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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has met with FIFA's chief Gianni Infantino in New York. Raisi described sports, especially football, as one of the suitable platforms for closer relations between countries.
Iranian Defense Minister General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani has said defense and military cooperation between the country and Russia have always been supported by the leaders of the two sides with the aim of strengthening stability and security in the region and beyond.
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Akbar Ahmadian met with visiting Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in the Iranian capital Tehran earlier on Wednesday to discuss expansion of cooperation in the face of common threats posed by foreign forces, according to media reports.
Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahimi Raisi, in a meeting with media executives in New York, emphasizing the urgency to end the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
President Ebrahim Raisi has stressed that under no circumstances will Iran give in to Washington's bans, asking American media authorities to urge the US officials to reconsider their policy of imposing sanctions against the Iranian nation.
Iraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has stated that Kurdish armed groups along the border with Iran have handed over their heavy weaponry as the deadline for their disarmament and relocation approaches based on a security pact between Tehran and Baghdad.
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi has urged Tehran to reconsider its decision to revoke the license of 8 inspectors with French and German nationalities.
Iran remains committed to diplomatic paths in order to secure the nation’s rights, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said, emphasizing that there are no limits to dialogue for the responsible return of all parties to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
A loud noise was heard in the northern Iranian city of Gorgan after a drone crashed in the city on Monday morning, deputy governor of Golestan Province said.
Iranian intelligence forces in a joint operation with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have arrested a top militant of the Daesh terrorist group in southeastern province of Kerman.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says the United Nations needs to stay away from any discrimination and injustice and should not be influenced by the world big powers in its decision-making process.
General Mohammadreza Ashtiani, the Iranian Minister of Defense, emphasized the Iran-Iraq agreement aimed at disarming and expelling terrorists from the Kurdistan Region.
Iranian intelligence forces have confiscated a large cache of US-made weapons and other tools to be used in riots on a vessel on the southern maritime borders, a top judiciary official announced.
Iran has withdrawn the designation of eight French and German inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Fars News Agency reported.
Gunmen killed a Basij member of security forces and wounded three others in a shooting attack in the southern Iranian city of Nourabad on Friday evening, deputy governor of Fars Province confirmed.
Iranian Vice President for Science, Technology and Knowledge-based Economy Rouhollah Dehghani, who is in the Cuban capital Havana to take part in the G77+China Summit, met with Cuba’s Minister of Science, Technology and Environment Elba Rosa Perez Montoya on Friday.
Prominent Iranian actress Hanieh Tavassoli was arrested on the anniversary of the protests and deadly riots across Iran, her sister announced on Saturday night.
Moscow has censured a recent decision by the UK, France, and Germany to retain their nuclear- and ballistic missile-related sanctions against Tehran “in violation of a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major world powers.”
Iranian intelligence forces identified and arrested members of a terrorist group in the western Iranian Kordestan Providence on Wednesday, Tasnim news agency reported Friday.
An informed source has confirmed that secessionist anti-Tehran groups in northern Iraq have agreed to lay down their arms and leave the areas along the common border between Iran and the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.