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Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps has promised to give unforgettable lessons to the enemy in the region, two days after US President Donald Trump branded it a terrorist organisation.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) busted a major fuel smuggling ring in Iran’s southern waters after its naval forces confiscated an oil tanker containing a big haul of smuggled fuel at the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has strongly condemned Saudi Arabia and Bahrain for supporting the US’ blacklisting of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, saying such “worthless” stances cannot deflect the world’s attention from the role played by Riyadh and Manama in promoting terrorism across the region.
Media reports say the US forces in West Asia, also known as US CENTCOM, have intensified security at their bases in Iraq, one day after the US president’s decision to blacklist the IRGC, which was reciprocated in Iran by designating the CENTCOM as a terrorist organization.
Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology says the “toughest sanctions ever” imposed on Iran by the US government clearly violate the most basic human rights of Iranian people, including their right to development.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says the world will never forget the crimes committed by the aggressive Zionist regime in Deir Yassin village in 1980s.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has, on the anniversary of the US’ severance of its political and business ties with Iran, called on Washington to open its eyes to the realities of the Islamic Republic after 39 years.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says without the sacrifices made by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), at least two regional countries would have fallen to ISIS terrorists by now.
Majid Takht-Ravanchi has been designated as Iran’s new ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi announced on Tuesday.
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the US efforts to hinder the activities of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) are a nonstarter, and will finally boomerang.
The Iranian president says designating the IRGC as a terrorist organization by the United States is a mistake that shows Washington’s hostility, grudge, and disappointment towards Iran, and will just increase the popularity of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps in Iran and the region.
Following the designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps as a terror group by the United States, Iran’s parliament speaker and almost all other lawmakers put on the IRGC’s uniform, and chanted “Death to America” slogan.
Iran's deputy foreign minister for political affairs says Tehran no longer regards US troops in the Middle East region as ordinary soldiers, following a decision by the .
The Supreme National Security Council of Iran has, in a statement, designated the US regime a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” and its Central Command (CENTOM) a “terrorist organization”.
Amid reports that the Iraqi prime minister’s recent visit to Tehran was aimed at mediating between arch-foes Iran and Saudi Arabia, an Iraqi official says Tehran has agreed to such mediation.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has strongly denounced the Saudi-led coalition's latest airstrike on a school in Yemen's Sana'a, which killed and wounded dozens of schoolgirls.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has offered humanitarian assistance to the Islamic republic of Iran in the wake of deadly flooding that killed dozens of people.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the supporters of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, seek to drag the US into a quagmire by convincing him to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps a terrorist group.
Iran has denounced the Group of Seven’s “untrue” and “unrealistic” positions on Tehran’s constructive and undeniable role in consolidating stability and security and in fight against terrorism in the region, saying that the country’s missile program is of peaceful and defensive nature.
A senior Iranian lawmaker says if the US designates the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps as a terrorist group, Tehran will put the name of the US army in its list of terrorist groups.
