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The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey on Thursday released a joint statement at the end of a trilateral meeting on Syria peace in the Russian city of Sochi.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the international community ought to help start the reconstruction of Syria, as the violence in the war-torn Arab country is reducing.

A senior government official has argued for quick approval of two parliamentary bills required for Iran to get out of the blacklist of the global anti-money laundering body (FATF), saying Iran should not put its foreign relations at risk at a time when the US is bent on hurting the country’s foreign relations.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic seeks to have friendly relations with all its neighbours, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Chief-Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari on Thursday vowed that his forces will take revenge against the foreign-backed terrorists behind the Wednesday attack on IRGC personnel in south-eastern Iran.

The Iranian government has appointed Homeira Rigi, the governor of Qasr-e Qand in southeastern Iran, as its next Ambassador to Brunei in eastern Asia.

Iran's president has condemned the recent deadly terrorist attack in the country's southeastern Sistan and Baluchistan province, saying its perpetrators will soon be punished.

Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says a deadly attack on a group of IRGC personnel on Wednesday, which killed 27 and wounded 13 border guards, is definitely linked to foreign spy services, and must be seriously pursued.

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Thursday, February 14, 2019, and picked headlines from 11 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has strongly denounced and expressed deep regret over a deadly terrorist attack on a group of IRGC forces in the south-east of Iran, vowing to take revenge for the attack whose perpetrators are supported by certain regional states.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has reacted to media reports about the reason why Iran has not been invited to attend an upcoming meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Paris.

A suicide attack by Pakistan-based Takfiri elements on a bus carrying Iranian border guards in Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan province has killed and wounded dozens of IRGC forces.

Siamak Morreh-Sedgh, the representative of the Jewish community at the Iranian Parliament, says Jewish Iranians have been peacefully living along with other Iranian people for around 3,000 years now.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the Iranian people and political factions should feel they are in a war situation so that the country could foil the economic and psychological invasion waged by adversaries.

Iran celebrated the 40th anniversary of its revolution on Monday, with people marching to honour an unexpected victory that birthed the Islamic Republic.

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday, February 13, 2019, and picked headlines from 11 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.

Leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has issued a “strategic and important” statement on the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, which toppled the US-backed monarchy in 1979.

At least six million foreign tourists have visited Iran in the first nine months of the current Persian year, said Ali-Asghar Mounesan, the head of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHTO), predicting that the figure would increase to 7 million by the year-end.

Tajabad Caravanserai, one of the rarest circular caravanserais of Iran, is located in the village of Tajabad in western Hamadan province.

Iran has managed to gain the knowhow to produce 10 new biotech drugs, said Mostafa Qanei, the head of Iran’s Biotechnology Development Department.

Iran and Turkey have signed an agreement to ameliorate mutual relations in the field of tourism as the two sides agree that Tehran-Ankara tourism ties are unstable and imbalanced.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has dismissed the latest “delusive” anti-Iran remarks by US National Security Advisor John Bolton, saying he is seeking to justify his previous wrong analyses, instead of understanding the culture of the great nation of Iran.

In spite of US sanctions to bring Iranian oil exports to zero, statistics show that in the first nine months of the current Iranian year, the Islamic Republic has managed to yield $6.5 billion from crude oil sales, up 48.9% year-on-year.

The naval forces of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Tuesday unveiled a new homegrown catamaran ship capable of firing anti-ship cruise missiles.

The spokesman for Iran’s judiciary says the replacement for Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani, the incumbent Judiciary chief who has been appointed the head of the Expediency Council, will start working before this Iranian year is finished (March 20).