Iran national football team sealed top spot in Group D of the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 after playing to a 0-0 draw with Iraq at a packed Maktoum Stadium in Dubai on Wednesday. As group winner, Iran will play the third-placed team from either Group B, E or F in Abu Dhabi’s Mohammed bin […]

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi condemned a terrorist attack to a hotel and office complex in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. In a statement, Qassemi extended condolences to the Kenyan government and nation and offered sympathy to the families of victims of the inhumane move. At least 21 people killed in an attack at […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met a group of Iraqi tribal leaders from south of the country in the holy city of Karbala. During the last leg of his meetings with Iraqi officials, elites and representatives of Iraqi society from various ethnicities and regions, Zarif sat for talks with the tribal leaders and clans’ […]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry called in Dutch Ambassador to Tehran Jacques Werner to voice the country’s protest over a recent attack by “some anti-revolutionary elements” on the Islamic Republic’ embassy in the Hague. A senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official met with Werner at the Foreign Ministry on Monday evening and conveyed Tehran’s strong protest over the attack on the Iranian […]

The Iranian ambassador to Poland held talks with a Polish deputy foreign minister to convey Tehran’s concerns over an anti-Iran conference scheduled to be held in Warsaw next month. The meeting took place at the request of the Polish official, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported on Tuesday. During the meeting, the Iranian envoy, Masoud Edrisi […]

Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani praised Iran’s support for the Iraqi Kurdish people during attacks by the Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group and said the Kurds will never forget Tehran’s backing. Speaking at a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Erbil, the Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital, on Tuesday, Barzani […]

Iranian archaeologists have discovered skeletal human remains near a petrol station in the country’s northern Gilan Province. According to Shahram Ramin, the head of the archaeological excavation team at the ancient site of Shahran near Rostamabad, several graves were discovered in the site with grave goods. This group of graves, which according to archaeologists is […]

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari highlighted reasons behind financial problems facing the country and said the Islamic Republic is in an economic war with the enemy. In a speech on Tuesday morning, Major General Jafari pointed to Washington’s sanctions on Tehran and said, “We are in an economic […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a campaign speech in Cairo that seemed written to please an audience of one—President Donald Trump—along with the domestic political base to which Trump’s own rhetoric is designed to appeal. The main theme was the familiar one that U.S. policy before the Trump presidency was uniformly awful and, since […]

In 1939, when World War II began, Poland came under attacks by both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The attacks led to starvation, displacement, and mass execution of Polish people. It was between the years 1941 to 1943 that about 150,000 Poles took refuge in Iran. During their three-year stay in Iran, the Iranians’ […]