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 […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – In a press conference in Tabriz, the Spokesperson of the Iranian foreign ministry Abbas Mousavi announced the country’s support for Japan’s measures taken in alleviating tensions in the region. “Japan’s a friendly country that seeks to meet all the interests of the countries in the region and in this regard, it […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A court in Sudan convicted the ex-president, Omar al-Bashir of money laundering and corruption, on Saturday, sentencing him to two years in a rehabilitation facility. That’s the first verdict in a series of legal proceedings against al-Bashir and his corruption. He is also wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says US sanctions imposed on Iran violate the United Nations Charter and international law and resulted in losing one Malaysia big market in the region.  Malaysia has lost a big market as a result of the bans on the Islamic Republic, Mahathir added in his remarks […]