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Kamal Kharrazi, the head of Iran's Strategic Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor to Iran’s Leader, has said Tehran is ready for talks with the US but will not give in to pressure.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei has stated that a fresh round of talks between Iran and the European troika – Britain, France, and Germany -- regarding Tehran’s nuclear program and regional issues is likely to kick off in mid-January.
A deputy Iranian foreign minister has criticized Washington for taking Iranian nationals hostage under the pretext of violating "illegitimate sanctions," following the arrest of two Iranians in the US and Italy.
A member of Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace has voiced his opposition to the government's step-by-step plan for lifting internet restrictions in the country.
Tehran’s Cyber Police Chief, Brigadier General Davood Moazzami Goudarzi, announced a crackdown on individuals causing public distress through "hidden camera" and Instagram challenge videos. This initiative led to the identification and closure of 40 Instagram accounts.
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has expressed optimism about the future of the West Asian region, predicting that the current events in Syria will lead to the emergence of a strong and honorable group similar to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced that its intelligence forces have dismantled a team of terrorists in Iran’s western province of Kermanshah.
A renowned Iranian scholar of law, who has been in headlines in recent years for critiquing government policies, has lashed out at the current internet filtering in Iran, labeling it as unlawful and lacking any legal basis.
The spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmaeil Baqaei, had rejected claims made in a joint statement by the foreign and defense ministers of Australia and the UK regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran as baseless, unrealistic, and irrelevant.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, said the US and the Zionist regime has been seeking the long-term plot to weaken and disintegrate major Islamic countries so the occupying regime would dominate the region.
Iran’s Parliament has launched an investigation into the daily ‘disappearance’ and smuggling of 20 million liters of fuel, following recent statements by the Iranian president and parliament speaker.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in a meeting with his Turkish counterpart, stressed that any developments in Syria must be accompanied by the preservation of its territorial integrity, adding that any slight infringement on Syria's territorial integrity is absolutely unacceptable.
Iran’s President Massoud Pezeshkian, says all Islamic countries should strive to expand interaction and dialogue within the Islamic world and overcome existing differences, as these differences pave the way for foreign interventions in the affairs of these countries.
The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, in remarks at the summit of the eight developing Islamic countries, called for the unity of the Islamic world to confront the aggressive actions of Israel against the people of Gaza, Syria, and Lebanon.
Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian arrived at the venue for the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, or D-8, summit in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, earlier on Thursday and the event just got underway.
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi has deplored the international community’s failure to cease the Israeli regime’s violations amid unconditional support provided for Tel Aviv by Washington.
Iran and Egypt are poised to reopen their embassies in the near future in a significant diplomatic development in the bilateral ties between the two countries whose relations have been severed since 1980, a political advisor to Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian says.
The spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry has dismissed the Canadian-sponsored anti-Tehran resolution by the UN General Assembly, calling it legally baseless and fundamentally invalid due to its reliance on unfounded claims and flawed generalizations.
The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Massoud Pezeshkian, stated that the Zionist regime, with the support of the United States, is committing widespread oppression and crimes against the people of Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, including blocking aid to ordinary people, which should not occur from a humanitarian and human rights perspective in any war.
Former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has expressed shock over the recent hijab law approved by the Guardian Council, which predicts severe punishment for those violating it.
The Iranian deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs has reiterated that Iran’s nuclear program is aligned with the country’s technical needs and fully under the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards, emphasizing it has no military objectives.
Iran has strongly warned that any use of the snapback mechanism to impose all anti-Iran sanctions by the three European members of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal will be met with a firm response.
