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In a meeting on Saturday May 28 with Portuguese Deputy Foreign Minister George Oliveira in Tehran, Iran’s FM Zarif stressed the role of language education in expanding relations between the two countries.
IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Sunday and picked headlines from 25 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.
President Hassan Rouhani praised the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting’s role in establishment of national unity in the country, and said that any inclination of the IRIB towards political sides is not acceptable.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the European parties to the July 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers to seriously address problems hindering foreign banks from trying to work with Iran.
After a cyber-attack on an Iranian official website, allegedly launched by a Saudi hacking team, Iranian cyber activists hacked a couple of Saudi websites...
A senior Iranian military official reiterated on Saturday that a comprehensive nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers places no restriction on the country’s missile tests.
Russian state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom announced that Tehran and Moscow have agreed to convert Fordow nuclear facility into a research center for producing heavy isotopes.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Lithuanian counterpart Linas Linkevicius underlined the need for the expansion of mutual cooperation in different areas in a meeting in Tehran on Saturday May 28.
Head of Iran’s Civil Defence Organization Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali said that the country plans to stage specialized war games in the coming months to increase its cyber defence capabilities.
The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force said that Iran will take action against terrorist groups in Iraq only if the country’s Marja (religious leadership) deems it necessary.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei called on the new Iranian parliament, which opened this morning, to make “the materialization of the resistance economy and Islamic culture” as its main priorities in its 4-year term.
IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Saturday and picked headlines from 20 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a quarterly report on Iran that the country has stayed within the limits of a nuclear deal reached with world powers last year on its stockpiles of uranium and heavy water.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari rejected recent remarks made by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir on Iran’s military presence in Iraq, saying that the Islamic Republic’s advisory mission there has been undertaken at the request of Baghdad.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran’s capabilities in the area of nuclear technology made enemies surrender and accept the country as a nuclear power.
IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Thursday and picked headlines from 21 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.
Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said that in the past four years, the body especially focused on the economy, allocating almost one third of its decisions to economic issues.
Sadegh Zibakalam, a well-known professor of political sciences at the University of Tehran, wrote an open letter to Mohammad Reza Aref, the leading reformist figure in the next Iranian parliament, and reminded him of a responsibility which he believes is more important than the parliamentary presidency.
The Afghan Taliban confirmed on Wednesday May 25 that their former leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a US drone strike last week, and that they have appointed a successor.
IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday and picked headlines from 28 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.
