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Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says West’s problem with the Islamic Republic is mainly caused by Tehran’s support for Palestine, not by what they call Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
A political analyst says the US president is putting maximum pressures on Saudi Arabia and the UAE to drag them into a war against their northern neighbour, but Iran should not behave in a way that prepares the ground for such a conflict.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has dismissed as untrue and politically-motivated the latest report by the US State Department about religious freedoms in Iran.
A Jewish Iranian lawmaker has warned the country’s adversaries that Iranians practicing various religions will stand by each other to defend the country and sacrifice their lives in case it is under aggression, just like they stood against the Iraqi aggression in 1980s.
Iranian security forces have disbanded a terrorist cell in the southeast of the country, seizing a considerable amount of weapons and munitions from the group.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has, in separate letters to his opposite numbers, briefed them on the latest situation of the Iran nuclear deal.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, also commander-in-chief of Iran’s Armed Forces, appointed Brigadier General Alireza Sabahi Fard as the new commander of Iran’s Air Defense.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Iran and Hungary, as two independent countries, can take fundamental steps to promote peace and security across the world.
A top commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iranian security forces have managed to block many terrorist moves initiated from the outside to create insecurity in the country in the past few months.
A senior IRGC commander says the list of US demands declared by the newly-appointed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies to Tehran’s growing clout, showing Washington has been frustrated with keeping Iran in check.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says Tehran strongly condemns the biased, politically-motivated and baseless court rulings issued in absentia by US courts against the country.
The Iranian government on Monday approved a plan proposed by Tehran’s City Council to dedicate special places in Tehran to citizens’ protest gatherings.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has categorically rejected media reports on indirect negotiations between Iran and the Zionist regime over Syria.
Senior political commentator Seyyed Hossein Mousavian says the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have made a huge investment in pushing for a regime change in Iran.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed confidence that Tehran and Baku would continue to strengthen the bilateral relations in light of their common bond and the political will of officials.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has republished a video made by a group of young Iranian people in the wake of the US pullout from the nuclear accord.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi says the Islamic Republic will stop its current talks with the Europeans if it comes to this sense that they are wasting time.
A member of the Iranian Parliament’s reformist faction says they will introduce their contenders for seats of the parliament’s presiding board on Tuesday, a day before the annual elections in which senior reformist Mohammad-Reza Aref will probably run for the post of the speaker.
Iran’s top security official Ali Shamkhani says things have not played out favourably for Donald Trump since he walked out of the 2015 nuclear deal earlier this month, as the world has so far stood up to the controversial US president.
