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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi have held talks on the controversial issue of Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force has thwarted an attack on a military base in southeastern Iran in an operation during which at least two terrorists were killed.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is visiting Pakistan at the head of a politico-economic delegation, has sat down for talks with his Pakistani counterpart Khawaja Asif.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says the country has urged the Austrian government to pay more attention to protecting diplomatic buildings, particularly after the recent attack on the residence of Iran’s ambassador in Vienna.
The Leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has agreed to the resignation of Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati from leading the Friday prayers of Tehran.
Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a top aide to Iranian Foreign Minister in special political affairs, has held talks with President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has summoned UK Ambassador to Tehran Nicholas Hopton to express the Islamic Republic’s protest over the British police’s performance in the recent attack on the Iranian embassy in London.
A top aide to the Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution says the US is secretly seeking to penetrate into Iraq and other regional states with the aim of destroying them from inside.
Peter Jenkins, a former British ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), says it is not possible for the European Union to preserve the Iran nuclear deal and appease the US president at the same time.
A senior Iranian official has called for amending the definition of human rights and the workings of rights institutions, lamenting that Western states have created a monopoly in the global rights bodies.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has blasted certain countries for applying a double-standard approach to the use of chemical weapons.
An Iranian parliamentarian has urged the government to increase tariffs on importing steel, saying that otherwise the US steel tariff hike could negatively affect the Iranian steel industry.
Despite the West’s pressure, Iran has not yet allowed the International Atomic Energy Agency to install nuclear monitoring systems in the country, says an Iranian expert on strategic and security issues.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry says the British government has officially apologized over the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London by a few assailants, and the UK police has arrested all of them.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has dismissed an anti-Iran statement issued by the Arab ministerial quartet in Cairo, calling such remarks as “baseless” accusations and a blatant interference in the issue of Iran’s commitment to the nuclear deal.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has strongly criticized the UK government for taking anti-Iran stances during the Saudi crown prince's recent visit to London.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, in a telephone call with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said the two countries are obliged to save the lives of Syrian people, particularly those who are under the siege of terrorists in Eastern Ghouta.
Former Iranian Ambassador to France Hamid Reza Assefi says France has lost its role in the Middle East to the US, but it can regain it through the enhancement of its cooperation with Tehran.
