Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, a top military adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, has said Iran can help the Taliban and the Afghan government reach a common understanding for stabilizing Afghanistan. In an interview with IRNA published on Wednesday, Firouzabadi said security in Afghanistan is very important for Iran. “Iran holds talks with […]

 Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami met and held talks with Syrian Deputy Defense Minister Mahmoud al-Shawa in Tehran on Monday. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the International Conference on Defense and Security in West Asia and the two sides discussed the latest developments in the region and in Syria. Hatami […]

 Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, the representative of Iran’s Leader and secretary of the country’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) pointed to Iran’s recent negotiations with Taliban on the Afghan-Afghan peace issues, dismissing the possibility of holding talks with ISIL and Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists. He made the remarks on Monday during the opening ceremony of the […]

Commander of Iranian Navy Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi announced that the naval forces of Iran and Russia have begun preparing for the tactical, relief and rescue and anti-piracy war games to be operated in the near future. “The cooperation between the naval forces of Iran and Russia, as well as the Caspian Sea region, has […]

 Defense Minister Amir Hatami said Wed. that next year’s budget bill (to come into effect from March 21) has envisioned 21% increase for the development of defense sector. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet session on Wednesday, Defense Minister Amir Hatami said he submitted a report to the cabinet session on the […]

Speaking to reporters in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas on Sunday, Bagheri said US president’s decision to withdraw forces from Syria was of no significance for defensive and security missions in the region. He underlined that the presence of US forces in Syria was without the consent of Syrian people and government and […]

 It has been a rather long time that politicians like the French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, didn’t speak of the formation of an “Independent European Army.” This is doubling the assumptions on the cross-sectional and reactionary nature of this idea by European authorities. Countries like Germany, France, and Spain supported this […]

Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps second-in-command, said on Saturday that the U.S. policies and strategies in the Middle East region have ended in failure. “The U.S. spent a lot and at the end left Syria. The U.S. signed the JCPOA [the 2015 nuclear deal] and then pulled out of it. The […]

The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) held on Saturday military drills in the general region of the Persian Gulf, displaying the defensive and deterrent power of Iran. The drills were last stage of the 12th Payambar-e Azam military exercises the first stage of which had started on December 15 in the central parts of Iran […]

Major General Gholam Ali Rashid, the commander of Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters, said those who pave the way for the interference of Arrogant powers in the region, pay the highest price for their malicious behavior. Major General Rashid, who has attended the massive military maneuvers code-named the ‘Great Prophet-12’ in the Persian Gulf in western Iran, […]