NEW YORK – President Hassan Rouhani said Monday that America will pay a “high cost” if U.S. President Donald Trump makes good on his threats to scrap the Iran nuclear deal. Speaking in an exclusive interview with CNN in New York, Rouhani said: “Exiting such an agreement would carry a high cost for the United […]

TEHRAN- Senior Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian blasted the massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and the silence of the international community about it. “The concerns of the Islamic Republic of Iran are rooted in two things; firstly what we are witnessing in Myanmar is a textbook example of organized genocide […]

TEHRAN  – Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Force Brigadier General Kiomars Heidari said his forces plan to unveil new military equipment in parades due to be held across the country on Friday. In remarks released on Tuesday, Brigadier General Heidari said the Army Ground Force has some plans for the Sacred Defense Week, which […]

TEHRAN  – The Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s decision to hold an independence referendum faces an uncertain fate, Iranian official Ali Akbar Velayati said, warning that the controversial plan would allow the Zionist regime of Israel to establish a foothold in Iraq. Holding an independence referendum within a sovereign state like Iraq will be a prelude to […]

TEHRAN – Referendum can be postponed only with guarantees on independence, President of the Iraqi Kurdistan semi-autonomous region Masoud Barzani said. He made the remarks in a meeting with British Secretary of State for Defense Michael Fallon on Monday. According to an English-language statement from Barzani office, he told a visiting British minister that the […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s president highlighted the great potential for cooperation with Bolivia in the gas industry, saying Iranian experts are ready to carry out various gas exploration and production projects in the Latin American country. In a meeting with his Bolivian counterpart on the sidelines the annual UN General Assembly meeting in New York on […]

TEHRAN  – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Austrian counterpart, Alexander Van der Bellen, exchanged views about a range of issues, including ways to boost bilateral relations between Tehran and Vienna in diverse fields. In their meeting held in New York on Monday evening on the sidelines of the 72nd regular session of the United […]

TEHRAN – Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi emphasized that the Islamic Republic has no obligation beyond the terms of the IAEA safeguard agreement, Additional Protocol and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). “The director general expressed satisfaction over Iran’s compliance with its commitments (under the 2015 nuclear […]

TEHRAN  – France’s President Emmanuel Macron dismissed the idea of renegotiation on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), highlighting Paris’ backing for the full implementation of the nuclear deal between Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany). France demands the full implementation of the JCPOA and deems any […]

TEHRAN – The JCPOA joint commission, a group tasked with monitoring commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers, will hold a meeting in New York today, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced. Speaking to IRIB, Zarif said the commission is going to hold a session at the level of […]