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Iran’s leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has pardoned or commuted prison terms of over 1,500 convicts on the occasion of Eid ul-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
The spokesman for the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission has said MPs on Saturday asked questions from the interior minister regarding the security of borders and also the recent events along the country’s border with Afghanistan.
Iranians are marking the National Persian Gulf Day on Saturday to honor the historical and strategic significance of the gulf, which lies to Iran’s south and takes its name from the country.
An Iranian news outlet affiliated with the country’s Supreme National Security Council has denied reports that the UN atomic agency’s chief is going to visit Tehran.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says all the developments unfolding in Palestine signal a “new equation” in the nation’s struggles against Israel, as most Palestinians are now embracing resistance as the only option against the regime’s occupation.
The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps has said the Israeli regime is on the verge of collapse. Major General Hossein Salami said all people witnessed how a young Palestinian defeated the entire security apparatus of the Zionist regime in the heart of occupied Palestine.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says the “great movement,” which was embodied today in the mass rallies on the International Quds Day, will eventually lead to the annihilation of the occupying Israeli regime.
Iranian demonstrators marking the International Quds Day have condemned any “compromise or normalization” with Israel as an “unforgivable betrayal” of the Palestinian cause and a “sinister plot” aimed at undermining the resistance front against the regime’s decades-long occupation.
A report says Iran’s decision to set up its new workshop for manufacturing centrifuge parts underground at the Natanz nuclear facility is a “natural response to acts of mischief” aimed at harming the country’s peaceful atomic program, amid the UN nuclear watchdog’s failure to shoulder its responsibility of safeguarding the states’ nuclear work.
Iranian Ambassador to Iraq says Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to come up with a roadmap for their future talks aimed at normalizing bilateral relations.
Marking the International Quds Day, Millions of Iranians have flooded the streets countrywide to show their solidarity with the oppressed Palestinian nation in their cause against decades of Israeli occupation and apartheid.
Iran’s foreign minister has called for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s serious probe into the ‘recent crimes’ of the Zionist regime against Palestinian worshippers inside al-Aqsa Mosque.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says the International Quds Day heralds the liberation of al-Quds and the collapse of the fake Israeli regime for all oppressed people of the world.
The foreign minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan says Baku supports the presence of Iranian companies in the reconstruction of the liberated Azeri territories.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, in a phone conversation with secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, called for the meeting of the OIC foreign ministers to discuss the situation in occupied Palestinian territory.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps has said in a statement that the Zionist regime’s days are numbered and the regime is nearing its end. The IRGC issued the statement on the occasion of the International Quds Day on Friday.
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says the resistance front should make the normalization of ties with the Israeli regime costlier for regional governments.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Wednesday that the new Iraqi parliament can play an effective role in the economic and social synergy of Iran and Iraq as before.
In a phone conversation with his Pakistani counterpart Balawal Bhutto Zardari, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian congratulated him on his appointment as the new top diplomat of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and wished him success.
The Iranian foreign minister has called for an appropriate response by the followers of Abrahamic religions to Israel’s brutal raids against Palestinian worshippers in al-Aqsa Mosque.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian says counterrevolutionary elements and those who support partition of Iran should not be allowed to find a safe haven in Iraq to threaten the Islamic Republic.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has said Iran will pursue its strategic relations with China regardless of international developments and only based on political trust.
The director of the information and culture department of Afghanistan’s Herat Province has said the situation at the Islam Ghaleh border with Iran is normal. Naeem al-Haq Haqqani made the comment in a tweet, adding traffic is also normal along the border.