Foreign Policy

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has censured Twitter for blocking accounts of real Iranian netizens, while failing to crack down on fake accounts run by MKO terrorists operating against Iran.

Iranian and Russian nuclear chiefs have sat down for talks on the fringes of the 62nd Annual Regular Session of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the Austrian capital, Vienna.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says Tehran has not yet received any report regarding the arrest of an Iranian student from any official channel and Australian authorities, but the foreign ministry is following up on the media reports on the issue.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has congratulated the Iraqi nation and parliament on election of Mohammed as the new speaker of the Iraqi parliament.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has confirmed an attack by a group of terrorists on the Iranian embassy in Paris, urging the French government to take serious measures to protect all Iranian diplomatic buildings.

Iran’s former ambassador to Jordan says Iranian President Hassan Rouhani should not miss the chance of attending the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting due to be chaired by his US counterpart Donald Trump.

Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a senior assistant to Iran’s foreign minister in political affairs, has held talks with François Sénémaud, the personal representative of the French president for Syrian affairs.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has rejected France's concerns over the Islamic Republic's recent missile attacks on terrorists' positions in the Iraqi Kurdistan, blasting Paris for adopting double standards on dealing with terrorism.

Mahmoud Vaezi, the chief of staff of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, says Tehran and Ashgabat are seeking to upgrade the value of their mutual economic relations to $60 billion.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the nation will resist against the bullying US in the same way as Imam Hussein, the third Shiite Imam, resisted against tyrant ruler of time Yazid, and they won’t cave into escalating pressure by Washington.

A senior Iranian official has discussed the latest developments in the Middle East, particularly the ongoing crises in Yemen and Syria, with top European diplomats.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has rejected as baseless the anti-Iran accusations raised in the final statement of the Arab Quartet’s ministerial meeting.

Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow says his country is fully prepared to expand its mutual ties with its southern neighbour, the Islamic Republic of Iran, in all areas, especially in business.

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has categorically condemned a White House statement that blamed Iran for the recent unrest in Iraq’s Basra, saying the arson attack on the Iranian consulate in the Iraqi city was a result of US support for extremists.

Mahmoud Vaezi, the chief of staff of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, is in the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat to sit for talks with the country’s top officials on ways to enhance bilateral ties between the two neighbouring countries in various areas.

The first tripartite meeting of Iran, Afghanistan, and India was held on September 11, 2018 at the level of deputy foreign ministers in the Afghan capital of Kabul.

Iran opened a new consulate in Iraq’s southern city of Basra a few days after the old diplomatic mission was torched in a mob attack.

Four days after the meeting of the presidents of the three guarantor states of the Astana process in Tehran, diplomats from Iran, Russia, and Turkey held a meeting on the formation of Syria’s constitutional constitution in Geneva, Switzerland.

High-ranking officials from Iran and Belarus staged the fifth round of meetings on consular affairs in a bid to boost bilateral relations between the two countries in diverse fields.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has blasted the rogue US officials for their latest threats against the International Criminal Court (ICC), saying that it is time for the world to force Washington to act like a normal state.

Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a senior assistant to the Iranian foreign minister, is in the Swiss city of Geneva to hold joint talks with his Russian and Turkish counterparts on the Syria peace process.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has held talks with Japanese, Senegalese, and Kazakh ambassadors to Tehran, the New Zealand deputy FM, and the new coordinator of the UN Development Programme.

Iran says it cannot confirm the claim that 14 Iranians have been trying to enter Bahrain using fake passports before being arrested, saying that the Bahraini government has so far provided Iran with no evidence.

A senior security official says the US strategy of using sanctions to force the Iranian people to cave into its demands will lead nowhere, just as the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein failed to impose his will on Iran during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war.

An Iranian military advisor says if the Syrian government and nation want to confront the United States in eastern Euphrates and ask Iran for help, Tehran is ready to support the Arab country in this confrontation.