The Expediency Council’s Saturday meeting on joining the UN Convention on Transnational Crime (Palermo bill) ended without conclusion, leaving the final decision to the next session. The meeting was chaired by Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani, Iranian Judiciary Chief, and also attended by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani. According to Seyed […]

 President Donald Trump on Friday announced that a deal has been reached to end the shutdown and reopen the government. The announcement came as the partial government shutdown stretched to 35 days, the longest in U.S. history. President Donald Trump is expected to announce an agreement to temporarily reopen the federal government after the longest […]

The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba strongly condemns and rejects the attempt to impose through a coup a puppet government at the service of the United States in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and expresses its unwavering solidarity with the Government of the constitutional president Nicolás Maduro Moros. The true objectives of the […]

The French foreign minister said the special purpose vehicle (SPV), the EU mechanism aimed at facilitating trade with Iran in the US sanctions era, would be established in the “coming days”. The SPV “should be implemented in the coming days”, Jean-Yves Le Drian told the French parliament’s foreign affairs committee, Reuters reported late on Wednesday. […]

 Emin Akhundov, chairman of the Board of AzerMash, said the Iranian and Azerbaijani joint car factory (AzerMash-IKCO) will start producing Peugeot in Neftchala Industrial Park, Baku, in mid-February. The new cars, called ‘Khazar’, will be equipped with an automatic transmission, he added. AzerMash-IKCO, annual manufacturing capacity of which is 10,000 cars, will manufacture 6,000 cars […]

The subsidiaries of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) signed 9 contracts with local contractors on maintaining and enhancing the production capacity of a number of Iranian oil and gas fields. The deals were signed in a ceremony attended by Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh on Tuesday. The 9 deals cover a total of 33 maintenance […]

 Iran’s nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi says that Iran has been injecting uranium hexafluoride into IR-8 centrifuges since 3 years ago, adding that the country has the capability of mass production of the machines. Speaking to Iranian state TV-IRIB 4 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Ali Akbar […]

Fatimah Should Be Defined as Fatimah By: Hamid Reza Naghashian Nowadays we are in Fatimiyya (days when Muslims mourn owing to Hazrat Fatimah al-Zahra’s martyrdom). Hazrat-e Fatimah is the daughter of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and there is difference of view regarding the date of her martyrdom. Talking about her and her life is not a […]

Iran iconic goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand says he has saved Oman’s penalty while he was only thinking about the people of his country. The 26-year-old goalie saved Al Mahaijri’s penalty in the third minutes of the match. Alireza Jahanbakhsh and Ashkan Dejagah were on target for Team Melli in the first half to send Iran to […]

Germany, France and the UK are scrambling to win EU backing for a dual-pronged approach on Iran that would seek further sanctions against Tehran while shoring up the landmark nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic. The three powers want to agree on a common EU position ahead of a February 13-14 meeting against Iran that […]