TEHRAN– The Pakistani military’s top spokesman, Major General Asif Ghafoor, made assurances that his country’s soil will never be used against any country, including Iran. “Pakistan’s relations with Iran are not at the cost of its relations with any other country and vice versa,” Pakistan’s Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) told reporters in Tehran […]

TEHRAN – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to meet with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the APEC summit in the Vietnamese city of Da Nang. “We have heard [US President] Donald Trump’s announcements that he plans to hold a meeting with President Putin. […]

TEHRAN  – European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini said there are “clear indications” that US lawmakers intend to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers. “I got clear indications that the intention is to keep the United States compliant with the agreement,” Mogherini said at a press conference on a visit […]

Saudi Arabia has barred former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, along with his sons, aides and military officials, from returning to Yemen for months, informed Yemeni officials says. On Saturday, The Associated Press cited the Yemeni officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, as saying that the ban was put in place as a […]

Yukiya Amano, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has countered U.S. President Donald Trump’s objections to the 2015 nuclear deal. “We have had access to all the locations that we needed to visit,” he told Financial Times in an interview published on Tuesday. He said its inspectors had been able to visit […]

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai in an exclusive interview with Mehr News Agency said he has no plans for running for office in Afghanistan’s next presidential election.   Presidential elections were held in Afghanistan in 2014, with Ashraf Ghani named as the winner. Incumbent President Hamid Karzai was not eligible to run due to term limits. Speaking to Mehr News […]

A geopolitical researcher Anthony Cartalucci believe the US coordinately with Saudi Arabia and the Zionist regime will attempt to leverage Hariri’s resignation to roll back Iranian influence in the region. Lebanese Prime Minister Sadd Hariri’s surprise resignation while visiting Saudi Arabia instead of his own country raises many questions about the new phase of the […]

TEHRAN  – Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons had verified the elimination of 25 out of 27 chemical weapons production facilities in Syria, senior OPCW said. The Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Ahmet Uzumcu made the remarks in a note in his forty-ninth monthly progress report on Monday, […]

TEHRAN  – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said Turkey’s counter-terrorism operations against the terrorist PKK organization would continue. “We are going into winter season. There is no such thing [stopping the operations],” Erdogan said in Justice and Development (AK) party’s parliamentary group meeting. “The operation is continuing. We will not stop. We will […]

TEHRAN  – Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for American and European Affairs Majid Takht Ravanchi said European countries have not made enough efforts to persuade their banks work with Iran. Addressing a conference in the French capital of Paris on Tuesday, Takht Ravanchi stressed the need for the European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal, known […]