The Guardian Council has returned the bill on Iran’s accession to the convention against the funding of terrorism (CFT) to Parliament for further amendments, the Council’s spokesman said on Sunday. The spokesman for the Guardian Council, Abbasali Kadkhodaei, wrote in a tweet on Sunday that the Council has found flaws and ambiguities with a bill […]

The order to kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi came from the “highest levels” of the Saudi government, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in an op-ed piece published by the Washington Post on Friday. However, he wrote: “I do not believe for a second that King Salman, the custodian of the holy mosques, ordered the hit on […]

Iranians from every walk of life poured into streets in cities across the country on Sunday to mark the anniversary of US Tehran embassy takeover and express their opposition to the arrogant policies and attitudes of the enemies, particularly the US government. The nationwide rallies to mark the 1979 takeover of US embassy in Tehran […]

 Daily production of Euro-5 quality gasoline in Iran’s Persian Gulf Star Refinery will reach 40 million liters by the next month, according to the managing director of the refinery. Mohammad-Ali Dadvar put the current output of the refinery at 30 million liters per day, Mehr news agency reported on Saturday. The managing director of refinery […]

Top Military Aide to the Iranian Leader Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi said that the United States’ power is waning and they cannot once again take the control of Iranians’ economy and fate. He made the Saturday remarks at Tehran-based Holy Defense Museum in a ceremony for unveiling a book related to Iran-Iraq war. According […]

 Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei said Sat. that the United States has always been on the losing side of the 40-year-long war it has waged against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting with a number of university and high school students on Saturday ahead of the National […]

Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Abdolnaser Hemmati said that the United States failed in sanctioning Iranian oil. Today, it has been clear for everyone that the United States has been defeated in sanctioning Iranian oil and minimizing it into zero level completely under any pretext. He made the above remarks on his […]

European signatories of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) say that they are committed to working on, inter alia, the preservation and maintenance of effective financial channels with Iran, and the continuation of Iran’s export of oil and gas. In a Friday joint statement issued signed by High Representative Federica Mogherini and Foreign Ministers Jean-Yves […]

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underlined in a statement at the 18th Session of the D-8 Council of Ministers that cooperation among D-8 Member States towards developing blue economy has great potential for enhancing sustainable development and can strengthen economic growth and poverty reduction. Following is the full text of Javad Zarif’s statement at the 18th […]

President Hassan Rouhani referred on Wednesday to the 13th of Aban in the Iranian calendar (Nov. 4), which marks the anniversary of Iranian university students’ seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979, saying it was basically the day of fighting capitulation for the independence of the Iranian nation against US aggression. Speaking in […]