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  • Iran and FATF to Hold First Direct Talks in Six Years 09 Aug 2025

    Iran and FATF to Hold First Direct Talks in Six Years

    TEHRAN - Financial Intelligence Center has confirmed that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has officially invited the head of the center to participate in in-person negotiations — the first such direct engagement in six years. The move follows recent steps by Tehran to address international concerns over money laundering and terrorism financing.

Defense ministry hails Iran’s successful space mission 16 Jan 2019

Defense ministry hails Iran’s successful space mission

 Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami hailed the efforts of scientists of Iran’s Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO), who successfully launched a domestically-built ‘Payam’ satellite into space, with ‘Simorgh’ satellite carrier. On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the glorious victory of the Islamic Revolution, Iran has launched a domestically-built satellite into space with an […]

US insisting on false claims over Iran missile program 16 Jan 2019

US insisting on false claims over Iran missile program

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 […]

Role of ‘rial’ to be strengthened in global exchanges 16 Jan 2019

Role of ‘rial’ to be strengthened in global exchanges

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 […]

Iran has enough supplies of 20% uranium: Salehi 16 Jan 2019

Iran has enough supplies of 20% uranium: Salehi

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 […]

Starting negotiations with Iran under US pressures impossible: Russia 16 Jan 2019

Starting negotiations with Iran under US pressures impossible: Russia

 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 […]

Iran a reliable friend of Kurds: Zarif 16 Jan 2019

Iran a reliable friend of Kurds: Zarif

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 Urges Full Probe into Cargo Plane Crash near Tehran 15 Jan 2019

Leader Urges Full Probe into Cargo Plane Crash near Tehran

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 […]

Pompeo in Cairo: Anti-Obama, anti-Iran, and little else 15 Jan 2019

Pompeo in Cairo: Anti-Obama, anti-Iran, and little else

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 […]

Iran to put ‘Payam’ satellite into orbit in coming days 14 Jan 2019

Iran to put ‘Payam’ satellite into orbit in coming days

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 […]

Parliament to ask Zarif questions if SPV is not implemented: MP 14 Jan 2019

Parliament to ask Zarif questions if SPV is not implemented: MP

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 […]