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 […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Pentagon said it is planning to suspend training of all Saudi military students in the United States until further notice in the wake of the recent deadly shooting by a Saudi air force officer. The decision will have far-reaching impacts, including grounding more than 300 Saudi Arabian military aviation students. […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Foreign Ministry of Iran has issued a travel advisory that warns Iranian nationals, particularly scientists, about visiting the United States, citing arbitrary and lengthy detention in inhuman conditions in America. “Iranian citizens, particularly elites and scientists, are requested to seriously avoid traveling to America, even to take part in scientific conferences […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the world body’s investigators are “unable to independently corroborate” the US and Saudi claims that Iran had a role behind the kingdom’s Aramco oil facilities going through attack in September. The United Nations is “unable to independently corroborate” that Iran had a role in missiles […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed collected the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Tuesday, appealing for unity as ethnic violence flares in his country and reconciliation efforts with neighboring former foe Eritrea have stalled, AFP reported. Abiy, 43, won the 2019 Nobel Peace for his efforts to resolve the long-running […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday that the European Union is making political and instrumental use of human rights, noting such an approach is intended to isolate sovereign states. Seyed Abbas Mousavi’s remarks came on Tuesday in reaction to a statement declared by, the newly-appointed High Representative of the […]