TEHRAN (Iran News) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he would discuss the deployment of Syrian forces in a planned “safe zone” in northern Syria during talks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin next week. Turkey agreed with the United States on Thursday to pause its military offensive in northeastern Syria for five days while Kurdish […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Japan and France have put forward a joint plan to give a credit line totaling around $18.5 billion. As a prerequisite for this, Iran needs to fully comply with a nuclear deal it signed with world powers in 2015, Japan’s leading newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported on Sunday. Earlier this year, France […]

Iranian President’s Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi praised the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ (IRGC) recent success in arresting Ruhollah Zam, the head of an anti-Iranian website and Telegram channel, saying the IRGC forces have acted wisely.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Qatar says Iran and some Arab countries can solve their existing tensions in the region through “constructive dialog and diplomacy.” “The tension is not sectarian, as it appears to some; rather it is a power and influence struggle in the region between two different poles,” the Qatari spokesperson for the Ministry […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – An Iranian lawmaker said that the United Arab Emirates is trying to revise its relations with Iran and has released $700 million of Iran’s frozen assets. UAE “has released $700 million of Iran’s frozen assets,” Akbar Torki, a member of Velaie faction of the Parliament, told ICANA on Sunday without providing […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – In a major blow to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, UK lawmakers voted Saturday to postpone a decision on whether to back his final Brexit decision with the European Union, throwing a wrench into government plans to leave the bloc at the end of this month. At a special session of […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Commenting on the UK parliament’s adoption of an amendment allowing to delay Brexit, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the delays in the process can be explained by London’s desire to weaken the positions of its European partners. She said that London’s inability to put into practice its people’s desire […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Hossein Amir Abdollahian, a senior advisor to the Iranian Parliament speaker, has said that INSTEX proposed by the European signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal to help reduce the impact of Washington’s sanctions on Iran lacks locomotive engine to start working. “There is no hope for implementation of the JCPOA by […]

Japan said on Friday it will not join any US coalition to protect merchant vessels in Middle Eastern waterways, but will instead send a separate force of ships and planes to guard ships supplying Japan from the key oil-producing region.

Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif discussed the situation in northern Syria with his Russian, Iraqi and Syrian counterparts.