TEHRAN– Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi and the Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan Rahila Hameed Khan Durrani explored avenues for the boost in bilateral ties. In a meeting held on Saturday, Durrani and Sarmadi discussed border security, visa regime, export of natural gas and electricity as well as establishment of Quetta-Zahedan flight […]

TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tehran would remain committed to the 2015 nuclear agreement with six world powers, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) so long as other parties to the deal honor it. Speaking at a meeting with the Czech Republic’s new ambassador to Tehran, Svatopluk Cumba, on […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Trump’s recent remarks questions United Nations’ legitimacy, adding US violation of international agreement should be addressed in the Security Council. Larijani made the remarks in a meeting with his Kazakh counterpart Nurlan Nigmatulin, where he thanked him for the country’s fair and unbiased views on Iran’s nuclear deal. […]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says US President Donald Trump’s speech against the Islamic Republic was nothing more than insults and delirious talk. “Mr. Trump’s remarks on Iran…contained nothing but expletives and a pile of delusional allegations against the Iranian nation,” Rouhani said in a televised speech on Friday moments after Trump delivered a speech outlining US strategy […]

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has rejected reports that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had notified his Iranian counterpart of Washington’s new strategy on Tehran. “What Mr. Tillerson says goes back to his speech during the ministerial meeting of the P5+1 (permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) on the sidelines of the UN […]

The Iranian foreign minister has condemned US President Donald Trump’s latest speech against Iran as “inane,” stressing that using threats against the Islamic Republic will prove to be ineffective. “Allegations, threats and profanity will never intimidate Iranians. Trump will eventually discover this; as every predecessor did,” Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted after Trump officially announced on Friday that […]

Ali Larijani, the Speaker of Iran’s Parliament, met with Vyacheslav Volodin, the Speaker of the Russian Parliament’s Lower Chamber, the State Duma, on Friday, in Saint Petersburg of Russia. The Iranian top lawmaker, who is accompanied by Parliament’s General Director for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, is heading a senior legislative delegation to Russian city of […]

The EU, Russia and China have called on the US to maintain its commitment to the Iranian nuclear deal, which President Donald Trump is expected to declare no longer in America’s interest. “We believe this deal is important to ensuring the international nuclear nonproliferation regime and regional peace and stability. We hope all parties can continue to […]

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is to pay an official visit to Iran in early November to discuss issues of bilateral interest with his Iranian counterpart and also to take part in a tripartite meeting with his Iranian and Azeri counterparts in Tehran. According to a statement issued by the Kremlin on Thursday, all preliminary measures […]

Iran’s defense chief has slammed US President Donald Trump’s threat to blacklist the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), saying any such move against the elite counterterrorism force would only promote terror and instability in the region and the entire world. Brigadier General Amir Hatami praised the IRGC as “the most powerful” force “on the frontline” […]