TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani has appointed three new members to the country’s Supreme Council of Spatial Planning, Mehr news agency reported on Tuesday. In a decree, the president appointed Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian and Mining and Trade Minister Mohammad Shariatmadari as new members of the council. Rouhani said he […]

TEHRAN – The European Union has said no to Paris which in recent days waged an impressive campaign in favor of posing new restrictions on Iran despite the 2015 nuclear deal. On Monday evening, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said the 28-naton bloc does not have any plan to make a change in its […]

ATR’s Christian Scherer told the media that the company is posed to outpace its promised deliveries to Iran, with handing another 8 passenger carriers to Iran. “ATR aims to deliver another eight aircraft to Iran by the end of the year after delivering six so far this year under US export licenses issued following the […]

Iran’s Ambassador to United Nations Eshagh Al Habib has slammed Canada’s selective stance on human rights. Iran’s Ambassador and DPR of the Permanent Mission of Iran to UN, Eshagh Al Habib made the remarks while addressing the meeting of the Third Committee of UN General Assembly on Canada’s proposed resolution on the situation of human […]

KARACHI- Expo Pakistan is the biggest trade fair in Pakistan, showcasing the largest collection of export merchandise and services. Foreign exhibitors from neighboring countries also use this platform to display their products. First held in 2005, the success of last Expo Pakistan in 2015 was manifested by the participation of a large number of local […]

Iran national football team defeated Venezuela 1-0 thanks to a goal from Alireza Jahanbakhsh on Monday. Iran and Venezuela players observed a minute’s silence to remember those killed in the magnitude-7.3 earthquake that struck late Sunday in Iran’s western provinces. In the match held at the Goffertstadion in Nijmegen in the Netherlands, Jahanbakhsh found the […]

A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit western Iran’s Kermanshah province on Sunday night, killing at least 430 people and injuring 7370 so far. The incident occurred at 9:48pm local time. It struck at a depth of 11 kilometers. The epicenter of the quake was in the city of Azgeleh, near the border between Iran and Iraq. But the highest casualties occurred in the […]

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım offered condolences Monday to Iran for the victims of Sunday’s earthquake that struck along the Iraq-Iran border region. Yıldırım told Iran’s First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri during a phone call that Turkey stands with Iran on this difficult day. Jahangiri, who has been appointed by President Hassan Rouhani to mobilize resources […]

A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit western Iran’s Kermanshah province on Sunday night, killing at least 207 people and injuring 1700 so far. It struck at a depth of 11 kilometers. The epicenter of the quake was 32 kilometers south of the city of Halabja, near the border between Iran and Iraq. But the highest casualties occurred in the town of […]

Syria’s ambassador to the UN has slammed the West for supplying Israel with nuclear material and know-how, calling the regime’s nuclear capability a threat to the Middle East security. During a UN General Assembly session on Friday, Bashar al-Jaafari noted that the West enabled Israel to possess nuclear weapons by supplying the regime with nuclear […]