TEHRAN  – Armenian Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan unveiled his country’s plans to create a free trade zone near its common border with Iran that would involve European and Eurasian investors. In a meeting with Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani in Tehran on Monday, the visiting Armenian prime minister said Yerevan has invited the Eurasian and […]

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reassured Iran that political developments, particularly in the United States, will not influence the organization’s reporting on the Islamic Republic. IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano told Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi at the Iranian Embassy in Rome on Monday […]

Iranian Intelligence Minister Seyyed Mahmoud Alavi has said several terrorist plots were thwarted during the holy month of Muharram. On Monday, he said that several people with plans to launch terror attacks in multiple locations across the country were identified and detained by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry since the beginning of Muharram. Muharram, the first month of the Islamic […]

TEHRAN – Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the IRGC share the same stances against enemies of the Islamic Republic. Speaking on the sidelines of a meeting in Tehran on Monday night to coordinate the ceremony due to be held on […]

TEHRAN – Iranian First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri reiterated the country’s policy to deepen relations with neighboring countries and said Tehran sees no obstacle in the way to boost cooperation with the neighbors, Armenia in particular. Speaking at a meeting between high-ranking Iranian and Armenian delegations in Tehran on Monday, Jahangiri praised Tehran-Yerevan ties as “age-old” […]

TEHRAN – The US has adopted a hypocritical policy towards the Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s plan to secede from Iraq, Iran’s Judiciary chief deplored, saying Iran, by stark contrast, has explicitly opposed the secession bid which is part of plot to sap the strength of the Muslim nations. Addressing a high-level meeting of Judiciary officials in […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi warned that if Washington decides to declare the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization, Tehran would make a “firm and crushing” response. Speaking to reporters at his weekly press conference in Tehran on Monday, Qassemi hailed recent remarks made by IRGC Commander Major General Mohammad […]

In an NY Times article Sun., Iran’s UN envoy Gholamali Khoshroo argues that Trump’s decision to decertify nuclear deal is based on a set of false assumptions that needs to be clarified. The full text of Khoshroo’s article published in New York Times on Sunday is as follows: On Oct. 15, the Trump administration will for the […]

The Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council, Mohsen Rezaei, says that if Trump leaves the decision over the nuclear deal upon the congress, it would be a political suicide of the POTUS. “According to what we have heard, Trump is going to leave the decision to the congress, instead of signing the extension of the wavering […]

Ali Akbar Velayati, Iranian Leader’s Aide, told the reporters that US sanctions against IRGC are because of the big services the Iranian entity has offered. “Iran did not exist if it was not for the IRCG,” Ali Akbar Velayati quoted Iran’s late Leader Ayatollah Khomeini saying so. Mr. Velayati, the Iranian Leader’s Aide, made the […]