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 […]

 Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif met and talked with President of Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev. The joint meeting between Zaif and Aliyev was held in Baku on the sidelines of the sidelines of the seventh Ministerial Conference of the Heart of Asia – Istanbul Process on Afghanistan. The two sides exchanged views on […]

TEHRAN — As per the latest statistics published by Iran’s Ministry of Health, 36,039 individuals were suffering from HIV in the country until late June, a health official has said. The number only accounts for 30 percent of the individuals who are affected with the virus and the ministry have reasons to believe that some […]