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Massoumeh Ebtekar, the spokesperson of the Iranian students who took over the US embassy in Tehran in 1979, says none of the students regrets being involved in seizing the ‘den of espionage’.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed western media reports of a link between Iran and Al-Qaeda terror group as an attempt to cover up the Saudi role in the Sept. 11 New York attacks.
After the Japanese carmaker Toyota apologized to the US government for selling a vehicle to the Iranian embassy in India, Iranian social media users are reminding the automaker of its alleged complicity with ISIS terrorists in their crimes in Iraq and Syria.
Thousands of Iranian people have started rallies in different parts of the country to mark the “National Day of Fight against Global Arrogance”, chanting slogans against the US and other hegemonic powers.
At least eight Iranian border guards have been killed in heavy clashes with terrorists in the country’s northwestern province of West Azarbaijan, a local official says.
A senior adviser to Iran’ Leader has praised the victories of the Lebanese government and stressed the imminent defeat of all terrorists, extremists and Takfiri movements in the region.
An Iranian lawmaker says the Arab Coalition Summit recently held in Riyadh was aimed at forming an Arab NATO and pursuing the goals of the US in the region.
Following the Iranian president’s recent address to the Parliament, almost all reformist papers decided not to cover his anti-US remarks, while conservatives gave him a revolutionary welcome.
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the United States is the enemy of the entire Iranian nation, not just the Leader or its president.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had no meeting in New York other than the P+1 meeting, foreign ministry spokesman said.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has waned that the close and brotherly relations between Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan have some opponents.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the capacity for expansion of Iran and Russia’s economic cooperation is far beyond the current level.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Russia is a friend, neighbour and strategic partner of Iran, emphasizing that the Islamic Republic is after developing and strengthening ties with Moscow in all fields.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijan Republic’s President Ilham Aliyev have separately met with the Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Wednesday in Tehran.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson has vehemently denounced the Saudi Arabian warplanes’ airstrike on a market in the Yemeni city of Sa’dah, which left dozens of innocent people dead and wounded.
President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, who has just landed in Tehran, is going to meet with high-ranking Iranian officials and attend a trilateral meeting with presidents of Iran and Azerbaijan Republic.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has strongly denounced the recent terrorist attack in Manhattan, New York, which killed and wounded several people.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi says the US has tried to keep Iran from making the most of the JCPOA, the nuclear deal signed between Tehran and world powers.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says all Muslim countries should shoulder the heavy burden of supporting Palestinian cause.
A senior Kurdish diplomat has revealed that Commander of the IRGC Quds Force Major General Qassem Soleimani had warned the Iraqi Kurdish officials of the consequences of their independence referendum.
Iran has started the construction of two new nuclear power plants in the southern province of Bushehr in a joint project with Russia’s Rosatom energy firm.