TEHRAN (Iran News) – Five people died, including three after being shot by police, following violent protests in northeast of the county over a contentious Indian citizenship law, with authorities maintaining internet bans and curfews in some regions. Tension remained high at the epicenter of the unrest in Assam state’s biggest city, Guwahati, with a […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani once again said that Tehran supports for dialogue and ceasefire in Yemen, adding that such a path is logical if the talks are genuinely after establishing peace in the war-torn country. In a meeting with Omani Deputy Parliament Speaker Abdullah Al Amri on the sidelines of […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – International Law and United Nations Charter is violated by American sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told a conference in Qatar on Saturday. ”Malaysia does not support the reimposition of the unilateral sanctions by the US against Iran,” he told the Doha Forum, also attended by […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – South Korea is negotiating with the United States over Iran’s call for Seoul to resume exports of humanitarian goods to the Islamic Republic after US sanctions virtually banned such trades. Financial transactions between Seoul and Tehran for shipments of food and medical items became effectively impossible after Washington toughened sanctions against […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi has argued that Iran’s missile tests are not banned under the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231. During a presser in the northwestern city of Tabriz on Saturday, Mousavi criticized some Western countries’ position on Iran’s missile tests, Tasnim reported. He said the 2015 Iran nuclear […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Brian Hook, the U.S. special representative for Iran, says the United States is open to dialogue with Iran at the same time Washington reinforces sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Iran remains a threat to international peace and security, Hook claimed in a Bloomberg interview published on Saturday. Tensions started to build […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spox on Saturday declared Tehran’s readiness to exchange the entire Iranian detainees who are in the U.S. custody, noting the ball is now in Washington’s court to decide wisely. A couple of days ago, the United States released Massoud Soleimani, an Iranian scientist who was arrested last year […]

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Saturday that Washington would end all sanctions on Iran when Tehran fulfilled necessary conditions.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani and his Turkish counterpart, Mustafa Sentop, held talks in Antalya on Saturday on issues of mutual interest on sidelines of 12th APA meeting. The closed-door meeting between the two parliament speakers was held on the sidelines of the 12th Plenary Meeting of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A senior Iranian official has said that the government has invented new initiatives to circumvent the US sanctions imposed on Iran oil export. Hamid Pourmohammadi, the second in command of Iran’s Plan and Budgeting Organization, said on Thursday that by new initiatives to circumvent the US sanctions, Iran would manage to […]