TEHRAN – Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani has said that Iran’s missile program cannot be weakened under foreign pressure, noting the indigenous defense program will continue powerfully. “Today Iran’s indigenized defense power, and specially the missile power which is the result of the experience gained during the Sacred Defense (Iraqi-imposed war […]

TEHRAN  – Bishapur was an ancient city in Iran on the ancient road between Persis and Elam. The road linked the Sassanid capitals Estakhr (very close to Persepolis) and Ctesiphon. It is located south of modern Faliyan in the Kazerun County of Fars Province, Iran. Bishapur, “the beautiful [city] of Shapur”, as the name indicates […]

The Palestinian Foreign Minister has called for an emergency United Nations General Assembly meeting after Washington vetoed a UNSC resolution aimed at annulling US President Donald Trump’s move to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s capital. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki made the announcement on Monday, while noting that the US will not be able to veto the […]

Two Russian firms signed a contract with the Railways of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Monday to allocate 3 billion Euros for joint production of railcars and locomotives. Trade Promotion Center of Russia, the Russian Agency for Export Credit and Investment Insurance (EXIAR), and the Railways of the Islamic Republic of Iran signed a […]

TEHRAN– A Chinese firm was awarded a contract to hold the 70 percent of the shares in the project to build a new highway between Iranian SW city of Ahvaz and central city of Isfahan. A highway linking Ahvaz, Izeh, Lordegan, and Isfahan in southwestern Iran will be built with a Chinese investor providing 70 […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the Islamic Republic has turned into a “key player” both in the region and around the world thanks to the Iranian nation’s continued support for the establishment. The Iranian people’s resistance against enemies and their support for the Islamic Establishment in the past four decades have turned the […]

 Iran’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned recent Saudi airstrikes on residential areas across Yemen that killed dozens of civilians on Sunday. In a statement on Sunday, Bahram Qassemi denounced the Saudi strikes against a wedding ceremony in the central province of Ma’arib as well as residential areas and shopping malls in different cities in Yemen. Expressing […]

Iranian Interior Minister Rahmani Fazli told the media that after the stabilization of situation in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran will open the border gates to the region in the next couple of days. “Today we had a good meeting with the members of the Iran’s Chamber of Commerce and we discussed economic, financial, and banking issues,” […]

Iran says the United States is trying to confiscate the payments for purchases of planes thus indicating that Washington may be already drawing closer to killing an ambitious plan to rejuvenate its dilapidated aviation fleet.     Iran’s Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan was quoted by the domestic media as saying […]

TEHRAN –Experts say Saudi Arabia’s ambitions are limited by its military, which is considered an ineffective force even though the kingdom is one of the world’s largest spenders on defense. In the past few years, Saudi Arabia has led an intervention in Yemen’s civil war, been the driving force behind a diplomatic crisis between Qatar […]