TEHRAN  – The Iranian Navy’s 49th flotilla of warships berthed at Bangladesh’s port city of Chittagong after taking part in the world’s largest maritime exercise in the Bay of Bengal. The Iranian flotilla, comprising Sablan destroyer and Bandar Abbas logistic-combat warship, arrived in Chittagong, a major port city and financial center in southeastern Bangladesh at […]

ZABOL – Iran’s President Rouhani said Sat. that the ISIL key bases in the Middle East have collapsed, voicing hope for the total eradication of terrorism in the region. President Rouhani made the remarks during a provincial visit to Sistan and Baluchestan, the southeast of the country, on Saturday, adding “the sinister plot designed by […]

TEHRAN – The Pentagon has given defense contractor Raytheon permission to sell air defense systems to the armed forces of Qatar. Raytheon has been awarded a more than $150-million foreign military sale to install and maintain Patriot air defense systems for the armed forces of Qatar, the US Department of Defense said in a press […]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani offered his congratulations to the Romanian people and government over the central European country’s national day. In a message to his Romanian counterpart Klaus Iohannis, President Rouhani felicitated the Romanian nation on the Great Union Day and expressed the hope that the two countries would witness an expansion of bilateral relations […]

TEHRAN  – Iran’s representative in an OPCW conference denounced terrorist groups’ access to chemical weapons as a threat to world peace and security, holding the sponsors of Takfiri groups responsible for the use of such lethal weapons in Syria and Iraq. In an address to the 22nd Conference of the States Parties (CSP-22) to the […]

TEHRAN – An Iranian cleric described the fall of the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group’s self-proclaimed caliphate as a testimony to the influential role of Iran and Hezbollah. Addressing Friday prayers worshippers in Tehran, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani said the defeat of Daesh proved the “power of Islam, Iran and Hezbollah” to the US. He […]

TEHRAN — A powerful quake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale hit Hejdak, a village in southeastern Iran, near the city of Kerman. Fortunately there were no fatalities but as per a statement made by Iran’s Emergency Medical Services some 51 have sustained injures of which 41 received outpatient care. According to the Iranian Seismological […]

TEHRAN – Ali Akbar Salehi, director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said on Friday that it is the Trump administration’s problem for halting purchase of heavy water from Iran. Washington Free Beacon reported on Thursday that The Trump administration has put a stop to U.S. purchases of nuclear materials from Iran, a policy […]

TEHRAN — Earthquake preparedness in the city of Tehran is woefully ‘low’ and ‘unacceptable’, Ismail Najjar, head of the state-run National Disaster Management Organization said on Thursday. Tehran is perched between no less than three major fault-lines. The Mosha, the Tehran, and the Rey fault lines are each on their own enough to bring down […]

Less than three weeks after a deadly earthquake hit Iran’s western province of Kermanshah, a temblor measuring 6 on the Richter scale struck a southeastern area near the city of Kerman on Friday morning, but caused no casualties. The epicenter of the Friday morning earthquake was a mountainous region 58 km northeast of the provincial […]