Iran defeated Hong Kong at the 2018 Asian Women’s Handball Championship on Friday. Team Melli, who had earned its first win against New Zealand (38-19) on Wednesday, defeated Hong Kong 19-17 at the Yamaga Gymnasium in Yamaga, Japan to register its second win in the competition. The Iranian woman handball team will meet Australia for […]

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi expressed hope that a special purpose vehicle (SPV) that the European Union has developed to save the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will be in place by the end of December. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Salehi said Europeans have pledged efforts to implement their […]

 A suicide car bomb attack in the southeastern Iranian city of Chabahar, southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, led to the martyrdom of at least two people, an official said. Chabahar Governor General Gholam Reza Majidinejad said a number of people, including passersby, were also injured in the attack. The car bomb exploded near a […]

Iran national futsal team claimed the title of the Slovak Futsal Week 2018 three-nation cup. Team Melli was held to a 3-3 draw by Slovakia on Wednesday and finished in first place with four points. Iran had already defeated Russia 5-4 in its first match. Russia came second with three points and the host finished […]

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 […]