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 […]

TEHRAN – Iran plans to decrease its dependence to Google company products including Android mobile operating system, the Islamic Republic’s ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said. “South Korea has reduced its dependence on Google and Android; this is also on our agenda,” Azari Jahromi told to an Iranian state TV channel. Azari Jahromi’s comments […]

TEHRAN – Iran has called for the establishment of a forum comprising women from Muslim countries who have secured achievements in the field of technology. The head of the Iranian delegation to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Summit on Science and Technology held in the Kazakh capital, Astana, has proposed that Muslim countries set […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the United States’ belligerent rhetoric on a multilateral deal with Iran has impacted other countries’ faith in potentially negotiating with Washington. In an interview with the Iranian Borna News, which was published on Sunday, Foreign Minister Zarif referred to the “very dangerous” tensions between the U.S. […]