Security

Interior Minister Mohammad Rahmani Fazli said Iran is paying the price for international peace and security in its fighting againat illegal drugs.

The Iranian Navy’s 40th flotilla of warships, deployed to the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea for an overseas mission, repulsed a pirate attack on an Iranian vessel, Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari announced.

Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said Iranian and Pakistani navy vessels are to carry out joint military exercises on April 18.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a military parade on Sunday highlighted the necessity for paying equal attention to both diplomacy and Armed Forces in national doctrine, saying that the country needs both of them at the same time.

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 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.

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.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force started massive wargames in the Southeastern parts of Iran on Tuesday morning.     

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.

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.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Jaberi Ansari who is speaking in his weekly press conference announced the delivery of fist shipment of S-300 missile system to Iran.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has renewed a call for taking collective measures to tackle terrorist groups, saying lack of a serious fight against terrorism will lead to its spillover into other regions including Europe.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the Iranian Armed Forces are required to enhance their “military might” along with “spiritual and religious motivations."

A top Iranian military official unveiled plans for staging a number of military drills by the Armed Forces in the current Iranian year (March 2016 – March 2017).

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic’s missile capability is not open to any form of negotiations or compromise.

US State Department Spokesman Mark Toner said Washington has no new arrangement for negotiation with Iran over its ballistic missiles.

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan deplored certain Western countries for their continued hostilities toward the Islamic Republic, saying they are resorting to any means to hold back Iran’s defense industry.

An Iranian police commander said different types of aerial vehicles have been employed to fly over the country’s borderlines to ensure maximum security.

Russia has rejected a US claim that the sales of Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets to Iran were prohibited under a United Nation Security Council resolution.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced on Tuesday that the agenda for Iran’s cooperation with its two neighbors, Turkey and Azerbaijan Republic, was agreed upon during a trilateral meeting held earlier in the day in northern Iran.

A senior Iranian military official says the Islamic Republic will continue to support the Syrian government in its fight against terrorists, warning that Iran will never allow the disintegration of any Muslim state.

Iran’s foreign minister on Tuesday offered to mediate an escalating fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh region, calling for peace in the region.

Rahmat Hajimineh, an Iranian university professor, believes that the ongoing conflict and tension in the Caucasus can prepare the grounds for such terrorist groups as Daesh (ISIL) to recruit new militants and continue their operations throughout the Middle East and beyond, because radical and extremist forces these days are taking advantage of instability in different parts of the world in a bid to survive and protect themselves.

Iran’s Army Ground Force has deployed commandos from its Special Forces, known as the 65th Brigade, to Syria for an advisory mission, a commander said Monday.