TEHRAN (Iran News) – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said Iran’s early morning retaliation against the US assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani was just “a slap”. “A slap was delivered last night, but what is important is that the seditious presence of America in the region should be ended,” Ayatollah Khamenei […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The US-led military coalition purportedly fighting the ISIS terrorist group has reportedly relocated its headquarters in Iraq to Kuwait in the wake of recent assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and the second-in-command of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Qatar Foreign Minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani is slated to visit Tehran today, according to Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi. Mousavi in a tweet on Saturday confirmed the visit of Qatar Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani to Tehran. He said the Qatari FM will meet and hold […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A quake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale has struck Iran’s northeastern Khorasan-e Razavi Province near the border with Afghanistan. The tremor hit the town of Sangan, in Khaf County, at a shallow depth of 8 kilometers at 07:59 a.m. local time (04:29 GMT) on Thursday. Hojjatali Shayanfar, director-general of the […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iraq President Barham Saleh submitted his resignation to parliament in protest against the nomination of Asaad Al Eidani to the premiership, Al Jazeera reported. According to Fars News Agency, Iraqi President Barham Salih announced his resignation on Thursday to open up for public choice after protests over unemployment and low-quality public […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian university professor, Masoud Soleimani, who was jailed by the US authorities, was delivered to Iranian officials in Switzerland in the early hours of Saturday. In a tweet on the same day, Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote, “Glad that Professor Massoud Soleimani and Mr. Xiyue Wang will be joining their […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has reacted to E3 accusations, namely made by France, Germany and the United Kingdom against Iran’s missile program. “Latest E3 letter to UNSG on missiles is a desperate falsehood to cover up their miserable incompetence in fulfilling a bare minimum of their own #JCPOA obligations,” […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed the rumors surrounding his resignation. Speaking to reporters on the sideline of today’s cabinet session and when asked about reports about his resignation, he said: “I wouldn’t have been here now if I had resigned.” Earlier, some local media had reported that the minister […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Russia’s Defense Ministry warned the White Helmets organization, jointly with militants from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham terrorist group (formerly known as Nusra Front), are preparing for staging airstrikes and usage of chemical weapons in Syria’s northwestern Idlib de-escalation zone. “Several sources have confirmed the information — militants from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – President Hassan Rouhani arrives in Rafsanjan, Kerman Province, on Monday morning in the course of his provincial tour after his Sunday visit to Yazd. During his two-day visit to Rafsanjan, as many as 20 projects valued at 150,000 billion rials will come on stream. This amount is going to create some […]