The attorney for environmentalist Sam Rajabi has said a court’s order has been issued for suspension of the persecution of his client, with regard to his charges of spying and participation in espionage. Mohammad-Hossein Aqasi said his client was still charged with rallying and collusion to commit crimes against national security, Tehran 24 reported on […]

All four ministers proposed by President Hassan Rouhani received votes of confidence from lawmakers in a Saturday session of the Majlis. Rouhani had attempted a cabinet reshuffle by proposing Farhad Dejpasand as the minister of economy, Mohammad Eslami as minister of transport and urban development, Mohammad Shariatmadari as minister of cooperative, labor, and social welfare, […]

 Professor Jonathan T. Chow from University of Macau says that “Religion can be an important factor in international politics, but it would be a mistake to say that it is the sole or even the most important factor.”  “Building a grand theory of religion and international relations, I think, would necessarily oversimplify the diverse and […]

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has termed as “unique” Iran’s political developments in recent months. “Who would have thought that representatives of the Iranian nation could gain victory at three great arenas in a few months?” he said at a session of parliaments held to give vote of confidence to four proposed ministers. He explained that […]

Today morning, a number of principalist representatives submitted a letter of protest to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani and members of the Expediency Council (EC) on the move taken by the Parliament Speaker in sending two bills pertinent to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to the Expediency Council. Given the above issue, the […]

Iranian Parliament Speaker’s Special Aide Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that the Friday meeting with Israeli regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is far from the wisdom of Oman’s Sultan Qaboos. In a Saturday tweet and in reaction to Netanyahu’s unannounced trip to Oman, Amir-Abdollahian wrote, “the meeting of Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the illegitimate Israeli regime, […]

 Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi has said that the Israeli regime is striving to create rifts among Muslim countries and cover up its 70-year-long occupation of Palestine and the massacre of Palestinian people. Responding on Friday to a question regarding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s unannounced trip to Oman two days earlier, Ghasemi slammed the trip, […]

New Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said on Thursday that Baghdad will prioritize its own interests and independence when it comes to implementing unilateral U.S. sanctions on Iran. “We want to secure Iraq from any interference in issues, affairs of other countries, whether it’s a neighboring country or it’s any other country in the world,” […]

Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has established its sub-offices in Greece and Iran to check increasing activities of organized criminal networks and illegal movements of Pakistani migrants. A senior FIA official has said that one sub-office each in Greece and Iran had been established and soon two deputy directors along with their subordinates would begin […]

Iran’s Ambassador to the UK Hamid Baeidinejad on Wednesday strongly criticized Woody Johnson, the U.S. ambassador to London, for pressuring British companies into choosing trade ties with either Iran or the U.S. “Such threatening and bullying rhetoric on the part of a businessman, whose grandfather’s Johnson & Johnson [company] had been for years active in […]