TEHRAN– Head of President’s Office Mahmoud Vaezi said in Baku on Thursday that Trump’s decision to recognize Al-Quds (Jerusalem) as Israeli regime’s capital and the US veto in recent UNSC meeting indicate American anti-Islamic, anti-Palestine policies. Mahmoud Vaezi,  Head of President’s Office,  at his speech at the ‘2017-year of Islamic Solidarity Year: Interfaith and Intercultural […]

TEHRAN – The 26th National Conference on Prayer has opened in southern port city of Bandar Abbas on Thu. with a message issued by Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei. The one-day conference is gathering a considerable number of senior officials and Shia and Sunni scholars together in Bandar Abbas, a port city on the […]

Head of the Relief and Rescue Organization of the IRCS Morteza Salimi said the 5.2 magnitude earthquake left 1 dead and 97 casualties in different parts of the country which the earthquake was felt. A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hits the Iranian city of Malard in Tehran province last night.The quake was also felt in the […]

Delegations from Russia and Iran are holding consultations on Thursday during the eighth round of talks on the Syrian settlement in Astana. The Russian delegation is headed by Russian Special Presidential Representative for Syria Alexander Lavrentyev, and the Iranian delegation by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Jaberi Ansari, TASS reports from the venue. The eighth […]

Iran’s UN envoy Khoshroo said those who engage in hate speech against followers of divine religions play right into the terrorists’ hands and help them to recruit more members and spread such heinous extremist ideologies. Gholamali Khoshroo, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran, addressed the UN General Assembly on Dec. 20 during the […]

Foreign Minister Javad Zarif late on Wed. lashed out at Trump’s threats about cutting off financial assistance to those countries voting for a UN resolution against his decision on embassy relocation.   “Trump[‘s] regime exposes contempt for democracy through its threats against those who dare resist its thuggish demands at the UN — all while Trump […]

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and Secretary General of ‎France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maurice Gourdault-Montagne held the fourth round of political talks between the Islamic Republic and the Western European country. In the meeting in Paris on Wednesday, Araqchi and Gourdault-Montagne exchanged views about a range of issues, including ways to promote bilateral […]

TEHRAN – Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri said on Monday that the country is suffering from economic mismanagement, urging all branches of the government to cooperate in order to boost the economy. Referring to employment as one of the country’s toughest problems, Jahangiri said the government should stimulate the economy to create more job opportunities. He […]

Mohammad Hassaninejad, Iran’s envoy in the third committee of the UN General Assembly, said on Tuesday that biggest threat to human rights stems from “hypocrisy, politicization and double standards”. “Hypocrisy of governments who under the pretext of human rights mercilessly criticize their political foes while at the same time condone the gravest atrocities of their […]

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hits the Iranian city of Malard in Tehran province. According to the Seismological Center of the Institute of Geophysics of Tehran University, the quake hit on Wednesday at 23:27 local time (1957 GMT) at a depth of seven kilometers on the border of Tehran and Alborz provinces. The epicenter of the tremor […]