TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Tehran would continue efforts to preserve the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the multilateral nuclear deal from which the US withdrew in May. In a meeting with Chairman of Russia’s State Duma Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin in Turkey on Monday, Larijani said Iran will keep trying […]

 Iran will preside the ninth session of the Conference of the Parties of World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in 2020. The eighth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP8) was held on October 1-6 in Switzerland’s Geneva where member parties appointed Iran as the head of COP9, which is […]

In directives to Interior and Health ministries, President Hassan Rouhani called for providing immediate relief and assistance to victims of floods which hit northern provinces of the country in the past two days. Rouhani ordered the two ministers to mobilize all facilities of the neighboring cities for providing immediate relief to people in flood-hit areas […]

 Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif said he could not give any guarantee that approving the FATF-related bills would solve Iran’s problems, but rejecting the bills would allow US to take more measures against the country. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made the remarks at today’s open session of Parliament dedicated to reviewing Iran’s accession to the […]

The Iranian parliament on Sunday voted in favor of CFT, a legislation to combat financing of terrorism. The debate on the CFT kicked off on Sunday morning with 268 lawmakers present in the parliament. A total of 143 lawmakers voted in favor of the bill while 120 voted against it. Five MPs also abstained. The […]

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi has warned the Zionist regime of Israel against anti-Iran “thoughtless” and “rude” statements. “We warn these narcissistic racists who has no wisdom and politeness about the consequences of the thoughtless things they say about the Iranian nation,” Qassemi told Al-Alam News Network. During a meeting with German Chancellor Angela […]

Iran’s Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs, Hossein Zolfaghari, held talks with Afghanistan’s Minister of Refugees and Repatriations Hussain Alami Balkhi on the sidelines of the 69th session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme. During the meeting, Zolfaghari stressed that the Iranian government would spare no effort in facilitating the return of Afghan refugees to their homeland. […]

Tehran has dismissed allegations raised by the NATO Secretary General against Iran’s missile program and regional policies, saying that Jens Stoltenberg had better be concerned about the unilateral and dangerous policies of the U.S. Speaking ahead of the Tuesday meeting by NATO defense ministers in Brussels, Stoltenberg voiced concerns about what he described as Iran’s […]

 In an interview with Al Jazeera published on Friday, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said, “We’re not actually eager to meet with [U.S. President Donald Trump] because the United States is not a reliable negotiating partner.” Asked about the U.S. withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Zarif said, “The nuclear deal is […]

 Iran’s ambassador to Britain on Thursday scoffed at Washington’s “rash withdrawal” from a 63-year-old friendship treaty with Iran following a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in favor of Tehran, saying the move proved the arrogant nature of the U.S. “The arrogant nature of the U.S. could not tolerate that Iran, too, can […]