Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami shrugged off the US government’s recent sanctions against the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff and some high-ranking military people and said the move would have no negative effect on the forces.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami on Wed. condemned the recent US sanctions on some of the commanders of the Iranian Armed Forces. “Iranian Armed Forces have always been a thorn in Americans’ eye and this time they have imposed sanctions on some of our commanders, which is a futile measure,” […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Russian permanent envoy to the Vienna-based international organizations has lashed out at hue and cry created over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (commonly called the nuclear deal) by some Western media outlets, showing their negativity towards Iran nuclear deal. “We are witnessing non-continuous efforts to damage the JCPOA from any […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday said Iran only began scaling back its nuclear commitments a year after the US withdrawal from the 2015 atomic deal to give the other parties time to make up for it. “We waited for a year,” Rouhani told a televised news conference about Iran nuclear cuts. […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s ambassador to international organizations in Vienna said the International Atomic Energy Agency’s latest report verifies that the UN body has access to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear sites and that Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile tops to 373 kilograms earlier this month. In remarks released on Monday night, Iran’s permanent representative to […]

TEHRAN (Iran News)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani underlined the need for continued talks to save the nuclear deal and remove sanctions against Tehran, but meantime said that his American counterpart Donald Trump is not a person to be trusted at all. “When I was in New York (for the UN General Assembly meeting), relatively good […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Foreign Direct Investment recorded that Iran FDI has reached to about 32 percent growth in the industrial sector in the first six months of the current year (from March 21 to Sept. 22). According to the statistics of the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade, about $762,600,000 worth of Foreign Direct […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Naveed Qamar, head of Iran-Pakistan parliamentary friendship group, has said that Pakistan will not support the U.S. illegal sanctions on Iran. “Islamabad has never supported and will never support U.S. illegal sanctions against Iran because these sanctions are harmful to the whole region,” he told IRNA in an interview published on […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian children suffering from a rare skin condition known as EB are losing their lives as US economic sanctions hamper the flow of vital medical products, an NGO says. Hamid Reza Hashemi-Golayegani, the head of the NGO that helps such patients, said Sunday that at least 15 Iranian children with epidermolysis bullosa (EB) […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – European partners to the nuclear deal have shown an inability to guarantee Iran’s interests of JCPOA under the agreement, Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson said Saturday. Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Maria Zakharova made the remarks in an interview with Vestnik Kavkaza on Saturday. She maintained that Iran’s exit from the nuclear deal would be an […]