Iranian Media Highlights

The American billionaire George Soros has called the US President a would-be-dictator who won’t be successful in realizing his goals in the world.

A red expression in Google Map shows that Plasco shopping centre in downtown Tehran, which collapsed on Thursday after a huge blaze, is now 'permanently closed'.

At least 32 people were killed and 50 injured after nine coaches of a passenger train derailed in eastern India, police have said, in the latest disaster to hit the vast and accident-prone state railways.

The Turkish parliament approved a constitutional reform bill overnight including strengthening the powers of the presidency, paving the way for a referendum expected in the spring which could see President Tayyip Erdogan in office until 2029.

The drone which was shooed away by anti-aircraft forces in Tehran on Monday belonged to an advertising company.

At least seven teenagers have lost their lives when a Hungarian bus crashed on a motorway in northern Italy, Italian media reported on Saturday.

The implementation of a nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers started on January 16, 2016. Now in its first anniversary, the agreement is under severe pressure of Iranian and international hardliners.

A bus rollover on Kerman-Rafsanjan road in southern Iran left six dead and sixteen wounded.

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi says the Islamic Republic won’t lose anything in case the US President-elect scraps the nuclear deal as he has vowed to.

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran's economic growth currently stands at 7.4 percent, and this has no parallel in the region.

An official says the recent sealing of the offices of a number of advisors to the late Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, was “a bureaucratic and natural measure which will be revoked soon.”

In a move widely criticised by opposition politicians, Turkey’s Parliament voted to advance a bill which would give President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unprecedented executive powers.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven plans to visit Tehran on February 11-12 to discuss ways of bolstering trade relations and cooperation as well as the developments in the Middle East, particularly in Syria.

Syrian Prime Minister Imad Khamis arrived in Tehran on Monday night at the official invitation of Iranian First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri.

Ilan Shmuel, who was a driver at Israeli Prime Minister's Bureau until five years ago, has been convicted on dozens of sex crimes against girls aged nine to 16, some in his own family.

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi says the construction of new nuclear power plants in Bushehr, southern Iran, helps save some two million barrels of oil per year.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday it would have been inappropriate to include in a communique from a meeting held in Paris on Israeli-Palestinian peace a mention of plans by the Trump administration to move the US embassy to Jerusalem.

Under a vaccination program that began on January 14, 492,000 children under five years of age will be vaccinated against polio in Iran’s southeastern Sistan and Balouchestan Province.

The Managing Director of Iran Air Farhad Parvaresh said the carrier’s newly purchased Airbus A321 will be used on international routes within two months.

An Iranian Minister says Iran has attracted $11.3 billion of international investment after the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.

Russia has dismissed reports by Saudi media outletd that claimed Russian Ambassador to Yemen has been shot and killed in the capital city, Sana’a.

A long lost library book, ironically titled Forty Minutes Late, finally made its way back to its rightful home after a century.

Iraqi Special Forces have pushed forward to reach a second bridge that links eastern Mosul to the city’s west, which is still fully controlled by the ISIS terrorist group, a military statement said on Friday.

Iraq’s top Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani offered his condolences over the death of former Iranian president and chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Abdullah Abdullah, the Chief Executive of Afghanistan, has reportedly arrived in the Iranian capital to attend an ongoing memorial ceremony for the late Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.