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 […]

A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit western Iran’s Kermanshah province on Sunday night, killing at least 430 people and injuring 7370 so far. The incident occurred at 9:48pm local time. It struck at a depth of 11 kilometers. The epicenter of the quake was in the city of Azgeleh, near the border between Iran and Iraq. But the highest casualties occurred in the […]

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım offered condolences Monday to Iran for the victims of Sunday’s earthquake that struck along the Iraq-Iran border region. Yıldırım told Iran’s First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri during a phone call that Turkey stands with Iran on this difficult day. Jahangiri, who has been appointed by President Hassan Rouhani to mobilize resources […]

A delegation of Iranian law-makers, headed by Chairman of Iran’s Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, arrived in Kiev on Monday. Headed by Chairman of Iran’s Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, a parliamentary delegation from Iran, comprised MPs from the security commission arrived in Ukrainian capital city of […]

TEHRAN  – Commander of Iran’s Army Ground Force Brigadier General Kiomars Heidari said the force’s rapid-response brigades have been dispatched to the western province of Kermanshah after a strong deadly earthquake hit the area. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Brigadier General Heidari pointed to the latest relief operations in the province and said the […]