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The Iranian Foreign Ministry has dismissed as politically-motivated the European Union’s extension of sanctions against the Islamic Republic over human rights, saying the bloc has turned a blind eye to the realities of civil rights in Iran.
Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to everyone’s surprise, registered for the country’s presidency on Wednesday, along with two of his allies Hamid Baqaei and Esfandyar Rahim-Mashaei.
Top defense officials from Iran and Syria agreed on closer coordination to intensify military action against the terrorist groups that have plagues Syria for six years.
More than 18,000 female applicants have registered to contest in Iran’s City and Village Councils Elections due to be held on May 19, an Iranian official announced.
The European Union has extended by another year sanctions against Iran over alleged claims of “human rights violations” despite the fledgling rapprochement between Tehran and the bloc since the 2015 landmark nuclear agreement.
Iran’s foreign minister will join his counterparts from Russia and Syria on Friday for a trilateral meeting due to be held in the Russian capital, an Iranian spokesman said.
Dozens of applicants, the majority of whom were ordinary people without any political background, registered to contest Iran’s 12th presidential election during the first day of registration.
A senior advisor to Iran’s foreign minister says the Islamic Republic is a key player in Syria and will not allow the United States to change the equations to its benefit.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani underlined the need for implementation of some reforms in Syria’s ruling system, but at the same time noted that the only way out of Syria’s problem is the ballot box.
In his first post in Arabic, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif strongly denounced the recent terrorist attacks on Egyptian churches, and condoled with the Arab nation on the tragedy.
A top Iranian parliamentarian says Washington’s plan to establish an air-exclusion zone in Syria is a nonstarter and will only further complicate the crisis in the Middle East.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the recent missile strikes by the US military against a Syrian airfield were a “strategic mistake.”
President Hassan Rouhani and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad have held phone talks over a US missile strike which targeted an airbase used as a frontline in the battle against foreign-backed terrorists.
Described as the main rival of incumbent president Rouhani, the senior Iranian cleric Ebrahim Raeisi officially declared on Sunday that he will run for president in Iran’s May election.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani referred to nuclear technology as a necessity for Iran, and hailed the country’s diplomatic team who ‘skilfully’ realized the “Nuclear energy is our absolute right” slogan.
In a ceremony attended by President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran on Sunday, Iran marked the National Nuclear Technology Day by unveiling a series of new achievements.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry rejected as “ill-advised” the comments made by king of Jordan who has accused Iran of being involved in strategic problems in the Middle East, saying his move to put Iran on the same list with ISIS demonstrates his shallow view of the regional developments.
The military brass of Iran and Russia say the pre-planned US missile strikes against a Syrian airfield were a blatant attack on an independent country with the purpose of hindering its recent military gains and boosting the morale of terrorists and their allies.
Iran’s top security official says the Tuesday chemical incident in Syria’s Idlib province was definitely caused by a third party in an effort to pave the way for the US strike on the Syrian airbase.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has criticized the US administration for its missile attack on a Syrian airfield, saying the move has just served the interests of terrorists in the Arab country.
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani slammed the US missile attack on a Syrian airbase as a testimony to Washington’s support for terrorist groups, warning that such criminal acts would only complicate the political and security conditions in Syria.
