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Sheikh Abdel Amir Qabalan, the head of the Supreme Islamic Shiite Council (SISC) of Lebanon, says Iran is a chain that links Muslim societies together.
Grand Mufti of Lebanon Sheikh Abdul Latif Derian has harshly criticized Islamic countries for their silence over the Israeli regime’s inhumane attacks on the innocent people of Palestine.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari has met the Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has categorically dismissed the Turkish president's claims about plans for Iran-Turkey joint operation against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants outside the Iranian borders.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri says the Israeli regime and terrorism are the two dangers currently threatening Lebanon and the entire Middle East.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has appointed a new commander for the Iranian Army and second-in-command for the Iranian Armed Forces' chief of staff.
A senior Iranian diplomat says the ongoing conflicts in regional countries only benefit the Israeli regime as they consign the issue of Palestine into oblivion.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister has conferred with the Lebanese foreign minister on a range of issues, particularly the Syria crisis, in a Monday meeting in Beirut.
Iran has sentenced the US to pay $245 million in damage to to the victims of chemical attacks carried out by Saddam Hussein’s troops during the 1980 to 1988 imposed war on Iran, according to the Judiciary spokesman.
Securing better relations with neighbours and making greater contribution to regional peace and stability will be high on the Islamic Republic's agenda in President Rouhani's new four-year term, foreign ministry spokesman says.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic and his ministry's top priority is to ensure that the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers will stand.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in a message offered its congratulations to Army Brigadier General Amir Hatami as the new Iranian Minister of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics.
Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of IRGC Quds Force, says mosques are instrumental in safeguarding the society and should serve to bring people from all walks of life closer together.
Iranian lawmakers on Sunday gave vote of confidence to 16 ministerial nominees proposed by President Hasan Rouhani, but did not vote for his power minister Habibollah Bitaraf.
Iranian newspapers on Saturday widely covered the hunger strike of Mahdi Karroubi, one of the two Iran-based opposition leaders, who finally resumed eating after President Rouhani gave positive responses to his demands.
Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani, the eldest son of the late Iranian politician Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was unanimously elected as the head of Tehran’s new City Council.
Iran’s envoy to the United Nations has slammed his American counterpart for her ‘false’ remarks about the Islamic Republic, saying the ‘hard-line and parochial positions’ adopted by US officials against Tehran could further exacerbate instability in the region.
Iranian foreign minister has lashed out at US President Donald Trump for his immediate insults to Islam after the Barcelona attack, while he had kept silent on racist terrorism in his country.