More than 150 Iranian lawmakers asked President Hassan Rouhani to turn down Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s resignation, while the president’s chief of staff has rejected reports that the president has accepted the top diplomat’s resignation. In comments on Tuesday morning, rapporteur of the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said a group of […]

President Hassan Rouhani on Monday called on domestic companies and entrepreneurs to turn to non-oil exports to tackle hurdles created by sanctions. Addressing a meeting of senior officials at the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare on Monday morning, Rouhani said, “although we are under sanctions, helping resolve people’s problems, especially employees, is our […]

 Massive three-day naval drill, code-named ‘Velayat-97’, in the Sea of Oman and the Persian Gulf, which kicked off on Friday with the participation of home-grown, recently unveiled ‘Fateh’ submarine and ‘Sahand’ destroyer, wrapped up today. According to the Public Relations Department of Iranian Army Navy, the three-day Velayat-97 naval drills ended today, during which different […]

“It was not our fault that the US left JCPOA after it saw it was not benefiting from it,” according to the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araghchi. Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, made the remarks in video posted on his Instagram account while talking to Basiji students […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said “significant progress” has been made in Turkey’s ongoing talks with Iran and Russia to secure Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib. “Let’s secure the Idlib region completely, we say. We are talking with Russia and Iran to do that and we have made significant progress,” Erdogan said on Saturday, Hurriyet […]

 Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei highlighted that there are many ambiguities in FATF guidelines. “While there exist many questions and ambiguities about FATF guidelines, it is expected from the government to prevent the country from sinking into a new quagmire,” he wrote Saturday on his Instagram account. FATF watchdog extended Iran’s deadline for four months […]

The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced that it will soon name a company in the country for facilitating cooperation with the European Union based on its financial mechanism for trade with Iran known as the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX). In a statement released on Saturday, the CBI’s public relations department said […]

Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh says efforts for offering crude at Iran Energy Exchange (IRENEX) will finally pay off, but the bid needs time. Speaking to ICANA on Saturday, Zanganeh said IRENEX is expected to gain but the efforts may take a while to come into fruition. “The Oil Ministry continues to offer crude at […]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that countries which build walls around themselves will be destroyed from inside and will achieve no progress. He made the remarks Saturday in a meeting with heads of knowledge-based companies and startups in Tehran. Pointing to Trump’s administration insistence on building physical walls along its southern borders, Rouhani said, “they […]

the anti-money laundering body, the Financial Action Task Force announced on Friday that it has extended the suspension of countermeasures against Iran for another four months, recognizing the country’s efforts in meeting its Action Plan. “The FATF decided at its meeting this week to continue the suspension of counter-measures. While welcoming the passage of the […]