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Iran’s President Massoud Pezeshkian touched down in Tianjin, China, to participate in the 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit. The visit sets the stage for regional diplomacy and multilateral engagement.
The deputy commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Ali Fadavi, said Iran’s adversaries failed to achieve any of their goals during the 12-day military confrontation earlier this year.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) has strongly condemned a “heinous act of state terrorism” by the Zionist regime in Yemen, following an Israeli airstrike on Sana’a that killed Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahwi, Prime Minister of Yemen’s Government of Change and Construction, along with several ministers and aides.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has announced that Colonel Rahim Mohammadi, a member of the IRGC’s 41st Tharallah Operational Division, was killed during a mission in the border region of Saravan, southeastern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan.
More than 1.8 million undocumented Afghan migrants have left Iran since the start of the current administration in July last year, according to the Ministry of Interior’s Office for Foreign Nationals and Immigrants Affairs.
The Iranian embassy in Baku has denied allegations published by the Republic of Azerbaijani news outlet Axar regarding Iran’s ambassador to Armenia, describing the claims as “baseless and false.”
Iran’s Public Culture Council is finalizing two proposals to add new commemorative days to the country’s official calendar starting in the Iranian year 1405 (staring March 2026).
Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian described the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit as a crucial opportunity to strengthen multilateralism and expand regional cooperation, ahead of his departure to China on Sunday.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said Iran’s concerns over the presence of foreign forces in the sensitive Caucasus region were largely alleviated following assurances from Armenian officials.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian is scheduled to arrive in China on Sunday for a four-day official visit at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Iran’s ambassador to Beijing announced.
Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), met on Saturday with his Armenian counterpart, Armen Grigoryan, during the latter’s visit to Tehran.
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says that Iran is facing a united front comprising the US, Israel, NATO, and even some regional countries, stressing the need for national unity and strength to counter potential threats.
The Jomhouri-e Eslami daily has warned that Iran is edging back toward the period of heavy sanctions experienced during the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the nuclear negotiations led by Saeed Jalili.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced the arrest of eight individuals in Khorasan Razavi province on charges of collaborating with Israel’s spy agency, Mossad.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has stressed that Tehran is not seeking war, but if its enemies attempt aggression, Iran will confront them with full strength.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the country’s active diplomacy over the past year has helped secure a ceasefire and widespread international condemnation of Israel’s military strikes on Iran in June.
Former Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says any decision regarding leaving the NPT falls solely within Iran leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei’s authority.
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has called on the European Union to “end selective interpretations” of the 2015 nuclear agreement (JCPOA) and to act as a “neutral coordinator” in ongoing disputes over the accord.
The spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, described the move by the three European countries to reinstate annulled UN resolutions against Iran as following the orders of the party that violated the JCPOA.
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has submitted a formal letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the rotating president of the Security Council, and member states, condemning the European “E3” – France, Germany, and the United Kingdom – for what he described as “distorted and misleading claims” regarding the 2015 nuclear deal (JCPOA) and UN Security Council Resolution 2231.
The Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in a statement, categorically rejectd and, in the strongest possible terms, condemnd the "unlawful notification" submitted by France, Germany, and the United Kingdom (E3) to the Security Council in relation to Resolution 2231 (2015).
The deputy head of Iran’s Parliament Article 90 Commission, announced that lawmakers have begun drafting an urgent plan for the country’s complete withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization has declared that the country’s cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will depend strictly on compliance with parliamentary legislation and the decisions of the Supreme National Security Council.
A senior Iranian diplomat has warned that any European move to trigger the UN “snapback” mechanism could prompt Tehran to suspend its current level of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Brigadier General Ali-Mohammad Naeini, spokesperson for Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), said Iran’s victory in the recent 12-day conflict against Israel and the US demonstrated the country’s military, political, and social resilience.
