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The technical delegation of Saudi Arabia visited the Saudi Consulate in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad to explore ways to re-open the mission.
Iranian demonstrators marking the International Quds Day warn Israel that it will “pay a heavy price” if it commits any “foolish act” in dealing with the holy al-Aqsa Mosque, and that any new war will speed up the occupying regime’s collapse.
Emad Afrough, a former member of the Iranian Parliament who offered outspoken critiques of his own Principlist Party, has passed away at the age of 66.
Millions of Iranians join mass rallies countrywide to commemorate the International Quds Day and renew their support for the Palestinian cause of liberation from Israeli occupation.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has called for an international investigation into reports of US-funded biological laboratories in Ukraine and elsewhere across the world.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has urged the Islamic countries to form a united front in order to stop the Israeli regime's criminal actions against the Palestinian people.
Fars News Agency has published a photo of Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin's aide that has caused a controversy on social media.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says the downfall of the Israeli regime is much more imminent than predicted, referring to an internal political and social crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Iran's Defense Ministry has vehemently condemned Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people across the occupied territories. It predicted that the world will soon witness the collapse of the Zionist regime.
A senior counter-narcotics police official in Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province has lost his life in armed clashes with drug traffickers in the region.
If Iranian government officials take the same path in international arena they trod during the negotiations with Saudi Arabia, it will have numerous benefits for Iran and the region, Tehran-based Jomhouri Eslami daily wrote in an article.
Former mayor of Tehran and senior Iranian politician Mohammad Ali Najafi has been permanently released from prison over two years after he was forgiven by the family of his second wife he had shot dead.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf harshly condemns Israel’s desecration of al-Aqsa Mosque, warning that a “tough, stinging” punishment awaits the regime thanks to the strength of the resistance movement.
Iran’s leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei highlighted the Western states’ crimes in the past and in the contemporary era, saying the US and the European countries are in no position to comment on the human rights issue.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has welcomed a call by the United States to help end the Yemen war, highlighting Tehran’s resolve to that end.
The head of the Emergency Department of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province says 20 female students were admitted to a hospital in the provincial capital Tabriz with respiratory symptoms.
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has accepted the resignation of Minister of Education Yousef Nouri following the delay in the payment of the teachers’ salaries, and appointed Reza Moradsahraei as the caretaker minister.
Authorities in Iran have arrested a man who threw yogurt at two women who entered a dairy store in Shanzid, northeastern Iran, without appropriate hijab.
A disabled veteran of Iran’s defense campaign against the Iraqi army under ex-dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1980s war has hoisted a national flag at the bottom of the sea to commemorate the Islamic Republic Day.
