TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iraq is under US pressure to keep important borders corridors with Iran shut, sources in Diyali revealed on Saturday. Jabbar al-Ma’amouri, the head of the Muslim Clerics Union in Iraq, told the Arabic-language al-Ma’aloumeh news website on Sunday that “the US has exerted much pressure on the government to keep blocked […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said that the Islamic Republic of Iran will stand by and support Syria. The recent statements made by US President Donald Trump showed that they [US] are seeking Syrian oil and this issue is ‘disgraceful’ to a country that claims itself as a superpower in the […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A senior official has reiterated Iran’s opposition to any foreign interference in regional affairs, saying Tehran is against creating a buffer zone in Syria or any other country in the region. “Iran opposes any kind of foreign interference in the regional countries and will stand up against cruelty, conspiracies, aggression and […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, whose country is preparing for troop deployment to Libya, says the prolongation of the Libyan conflict might throw the North African country into “chaos” and turn it into another Syria. “If today Libya becomes like Syria, then the turn will come for the other countries in […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi deplored France Foreign Ministry’s recent statement about an imprisoned Iranian citizen as an act of interference and said it lacks any legal value. “The Foreign Ministry of France made an statement on an Iranian citizen that is an act of interference and we consider […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Tehran is scheduled to host an international conference on the country’s peace initiative known as ‘Hormuz Peace Endeavor, HOPE, in January. The Tehran International Conference on Hope, due to held in the capital on Monday and Tuesday, January 6 and 7, will discuss the HOPE initiative as well as the latest […]

After lots of arguments, the Iraqi parliament finally approved the new election law. Iraqi parliamentarians approved all the articles of the new election law by holding a meeting. The law consists of 50 articles that were passed and agreed upon by all the members of the parliament. Iran News quotes the report of Tehran Times. […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – An official in the Yemeni oil company said on Saturday that the Saudi-led coalition still is holding 10 Yemeni ships laden with fuel and flour. Nine ships carry some 240,000 tons of fuel and one of them is carrying flour, he told the Arabic language al-Masirah television network, adding that the […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is scheduled to visit and hold talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced. “On December 30, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit Moscow on a working visit, during which […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Germany have called on Europe to adopt protective measures against US sanctions after Washington managed to halt completion of a new submarine gas pipeline linking Russia directly to Germany. The bipartisan US move initiated by Congress last week threatened sanctions against companies working on completing Nord Stream 2, Europe’s biggest energy […]