TEHRAN (Iran News) – President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that Iran’s next year budget won’t be dependent on negotiations with the United States whose officials have imposed “unilateral sanctions on our nation”. Iran’s next fiscal year begins on March 21, 2020, and the budget allocated for it was dedicated to Parliament recently. “The next […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Hassan Danaeefar, the former Iranian Ambassador to Iraq, has said that it is the Iraqi people who should decide about the destiny of their own country. In an interview with the Mehr news agency published on Monday, Hassan Danaeefar said, “The Islamic Republic of Iran has always wanted peace, welfare and […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian government officials have expressed the Islamic Republic’s readiness for a comprehensive prisoner swap with the United States after each freed a prisoner on Saturday. “After getting our hostage back this week, fully ready for comprehensive prisoner swap”, the Iranian foreign minister tweeted on Monday. However, he noted that the ball […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo said on Monday that Tokyo is in discussions about a meeting in Japan by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani this month, an attempt to try to resolve Iran’s nuclear impasse with the United States. He also said Japan wants to make every possible effort to promote Middle […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – President Hassan Rouhani on Monday described negotiations as “necessary” and “revolutionary” if they help Iran foil enemy plots. Addressing university students in Tehran, Rouhani said Iranians are resisting the pressure exerted by the enemies, but “it doesn’t mean that if we have a way to break the enemy’s conspiracy, we do […]

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has tweeted that Iran is ready for a full prisoner exchange with the United States, adding that “the ball is in the US’ court.”

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran on Monday declared no negotiations with the US administration happened on swapping prisoners, saying that the Iranian and American citizens were released recently for humanitarian reasons. “The proposal to swap the prisoners was raised one and a half years ago (by Iran to the US) on the sidelines of the […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Global Arms sales rose by nearly 5% in 2018 in a market dominated by the United States, according to a new report published Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The turnover of the 100 biggest arms manufacturers came to $420 billion, thanks in large part to the US […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran has reacted to recent threats of military action from Israel, warning that its response to any such potential effrontery will make the occupying regime regret its acts. “The Islamic Republic, through reliance on its people’s culture of self-sacrifice and resistance, will not hesitate or compromise even a moment in defending […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Head of Iran’s Plan and Budget Organization Mohammad Baqer Nobakht highlighted the country’s measures to export a million barrels of crude per day in the next Iranian calendar year (March 2020 – March 2021) and said the country has taken new paths for overcoming the sanctions. Speaking to reporters in Tehran […]