ASTANA – Kazakh Foreign Minister, Kairat Abdrakhmanov, said that reaching an agreement by the guarantor states  of the cessation of hostilities agreement in Syria,( Russia, Iran and Turkey) on a number of issues on the agenda of Astana 8 meeting on Syria, held last week, is a “great progress.” “We await further practical steps from […]

Secretary of the Expediency Council and former IRGC Commander Mohsen Rezaei said the return of authority and national security to the Islamic Republic of Iran is the eternal honor of the glorious Islamic Revolution. Speaking in a ceremony Tue. to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of assigning Flight Security and Air Protection to IRGC by Imam Khomeini’s […]

TEHRAN – Tehran city council chairman Mohsen Hashemi has urged officials and responsible organizations to be vigilant over the possibility of future earthquakes in the metropolis and take necessary measures. “The magnitude-5.2 earthquake in Tehran was not minor enough to be disregarded and not major enough to cause damages,” Hashemi said on a TV show […]

TEHRAN — The magnitude 5.2 tremor on December 20 near Tehran once again has heightened serious concerns over the city’s resistance to an imminent and most probably destructive earthquake. The some parts of country have been affected by recurrent strong quakes over the past 40 days and suffered damages to a certain extent. Tehran, the […]

TEHRAN –Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak recently called on all Muslims to unite against US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Al-Quds (Jerusalem) as the capital of Israeli regime. At a mass demonstration on Friday in Malaysia’s administrative capital Putrajaya against the US decision, Razak said: “Let’s forget about the political differences between us. We […]

The U.S. administration’s brazen recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was met with global shock and condemnation. It is now imperative that the EU translate its words into action, making clear that it will not support U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement and will take concrete steps to end complicity in Israel’s shameless flouting […]

TEHRAN — The earthquakes across Iran over the past 40 days, particularly the most recent one in the capital Tehran, have fueled widespread, well-founded fear amongst people alike. The magnitude 5.2 earthquake which hit the provinces of Tehran and Alborz on Wednesday night left 2 dead and some 115 injured all due to the fear […]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said on Thursday that the Palestine will remain the key issue of the Muslim world forever. In a statement on Thursday, Ghasemi lashed out at Bahrain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, for calling al-Quds a “side issue”, saying the Bahraini foreign minister makes such remarks to please the […]

Catalan separatists won a crucial snap poll Thursday, plunging their region into further uncertainty after a failed independence bid rattled Europe and triggered Spain’s worst political crisis in decades. With turnout at a record high and 99.6 percent of the ballots counted, the election handed a mandate back to the region’s ousted separatist leaders, even […]

TEHRAN — A hospital named after world-class Iranian neurosurgeon Majid Samii was officially opened in Shenzhen, China, on December 18.  In appreciation of the valuable scientific services of Professor Samii in training hundreds of brain and neurological surgeons in China the 1,000-bed Shenzhen Samii medical mega hospital was named after Samii in 2015 who has […]