TEHRAN, – President Rouhani offered condolences to the families of the crew of the Iranian oil tanker ‘Sanchi’ and stressed the need for prioritizing the identification of the bodies to alleviate the pains of their families. President Hassan Rouhani also called on all the relevant agencies, including the ministries of Roads and Urban Development, Oil, […]

TEHRAN– In a meeting with deputy speaker of Ivory Coast’s National Assembly, Larijani said that Iran wants more relations with African countries, adding current PUIC Conference in Tehran provides a good opportunity in that regard. Today afternoon, Ali Larijani held a meeting with Privat Oula, Deputy Speaker of National Assembly of Ivory Coast, and told […]

TEHRAN– Iranian MP Kazem Jalali said on Saturday that Palestine should be at the top of the agenda of OIC Member States’ meetings and other gatherings of the Muslim world. Tehran MP at Iranian parliament, who is chairing the Specialized and Executive Committees’ sessions as part of current 13th Session of Parliamentary Union of the […]

TEHRAN – The US is likely to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Saturday. “Yesterday’s decision shows that the US is close to withdrawing from the deal,” Ryabkov told, according to Anadolu. Ryabkov’s remarks come one day after US President Donald Trump extended sanctions relief on Iran for […]

TEHRAN– The Iranian president insisted on determining the fate of Iranian oil tanker crew in a call with labor minister, who is in China tasked with the related investigation into oil tanker incident. Iran’s Minister of Labor, Ali Rabiei, who was appointed by President Rouhani as the head of the committee to follow-up the Sanchi […]

The four members of the salvage team wore respirators to board the “Sanchi”, where they found the two bodies on the deck, state news agency Xinhua reported. They tried to get to the living quarters but were driven back by temperatures on the burning ship of around 89 Celsius (192 Fahrenheit). The body of a […]

TEHRAN – The 1st Conference of Asian Cultural Dialogues has opened Sat. in Tehran with 70 cultural and scientific figures from over 20 Asian countries in attendance. Following the regional meetings of the Asian Cultural Dialogues which were held previously in India, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan, the first international edition of the conference has kicked off […]

TEHRAN – The Islamic Republic of Iran will host the 13th edition of the Parliamentary Union of Islamic Cooperation Conference. The 13th PUIC Conference will start as of today, Saturday, January 13, 2018 with specialized and expert meetings and executive committees in session. According the conference schedule, the permanent and specialized committees and the public […]

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi announced the order of Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani to implement nuclear propulsion project. Speaking in a local ceremony on Friday, Salehi announced that President Rouhani has asked AEOI to implement the nuclear propulsion project. “Production of necessary radiopharmaceuticals and the implementation of a nuclear […]

TEHRAN – More than 50 consecutive tremors, with different levels of severity, shook the city of Sumar in the western province of Kermanshah on Thursday. The chain of earthquakes began at 10:29 a.m. (local time) with a magnitude 5.6 tremor. Till the end of the day, consecutive tremors kept hitting the region, five of them […]