US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has repeated the unfounded claims on Iran’s missile program describing it as a threat to Europe and the Middle East. In a Tuesday statement, Pompeo said, “Iran’s attempt to launch a satellite into orbit with a three-stage rocket demonstrates the Islamic Republic’s intent to develop missiles able to reach […]

Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Reza Rahmani said that role of Iranian ‘rial’ would be strengthened in financial exchanges with many countries in the world and this issue is of the main macro policies of the government that should be taken into serious consideration. He made the above remark late on Monday among industrialists […]

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said that Iran has enough resources of 20% enriched uranium and also that the country is able to resume its peaceful nuclear activities. Ali Akbar Salehi made the remarks Tuesday in an interview with Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). He called upon the European countries […]

 The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has said that his country supports Iran’s missile program, calling the criticisms against the Iranian missile nonsense. Talking to reporters on Tuesday, after Iran’s launching of Payam satellite, which a technical failure prevented it from placing into the orbit, Sergey Ryabkov reacted to Western countries’ criticism against Iranian missile program. Sergey […]

Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif spotlighted Iran’s reliability as a friend and business partner for Kurds after his visit to the Kurdistan Region during a trip to Iraq. In a late Tuesday twitter message, Zarif hailed the comprehensive talks with the leaders of the Kurdistan region, saying that Kurds can rely on the Islamic Republic […]

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei offered condolences over the crash of a cargo plane in Iran’s northern city of Karaj, west of Tehran, and urged the relevant authorities to fully examine the incident and find “possible flaws”. In a message released on Tuesday, Ayatollah Khamenei described the crash of the airplane […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a campaign speech in Cairo that seemed written to please an audience of one—President Donald Trump—along with the domestic political base to which Trump’s own rhetoric is designed to appeal. The main theme was the familiar one that U.S. policy before the Trump presidency was uniformly awful and, since […]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Monday that an Iranian-made satellite named ‘Payam’ will be put into orbit at 600 kilometers altitude above Earth in the near future. Rouhani made the announcement while addressing a group of people in Golestan province during his provincial visit on Monday. He said homegrown ‘Payam’ satellite will be put into […]

Mohammadreza Pourebrahimi, the head of the economic committee of the Iranian parliament, has said that the parliament will ask Zarif questions if the special purpose vehicle (SPV) is not implemented in future weeks. “The Europeans had promised to implement this financial mechanism by the end of 2018. Unfortunately, they did not fulfil their promise,” he […]

U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security team has over the past months conducted a series of meetings to discuss strikes against Iran. As part of the talks, Trump’s National Security Council, led by John Bolton, asked the Pentagon to provide the White House with military options to strike Iran. The request, which hasn’t been previously […]