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The head of Iran’s police force says two million undocumented Afghan migrants in Iran will be deported to their own country by the end of the current Iranian year, on March 20.
All terrorists affiliated with the anti-Iran Komala separatist group have been forced to relocate from their previous camps in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region under a security agreement between the two countries, according to a report.
The United Nations nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi has stated that he hopes to hold talks with new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian by November on "improving Iran's cooperation with the atomic agency".
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has summoned the chargé d'affaires of the Islamic Republic of Iran in protest at the alleged move by Tehran to provide missiles to Russia for use in the Ukraine war.
Iran has announced that it has never left the negotiation table, however, the revitalization of the 2015 nuclear deal—officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—hinges upon the US and three European countries returning to their commitments under the agreement.
Iranian Vice President Mohammadreza Aref has been the subject of criticisms for saying on Sunday that importing gasoline price at high prices and selling it at heavily-subsidized prices is ‘unreasonable.’
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani strongly condemned Israel's deadly strike on Syria, denying the regime's claim that a Tehran-affiliated center was hit in the raid.
The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami has warned that the Zionist regime will taste the bitterness of Tehran’s revenge for its vicious acts.
A member of the banned so-called Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), who was living in Iraq’s Sulaymaniyah, has reportedly been arrested and handed over to Iran, according to informed sources.
Abdollah Momeni, a well-known Iranian political activist, has been released from prison following a Supreme Court decision that overturned his original sentence, says his brother.
In a recent appointment by Iran’s Minister of Science, Research, and Technology, Mohammad Nabi Shahiki, a prominent Baloch and Sunni academic, has been named the Deputy Minister of Technology and Innovation.
Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, former head of National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran's parliament, criticized the public declaration of Iran's sale of ballistic missiles to Russia, calling it "the dirtiest form of Russophilia."
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson says Tehran has never been a part of the Ukraine war, echoing the Islamic Republic of Iran’s opposition to the war and its supportive stance regarding a political solution to the conflict.
China’s Ambassador to Tehran Cong Peiwu says the persisting problems for transactions between the Chinese and Iranian businesspeople are rooted in the Western, and specifically US, sanctions.
The commander in chief of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General Hossein Salami, has stated the Iranian naval units have carried out over a dozen operations against Israel-linked vessels in retaliation for attacks on tankers carrying Tehran's crude oil in international waters, prompting the opposing side to request an end to the ship battles.
The Chairman of the Board of the Securities and Exchange Organization of Iran Majid Eshghi confirmed on Saturday he resigned from the post after a long period that the markets have been in the red, and days into a reported row over low-rate bank loans he received.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will attend the BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan, where he plans to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Tehran's Ambassador to Moscow Kazem Jalali told TASS.
The mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations has rejected the accusation of Iran supplying ballistic missiles to Russia as baseless and misleading.
Russia’s recent and past deviations from what ‘strategic allies’ would normally do for each other, have shaken Iranians’ confidence, with calls growing on the new administration of President Massoud Pezeshkian to revise the country’s policies vis-à-vis Moscow.
