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In a telephone conversation, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, reviewed the latest regional developments and stressed the need for resolving issues in the South Caucasus region through direct dialogue between Iran and Russia.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry categorically denied recent claims circulated by a media outlet suggesting that direct talks between Iran and the United States are set to take place in Oman in the coming weeks.
The Kremlin announced on Tuesday that the Russian and Iranian presidents held a telephone conversation on Tuesday at the initiative of the Iranian side. Vladimir Putin and Ebrahim Raisi have discussed the steps to ensure Tehran's joining full-fledged BRICS activities as well as the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh and the normalization of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations.
The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami, held a meeting with the International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi in Vienna, cautioning that Western governments are resorting to political leverage and sanctions in order to take advantage of the IAEA to mount pressures on Iran.
The Khorramshahr War Museum is the first and most visited museum of the Sacred Defense in Iran, which displays the poignant yet inspiring days of the eight-year imposed Iran-Iraq war.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told Kyodo News that Japan has proposed an initiative to salvage the stalled nuclear deal struck in 2015 between Tehran and six major powers.
The Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri, has said Tehran’s high military preparedness and power have discouraged the foes from daring to launch an onslaught against it.
Iran will promote its citizens’ living standards through scientific and technical breakthrough in the nuclear technology in the face of the decades-long US-led sanctions, a top Iranian official says.
The Iranian narrative of the war with Iraq seeks to highlight the role of the US, Germany and Britain in supporting the now-defunct Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein during its war with Iran, but tends to overlook the former Soviet Union’s mega-scale aid to the former Iraqi dictator, an Iranian daily wrote.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has stated Tehran’s uranium enrichment to the purity level of 60% was in response to the lack of commitments by the European parties to the 2015 nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
The Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced that it has foiled a plot to carry out a string of terrorist bombing attacks in the capital Tehran, capturing dozens of elements linked with the Daesh terrorist group.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian stressed that Tehran is ready to return to full compliance with its commitments to the 2015 nuclear agreement if the other parties to the accord are also ready to do so.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has stated no one takes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s baseless anti-Iran accusations and threats seriously as the Zionist regime is in its “weakest state” amid internal crises.
No one wants more nuclear powers to emerge in the world and Moscow believes that since Tehran will not have nuclear weapons, Saudi Arabia won’t be tempted to obtain them, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference on the sidelines of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein confirmed that Baghdad has implemented all clauses of a security deal with Tehran that entails the complete disarmament and re-location of anti-Iran terrorist groups operating in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq.
Iran’s foreign minister, in a meeting with his Saudi counterpart, said Tehran is ready to sign a comprehensive partnership agreement with Saudi Arabia.
Iran's Foreign Ministry has summoned the chargé d'affaires of Switzerland, which represents Washington’s interests in Tehran, to protest "baseless claims" leveled by the United States and the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council over the three Persian Gulf islands.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has congratulated Saudi leaders on the Arab country’s national day, as Tehran and Riyadh move forward on the reconciliation path following the resumption of diplomatic relations.
Chairman of Iran’s Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mohammad Bagheri says Iraq has missed a 19 September deadline to disarm separatist terrorist groups taking sanctuary in the Kurdistan region.
The spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry has rejected a joint statement issued by the US secretary of state and foreign ministers of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council in New York regarding Tehran’s nuclear program as well as the three “Iranian islands” in the Persian Gulf.