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Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani has thanked Islamabad for backing Iran during the war waged by Israel and the United States.
A public dispute has emerged in Tehran after the editor-in-chief of the principlist daily Kayhan, Hossein Shariatmadari, sharply criticized President Massoud Pezeshkian over a recent letter sent to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi will travel to France this week for high-level discussions, following his participation in the annual conference of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague.
The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Ground Force has smashed a team of militants affiliated with the so-called Ansar al-Furqan terror outfit in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
Former commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Mohsen Rezaei has urged Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah to reconsider its approach of strategic patience, warning that Israel is exploiting ceasefires, negotiations, and the restraint of resistance forces.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has sharply criticized the Israeli regime’s airstrike on a residential neighborhood in southern Beirut on Sunday evening, as well as the assassination of senior Lebanese resistance commander, martyr Haitham Ali Tabatabaei.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baqaei has stressed that no negotiations will take place between Tehran and Washington as long as the United States insists on its current approach.
A group of Iranian lawmakers has formally submitted a motion to impeach Minister of Roads and Urban Development Farzaneh Sadegh, citing 16 areas of concern, a member of parliament announced on Saturday.
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi has once again stressed that Iran is not after building a nuclear weapon.
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi says the US and three European countries have deliberately undermined the Cairo agreement, arguing that Iran has demonstrated goodwill while Western powers pursue escalation.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said Israel would be unable to withstand a unilateral confrontation with Iran for more than a week, noting that the outcome of the 12-day conflict in June revealed the regime’s vulnerabilities without Western backing. Speaking at a gathering of Basij officials, Qalibaf said the conflict offered “an important lesson” for Israel.
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Foreign Ministry announced that it considers the resolution adopted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors—passed under pressure from the United States, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom—illegal and unjustified.
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi announced that Tehran has officially ended the Cairo Memorandum of Understanding, the document that had governed its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The head of Iran’s Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said on Thursday that no negotiations are currently taking place between Tehran and Washington, though both sides have previously shown interest in dialogue.
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi has confirmed the resumption of normal monitoring at Iran’s nuclear sites that were not damaged by the United States.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry in a statement on the United Nations Security Council resolution on Gaza has stressed that the drafters of this resolution have consciously ignored the central position and role of the world body and even the previous resolutions on the issue of Palestine.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has dismissed the US president’s assertion about Tehran–Washington talks, saying that no negotiation process currently exists between the Islamic Republic and the United States.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs has denied as false any claims that Tehran has held secret negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Mohammad-Mehdi Seddiqi, son of Ayatollah Kazem Seddiqi, the former Tehran Friday Prayer leader, who was at the center of financial and property scheme passed away due to cardiac arrest, Iranian media reported. He was 48.
The head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations and senior advisor to the Iranian Leader said any future negotiations with the US must be based on “equality and mutual respect,” emphasizing that both the agenda and framework of talks must be agreed upon in advance.
The prime ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states have concluded their 24th meeting in Moscow with a joint statement dismissing Western actions against Iran under the pretext of concerns over Tehran's nuclear program.
