TEHRAN (Iran News) – Polls in Algeria opened on Thursday in a controversial presidential election with critics saying all candidates should be purged because of their ties to the unpopular former government. The ongoing Algeria presidential election is the first vote since former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika was forced out after a two-decade-long rule in April […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – UK voters go to the polls on Thursday in an election that will pave the way for Brexit under Prime Minister Boris Johnson or propel Britain towards another referendum that could ultimately reverse the decision to leave the European Union. After failing to deliver Brexit by an Oct. 31 deadline, Johnson […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A channel aimed at easing export of food and medicine to Iran following Europe’s failure to make INSTEX operational could be “up and running within months”, senior Swiss and US officials told Reuters. Pascale Baeriswyl, Swiss state secretary for foreign affairs, and US Ambassador Edward McMullen spoke in separate interviews in […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran has rejected France interference in its internal affairs as unacceptable, saying Tehran will not tolerate Paris’ meddlings. In a post on his Twitter page on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi dismissed President Emmanuelle Macron’s call for Tehran to free two jailed French nationals. “The French should not forget […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday Iran will overcome US sanctions by either bypassing them or through negotiations, and it will not cross its red lines in any talks. “The government is determined to defeat (the enemy) by bypassing America’s sanctions…or through various means including talks, but we will not cross […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Iranian president’s chief of staff, Mahmoud Vaezi, dismissed speculation that President Hassan Rouhani might discuss a message from the US government on an upcoming trip to Japan. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a weekly cabinet session in Tehran on Wednesday, Mahmoud Vaezi dismissed reports that a message from […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson dismissed a statement issued by the Gulf Cooperation Council, known as PGCC, that has raised allegations against Iran and had interference in Iran affairs, and flatly rejected the council’s baseless claims on the three Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf. In remarks on Wednesday, Seyed Abbas Mousavi […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Head of Iraq’s Media Development Center Adnan al-Siraj said that the US has increasingly pressured Iraq to darken relations with Iran, and blasted Washington for treating Iraq as a US colony. “The US administration, including the president, foreign ministry and its embassy in Baghdad, has pressured Iraq” to darken ties with […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A direct Chabahar-Muscat ferry line between Iran and Oman is planned to resume operation within a month, IRNA reported on Wednesday, quoting a deputy with the Ports and Maritime Department of Sistan-Baluchestan Province (where Chabahar port lies). Ferries with the capacity of transporting 240 people and 40 vehicles will operate in […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Bahrain’s main opposition group, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, strongly condemned the participation of a senior Israeli rabbi at a so-called religious event in the Persian Gulf kingdom, as a part of normalization ties with Israel. Al-Wefaq said in a statement released on Tuesday that the invitation of Jerusalem (al-Quds) Chief […]