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Afghanistan's acting foreign minister has invited Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian to visit Kabul for talks with the Taliban officials over bilateral issues.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, who had traveled to South Africa to take part in 15th BRICS Summit at the head of a high-ranking delegation, arrived in the Iranian capital Tehran earlier on Friday.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that Iran’s accession to BRICS will help strengthen the group’s policies including its opposition to the US’s unilateralism.
A former Iranian diplomat says the group of industrial countries of the world known as the Group of Seven (G7) will seek to undercut BRICS, a bloc comprising the world’s emerging economies.
The former head of the Iranian Reformist Camp has slammed what he described as failure to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
The Iranian president has arrived in the South African capital, Pretoria, to attend the 15th summit of BRICS, a grouping of the world economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
After several months, an Iranian parliamentarian still insists that some lawmakers at Iran’s parliament has received luxury SUVs in a ‘criminal and fraudulent’ process outside the legal framework, but has revised the number of the cars received from about 70 to 300.
A former top Iranian commander with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has brushed aside the idea that ideological issues have been given precedence over national interests in Iran.
Iran has unveiled an advanced homemade drone that can fly for up to 24 hours non-stop at an altitude of 7,000 meters and has an operational radius of 2,000 kilometers.
Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army's Ground Forces General Oleg Salyukov told his Iranian counterpart Brigadier General Kioumars Heidari that Moscow regards Tehran as one of the key countries in West Asia and a strategic partner.
Egypt is ready to resume full diplomatic ties with Iran after over four decades without the need for mediators but wants the efforts to patch up ties to remain behind the scenes, a ranking Egyptian official says.
Iran’s foreign minister says the Islamic countries will follow up on the decision to boycott the Danish and Swedish goods following the continued desecration of Islamic sanctities in the two European countries.
A recent call by Faezeh Hashemi, the jailed daughter of a former Iranian president, on people not to vote in upcoming parliamentary elections as a show of defiance has caused controversy.
The Swedish and Danish chargés d'affaires in Tehran were called to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in protest at the repeated desecration of the Holy Quran.
Renowned Iranian Sunni cleric Mawlawi Fat’hi Mohammad Naghshbandi has been arrested for ‘inciting tensions and endangering national security’ in the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
The Iranian foreign minister has held a phone conversation with his Chinese counterpart saying the 25-year cooperation agreement between Tehran and Beijing is on the right track.
The Iranian President’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Affairs, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, has called for the fair delivery of Iran’s water rights from the Hirmand River, also known as Helmand.
Iran’s Islamic Republic Guards Corps’s speedboats have recently stopped an American helicopter carrier in the Strait of Hormuz, in the Persian Gulf, that was about to violate Iran’s territorial waters, images recently released by the IRGC Navy show.
China's ambassador to Iran says the two countries are at the peak of their cooperation, voicing hope that with the efforts of the Iranian and Chinese presidents, bilateral relations will improve more than ever.
About 200 terrorists had infiltrated into Iran to carry out attacks during Arbaeen ceremonies that mark the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of the third Shia Imam, but Iranian security and intelligence forces defused the scheme, intelligence minister says.
