TEHRAN (Iran News) – In a meeting with Mohammad Javad Zarif, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the West is artificially fuelling tensions in the Persian Gulf. In May, the US sent its aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East citing an unspecified Iranian “threat” to US interests in the region. Since then, […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will pay a visit to Beijing on Tuesday, just one day after his visit to Moscow, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Geng Shuang said. “Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will pay an official visit to China capital, Beijing, on December 31, at the invitation of […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran, Russia, and China have begun a four-day joint maritime drills in the Indian Ocean and the Sea of Oman area. Speaking on Friday morning, Second Rear Admiral Gholamreza Tahani said that the Iran, Russia and China maritime drills will begin with the three countries’ vessels leaving Iran’s Chabahar port in […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanayee and Deputy Head of Russia’s Rosatom Company Nikolai Spassky in a meeting in Vienna reviewed the latest condition of nuclear cooperation in the field of peaceful activities. During the meeting in the Austrian capital on Friday, Spassky stressed Russia’s all-out support for cooperation with Iran […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Managing Director of Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization Mohammad Rastad and Head of Russia’s Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transportation Yury Tsvetkov in a meeting made a mutual agreement to expand the cooperation between the two countries in the Caspian Sea. During the meeting, the two sides discussed exchanging port […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi says Iran will hold joint naval drills with Russia and China in the Indian Ocean later this month. Khanzadi made the announcement in a meeting with visiting deputy chief of the Chinese Joint Staff Department, Major General Shao Yuanming, on Tuesday, saying the joint […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Islamic Republic of Iran Levan Dzhagaryan said on Sunday that Iran-Russia relations and cooperations do not need the US’ permission. Naming his country independent, in an interview with the Press TV, the envoy underlined that Russia does not need the permission of the […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Seventeen Iran-made medicines, containing high-tech drugs, will be exported to Russia, Mohsen Asadi Lari, director of international cooperation at the Ministry of Health, has announced. Since last year, negotiations are underway with the Russian Ministry of Health for medicine trade, he said, adding that a meeting was also held in Moscow […]

The Trump administration will once again issue US sanctions waivers to allow Russia, China and Europe to continue nuclear nonproliferation work in Iran, Iran News quotes what Independent reported. The periodic US sanctions waivers grant exemptions from US sanctions against Iran, and allow foreign companies to collaborate on the civilian nuclear programme with Iran’s Atomic […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Russia has an interest in Iran joining the Russia-China-US format for Afghanistan talks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday. “We have a dialogue with them [the United States] on Afghanistan. There is a Russia-China-US format for Afghanistan talks that Pakistan has joined. There is interest in connecting Iran to […]