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Iraqi President Barham Saleh has stressed the enhancement of relations with Iran, in his first remarks about the Islamic Republic since taking office as the president of the Republic of Iraq.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced on Sunday that its forces in the northwestern province of West Azerbaijan have seized one of the biggest hauls of heroin confiscated in recent years.
Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a senior assistant to Iran's foreign minister for political affairs, has discussed the ongoing crisis in Yemen with Swedish envoy for Yemen and Libya.
Iranian legislators have passed a bill that gives the government the green light to join an international convention on fighting the sponsoring of terrorism.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has expressed deep regret over the deadly collision of an oil tanker in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which left dozens of people killed and wounded.
Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari has highlighted the importance of opening a new chapter in joint scientific and technological cooperation between Iran and African states.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has denounced a terrorist attack in Batman province, south-east of Turkey, which killed and wounded several military forces.
Lieutenant Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has advised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to practice swimming in the Mediterranean because he will soon have no choice but to flee into the sea.
Iran’s foreign ministry has strongly condemned the comments made by the Israeli regime’s President Reuven Rivlin against Iran, saying that it is a great shame that the leaders of the regime call the brave and cultured people of Iran using such insulting words.
Iran should capitalize on the International Court of Justice’s ruling against the US, urging Washington to implement it as a precondition for beginning of any bilateral talks.
Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Abdolnasser Hemmati says Tehran and Moscow are seeking to carry out transactions using their national currencies, gradually ditching dollar and other currencies in their trade relations.
The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the country will definitely foil the enemy’s economic plot and overcome the sanctions through unity.
Iran’s foreign ministry has dismissed allegations raised by the NATO Secretary General against Iran’s missile program and regional policies, saying that Jens Stoltenberg had better be concerned about the unilateral and dangerous policies of the US.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has slammed the “outlaw regime” in Washington for quitting another treaty, the 1955 Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights between Iran and the US.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expresses satisfaction with ongoing European efforts to keep the 2015 nuclear deal in place despite the US exit, but says such political will should in the end translate into workable “mechanisms” aimed at ensuring Tehran’s interests.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has hailed the ruling issued by the International Court of Justice in the lawsuit filed by Iran against the United States.
A senior Iranian security official has rejected US objection that Iran’s firing of missiles on ISIS positions in Syria has endangered US troops in Syria, asking what they were doing within three miles of terrorists in the region.
Iran says the slogans against the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia written on a missile that hit terrorists’ positions in Syria on Monday were aimed at highlighting the destructive role played by these sponsors of terror in creating instability in the region.
Mohammad Abdul-Salam, the spokesman and top negotiator of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, has held talkz with Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a senior assistant to Iran’s foreign minister in political affairs and Iran’s chief negotiator in international Yemen peace talks.
A five-member delegation of the Portugal-Iran Parliamentary Friendship Group held talks with Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi on Monday morning.
