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During the eight-year war imposed on Iran by the currently-overthrown Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, cities and residential areas, hospitals and schools across Iran, including...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani referred to the reinforcement of ties with all countries, particularly neighbors, as the principled policy of his administration, and stressed that Tehran looks for the restoration of peace and security to all regional states.
Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehqan plans to visit Russia to discuss further military cooperation between the two countries and attend a security conference, the Iranian Embassy in Moscow says.
In protest to 4 anti-Iranian articles in the final statement of the 13th summit of OIC in Istanbul, President Rouhani, FM Zarif and accompanying delegation did not attend the closing meeting.
The Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance said, “The Government of Hassan Rouhani has tried to apply open-door legal policies to these fields, which prevent unnecessary objections.”
IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Thursday and picked headlines from 23 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.
Iran has slammed Saudi Arabia’s "destructive" move to include statements against the Islamic Republic and Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement in the draft declaration of the 13th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says Tehran has always seriously pursued the fight against terrorism and it has given assistance to other countries in this regard.
Commander of the Iranian Army's Ground Forces Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan says four military advisers recently "martyred" in Syria had helped kill as many as 200 terrorists.
Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France, and Germany) implemented a nuclear deal on July 16, 2016 which they had finalized back in July 2015. Based on the deal, all nuclear-related anti-Iran sanctions were terminated in exchange for certain limits on the country’s nuclear energy program.
The deal had its opponents and proponents both in Iran and in certain countries that were a party to the deal, particularly in the US. Here in Iran, the nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA) needed to be approved by the lawmakers in Iran’s parliament (Majlis); however, there were parliamentarians strictly opposed to the deal, describing it as treason.
IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Wednesday and picked headlines from 19 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.
Prosecutor General Mohammad Jaafar Montazeri in a meeting with his Kazakh Prosecutor General Askhat Daulbayev on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Judicial cooperation.
The Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab-African Affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said on Tuesday, “We are now close to a political resolution to solve the Syrian crisis.”
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called for accelerated efforts to fully get rid of the fears for trade with Tehran that persist from the time of anti-Iran sanctions.
IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Tuesday and picked headlines from 21 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has embarked on large-scale security drills in the country’s southeast featuring debut performance by a high-potential indigenous drone.
Iran's Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan announced that the country's border guards killed two ISIL terrorists who planned to conduct suicide attacks in late February.
Iranian head of Iran-Turkey joint economic commission Mahmoud Vaezi said that President Hassan Rouhani will travel to Istanbul, Turkey, this week to attend an OIC summit.
