Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said that new avenues are open for relations between Iran and Pakistan. Speaking at a ceremony in Iran’s embassy in Pakistan on Saturday, Ali Larijani said Iran and Pakistan relations are developing and have always been fully formed in terms of politics, economics, security and military affairs. “Though there have always […]

Iran’s First Deputy Speaker Masoud Pezeshkian congratulated Christians on the New Year during today’s parliament public session, hoping for more peace through the teachings of prophet Jesus. Masoud Pezeshkian, who was chairing today’s public session of the Parliament in the absence of the Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, who is currently attending a conference on terrorism […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif congratulated new Christian year (2018) and the birthday of the messenger of peace Jesus Christ to world Christians in a tweet on Saturday hoping that all would accept Christ’s global message of peace in the new year. His tweet reads “the angels said, Mary, God gives you glad-tidings of […]

Iranian President Rouhani has forwarded a message of felicitation to the Prime Minister of Japan on the occasion of the Emperor’s Birthday on Dec. 23. In his message, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani congratulated Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as the country celebrates the Emperor’s Birthday, a national holiday which is currently 23 December, as Emperor Akihito was […]

Head of the Iranian Nuclear Regulatory Authority Hojjatollah Salehi and Swiss Ambassador to Iran Markus Leitner held talks on the expansion of cooperation between the two countries in the field of nuclear safety. During the meeting, held in Tehran, the two sides discussed the process of collaborations between two countries in the failed so far […]

The new deputy chief of Iran’s Army for coordination highlighted the country’s growing military power and vowed to boost the Army forces’ presence on borders to protect the Islamic Republic from any foreign threats. “According to the missions given to the Army, defending the territorial integrity and protecting the independence of the Islamic Republic’s holy […]

TEHRAN – Gholam Hossein Esmaili, head of Tehran province’s Justice Department, on Friday dismissed reports on releasing Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman, in a swap deal. “Besides serving her current sentence, she has also another ongoing case against her in court… We do not know if she would be found guilty or not,” Reuters quoted […]

TEHRAN — Iran’s Welfare Organization is granting 300-million-rial (nearly $7,500) housing handouts to persons with disabilities, ISNA reported on Saturday. Anoushirvan Mohseni-Bandpey, head of the Welfare Organization, noted that the organization’s priority is to provide treatment services to persons with disabilities at home instead of medical or health-care facilities. Currently some 53,000 houses for families […]

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has dismissed the recent “rude and cheap” remarks by the Bahraini foreign minister, saying he is in no position to comment on Iran. “You are too petty and lowly to comment about the proud Iran, which is the symbol of an ancient and glorious civilization,” Qassemi said on Saturday. […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s Consul General in Heydarabad has hailed Indian Muslims’ repeated protests to Washington’s new policies about al-Quds (Jerusalem), saying the Islamic world’s unity has foiled U.S. plots against the holy city, which belongs to all of the divine religions. Mohammad Haqbin made the remarks on Friday in reference to the United States’ recent […]