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A Saturday blaze at a resort hotel in China’s northeastern city of Harbin has killed and wounded dozens of people so far.

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has thanked Iran for granting a three-day furlough to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a dual national jailed in Iran on charge of covert propaganda efforts against the Islamic Republic.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has strongly censured the latest deadly air raid by Saudi and Emirati warplanes against innocent displaced civilians in Yemen.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says the European Union’s allocation of an €18m budget to Iran has nothing to do with the bloc’s package to save the Iran nuclear deal.

Afghanistan is famous for its never-ending wars. Permanent conflicts in the country have associated Afghanistan with death and destruction in the minds of many people in Iran, leading the country’s beauties and lovely characteristics to remain largely unknown, particularly Afghan foods.

The Austrian ambassador to Tehran Stefan Schulz says some workshops will be set up to transfer the traditional knowledge of Persian architecture to Austria.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the country’s defensive capabilities are aimed at maintaining sustainable peace in the region, not attacking others.

Seyyed Mehdi Hosseini, a former deputy oil minister and an energy expert, says the US has no way but to grant sanction waivers to Iran’s oil customers.

Iran’s Petroleum Minister Bijan Zanganeh says French energy giant Total has officially left the country, ending speculations over whether it would stay to finish a gas project following the return of US sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

A seminar on Iranian mysticism and Sufism was recently held by the Beijing University and the Iranian embassy’s cultural attaché in the Chinese capital Beijing.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has expressed dissatisfaction over the slow progress of efforts to keep the 2015 nuclear deal in place, expressing hope the other parties to the nuclear accord will work harder to compensate for the US withdrawal.

Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the United States is trying to pit Islamic nations against each other, so that Muslim people are killed by fellow Muslims.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the United States is addicted to applying sanctions on Iran and other countries.

Former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih says his country’s national interests hinge on secure borders with neighbouring states especially the Islamic Republic of Iran.

A complicated plot hatched by the Foundation for Defence of Democracies (FDD) and the funds provided by the UAE and Saudi Arabia have been at work to decrease the value of the Turkish national currency, a media report claims.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the US administration will fail to repeat history and change the democratically-elected government of Iran, as it did back in 1953 in a CIA-orchestrated coup.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sent a message to Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan, congratulating him on taking the helm in the neighboring country and voicing Tehran’s readiness to enhance ties with Islamabad.

The Iranian Parliament speaker has censured western powers for following a hypocritical policy against Tehran, saying their behaviour towards Iran shares similarities with their policies before the 1953 coup which toppled a democratically-elected government in Iran.

A host of Muslim Iraqi clerics from both Shiite and Sunni denominations have issued a public call to counter sanctions slapped on Iran by US President Donald Trump.

A high-ranking Iranian lawmaker says the Iranian government must urge Iraq to pay compensation for damages in the 1980-88 deadly war imposed by the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on Iran.

Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his great humanitarian work, has died at the age of 80.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has condoled with the Indian government on the death of former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has expressed regret over the deadly floods caused by monsoon rain in India, which left hundreds of people dead and missing.

Iran hosted a three-day event during which a number of Chinese movies were screened as part of a plan to expand the two sides' cooperation in the film industry.

Tourists from Saudi Arabia and other regional countries are flocking to high-end shops in Turkey, as a historic plunge in the value of the country’s national currency has made prices extremely affordable for foreigners.