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 […]

Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a senior assistant to the Iranian foreign minister, has said the aim of his recent visit to Moscow was to find ways to put an end to the Saudi-led war on Yemen. “In this trip we tried to reach a framework between Iran and Russia for talks about Yemen,” Jaberi Ansari said, […]

Islamic Revolution Guards Corps is the forerunner in fighting terrorists, IRGC Deputy Commander for Political Affairs Brigadier General Yadollah Javani has said. “The world is well aware that the Guards has been forerunner in fighting terrorist groups in the region,” Javani told Mehr news agency in an interview published on Thursday. His comments came as […]

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday called on the Iraqi government to facilitate travel of the Iranian pilgrims for the Arbaeen ritual, particularly in border areas. Zarif made the request in a phone conversation with new Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali Alhakim. Arbaeen marks 40 days after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein […]

 Asia-Pacific Ocean group at UN elected Syria as president of the Group, by acclamation, for November. Palestinian permanent representative to UN, Riad Mansour whose country leads the group in the current month, handed the chairmanship of the group to the Syrian permanent representative to the UN, Bashar al-Jaafri. Mansour and the member states congratulated al-Jaafri […]

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pointed to the global response to Saudi journalist’s murder, saying “it was late yet strong.” In response to a question by Japanese correspondent, Iran’s foreign minister evaluated the global reaction to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi late, but severe. Zarif pointed out that Washington is one of […]

The deputy chief of IRGC’s Sarallah Headquarters has condemned the Saudi Arabia and Bahrain’s action in issuing a statement against three IRGC commanders, saying their move was aimed at deflecting public attention from the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi. “Saudi Arabia is stuck in a quagmire from which it cannot get out easily, so they […]

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that the U.S. has faced failure in the issue of the 2015 nuclear deal. U.S. President Donald Trump’s defeat at the UN Security Council shows that Iran’s foreign policy has “integrity” and enjoys “precise planning”, he said during a meeting with researchers and university professors of social sciences. […]

 Foreign Minister spokesman Bahram Qassemi has said a rescue of the abducted Iranian border guards could be the first test for Pakistan’s newly-elected Prime Minister Imran Khan regarding Tehran-Islamabad ties. In an interview with ILNA published on Tuesday, Qassemi said Tehran expects the new Pakistani government to successfully deal with the incident and take positive […]