Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh has been summoned to the parliament to explain about several issues, including a recent verdict to fine French oil and gas group Total (TOTF.PA) for bribing foreign officials in a case related to Iranian contracts in 1997, an MP said. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Hedayatollah Khademi, who […]

The Russia-Turkey-Iran summit on Syria will be held in Russia in early 2019, a Russian diplomat announced Friday. The leaders of the Astana trio (Russia, Turkey and Iran) will meet in Russia at the beginning of 2019, Russian Special Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters […]

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi deplored US President Donald Trump’s secret visit to Iraq as “a move in violation of diplomatic norms and a disrespect for the country’s national sovereignty”. As underlined by (US President Donald) Trump and despite countless interventions and thousands of billions of dollars the US has spent on its illegitimate […]

 Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi expressed condolences on the demise anniversary of the ancient Iranian Prophet Zoroaster. In a message on Wednesday, Qassemi offered condolences to Zoroastrians. “I send my condolences to the kind Zoroastrians in Iran and the Parsis (members of the Zoroastrian community) in other countries on the death anniversary of Zoroaster,” […]

 Head of Planning and Budget Organization Mohammad Bagher Nobakht said next year’s oil revenues (starting Mar. 21) are predicted to drop by 28%, amounting to $21 billion. Head of Planning and Budget Organization Mohammad Bagher Nobakht made the remarks Tuesday after President Rouhani submitted the budget bill for the next Iranian calendar year in 1398 (starting on […]

 Iranian Leader’s envoy Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani has arrived in the Afghan capital Kabul this morning for a one-day state visit. Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, accompanied by a number of high-ranking security, military and political officials, is in Kabul at the invitation of National Security Adviser of Afghanistan Hamdullah Mohib. […]

President Hassan Rouhani sent a message of condolences over the bush crash in Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch that left a number of students dead and injured, calling on the related authorities to look into the causes of the accident closely to stop such accidents from happening again. “I hereby pray to the […]

 Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei led mass prayers for the body of the deceased Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, in Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini, on Wednesday morning. The funeral procession of Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi started at 8 am (Local Time) in Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini on Tuesday. The procession was attended by huge crowd […]

U.S. President Donald Trump has accepted an invitation by his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to visit the country, according to a spokesperson for Turkey’s leader.  Speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting on Monday in the Turkish capital, Ankara, Ibrahim Kalin said Trump wants to make the trip in 2019 but a date has not […]

President Hassan Rouhani presented the administration’s draft of the national budget bill for the next Iranian calendar year 1398, which starts on March 21, 2019, to the Majlis on Tuesday, ISNA reported. The proposed bill amounts to 17.03 quadrillion rials (about $405 billion at the official rate of 42,000 rials). Supplying basic goods, treatment and […]