TEHRAN – State Secretary Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday that the U.S. State Department has formed an “Iran Action Group” to coordinate and run an aggressive U.S. policy toward the Islamic Republic. Pompeo said that the initiative would be “directing, reviewing and coordinating all aspects of the State Department’s Iran-related activity,” according to the State […]

forthcoming 2016 U.S. presidential election, the Iranians wondered what would happen if the GOP took the White House. I would answer by asking them a similar question: “What if hard-liners opposed to the deal regained power in Iran?” It usually ended the discussion, as I thought it should: after all, I always expected that the […]

TEHRAN – Riza Hakan Tekin, Ankara’s ambassador to Tehran, has said that it is “impossible” for Turkey to stop purchasing Iran’s oil. Turkey imports half of its needed crude oil from Iran and “it is impossible to meet the U.S. demand on stopping purchasing Iran’s oil,” ISNA quoted him as saying in an interview with […]

TEHRAN- Exports of Iranian goods to the European Union countries hit €6.11 billion in the first half of 2018, increasing 23 percent in comparison with the same time in the preceding year, European Commission press release database has reported. According to the report, Iran-EU trade witnessed an eight-percent rise and reached €10.68 billion in the […]

Majority of Pakistani lawmakers voted in favor of Imran Khan to officially elect him as Pakistan’s new prime minister. The head of Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, Imran Khan, obtained the majority of votes from Pakistan’s National Assembly on Friday to become the next Prime Minister of the country. Imran Khan was elected as the Prime Minister […]

Yemeni forces in a retaliatory attack on Thursday targeted the Saudi troops in the country’s West Coast, al-Masirah TV Network reported. Rocketry Unit of the Yemeni Army and Popular Committees launched a short-range ballistic missile on the Saudi mercenaries’ gathering site in the West Coast. Also, on August 13, the rocketry unit of the Yemeni […]

Head of Iraqi Chambers of Commerce Jafar Rasul Hamdani said that US provocative moves will not create any obstacle behind Iran and Iraq economic cooperation. In the current situation, US anti-Iran measures will not impede economic cooperation in private sectors and business ties between the two countries of Iran and Iraq, he reiterated. He made […]

Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyed Abbas Salehi called on government officials to practice unity, amity and consider national interests into consideration more than before. Speaking on Thursday in a joint meeting of public culture councils held in Zanjan province, he said, “monitoring current situation, solving pertinent problems and developing social and cultural […]

Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was re-elected for a five-year term after winning 67.17 percent of the vote in a runoff, the government announced on Thursday. Opposition challenger and former finance minister Soumaila Cisse, who also ran against Keita in 2013, won 32.83 percent on Sunday, Local Government Minister Mohamed Ag Erlaf said on national […]

TEHRAN – The Bangladesh government officials who were in Myanmar to resolve the crisis related to Rohingya refugees have returned without making any significant progress, according to media reports. A 15-member delegation led by Foreign Minister AH Mehmood Ali visited Myanmar between Thursday and Saturday in what was the first state-sponsored high-profile visit to Myanmar […]