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US President Donald Trump has called the Iranian delegation attending the United Nations General Assembly in September headed by President Hassan Rouhani eight times to no avail, a government official said.
A gathering of Iranian ambassadors and heads of Iran’s missions abroad is to be held in Tehran next week, said the Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi.
Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi says Tehran is prepared to increase its uranium enrichment to higher levels if nuclear deal salvaging with the EU fall through.
Iran’s intelligence minister says the country’s security forces have arrested members of an ISIS team, which was planning to carry out terrorist acts on the Iranian soil.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has hailed a statement by a number of respectable political figures in Muslim countries to stop the ongoing war in Yemen for three months.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araqchi says Indian officials have expressed their interest in buying Iran’s crude oil despite the US sanctions.
Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri says all countries in the Middle East must help resolve the ongoing crisis in Yemen as it would finally result in better relations among all regional states.
Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a senior assistant to Iran’s foreign minister, has delivered a message from President Hassan Rouhani to his Lebanese counterpart Michel Aoun in Beirut.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says the complaint that Tehran has filed against the US is due to Washington’s breach of its international commitments, particularly the 1955 Treaty of Amity.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called US President Donald Trump's "deal of the century" for the Palestinian territories a "satanic" plan, saying it is a non-starter.
A senior Iranian military official has underlined the need for closer cooperation between Tehran and Islamabad to ensure security and tranquility in the region, particularly the common borders.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says the United States’ claim that it will bring Iran’s oil exports to zero is just an exaggeration and empty rhetoric, and Tehran will do its utmost to thwart the plot.
The spokesman for IRGC has rejected a claim by US President Donald Trump that his though stance against Iran has ended confrontations between Iranian and US forces in the Persian Gulf, saying the real reason is that the US vessels have found who is in charge in Iran’s southern waters.
Turkey’s ambassador to Tehran says his country regards the United States’ unilateral sanctions against Iran as illegitimate and fruitless and will continue its cooperation with Tehran.
Leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has summoned President Hassan Rouhani and his cabinet members to discuss ongoing economic woes.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has called on the Judiciary to seriously deal with the recent offences and financial corruption in importing automobiles.
Iranian Minister of Health and Medical Education Seyyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi has warned about the dire consequences of upcoming US sanctions on the Islamic Republic in the wake of Trump’s illegal withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has smashed a terror outfit and killed three terrorists in the west of the country near the border with Iraq.
Ali Akbar Velayati, an international adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, says Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is going to meet his US counterpart in Helsinki, is a logical and predictable politician unlike Donald Trump.
The spokesman for Iran’s Guardian Council said the body has rejected the parliament’s legislation amending Iran’s Counter Terrorist Finance law in accordance with standards set by the global anti-money laundering body, Financial Action Task Force.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called for efforts to promote cooperation with France on the regional and international issues and in countering the unilateral policies of certain countries.
