TEHRAN – The United States, Japan and South Korea will hold two days of missile tracking drills starting on Monday, Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force said, as tensions rise in the region over North Korea’s fast-developing weapons programmes. The United States and South Korea conducted large-scale military drills last week, which the North said made the […]

America’s diplomatic professionals have issued a dire warning about the crisis facing the State Department: Scores of top diplomats, including some of our highest-ranked career Foreign Service officers, have left the agency at “a dizzying speed” over the past 10 months. “The rapid loss of so many senior officers has a serious, immediate and tangible […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said U.S. energy firms are the main losers from the sanctions placed against his country. Speaking at the 173 OPEC meeting in Vienna on Thursday, Zanganeh called U.S.’s policy confusing and self-defeating, CNBC reported. “I don’t understand why U.S. companies cannot enter the Iranian market. They cannot […]

Former American Secretary of State John Kerry has said both Israel and Egypt pushed the United States to “bomb Iran” before the 2015 nuclear deal was struck. Kerry defended the deal during a forum in Washington, where he said that a number of kings and foreign presidents told the U.S. that bombing was the only […]

The White House released a statement on Friday saying it remains “committed to supporting Saudi Arabia and all our [Persian] Gulf partners against the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ aggression and blatant violations of international law.” It also accused Iran of destabilizing Saudi Arabia through arming Houthi fighters in Yemen. “Backed by the Iranian Islamic […]

TEHRAN– Professor of political science, Istanbul University Nuray Mert, believes the US and its allies failed to fulfill their regional aims to disintegrate the Middle East. After recent meeting between foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey and Russia in Antalya, the leaders of the three countries met at a crucial presidential summit in Sochi on Nov. […]

The US government filed suit to block AT&T’s merger with Time Warner, setting up a the biggest antitrust court clash in decades over the $85 billion tieup. The deal announced more than a year ago would merge vast content of Time Warner units like premium cable channel HBO and news channel CNN with the massive […]

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says Washington is still hopeful for diplomacy with North Korea amid mounting s pressure against nuclear-powered Pyongyang. The former ExxonMobil CEO made the comments after US President Donald Trump declared North Korea a state sponsor of terror on Monday. “We still hope for diplomacy,” Tillerson told a White House […]

In a message to the Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, the Commander of IRGC Quds Force Major General Ghasem Soleimani congratulated him and the Muslim world the end of evil domination of ISIL terrorist group. Following the historic victory of Islamic Resistance front over the Takfiri terrorism and full eradication of the […]

TEHRAN – Representatives of the U.S. aircraft maker Boeing are due to visit Tehran next week to finalize financial parameters of their deal with Iran, Shargh Daily quoted Iranian Deputy Transport Minister Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan on Monday. “Last week, Iran Air’s Managing Director Farzaneh Sharafbafi had a meeting with Boeing representatives in Dubai and next […]