23rd October is the 55th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Korea and Iran. Series of congratulatory events are lined up both in Tehran and Seoul until the end of this year. During the last half century, two countries have forged a solid relation and contributed to each other’s economic development. Particularly, Korea’s economic leap in […]

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says Ankara may cancel its deal with Russia on acquiring the Russian S-400 missile systems and seek a deal with other partners if Moscow is reluctant to share the technology of its most advanced air defense system with the Anatolian country. Turkey’s top diplomat made the remarks in an interview with […]

A Nobel prize-winning nuclear weapons disarmament campaign group has called on US President Donald Trump to honor his commitment to Iran’s nuclear deal. “We really call on the US government to continue to certify and stay in this deal,” said the director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Beatrice Fihn, on Monday. ICAN won […]

TEHRAN  – Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying expressed the hope that the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers can continue to be “earnestly implemented”. “We hope that the comprehensive Iran nuclear agreement can continue to be earnestly implemented,” Hua told a daily news briefing on Monday, according to Reuters. She added that […]

TEHRAN – Two weeks after winning elections with a reduced majority, German Chancellor Angela Merkel took a first step Sunday toward forming a government by trying to unite her bitterly divided conservative camp. Merkel met for closed-door talks with her Bavarian CSU allies led by Horst Seehofer, who blames her open-door refugee policy for the […]

More than 3,000 illegal migrants have been arrested in Libya’s northwestern city of Sabratha, as the country’s unity government authorities push a crackdown on human trafficking to Europe. “We arrested 3,150 illegal immigrants of different Asian, Arab, and African nationalities,” Bassem Ghrabli, the commander of a force loyal to Libya’s unity government, said on Saturday. […]

Syria’s Army and its allies have encircled the Takfiri terror group of Daesh in the city of al-Mayadin in the country’s northeastern Dayr al-Zawr Province. The Takfiri group maintains pockets in the province, and is said to be fighting a losing battle to retain the provincial capital of the same name, which is its last […]

TEHRAN – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his nuclear weapons are a “powerful deterrent” which guarantee North Korea’s sovereignty, state media reported on Sunday, hours after US President Donald Trump said “only one thing will work” in dealing with the isolated country. Trump did not make clear to what he was referring, but […]

TEHRAN – The implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), signed on July 4, 2014, have increased remarkably relations as well as economic cooperation between Iran and the international community, including Australia. Australian Ambassador to Iran Ian Biggs noted that in the past, Iran was among key trade partners for Australia in the Middle […]

TEHRAN – The parliamentary representatives of OIC member states convened in Tehran on Saturday to hold the 38th meeting of the PUIC Executive Committee. Parliamentary representatives of Algeria, Azerbaijan, Benin, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mozambique, Pakistan, Turkey, Senegal, Mali, and Iraq joined the Iranian representatives to hold the 38th meeting of the PUIC (Parliamentary Union of the […]