Rescue operations continue in Iran’s western regions that were hit by a deadly earthquake on Sunday night. President Hassan Rouhani has personally traveled to Kermanshah Province to inspect the damage and help speed up recovery efforts. Upon arrival at Kermanshah Airport on Tuesday, Rouhani extended condolences on behalf of the Iranian nation to the quake-stricken people of […]

TEHRAN– Iran’s judiciary chief says that he is against the presence of UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran and dialogue with rapporteur in abroad should be upon the condition of effectiveness. “One of the main aspects of the issue of human rights is the theory sides of the story especially the philosophical and […]

TEHRAN – Ali Akbar Velayati, an international adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution, dismissed as false claims made by Lebanon’s resigned prime minister Saad al-Hariri about their recent meeting in the Arab country. Speaking to reporters in Tehran on Tuesday, Velayati pointed to his meeting with Hariri in Beirut one day before his shock […]

TEHRAN– Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Reza Najafi said the UN nuclear agency’s ninth report, once again, refuted Washington’s claims against Tehran and reaffirmed Iran’s commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). “The agency’s new report, which is the ninth since the day of implementing the JCPOA and the […]

TEHRAN  – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) moved the country’s biggest portable field hospital to the western province of Kermanshah to treat those injured in Sunday’s 7.3-magnitude earthquake. As part of its rescue and relief operations, the IRGC transferred the field hospital from Isfahan province to Kermanshah. The field hospital is portable and has […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif thanked the international community for “expressions of sympathy and offers of assistance” following a deadly earthquake on Sunday that killed over 420 people. “Heartbreaking images from the earthquake damage and loss of life in Kermanshah (and in Iraq). We are grateful for global expressions of sympathy and […]

TEHRAN  – Germany’s ambassador to Iran said the European parties to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) have urged the US to consider the consequences of scrapping the nuclear deal, saying a weakened JCPOA would threaten security of the US, its allies and the region. In an interview with the Tasnim News Agency, Michael […]

TEHRAN — Dignitaries from around the world offered their heartfelt condolences over the deadly quake which jolted Iran’s western province of Kermanshah on Sunday night local time. By Monday night 450 were reported dead and more than 6,700 injured from the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that had hit Kermanshah province. According to the Iranian Seismological Center, […]

TEHRAN – Hossein Amir Abdollahian, a senior foreign policy advisor to the Iranian parliament speaker, said on Monday that the way Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri was invited to Riyadh was reminiscent of Imam Musa al-Sadr’s invitation to Libya and his subsequent abduction. In a tweet on Monday, Abdollahian suggested that Saudi Arabia had forced […]

TEHRAN – Foreign ministers of the three European parties to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) have emphasized the necessity to save the Iran nuclear agreement. In a meeting before a gathering of the EU Foreign Affairs Council summit in Brussels on Monday, the top diplomats from Germany, Britain and France discussed the importance […]