Iran’s oil minister voiced opposition to any decision by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) that may reduce the country’s crude output. Speaking to reporters upon his arrival in Vienna ahead of Thursday’s OPEC meeting, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said Tehran is looking to be exempted from any OPEC oil output cuts because of […]

A cloud seeding project will be carried out within the next few weeks in some provinces of the country using planes and drones in cooperation with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force (IRGC AF), Farid Golkar, head of Iran’s National Cloud Seeding Research Center has announced. Cloud seeding, a form of weather modification, is […]

Iranian lawmakers on Wednesday approved an amendment to the first article of a bill on the country’s accession to Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) treaty – a series of standards set by the FATF (Financial Action Task Force). During an open session of the parliament on Wednesday morning, the MPs discussed problems for which […]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shrugged off the US’ plans to cut the Islamic Republic’s oil exports down to zero and said Washington is not able to do so but if that were going to happen, no oil would be exported from the Persian Gulf. “The US should be aware that we are selling our oil […]

Iran’s envoy to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) warned that global oil prices would slump to $40 a barrel without a significant cut in the output of OPEC and its allies. Production will need to be reduced by at least 1.4 million barrels a day to prevent oversupply, Hossein Kazempour Ardebili said […]

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi said Tehran and the remaining parties to the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) are planning to make up for the US exit from the accord. Speaking to reporters in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Monday night, Araqchi said after the […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pledged that Tehran will battle in the United Nations General Assembly to block a draft resolution that the US has proposed against the Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas. Zarif and Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas Political Bureau, held a telephone conversation on Monday about the latest developments in Palestine. In […]

Defending champions Iran learned their opponents at the 2019 AFC Beach Soccer Championship Thailand. Team Melli will begin title defense against Oman and Iraq in Group D following the official draw in Pattaya, Thailand on Monday. Fifteen teams, three more than the inaugural edition in 2017, will battle to be crowned champions next March. Host […]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry, in a statement on Monday, said it welcomes and supports UN-brokered Yemeni-Yemeni talks due to be held in Stockholm, Sweden. In the statement, the Foreign Ministry called on all Yemeni parties to engage “constructively and responsibly” in the Stockholm talks and  take steps to build confidence and provide the necessary ground for […]

A political analyst has rejected the idea that Iran is an enemy of all Saudis and by extension all Sunnis. “This long held belief that Iran is an enemy of all Saudis and by extension, all Sunnis is a lie,” Catherine Shakdam, researcher at al-Bayan Centre for Planning and Studies, tells the Tehran Times. Shakdam […]