The Russia-Turkey-Iran summit on Syria will be held in Russia in early 2019, a Russian diplomat announced Friday. The leaders of the Astana trio (Russia, Turkey and Iran) will meet in Russia at the beginning of 2019, Russian Special Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters […]

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi announced that Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi is slated to pay an official visit to Tehran on Monday. In remarks on Sunday night, Qassemi said Qureshi would make a trip to Iran to hold talks with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif. The Pakistani foreign minister plans to […]

Five female karatekas will represent Iran in the 2019 Karate 1-Premier League. Iran coach Setareh Mousavi has invited Sara Bahmanyar, Taravat Khaksar, Rozita Alipour, Shima Ale Sadi and Hamideh Abbasali to the training camp for the event. The 2019 Karate 1-Premier League will be held in January 25-27 in Paris, France, in one of Karate’s […]

Iran’s Deputy Health Minister Mohsen Assadi Lari met with Iraqi Health Minister Alaa al-Alwani in Baghdad on Sunday, conferring on a host of issues regarding the expansion of ties in the field of medicine. Heading a high-ranking delegation from Iran’s Ministry of Health and Medical Education, the official expressed Iran’s readiness to broaden the scope […]

Iran national football team head coach Carlos Queiroz believes that Team Melli will have its best performance at the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. Iran has been drawn in group D along with Iraq, Yemen and Vietnam. “Eight years ago, when I came to Iran, we faced challenges and issues. Now eight years later, we are […]

Iranian rescue teams managed to tow a cargo ship named “NARGOL” into a pier off the northwestern city of Astara after it was reported in distress in the Caspian Sea, the governor of Astara said on Friday. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Younes Ranjkesh said the freighter was damaged in Astara Port around noon […]

Iran’s nominal capacity to produce electricity has reached over 80,000 megawatts (MW) following the connection of a number of power plants to the country’s national grid over the past weeks. With the coming into service of several new power plants, Iran’s overall nominal capacity to generate electricity has reached 80,053 MW. The latest increase of […]

An earthquake measuring 4 on the Richter scale hit an area in Iran’s southern province of Fars late on Thursday but there have been no casualties, a provincial official said. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, the deputy head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) of Fars Province, Qodratollah Jamali, said the quake that […]

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom praised Iran’s support for the recent Yemen peace talks in her country, calling for continued consultations with Tehran on regional and internal issues. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, who is Sweden for the fourth round of Iran-Sweden political consultations, held meetings with senior Swedish officials in Stockholm on Wednesday. […]

India national team head coach Stephen Constantine says he turned down a request from Iran head coach Carlos Queiroz for a friendly match between the two sides ahead of the AFC Asian Cup 2019. India will make an appearance in the Asian Cup at the United Arab Emirates after missing out on the 2015 edition […]