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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said Tehran and Tashkent must employ all commonalities to expand bilateral relations in various fields. He made the remarks in a meeting with Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in Tehran on Sunday.
An Iranian MP says a parliamentary delegation of the Islamic Republic is going to visit Afghanistan to pursue Iran’s right to the water of Helmand River.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi praises the country’s great progress in the nuclear field despite the harsh economic sanctions in place, saying the success achieved in such tough conditions should inspire other sectors as well.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi officially welcomed President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the Sa’dabad complex in northern Tehran on Sunday. Mirziyoyev is the first Uzbek president to visit Iran in more than 20 years.
A medical official says the number of people poisoned by counterfeit alcohol in the Iranian province of Karaj has surpassed 140, while 12 have lost their lives.
Spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nasser Kanaani strongly condemned a terror attack on a school in western Uganda, which killed and injured scores of students.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has told Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan that expansion of cooperation between Tehran and Riyadh has pissed off only the enemies of Muslims, especially the Zionist regime.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian says Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to form joint political and economic committees to cooperate with each other in boosting border security and fighting drug trafficking. Amirabdollahian was speaking at a press conference with his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan in Tehran on Saturday.
Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan has arrived in Tehran for talks with Iranian officials. Farhan is going to deliver Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s message to Iran.
The caretaker of Iran’s Embassy in Kabul says the Taliban have issued the permission for a team of Iranian experts to inspect the reservoir of the Kajaki dam, amid a water dispute between Iran and Afghanistan.
Iranian media say 120 people have been poisoned after drinking counterfeit alcohol in the province of Karaj, with unofficial reports of over a dozen fatalities.
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) rejects erroneous media reports on the re-installation of 10 cameras of the UN nuclear watchdog at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in the central city of Isfahan.
A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) is killed in clashes with counter-revolutionary bandits in the western city of Marivan, Kordestan Province.
Former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi says the Islamic Republic’s success in producing 20% nuclear fuel was a shocking development to the Western governments.
Iranian police forces engage in clashes with armed smugglers in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing two of the bandits in the counter-narcotics operation.
Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel says he will definitely make an official visit to Iran by the end of 2023, as his Iranian counterpart recently held talks in Havana.
Tehran and Havana have signed six major deals to expand economic, political and judicial cooperation between the two countries. The memoranda of understanding (MoUs) were signed on Thursday during Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s state visit to Cuba.
The United States is holding negotiations with Iran to sketch out steps that could limit Tehran's nuclear programme, release some detained American citizens and unfreeze some Iranian assets abroad, Iranian and Western officials say.
The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says some 10 cameras of the UN nuclear watchdog have been activated at a centrifuge manufacturing site in the central province of Isfahan, as the two sides boost cooperation to resolve their differences.