Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi has expressed sympathy over a plane crash in Indonesia, which lead to the death of dozens of people. In a Monday statement, Ghasemi also offered condolences to the Indonesian nation and government and the bereaved families of the victims. An Indonesian passenger plane carrying 189 people, including one child […]

 Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali, the head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization, has said “cryptocurrencies are untraceable in the financial and monetary system of each country, but internationally they can provide us with great opportunities.” He told the state Channel 2 News on Monday that passive defense is “deceptively simple”, since we are always faced with threats in […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, heading a high-ranking delegation, has landed in Turkish city Istanbul to take part at the 6th ministerial meetings of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Iran. Foreign Minister Zarif is in Istanbul on a working visit to take part at the 6th trilateral meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the […]

The Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has criticized the US ‘blind support’ for Saudi Arabia and Israeli regime which has led to disaster in the Middle East region. “The United States is continuously and persistently on the wrong side,” Mohammad Javad Zarif said earlier today in interview with CBS TV network in Tehran. When […]

Reuters has recently reported that a new European Union mechanism to facilitate payments for Iranian exports should be legally in place by Nov. 4, when the next phase of U.S. sanctions hit, but will not be operational until early next year, three diplomats said. The mechanism, a so-called special purpose vehicle (SPV), is designed to […]

 Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri, chief of the Iranian Joint Staff of Armed Forces, is scheduled to visit Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, on Wednesday. Heading a delegation on his two-day visit, General Baqeri is going to hold meetings on border cooperation, countering terrorism, and regional developments, IRNA reported. The visit comes […]

The governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has said a bilateral monetary agreement has been struck between Iran and Europe, through which exporters can receive their revenues from exports to other countries. Abdolnaser Hemmati said the details of the monetary mechanism with Europe had been discussed with the Europeans in Brussels last week, […]

Vice President for Parliamentary Affairs Hossein-Ali Amiri said on Sunday that a Saturday parliamentary session to cast vote of confidence for four proposed ministers showed the country’s “political maturity”. The parliamentary session was an example of “unity between the government and parliament” and was a “show of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s political maturity”, he […]

 Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that in the absence of Iran, it is not possible to resolve the Syrian crisis, IRNA reported. “Iran is one of the three guarantor states of Astana Peace Process for solving Syrian issues and without Iran, the problem will not be solved effectively,” Putin told a conference on […]

The commander of the Passive Defense Organization said on Sunday that no serious military threat against the Islamic Republic exists at the moment, Fars reported. “As the Leader of the [Islamic] Revolution said, ‘the option of war is the final threat which has been thwarted by Iran’s defense power’,” said Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali during […]