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Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has strongly denounced the recent Israeli airstrikes on the headquarters of Al-Aqsa TV station in central Gaza.
Members of Tehran City Council have picked up a reformist technocrat as the capital’s new mayor after a neck to neck competition between the two final candidates.
Iran knew about Saudi Arabia’s plans to assassinate senior Iranian officials, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tells London-based al-Araby al-Jadeed.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has censured the latest attacks launched by Israelis on Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, saying such crimes prove that the Israeli regime is the epitome of state terrorism in the region.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has expressed regret over a deadly suicide attack in the Afghan capital of Kabul, which killed and injured dozens of people.
Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a special assistant to Iran’s foreign minister, says Tehran is strongly opposed to the intervention of other countries and regional and international parties in formation of the Syrian constitutional committee.
A top Iranian Navy commander shrugged off US threats against the Islamic Republic and said the Armed Forces are fully ready to guarantee the security of the country’s oil tankers in international waters.
Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a special assistant to Iran’s foreign minister, has held talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during his visit to Damascus on Monday.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has lashed out at the Saudi-led coalition for intensifying its attacks on the Yemeni civilians, particularly in the port city of Hudaydah, saying the attacks are aimed at blocking the Yemeni-Yemeni talks.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday held talks with Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello, the former Brazilian president and the Chairman of the Brazilian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Commission.
Saudi Major General Ahmed al-Assiri, who has allegedly been fired over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, took part at a meeting in Riyadh in 2017 that involved plans to assassinate the kingdom’s “determined enemy,” Iran’s Major General Qassem Soleimani, as well as sabotaging Iran’s economy, The New York Times reports, citing three sources familiar with the matter.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Germany’s former top diplomat Sigmar Gabriel on Sunday sat for talks in Tehran on Europe’s measures to save the Iran nuclear deal.
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says decisions by US President Donald Trump have made almost all countries in the world worried about the consequences.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has assured his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif that the EU is working to ease doing business with Tehran.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says US authorities are lying when they say they are not targeting the people of Iran, as Washington’s sanctions are aimed at putting pressure on the Iranian nation
Iran says it is in contact with UK authorities over possible risks threatening the life of The Guardian’s Iranian correspondent who revealed on Friday his secret phone call with Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and information he received might have led to the dissident’s murder in Istanbul.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson took a swipe at “deceitful” US officials for trying to misrepresent the reality about the new sanctions on Iran and claiming that the hostile embargoes are not targeting the Iranian nation.
Reza Nasri, an international lawyer and foreign policy analyst, says US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and his re-imposition of US sanctions on Tehran are mainly aimed at spoiling the legacy of his predecessor Barack Obama.
Denmark says it has arrested three people for praising those behind a September terror attack in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz that killed at least 25, including a four-year-old boy.
The Australian ambassador to Iran has described the restoration of US sanctions on Tehran as “real challenge” to the Iranian people, saying the prospects that sanctions could negatively affect Iranian patients and women and children were “deeply concerning”.
