Head of Iran’s Foreign Policy Strategic Council Seyed Kamal Kharrazi said on Monday that the occupying Israeli regime is the main reason behind division in the Islamic World. During a meeting with former Jordan prime minister, Taher Nashat al-Masri, in Tehran, Kharrazi pointed to the Zionist regime and its allies’ role in creating divisions among […]

Iranian vice president and nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, has urged the European Union to set up the special mechanism to facilitate trade with Iran “before time runs out.” “We hope that before time runs out, something tangible is achieved so that the agreement remains intact,” Saleh said on Monday in a joint press conference with […]

Qatar Airways will add more flights to Iran from January, the state-owned Persian Gulf airline announced on Monday just weeks after the United States reimposed sanctions on Tehran. Qatar Airways will add two weekly flights to its existing Doha-Tehran route and add three weekly flights on its Shiraz service in January. It will also launch […]

Chief of General Staff of Iranian Armed Force Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri said Mon. the presence of Iranian Army’s troops in the shared borders with Afghanistan will help increase the security in those areas. Addressing a conference attended by commanders of Iranian Army’s Ground Forces in Tehran, General Bagheri said “the army has been […]

A top Iranian parliamentary official and China’s ambassador to Tehran discussed ways to end the war on Yemen and provide the Arab country’s people with humanitarian aid. Meeting in Tehran on Sunday, senior adviser to the Iranian parliament speaker for international affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian and China’s Ambassador to Iran Pang Sen explored avenues for […]

The Iranian Navy has equipped its ‘Sahand’ destroyer with a locally-manufactured point-defense weapon system dubbed ‘Kamand’, the Navy commander said. Speaking to Tasnim, Navy Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi said the Kamand point-defense system has been mounted on the Sahand destroyer. The Kamand close-in weapon system can destroy any target approaching the destroyer from a […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif decried Western governments’ selective approach to chemical attacks after their refusal to condemn a Sunday chemical attack launched by terrorists on civilians in the Syrian city of Aleppo. “Where is the West in condemning the chemical attack in Aleppo by terrorists? West’s pattern: chemical weapons only condemned if alleged […]

The spokesman for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said the IRGC is ready to dispatch its forces and equipment to the province of Kermanshah in western Iran after an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck the province. The IRGC is well prepared in the area of health and medical assistance and its equipment and facilities […]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry called on the Arab League chief to avoid making divisive remarks under the influence of certain regional countries. Reacting to the latest remarks by Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Sunday that Aboul Gheit had better “stop making divisive remarks under the influence of […]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry vehemently denounced a chemical attack launched by terrorists on civilians in the Syrian city of Aleppo. In a statement on Sunday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi expressed deep regret and concern over reports of the chemical attack in Aleppo, describing the incident as “inhumane and despicable”. “The cause of such an inhumane […]