The World Bank (WB) in its latest world economic outlook report “Global Economic Prospects”, predicts a 0.9 percent growth of gross domestic product (GDP) for Iran in 2020, indicating that the impact of the U.S. sanctions will ease in the mentioned year.

TEHRAN – Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has criticized French government over its attitude for saving the JCPOA and underlined that Europe’s financial mechanism “INSTEX” has left only on the paper.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met and held talks with Secretary General of European External Action Service Helga Schmid on Saturday morning in Tehran.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is still trying to play a major role in the country's political equivalents, under the pretext of confronting the implementation of its withdrawal plan from the European Union. This is while Tony Blair's political history has long endured in Britain.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Tehran can be viewed from a variety of dimensions. The trip comes at a time when the United States has formally withdrawn from the nuclear deal with Iran, and the three European countries, Germany, Britain and France, have not taken any steps in maintaining the Babe over the past year.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres denounced a Thursday incident involving two oil tankers in the Sea of Oman, calling for in an independent investigation to establish those responsible for the attacks.

The fire that gripped SPD9 Platform of South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf on Wednesday evening has been put out by fireboats in the area.

TEHRAN – Outgoing Italian Ambassador to Tehran Mauro Conciatori during his meeting with chairman of Iran’s Chamber of commerce Mr. Gholam-Hossein Shafei reiterated that Italian investors are still keen for investment in Iran and there is no need to concern about the future of Iran-Italy economic ties.

Ali Rabi, who has recently been appointed as the government spokesman to be tested that he knows speaking better than working, was the one who first announced that Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was to have a two-day visit to Tehran upon President Hassan Rouhani’s official invitation on June 13-14 in framework of old and traditional relations of both states and for boosting bilateral ties and discussing interested issues. He had told that Japanese Prime Minister was to meet President Rouhani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei during his visit to Tehran.

Hormozgan Maritime Search and Rescue Centre in Southern Iran has managed to evacuate the crew of two large oil tankers hit by two successive blasts in the Sea of Oman on Thursday morning, an informed source said.