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Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araqchi on Thursday held separate talks with Carl Bildt, a former Swedish premier and a chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Hans Blix, a former chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have explored avenues for expanding business cooperation in a meeting in Ankara on Thursday.

An advisor to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the new round of US sanctions on Iran can’t remain in place for the long run due to their unilateral nature.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has denounced as unacceptable the Albanian government’s expulsion of two Iranian diplomats from the country.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araqchi on Wednesday had separate talks with a number of Swedish officials in Stockholm.

A media delegation from Afghanistan recently sat for talks with Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi at the Ministry’s building in Tehran.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has admired his Turkish counterpart for his “decisive positions” regarding anti-Iran US plots, saying he showed the US is no longer in a position to dictate policies to regional countries.

An expert on US politics believes Washington is hell-bent on settling its Iran problem once and for all, launching a full-scale war against the country that targets Iran’s economy, among other sectors, to bring the country to its knees and cause a regime change.

It’s no exaggeration to say the ceasefire deal brokered in the Swedish capital Stockholm last week could not be worked out if a Saudi journalist had not been slain in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul early October.

The Islamic Republic of Iran, Russia and Turkey have agreed to step up efforts aimed at convening the first session of a UN-sponsored Syrian Constitutional Committee early next year in a bid to begin a viable peace process to the country's seven-year-old conflict.

Finland says its small- and medium-sized companies are still interested in promoting their business cooperation with Iran, but are waiting for the European Union to establish its special payment mechanism, known as Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), to facilitate trade with Iran under the US bans.

The governments of Iran and Saudi Arabia have signed an agreement on the 2019 hajj annual pilgrimage, based on which the next year’s rituals will see over 86,000 Iranian pilgrims.

Iran’s intelligence minister highlighted the growing trend of threats targeting the country’s security, saying even the spy services of some neighbors are involved in hatching hostile plots against Iran.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will travel to Turkey on Wednesday for an official visit.

A group of extremists in Saudi Arabia, outraged by a royal decision to allow women to drive, have set fire to a woman’s car in the second such incident.

Representatives of Iran, Russia, and Turkey have agreed on the details of a statement announcing the establishment of the committee tasked with drafting Syria’s new Constitution.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has expressed hope that the UN would be able to play its key role in establishing peace in Yemen while remaining unaffected by different pressures.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will leave Tehran for the Swiss city of Geneva on Tuesday.

Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a senior assistant to the Iranian foreign minister, has held talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Arab country's capital of Damascus.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has strongly condemned the recent attack on a border checkpoint in Pakistan’s Balochistan province which killed a number of Pakistani troops.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Al Thani have expressed the support of Tehran and Doha for the recent progress made in the peace talks between Yemeni warring sides.

Iran’s top diplomat is on a trip to the Qatari capital to participate in this year’s edition of Doha Forum.

A French yellow vest protester says they have been inspired by the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has highlighted the need for further expansion of bilateral trade between Tehran and Ankara in the face of the US sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

The Iranian capital Tehran is hosting an exhibition of artworks and masks used by various tribes of Ivory Coast.