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Ali-Asghar Khaji, a senior assistant to the Iranian foreign minister in special political affairs, has held phone talks with UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen on the latest developments in the Arab country.
The Iranian president has hit out at the government of US President Donald Trump for causing Iran to suffer billions of dollars in losses in the past three years.
Iran’s ambassador to the UN headquarters in Geneva has lashed out at certain Western governments, especially those in Europe, for interfering in other countries’ affairs under the pretext of human rights violations.
Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Saeed Khatibzadeh has slammed the European Union’s unacceptable move to issue a joint statement against Iran at the Human Rights Council.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Tehran is ready to exchange prisoners with dual citizenship jailed in Iran with Iranian prisoners held in the US.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran has summoned the ambassador of Tajikistan to express Tehran’s strong protest at the baseless accusations levelled against Iran in a so-called documentary broadcast by Tajikistan’s state TV.
The Iranian foreign minister's special envoy for Afghanistan has slammed his American counterpart’s “untrue and irresponsible” remarks on the Islamic Republic’s role in Afghanistan.
Advanced unmanned aerial vehicles operated by Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have managed to capture strikingly close footage of a US strike group, led by the USS Nimitz, right before its passage into the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s permanent representative to the UN has dismissed Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s recent accusations against Tehran as a “blame game” aimed at diverting attentions away from Riyadh’s dark record of supporting terrorism.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) member states to join hands and share their expertise to fight common challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic.
A senior Iranian official says Washington’s efforts to bring back international sanctions on Tehran were aimed at improving US President Donald Trump’s approval ratings ahead of US elections, but they would not take such a risk had they known the ABCs of politics.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has categorically rejected recent accusations levelled against the country by Saudi king Salman bin Abdulaziz at his UN General Assembly speech.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman has rejected the recent reports published by the Guardian newspaper, saying it is quite clear why such custom-tailored reports try to blackwash the situation of human rights in Iran, especially at this juncture.
Ali-Asghar Khaji, the Iranian foreign minister's senior assistant in special political affairs, has held virtual talks with Sweden's special envoy for Yemen.
The Iranian president says the US launched an all-out economic war against Iran a few years ago based on miscalculations and illusions as former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein did.
As many as 188 Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been delivered to the naval force of the country’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).
The spokesperson for the Iranian government says it is a victory for the Islamic Republic that the US has become increasingly isolated in the international community after its failure to win support for a resolution to reinstate the UN sanctions on Iran.
In a congratulatory message on the Sacred Defence Week, President of Iran Hassan Rouhani has paid tribute to the martyrs and veterans of the Iraqi imposed war in the 1980s for their courage and devotion to the country, Islam, and the Islamic Revolution.
Ali-Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), has urges the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to guarantee the independent, impartial and professional nature of its work by verifying Saudi Arabia’s non-transparent nuclear activities.
Russia has launched the Kavkaz (or Caucasus) 2020 joint military drills with neighboring countries in its Southern Military District and in the Black and Caspian Seas.
Iran’s Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the Islamic Republic’s resistance against the Iraqi war imposed on the country in the 1980s proved that it is “very costly” to invade Iran.
