Raisi and His First Gov’t Week
Every year and on the second day of Iranian calendar month of Shahrivar (August 24), the Islamic Republic of Iran commemorates the memory and the name of martyrs President Mohammad-Ali Rajaei and Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar by holding the Government Week. Rajai and Bahonar were assassinated in a bombing at presidential office on August 30, 1981 and actually the last week of August is marked as the Government Week.
Leader Endorses Raisi, Hails Nation’s Turnout in Election
Hojjatoleslam Seyed Ebrahim Raisi is now officially the 8th president of the Islamic Republic of Iran after his mandate was endorsed by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei at a ceremony in Tehran, weeks after the ex-Judiciary chief won the country’s 13th presidential election by a landslide.
President Rouhani Says Coronavirus Should Be Taken Seriously
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged the entire nation to take the novel coronavirus seriously.
US Message Won’t Be Discussed in President Visit to Japan
TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Iranian president’s chief of staff, Mahmoud Vaezi, dismissed speculation that President Hassan Rouhani might discuss a message from the US government on an upcoming trip to Japan. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a weekly cabinet session in Tehran on Wednesday, Mahmoud Vaezi dismissed reports that a message from […]