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Former Iranian president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had such a prominent role in Iran’s politics that his demise will have consequences for both reformists and conservatives in future.
IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Sunday and picked headlines from 22 them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.
Iran is prepared to “act appropriately” if the US President Donald Trump chooses to scrap the nuclear deal signed in 2015 between Iran and six world powers, Iran’s nuclear chief said.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari says the forthcoming Syria peace talks in the Kazakh capital of Astana are aimed at finding possible ways to establish sustainable peace in the conflict-stricken state and put an end to its nearly six-year crisis.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi strongly condemned a Saturday terrorist attack in neighboring Pakistan that killed at least 20 people and injured many others.
IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday and picked headlines from 46 them. The selected headlines show how Iranian newspapers covered the deadly collapse of Plasco shopping centre in downtown Tehran.
Danish police have arrested six people who had earlier scaled the walls of the Iranian Embassy in Copenhagen, in an attack that elicited a strong protest from Tehran.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei expressed deep sorrow over the collapse of an old building in downtown Tehran in the wake of a massive fire, stressing that all efforts should be focused on rescuing those trapped under the debris.
Iran has criticized the international community for turning a blind eye to the plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, urging the Muslim world to unite in support of the persecuted minority.
The Mayor of Tehran Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says all ordinary citizens and shop owners had been evacuated from the blazing Plasco building in central Tehran before its total collapse. Qalibaf asked people not to pay attention to rumours.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged Interior Minister to immediately pursue the disastrous collapse of Plasco shopping centre in Tehran, which has killed dozens of firefighters so far.
The implementation of a nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers started on January 16, 2016. Now in its first anniversary, the agreement is under severe pressure of Iranian and international hardliners.
Iran and Saudi Arabia can work together to help end regional conflicts, but Riyadh needs to see the realities on the ground before relations between the two countries could go back to normal, the Iranian foreign minister says.
It was recently claimed that the late ex-president Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani had collaborated in assassinating a former Iranian Prime Minister in the 1960s. But what was the real story?
The extreme happiness of a number of Iranian statesmen over receiving only one Airbus plane is both surprising and ridiculous, said a senior Iranian conservative journalist.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said there have been no contacts between Iran and the new US administration that will be sworn in on Friday.
The Lieutenant Commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbia Air Defense Base, referring to the January 2016 arrest of US sailors by Iran in the Persian Gulf, said the air defense base’s warning alerts forced the enemy fighter jets attempting to save the sailors to back off.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has hailed the liberation of Syria’s strategic northwestern city of Aleppo as a major step towards stability in the Arab state, saying the gain prevented the Middle East from having to face an uncertain future.
Iran, Russia and Turkey have not sent any “joint invitation” to the US for taking part in the upcoming conflict resolution talks on Syria in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi says the Islamic Republic won’t lose anything in case the US President-elect scraps the nuclear deal as he has vowed to.
IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday and picked headlines from 29 them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.
A senior Iranian official says the Islamic Republic supports political initiatives on Syria, which seek to address the real demands of the Syrian people and preserve the war-stricken country’s territorial integrity and independence.
