President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday that domestically-manufactured rockets will carry two new satellites into orbit in the coming weeks. Rouhani made the remarks during a ceremony held to commemorate the death of former president and chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in Tehran on Thursday. Rouhani said, “Missiles are our defensive […]

Much to the chagrin of mandarins in Washington, Taliban have called off ‘peace talks’ with the U.S. officials in Qatar this week due to an “agenda disagreement”. This month’s talks, the fourth in a series of talks between the two sides in recent months, aimed was scheduled between Taliban leaders and U.S. special envoy Zalmay […]

 Iran will not be complying with the “fully illegal” US sanctions, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Thursday, in yet another defiant statement from Tehran after the American sanctions on Iran’s oil and shipping industry snapped back in early November. “We believe that we should not comply with the illegal sanctions against Iran,” Reuters […]

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday likened U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton to “psychotic stalkers” who are extremely obsessed with Iran. “While ordinarily it might be flattering, @SecPompeo’s and @AmbJohnBolton’s pure obsession with Iran is more and more like the behavior of persistently failing psychotic stalkers,” […]

Asserting that no country is immune to the “existential threat” of terrorism, India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday said the need of hour is to ensure zero tolerance towards terrorism and those using it as an “instrument of convenience”. Swaraj made these remarks while speaking at the Raisina Dialogue organized by India’s leading […]

 Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that Iran-Taliban talks is quite beneficial to Afghanistan. “Iran is in contact with the Taliban which is definitely beneficial to Afghanistan,” he told ISNA in an interview published on Wednesday. The Foreign Ministry announced that Iranian diplomats held a meeting with a Taliban delegation in Tehran on December […]

Iran on Thursday marked the second anniversary of the demise of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a ceremony in Tehran. The ceremony opened with a speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The president said that Ayatollah Hashemi played a major role in the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and also the country’s nuclear […]

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has hailed national sovereignty and people’s right to vote as the greatest achievements of the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Speaking at the session of the cabinet on Wednesday, President Hassan Rouhani referred to the anniversary of the uprising of the people of Qom, saying, “Qom and the seminary in this city […]

Iranian lawmakers on Wed. approved the general outlines of an amendment bill on parliamentary elections law. During a Wed. open session at the Parliament, Iranian lawmakers passed the general outlines of an amendment bill on parliamentary elections law with 155 votes in favor, 64 votes against, and two in abstention. Following the voting, Parliament Speaker Ali […]

Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned against the enemies’ conspiracies against the Iranian nation, calling for preservation of the Islamic Revolution’s values to foil such plots. Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks during a meeting with people from Qom province this morning in Tehran. Describing Qom as the starting point of the […]