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Iran has reaffirmed its resolve to continue cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, voicing readiness to conclude the Iran nuclear deal, JCPOA.
The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry says the recent remarks by the US national security advisor about Iran further proves Washington’s interference in Iran’s internal affairs and its support for riots in the country.
President Ebrahim Raisi says enemies were wrong in their calculations that sanctions can paralyze production and export in Iran, stressing that such restrictions will never be able to stop the Islamic Republic’s progress.
Naval forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have seized a tanker carrying over 300,000 liters of smuggled fuel in the Persian Gulf water, a judicial official says.
Iranian Intelligence officials say those who assassinated a pro-government Sunni Muslim cleric in the country’s Sistan and Balouchestan Province are linked to an Arab country.
Iran’s nuclear chief says officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will visit Tehran in the coming days, adding this will hopefully help both sides take a step forward to remove existing obstacles to cooperation.
Around two hundreds of Iranian lawmakers have condemned France for "frequent instances of interference in the domestic affairs of the Islamic Republic under the guise of defending human rights, despite the European country’s own dark history of human rights abuses."
A report says Mir-Hossein Mousavi, an Iranian reformist leader who has been held under house arrest for 11 years, has visited a medical center for an “ordinary examination” due to a chronic middle ear issue.
The Iranian foreign minister says Tehran sees diplomacy as the best path towards the revival of the Iran nuclear deal, JCPOA, and the lifting of anti-Tehran sanctions.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has offered condolences to the people of Sistan and Baluchestan Province on the martyrdom of a senior Sunni cleric by terrorists, calling on officials to quickly bring those behind the assassination to justice.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry says those behind the assassination of a Sunni Muslim cleric in the country’s southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan have been arrested.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has told visiting Chinese vice premier that Beijing’s recent stance on some issues related to the Islamic Republic’s territorial integrity during the visit of China’s president to the Persian Gulf region annoyed the Iranian people and government.
China’s Vice Premier Hu Chunhua says his country respects Iran’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, days after Chinese President Xi Jinping and a number of Arab leaders issued a statement with aggressive rhetoric against Iran.
The chief commander of the Navy of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says extra-regional countries will seize Iran’s three Persian Gulf islands, to which Arab regimes lay claim, only over the dead body of the country’s Armed Forces.
A group of Iranian people and officials joined a funeral procession for Rostam Qassemi, the late minister of roads and urban development, in Tehran on Sunday, who died due to illness.
The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry has condemned as baseless allegations in the final communiqué issued at the 43rd session of the Supreme Council of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Iran's Foreign Ministry sommoned the UK ambassador to Tehran for "the continuation of the meddlesome statements of British officials about Iran’s internal developments and their support for terror and rioting and their imposition of illegal sanctions against a number of Iranian nationals."
The deputy director of political affairs at the Iranian president’s office, Mohammad Jamshidi, slams a joint China-Saudi Arabia statement critical of Tehran’s role in the region, reminding Beijing of Iran’s effective counter-terrorism fight in the region.
An Iranian official revises the death toll from a spate of terrorist attacks that rocked the southeastern city of Zahedan in late September to 35, up from 19.
The head of the Iranian association of hotel owners says the recent wave of social unrest and riots promoted 85% percent of the foreign tourists planning to visit Iran, to cancel their reservations in recent weeks.
A senior Iranian Sunni cleric has been kidnapped and murdered by unknown assailants in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, local officials say.
Iran’s top nuclear official once again dismisses the UN nuclear watchdog’s claims of the existence of “undeclared” nuclear sites in the country, saying such reports are based on baseless allegations by foreign spy services and the notorious Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terror group.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says Tehran will seriously follow up on efforts to identify, prosecute and punish the rioters and those who assassinated security forces during the recent wave of unrest in the country.
