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Iran says it has started enriching uranium to a purity level of 60 percent at the Fordow nuclear plant in the north-central part of the country, in what appears to be a tit-for-tat measure against a resolution adopted by the UN nuclear watchdog against Tehran’s nuclear program.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has stated that Tehran has not quit the negotiating table with the world powers over the 2015 nuclear deal, saying that arriving at an agreement requires the US pragmatic attitude.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced that its ground forces have launched a new round of drone and missile attacks on the positions of separatist groups in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region on Monday.
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has stated that the United States has been defeated in the face of Tehran's progress over the past four decades but it is yet to learn from its failures.
The Iranian foreign ministry has warned any silence of the claimants of human rights towards the recent deadly terror acts in the country, encourages terrorism worldwide.
Iran has warned of a "decisive and effective" response, if an anti-Tehran resolution is ratified by the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman has totally rejected as one-sided and unrealistic a resolution adopted at the United Nations General Assembly’s Third Committee on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic.
Unknown gunmen opened fire at people and law enforcement forces in the town of Izeh, in Iran’s southern province of Khuzestan on Wednesday night. At least 7 civilians, including a woman and a child, have been killed, according to the latest reports.
President Ebrahim Raisi says the recent wave of riots and unrest in Iran is part of the enemy’s agenda to regain the dominance that they had on the country and its nation prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, has told his Iraqi counterpart that Tehran does not expect to be threatened by terror groups based in the Kurdish region in northern Iraq.
The spokesman of the Iranian foreign ministry has strongly condemned the new sanctions of the European Union and the UK against some Iranian individuals and institutions, vowing proportionate response.
The Iranian foreign ministry has summoned the German ambassador to Tehran in protest at "the meddlesome and irresponsible" statements of the German chancellor towards the Islamic Republic.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has once again smashed the positions of terrorist groups operating near the country’s western borders in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is going to visit Tehran for talks, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanani has confirmed.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi told Russian president Vladimir Putin that increased political and economic consultations between Tehran and Moscow will play a leading role in the expansion of mutual relations.
The spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanaani, has condemned a meeting between French President Emmanuel Macron with one of anti-Iran opposition figures and her companions, held on the sidelines of the Paris Peace Forum
In a veiled warning directed at the Saudi regime, a senior military adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says certain southern Persian Gulf littoral countries will “pay the price” if they meddle in Iran’s affairs.
The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran’s pledge of revenge against enemies over their role in the unrest across the country has filled them with fear and promoted them to send messages to Tehran asking it not to act on the promise.
Tehran has agreed to a visit by the UN nuclear watchdog this month to start giving answers the nuclear agency and its 35-nation board on the origin of uranium particles found at three sites, an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Thursday seen by Reuters said.
Iran's foreign minister, in a phone conversation with the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, has criticized security and media meddling by an Arab country in recent protests and deadly riots in the Islamic Republic.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA) says talks with Iran will continue in the coming weeks, amid differences between the two sides over what the UN nuclear watchdog claims to be “undeclared” nuclear activity in the country.
