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Iran has warned about the dangerous legal and political repercussions of the US regime’s latest “heresy” to blacklist part of the official military force of an independent state in the world, which is a member of the UN and international human rights conventions (those applicable in armed conflicts).
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi has denounced the latest anti-Iran accusations raised in a sentence issued by a Bahraini court against 139 citizens of the kingdom, saying Tehran dismisses as unfounded and baseless any accusations levelled against the Islamic Republic in the sentences.
Top commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says the US hostility towards the IRGC is deeply rooted in its serial failures to press ahead with its regional projects.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has offered sympathy to the French nation and all Catholics in the world over the tragic fire that destroyed the Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has held talks with Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the new Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI).
Iran’s foreign minister has criticised the European signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal for delaying the enforcement of a non-dollar payment channel, known as INSTEX, aimed at facilitating trade with Tehran under the US sanctions.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic is prepared to join hands with the French government to resolve regional issues, especially those in Libya and Sudan.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi has denounced the US secretary of state’s claim that Iran is interfering in the internal affairs of Venezuela, describing it as “ridiculous”.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned France’s new ambassador to Tehran over “unacceptable” tweets by French Ambassador to the US Gerard Araud, who was later forced to delete them.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has discussed issues of mutual interest in a meeting with Vito Rosario Petrocelli, the president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate of Italy.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force has saved people stranded in Iran’s southwestern rural areas with military personnel carriers, a top commander said.
Sadeq Zibakalam, a professor of political sciences at the University of Tehran, says Iran and the US are unlikely to break the ice in the near or distant future.
The representative of the Jewish minority in Iran’s parliament has strongly denounced the Trump administration’s designation of IRGC as a terrorist organization, saying such moves are aimed at weakening Iran as Washington cannot tolerate independent countries.
A short video clip has recently gone viral on social media in Iran, showing a modest Army colonel turning his body into a staircase to help people affected by extreme weather climb up a relief vehicle.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a vegetable market in Pakistan’s Quetta in which dozens of people were killed and injured.