TEHRAN – After days of protests staged all across Kurdish regions of northern Iraq, the Speaker of the regional parliament Yousef Muhammed resigned on Tuesday. The protesters say they are angry with corruption and mismanagement in KRG establishment. After two political parties withdrew from the Iraqi Kurdistan’s regional ruling coalition amid ongoing popular protests against […]

TEHRAN – A senior adviser to Iran’s Leader said on Tuesday that Palestine is still number one issue of the Islamic world, criticizing the statement issued by participants in OIC Summit in Istanbul for being too conservative. Speaking in a press conference held on Tuesday, Ali Akbar Velayati, who is also the Secretary General of […]

A blowout occurs at Rag-Sefid offshore oilfield in Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province on October 29. The accident happened when drilling operation was ongoing in depth of 2,403 meters in the well No. 147 of the field. It burnt the drilling rig and killed two persons working for the National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC). One week […]

Secretary of the Expediency Council and former IRGC Commander Mohsen Rezaei said the return of authority and national security to the Islamic Republic of Iran is the eternal honor of the glorious Islamic Revolution. Speaking in a ceremony Tue. to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of assigning Flight Security and Air Protection to IRGC by Imam Khomeini’s […]

The office of the Permanent representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to New York explained the reason for Iran’s abstention from voting on the resolution against Myanmar. The office of the Permanent representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to New York issued a statement concerning Iran’s abstention from voting on the resolution against […]

TEHRAN – Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Monday that French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Tehran will take place without any pre-conditions by the two sides. “There are no pre-conditions in exchanges of visits and relations by delegations. The two countries enjoy friendly relations and there is much interaction between Tehran and Paris, […]

TEHRAN – The budget allocated to female breadwinners has not been cut, it has not been received yet, vice president for women’s and family affairs said, IRNA reported on Friday. The proposed national budget bill for the next Iranian calendar year 1397, starting on March 21, 2018, has approved 210 billion rials ($5.25 million) for […]

TEHRAN – The growing rate of recruiting female faculty members in recent years has been satisfying, the head of faculty recruitment center of the ministry of science has said. Some 6,500 faculty members, equaling 37 percent of the total number, are female, Mehr news agency quoted Mohammad Reza Rezvantalab as saying. He went on to […]

TEHRAN — Iran is giving a helping hand to Afghanistan in fight against drug trafficking, spokesman for Afghanistan Ministry of Counter Narcotics Mohammad Hanif Daneshyar has said. Illicit narcotic cultivation, production, trafficking, and consumption flourish in Afghanistan, particularly in areas where instability is high and state institutions are weak or non-existent. About 90 percent of […]

TEHRAN – The Supreme Court has approved the death sentence against an Iranian researcher for spying for Israel’s Mossad spy agency, Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi confirmed on Monday. Ahmad Reza Jalali, who has been in prison since April 2016, was shown on national TV earlier this month confessing to providing information to Mossad about Iranian […]