TEHRAN – Iran’s FM Special Assistant in Political Affairs, Hossein Jaberi Ansari, held talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Saturday. Iran’s Foreign Minister’s Special Assistant in Political Affairs, Hossein Jaberi Ansari, who is in Damascus for a two-day visit, met and held talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad on Saturday. Jaberi Ansari […]

TEHRAN– Ayatollah Khamenei issued a message to participants attending the 52nd conference of the Islamic Union Association for Iranian Students in Europe. The full text of the message is as follows: In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful: Dear Young University Students, The current era and its developments define certain expectations […]

TEHRAN – Domestic experts at Iran’s defense industry have managed to design and manufacture thermal imaging infrared cameras to be used for a range of anti-armor guided missile systems. Experts have manufactured thermographic cameras to be installed on various anti-armor missile systems, including Toofan, Dehlavieh, and Tosan, Tasnim reported. They have built “RU244TK” thermographic cameras […]

VIENNA – Syria has rejected in full the informal paper on reviving the political process in Geneva because it contradicts international resolutions and aims to undermine the Geneva talks and the Sochi Congress. In a press conference at the end of Vienna’s meeting on Friday, al-Jaafari said the Syrian delegation has had constructive discussions with […]

Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei told MNA on Sat. that the US military coalition in Syria seeks to rally Kurds against Turkey, while Turkey is after disrupting US plans in the region. Mohsen Rezaei made the comment in response to a question by Mehr News correspondent about the presence of American troops in northern […]

Iranian Parliament’s General Director for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian posted a message on his Twitter account condemning the joint rhetoric of KSA, UAE, and Bahrain against Iran at Davos panels. “The anti-Tehran alignment of KSA, UAE, and Bahrain at the World Economic Forum in Davos is a strategic mistake,” reads a post by Iranian Parliament’s […]

After a fire incident at a hospital in South Korea claimed the lives of at least 35 people, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman issued message of condolences. Bahram Ghasemi, the Spokesman of Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, issued a statement on Friday, extending sympathies with the South Korean government and nation over the fire incident in […]

TEHRAN – The parliamentary youth faction has prepared a proposal to revive the National Youth Organization, the faction’s chairman said on Friday. Pointing to the Rouhani administration’s bill to divide the Sports and Youth Ministry, Seyyed Farid Mousavi said since the bill might be let down “we have provided a proposal in the youth faction […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that the U.S. and Saudi Arabia cannot change the facts about Iran’s role in helping defeat ISIS, also called Daesh. “No amount of ‘alternative facts’ by Trump & Co’s echo chamber, ‘vision of light’ spin by KSA, or credit-grabbing by the U.S. fosr defeat of […]

 Iran’s Ambassador to United Nations Es’hagh Al Habib said on Thursday that occupation of the Palestinian land is the core and central of all conflicts in the Middle East. “The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian land is the core and central of all conflicts in the Middle East,” said Es’hagh Al-Habib, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent […]