TEHRAN – The military presence of the United States in any country across the globe has almost always proven “a recipe for disaster”, leading to catastrophic consequences for different regions and the world, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi says. In an interview with the Tehran Times on Wednesday, Qassemi said, “It is very hard […]

TEHRAN – Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani on Wednesday lauded Setad as a legacy of Imam Khomeini, who founded the organization to serve the people. Setad’s duty is to serve the deprived and poor people and has served the nation since it was founded, Shamkhani said, ISNA reported. “The vast activities […]

TEHRAN – The motion to ask questions from President Hassan Rouhani was submitted to the Majlis economic committee on Tuesday, Hassan Hosseini Shahroudi, a committee member, told Tasnim news agency on Wednesday. The MP said the questions center around finance and credit institutes, Hosseini Shahroudi said. The move to ask questions from the president would […]

TEHRAN – Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces said on Tuesday that the United States is relocating Daesh militants to Afghanistan now that the group has been defeated in Iraq and Syria. Since Daesh and other terror groups lost their territories in Iraq and Syria, Washington has been relocating the terrorists to Afghanistan by various […]

TEHRAN – Guardian Council secretary Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said on Monday that “subversive threats” to the Islamic Republic should be taken seriously, warning that such plots must be foiled.  However, Jannati said authorities should listen to the voice of the nation and not distance themselves from people, Mehr reported. “When it is hard to make […]

In the recent days the air pollution in some parts of Tehran has reached a dangerous level, ringing the alarm bells that something serious may happen.  Who is most at fault? A clear-cut answer is that successive administrations and parliaments are mostly responsible for the current situation. Even now that the national budget bill is […]