Middle East

The United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen held a meeting with Senior Assistant to Iran's Foreign Minister in Special Political Affairs Ali Asghar Khaji in Beirut.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi has dismissed UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s claim that Iran might be to blame for the recent attacks on Saudi oil refineries.

The secretary general of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah says the Al Saud regime may be in the final stages of its life, and the incumbent rulers are expediting the regime's demise through their policies.

Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Abdolnasser Hemmati has travelled to Kuwait to attend an international banking conference in the Arab country.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says Iran is a friend of regional nations while Israel is the main enemy of Muslim countries.

The Iranian president says he and his accompanying delegation are to leave for New York with a motto and plan called “Coalition of Hope” and “Hormuz Peace Initiative.”

The Iranian president says the enemy will not dare launch aggression against the Islamic Republic thanks to the power of the Iranian Armed Forces and nation.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman has categorically rejected false and hackneyed accusations levelled by certain Saudi officials regarding the recent attack on the country's oil facilities, saying they lack any validity.

Iran has rejected again claims of involvement in Yemen's retaliatory attacks on the kingdom's heart of oil industry, saying Riyadh's offensive in Hudaydah in breach of a UN truce speaks for itself.

Iran has condemned ridiculous claims by the Israeli regime as well as irrelevant comments by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over Tehran’s nuclear program during the 63rd General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

An Iranian official says the Yemeni Ansarullah forces had already warned Saudi Arabia that its oil installations were a potential target for retaliatory attacks under the relentless acts of Saudi-led aggression.

With over 95 percent of the vote counted, the right-wing and ultra-Orthodox parties of Israel have failed to win enough seats for a parliamentary majority in the Knesset, marking a heavy defeat for Benjamin Netanyahu.

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami dismissed the accusation that Tehran has been involved in recent drone strikes on Saudi oil installations.

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami dismissed the accusation that Tehran has been involved in recent drone strikes on Saudi oil installations.

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said the country’s strategic policy is to reduce tensions in the Middle East but the Islamic Republic will make a crushing response to any aggression.

Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khameni says the great march of Arba’een, the world’s biggest religious gathering, can prepare the grounds for the establishment of a new Islamic civilization.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the recent retaliatory attack by Yemen’s armed forces against the Aramco oil facilities in Saudi Arabia was a warning that should be taken seriously by Riyadh.

An Iranian political expert believes that despite Saudi Arabia’s call for investigations into attack on Aramco oil facilities, Riyadh and its ally the United Arab Emirates are the first countries who oppose an anti-Iran military intervention by Washington.

Turkish Minister of Trade Ruhsar Pekcan has given an assurance that her country will stand by Iran in the face of the harmful American sanctions.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi says the Islamic Republic welcomes dialogue with regional states despite the developments unfolding in the region.

President Hassan Rouhani says the United States pursues dangerous objectives by maintaining its presence in Syria and seeks to help terrorists there.

President of Iran Hassan Rouhani has reiterated the necessity for a political settlement of the crisis in Syria, saying military solutions are of no avail.

A senior member of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen’s Ansarullah Movement says the goal of the Yemeni army’s recent drone strike at Aramco oil facilities was to force Saudi Arabia to end the war.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says the recent visit of influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to Iran was not of any special significance, and he did not carry any message for Iran.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi says Tehran, Moscow, and Ankara are on the brink of achieving a final deal on the political settlement of the Syria crisis as the three states’ leaders convene in Ankara.