Iran football team will be the first participant to arrive in for the 2018 World Cup, Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko told reporters. On Monday, Moscow hosted a meeting to discuss the Russian cities’ readiness to receive national teams taking part in the World Cup. “Iran team will become the first to arrive in Russia […]

Head of Iran National Carpet Center Hamid Kargar said that Iran’s handwoven carpet has found new markets in China, Russia and South Africa as well as some Latin American countries, along with its traditional markets like US, Germany and Italy. Speaking in an interview with MNA correspondent on Tuesday, he added, “typically, Iran’s handwoven carpet […]

Iran’s security chief Ali Shamkhani will take part and address the 9th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues hosted by Russia in Sochi, the head of Security Council’s PR office said Sunday. Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani will make a visit to Russia’s Sochi to participate and deliver a speech at the […]

TEHRAN – Ali Khorram, a senior analyst and former Iranian ambassador to UN bodies in Vienna, says the recent U.S.-led attack against Syria was an act of retaliation against Russia and Iran. Speaking with ISNA, Khorram said the U.S., Britain and France could not have launched an extensive war against Syria due to fears of […]

Major General Igor Konashenkov Spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation lashed out that UK government and expounded on the way of recent chemical attacks on Syria’s Douma city and said, “opposition groups to the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad carried out such heinous act with insistence and pressure of British government.” Given […]

Russia said the Syrian army has liberated Douma, the last Eastern Ghouta town under militant control, less than two months into its counter-terrorism operation in the suburban area near the capital, Damascus. “The raised state flag over a building in the town of Douma has heralded the control over this location and therefore over the […]

TEHRAN- The Central Securities Depository of Iran (CSDI) and Russia’s National Settlement Depository (NSD) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to connect the capital markets of both countries, IRNA reported. The MOU was signed between the Managing Director of CSDI Hossein Fahimi and the Chairman of the Executive Board of NSD Eddie Astanin in Moscow. […]

TEHRAN – In an unexpected visit to Tehran, Alexander Lavrentiev, Russian President Putin’s Envoy for Syria, who arrived in Tehran on Tuesday and held a closed-door meeting with SNSC Secretary Rear Admiral Shamkhani, to exchange viesws on latest developments in Syria. Alexander Lavrentiev, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Special Envoy for Syria, who arrived in Tehran […]

An agreement on parliamentary cooperation was signed between Iran and Russia on Monday in Tehran. The agreement was inked by Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani and Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, on Monday in Tehran. The signing took place following a meeting between Larijani and the […]

 Russia is considering an option of payments for oil in national currencies, in particular with Turkey and Iran, TASS quoted Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak as saying. The parties are interested in it but there is also a matter of conversion of currencies and their further use, Novak told reporters on Saturday. “There is a […]