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 […]

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani met with his Afghan counterpart Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi on Monday in Islamabad of Pakistan. “Iran is ready to increase relations with Afghanistan in all areas of politics, economy, culture, and security,” said Ali Larijani, the Speaker of Iranian Parliament on Monday. The Iranian top law maker made the remarks in […]

A controversial bill that could grant Italian citizenship to about 800,000 children born in the country if they have spent five years in school was defeated in the Senate, newspapers said Sunday. Under the bill called “right of the soil” or Ius soli, children under 12 who have spent five years in school would qualify […]

TEHRAN – Tehran city council chairman Mohsen Hashemi has urged officials and responsible organizations to be vigilant over the possibility of future earthquakes in the metropolis and take necessary measures. “The magnitude-5.2 earthquake in Tehran was not minor enough to be disregarded and not major enough to cause damages,” Hashemi said on a TV show […]

TEHRAN — Tehran Municipality has resumed talks over the past few days concentrating on altering traffic schemes to ease congestion and abating air pollutions. Tehran, similar to many other metropolises worldwide, is struggling with many challenges of which air pollution and torturous traffic congestion stand out conspicuously. To ease the congestion and fighting the suffocating […]

Iran’s FM Spokesperson Ghasemi has issued a message congratulating the birth anniversary of Jesus Christ and the eve of New Year. Bahram Ghasemi, Spokesman of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, forwarded a message of congratulations to the leaders of Christian countries offering greetings on the birth anniversary of Jesus Christ. “I am deeply pleased […]

Parliament Speaker Special Aide on International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian strongly condemned foolish comments of Bahrain’s foreign minister against Iran’s history. Parliament Speaker Special Aide on International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian pointed to the history and civilization of Iran, said the trashy comments made by Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa are not worth answering. […]

Iranian Interior Minister Rahmani Fazli issued a message and felicitated world Christians on the birth of the messenger of peace Jesus Christ and the new Christian year. Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazzli issued a message on the birth of Jesus Christ and the new Christian year (2018) and wished Christians a merry christmas. “Remember […]

The Spokesperson of Judiciary Branch, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, says that while they consider the case of Nazanin Zaghari the same as other cases but the Foreign Minister Zarif has not met with the judiciary chief on this issue yet. “The British delegation held no negotiation with the judiciary branch and the judiciary system has not […]