TEHRAN  – The US Treasury Department on Monday imposed sanctions on a network of individuals and companies it claimed counterfeited Yemeni bank notes potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The network circumvented European export restrictions in order to provide the counterfeiting supplies and equipment, a Treasury statement claimed, Reuters reported. According to the statement, […]

TEHRAN – Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran voiced the country’s resolve to broaden interaction with the European Union in the nuclear industry within the framework of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Iran is determined to gradually enhance international cooperation with the European Union in the nuclear industry according to the […]

TEHRAN  – Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani praised the full liberation of Syrian and Iraqi territories from Daesh terrorists and said Iran’s assistance to the Arab countries played a major role in the elimination of the terror group. Speaking to reporters before his departure to Turkey on Tuesday, Larijani pointed to security problems facing the […]

In a message to the Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, the Commander of IRGC Quds Force Major General Ghasem Soleimani congratulated him and the Muslim world the end of evil domination of ISIL terrorist group. Following the historic victory of Islamic Resistance front over the Takfiri terrorism and full eradication of the […]

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani left Tehran for Turkey to attend the 10th meeting of Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA). On his trip to neighboring country, Larijani is accompanied by some MPs, including Mohsen Kouhkan, Fatemeh Zolghadr, Hajar Chenarani, Jalil Rahimi, and Ali Kazemi. According to the APA official website, the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) was […]

Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei in a note entitled “The End of ISIL,” emphasized that ISIL plot case, to divide Islamic states, was dismissed forever, following the liberation of Syrian town of al-Bukamal. Posting on his Instagram account on Monday, Rezaei said ISIL struggled very hard to survive in al-Bukamal, as this pillar […]

TEHRAN – The Islamic Republic of Iran and the European Union held their third round of high level talks in Tehran on Monday. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Abbas Araqchi and Helga Schmid, the EU’s deputy political director, headed the meeting. Iran and the EU have already held two rounds of […]

TEHRAN – Kamal Kharrazi, the head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, said on Monday that realities in the Middle East have changed and France should adopt policies based on those changes. Talking to reporters, Kharrazi said France adopts position based on “wrong analyses”. “French President Emanuel Macron is making mistake. They [France] failed […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Ministry dismissed the final statement of a recent Arab League summit in Cairo, urging Saudi Arabia to stop its “savage aggression” against Yemen and push for negotiated solutions to regional conflicts. In comments on Monday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi rejected the Arab League summit’s final statement as a Saudi Arabian […]

TEHRAN – Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri is going to join his Russian and Turkish counterparts in an upcoming summit in Russia’s Sochi, which is expected to focus on the settlement of Syria crisis. The Iranian top commander will leave Tehran for Sochi today. The senior Iranian […]