Presiding Board of the Iranian Parliament, on Tuesday, received a proposed plan on Iran's withdrawal from the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty, aka NPT.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Iran parliament is considering an urgent motion in response to the terrorist assassination of the late commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ Quds Force Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and his companions, including the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis by the US. Asadollah Abbasi, a spokesman […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Iranian parliament has withdrawn a motion to impeach Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh a month after he was accused of ignoring the will of the lawmakers before announcing a controversial fuel price hike. “Given negotiations (held between) lawmakers and the current situation of the country, the impeachment of oil minister […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani and his Turkish counterpart, Mustafa Sentop, held talks in Antalya on Saturday on issues of mutual interest on sidelines of 12th APA meeting. The closed-door meeting between the two parliament speakers was held on the sidelines of the 12th Plenary Meeting of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that Iran’s next year budget won’t be dependent on negotiations with the United States whose officials have imposed “unilateral sanctions on our nation”. Iran’s next fiscal year begins on March 21, 2020, and the budget allocated for it was dedicated to Parliament recently. “The next […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Candidates have finished the registration for the 11th Iranian parliament elections. Over 13000 people have registered for Parliamentary elections nationwide among them almost 16-hundred women. The parliamentary candidates will be screened for their qualifications by Iran’s vetting body, the Guardian Council, after filing their certificates of candidacy. The 11th round of […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Candidates for parliamentary election can now register for the next election at designated places across the country. Minister of Interior issued on Sunday morning the permission to begin the process of registering candidates for the parliamentary election. Applicants can apply for the registration until Saturday, Dec. 7 in their cities’ governorates. […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani says he will not run for re-election in the upcoming parliamentary elections. “I represented the noble people of Qom for three terms, which has been an honor for me,” Larijani said on Saturday, according to ILNA. Larijani added that “however, in general, I do not have any […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – President Hassan Ruohani introduced  a new bill on Tuesday about “how to manage conflict of interests” to the parliament. The bill is concerned with “how to manage conflict of interests in fulfilling legal missions and rendering public service”. It was initially ratified in the cabinet of ministers a couple of weeks […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A member of the Majlis presiding board said on Monday that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has thus far been chosen as the most accountable minister in the face of questions by Majlis on regional and national issues. “In the 10th Majlis, a sum of 3,000 questions were planned in the […]