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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian delivers a warning to his German counterpart over her "meddlesome position" on the recent protests and violent riots in the Islamic Republic, saying Tehran’s response to such stances will be “firm and proportionate.”
The head of the Aerospace Division of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the country has managed to develop cutting-edge hypersonic ballistic missiles, which are capable of penetrating advanced missile interception systems and hit the targets.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has called for cooperation among independent nations as the way forward to counter the US strategy of destabilizing countries.
The Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran says regional and international dialog and cooperation are the way out of the current crises and challenges in the world.
The spokesman of the Iranian foreign ministry says the solution to the Caucasus problems does not lie in a resort to extra-regional forces but in the capitals of regional countries.
Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton has claimed subversive groups in Iran, he described as the opposition, are arming with weapons seized from Basij forces and imported from Iraq's Kurdistan.
Norway’s ambassador to Tehran was summoned to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in protest at the statements by the country’s parliament chief against the Islamic Republic.
The Iranian Intelligence Ministry says its forces have detained 26 people — all foreign nationals — in connection with a bloody terror attack at a holy shrine in Shiraz late last month, identifying the gunman who carried out the carnage as a citizen from Tajikistan.
The governor of Kermanshah Province, in Iran’s west, says 500 assault weapons and ammunition have been discovered and confiscated during “recent riots.”
A terrorist attack has targeted a military site in Mahshahr, in Iran’s southern Khouzestan Province, and a hit and sabotage squad has been disbanded in the same province, Iranian security sources say.
An Iranian daily close to the Reformists criticizes the Principlist figures and media for pressuring the administration to delay a deal on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal until the cold season so that Tehran can use the energy crisis in Europe as leverage in the negotiations.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says America and other enemies resorted to riots and unrest to destabilize the country as part of a similar plot they once advanced in Syria and Libya, but they failed to achieve their goals.
Iranian intelligence forces say they have detained three members of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terror group in the south-central city of Shiraz, where they planned to carry out acts of sabotage.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s chief commander says enemies are well aware that Iran will take revenge for a deadly terror attack on a holy shrine in Shiraz, which hit amid a wave of US-backed riots in the country, and that they are now on the back foot for fear of an Iranian action.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has lashed out at his US counterpart, Joe Biden, for speaking of an intention to quote “free Iran,” reminding Washington that the Islamic Republic was actually liberated with the 1979 Islamic Revolution from the captivity of the Americans.
Iranians take to the streets countrywide in large groups to mark the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran, known as the ‘Den of Espionage,’ with the participants sending a message to Washington, which is found to have a hand in the recent unrest across the country.
Iran's foreign ministry spokesman called on Ukraine to engage in a technical meeting with Tehran over claims of Russia's use of Iranian drones in the Ukraine war.
Dr. Dariush Farhoud, Iran’s most prominent professor of medical and clinical genetics, recounts the circumstances surrounding his kidnapping near his home in the capital, Tehran.
In talks with Syria’s top diplomat, a senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the increasing victories of the resistance axis in the region and the entire world are worrying the US and the Israeli regime, among other enemies.
Forces of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in the western border city of Ilam have dismantled a counter-security ring involved in making explosives and hand-made bombs to be used in riots.
A group of former Iranian diplomats have warned the government against leaving the talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal inconclusive, urging the authorities to make a set of foreign policy revisions.
Iran has imposed sanctions on some Canadian officials, including the country’s Minister of Public Safety, as well as a Canadian newspaper over “their support for terrorism.”
The European Union Foreign Policy Chief, Josep Borrell, says he is optimistic about the outcome of the Vienna talks aimed at the revival of the Iran nuclear deal, JCPOA, and the removal of anti-Tehran sanctions.
