According to spokesperson for the Parliament’s national security committee, the majority of lawmakers have signed a letter in support of Zarif, asking him to continue his tenure as Iran’s foreign minister. Ali Najafi Khoshroudi, spokesperson for the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, told reporters on the sidelines of today’s open session that a […]

 Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, met and held talks with Iraqi Prime Minister, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, on the latest status of the two countries’ bilateral relations. The Iranian deputy FM Araghchi, who is in Baghdad at the invitation of Iraqi deputy foreign minister Nazar al-Khairullah, held talks with Iraqi Prime Minister, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, […]

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tehran’s response to blunt the impact of US sanctions will come as a ‘surprise’ to US President Donald Trump. Zarif made the remark in an interview with the Swiss newspaper Basler Zeitungpublished on Thursday, while answering a question on Washington’s efforts to cut down Iran’s oil exports. He said the effort […]

 Iran has offered deepest sympathies and condolences to the government and nation of Zimbabwe over a mine flooding accident that left dozens of miners dead. In a statement on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi voiced his deepest regret over a tragic mine flooding accident in Zimbabwe, which has claimed the lives of tens […]

 A French news outlet has quoted Iranian Deputy FM Araghchi as saying that Tehran and Paris will exchange ambassadors “in the coming days”, after six months of absence from their respective diplomatic sites. Speaking on the sidelines of the 6th round of Iran-France political talks on Tuesday, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Le Figaro correspondent […]

Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned Polish Charge d’Affaires to voice protest over the hosting of an anti-Iran, so-called ‘peace and security in Middle East’ conference by US and Poland in February. In a statement on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Ministry noted that Polish Charge d’Affaires Wojciech Unolt has been summoned on Jan. 12 to receive the […]

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ghasemi reacted to the US’ announcement on withdrawing troops from Syria, saying Washington’s presence in the region is always a destabilizing factor. Answering a reporter’s question on a recent decision by the United States to withdraw its military forces from Syria, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said the arrival and presence […]

 The Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi issued a statement Sun. condemning the life sentence verdict issued by a Bahraini appeal court against prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Ali Salman. “This verdict will leave no room for any doubt in the public opinion and the international community that the Bahraini government does not intend to improve […]

A senior Iranian MP urged the Iranian foreign ministry to show reaction to the expulsion of 2 Iranian diplomats by the Netherland with doing the same thing with Dutch diplomats in Iran. “The foreign ministry should expel two Dutch diplomats residing in Tehran in a reciprocal counter-measure,” said Alaeddin Boroujerdi the Chairman of Iran’s Parliament […]