TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif departed Tehran for the Russian city of Sochi on Wednesday morning. It is expected that Iranian foreign minister discuss mutual ties and regional developments with the Russian officials. Media reports said that Zarif is in a mission to convey a letter from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to […]

An Iranian official says the historic 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries was a deal among six countries, including the United States, warning that Washington will become isolated if it takes any action to walk out of it. Speaking to reporters at his weekly press conference on Tuesday, Iranian government […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s Bahram Ghasemi said that the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly is a good chance for discussing the issue of Myanmar. “Regarding the responsibility the Islamic Republic of Iran bears about the Muslims of the world, we will concentrate the whole of our efforts for restoring the rights of this […]

TEHRAN  – An Iranian official underlined that foreigners would never be given access to the country’s military bases, deriding the notion that the UN nuclear watchdog sees no distinction between civilian and military sites in its inspections as a figment of Yukiya Amano’s imagination. Speaking to reporters in Tehran on Tuesday, Ali Akbar Velayati, a […]

TEHRAN – Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said that Iraqi people could break up the Takfiri terrorism with their unity, response to the call of authority and the power of Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). “The liberation of Deir Ezzor, which took place during the Valfajr operation, was the final blow […]

TEHRAN  – A bus en route to an Iranian northern city plunged into a ravine on a road northeast of capital Tehran on Tuesday morning, killing 11 passengers and injuring 27 others. Firefighters and rescue teams were informed of the crash at 2:10 am local time on Tuesday, spokesman for the Tehran Fire Department told […]

TEHRAN – Parliament’s General Director for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said time was ripe for implementing political initiatives inside Syria. He made the remarks at a meeting with Dutch Ambassador to Iran Susana Trestal on Tuesday morning in Tehran. Early into the session, Amir-Abdollahian voiced satisfaction towards growing cooperation between Tehran and Amsterdam saying “dialogue […]

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called on Islamic governments to exert political and economic pressure on Myanmar’s government to make it stop a deadly crackdown on minority Rohingya Muslims in the Southeast Asian country. Speaking on Tuesday, Ayatollah Khamenei strongly criticized the silence and inaction of international bodies and self-proclaimed […]

TEHRAN– Reza Najafi, Iran’s envoy to IAEA, emphasized that nuclear safety considerations should not undermine peaceful use of nuclear technology. Reza Najafi, Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) who is also chairman of Group-77, made the remarks while addressing the September Meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors. He touched upon measures […]

TEHRAN – Foreign Ministry Spokesman while slamming the use of nuclear weapons dismissed as “rash” and “far from reality” any media rumors about cooperation between Iran and North Korea. Bahram Qasemi made the remarks in his weekly press conference on Monday, adding “North Korea’s recent nuclear tests have caused some amount of concern on the […]