Reza Salehi Amiri, President of Iran’s National Olympic Committee (NOC), met with his Croatian counterpart Zlatko Mateša on Saturday. In a meeting which was held at the Croatian Olympic Committee (COO) headquarters, both sides agreed to further strengthen bilateral relations in sports fields. Salehi Amiri was accompanied by Iranian Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia […]

High-ranking officials from Iran and Pakistan signed an agreement to promote cooperation in preserving the security of common borders nearly two months after terrorists abducted a number of Iranian border guards at a military post. According to Tasnim dispatches, following a three-day negotiation between a number of Iranian and Pakistani security and political officials in […]

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said the country has completely been exempted from a resolution by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to reduce oil production. Speaking to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) on Thursday night, Zanganeh shrugged off the issue that Iran’s exemption from the OPEC resolution on oil […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif highlighted the country’s major influence and power in the Middle East region and said what has made the Islamic Republic powerful is only its people. “Iran is a powerful and influential country, and we have always been influential geographically and historically and will remain so…,” Zarif said, addressing a […]

Canada has arrested a senior Huawei technology company official suspected of violating sanctions against Iran at the request of U.S. officials. Meng Wanzhou, who is one of the vice-chairs on the Chinese technology company’s board and is the daughter of the company’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, was arrested at the request of U.S. officials in Vancouver. […]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has welcomed the agreements and understandings reached between the Yemeni warring sides brokered by the United Nations Secretary-General in Sweden. The Ministry’s Spokesman Bahram Qassemi described as positive and promising the confidence-building measures and preliminary agreements to continue the negotiations. In his Thursday night statement, he called the agreement reached on the Yemeni port city of Hudaydah very important and praised the Yemeni parties for understanding the catastrophic situation which the impoverished country is […]

he secretary general of the Islamic Jihad movement hailed Iran’s backing for the Palestinian people and resistance groups, saying his movement welcomes support from any party in the world. In an interview with the Al Ghad TV, Ziad al-Nakhala said Islamic Jihad welcomes support for the Palestinian nation provided by any side in the world. […]

Exports of textile has witnessed 28 percent increase since the beginning of the present Iranian calendar year (Mach 21, 2018) in comparison with the same time in the preceding year, IRNA quoted an official from Iranian Industry Ministry on Wednesday. According to Afsaneh Mehrabi, domestic textile industry has improved in imports and exports and installation […]

The managing director of Iran’s Power Generation and Distribution Company (known as TAVANIR) said Iran’s power industry needs six quadrillion rials (near $142.8 billion) to keep the country’s electricity infrastructure up with the rising demand, ISNA reported. According to Mohammad Hassan Motevalizadeh, since it has been estimated that for the next 10 years the country’s […]

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called on all countries to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, now that the U.S. has withdrawn from the multilateral agreement backed by the UN Security Council Resolution 2231. According to a confidential UN report seen by Reuters on Tuesday, Guterres called […]