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Iran’s minister of labor is reportedly slated to leave office, the first ministerial resignation in President Ebrahim Raisi’s government less than a year since he took office.
The head of the media center of Iran’s Expediency Council has denied a report that Saeed Jalili and Ali Larijani, both members of the body, clashed verbally at a session of the council on Saturday over quote Jalili’s proposal that Iran should leave the NPT.
An Iranian news website has claimed a member of Iran’s Expediency Council caused a controversy at a meeting of the body after he proposed that Tehran leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Turkmenistan’s president is going to visit Iran at the head of a high-ranking political and economic delegation on Tuesday. IRNA said Serdar Berdimuhamedow is travelling to Tehran at the invitation of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
A video has gone viral on social media showing a motorcyclist trying to infiltrate a motorcade of the Venezuelan president moving along a street in Tehran.
The spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry has dismissed the comments by the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency on visiting the country for technical talks, saying he can visit but as a tourist.
An Iranian news outlet claims that Hojjat Abdolmaleki, Minister of Labor, Cooperation and Social Welfare of Iran, is going to be the first cabinet member of President Ebrahim Raisi’s administration to leave office.
Tehran’s ambassador to Caracas says direct flights between Iran and Venezuela will start next weekend, as the two countries work to facilitate bilateral trade ties.
A political analyst highlights Israel’s “overt interference” in the affairs of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), saying the latest Western-drafted resolution passed at the IAEA, following Israeli lobbying, is designed to exert more pressure on Iran.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has said the recent IAEA resolution against Iran showed that Western governments are not serious about removing sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has said Iran will stand up against any excessive demand by its adversaries during talks over the nuclear issue with full force.
Iranian lawmakers have signed a statement, condemning the recent IAEA resolution against Iran over its nuclear energy program, and reitrating the agency and its cheif lack technical legitimacy. The statement was signed by 260 MPs.
An Iranian lawmaker has slammed as partial the recent resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors that criticizes the country’s nuclear activities, saying she sees no reason for more goodwill gestures by Tehran.
The spokesman for the Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy commission has said the legislative body will look into suspension of Iran's membership in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Iran’s Interior Ministry says Afghans who fail to participate in an ongoing census for foreigners will be treated as illegal and deported from the country.
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said the experience of the Islamic Republic and Venezuela showed that the only path to victory against the US pressures is resistance.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says Iran has faced many sanctions and threats over the past 40-plus years, but the nation has decided to turn the bans into an opportunity to make progress.
The United Sates and the UN atomic agency are working in tandem to pile more pressure on Iran over the standoff with Iran’s nuclear case, a veteran Iranian diplomat says.
Iran and Venezuela signed a 20-year cooperation agreement on Saturday to bolster partnership in various fields, including oil, petrochemical and tourism sectors.
An Iranian daily says national unity can turn the tide against the US regarding Iran’s nuclear case, arguing that the recent anti-Iran resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s Board of Governors shows the Iranian authorities’ weak diplomatic performance.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has, in a phone conversation with his Syrian counterpart, strongly condemned Israel’s recent attacks on Damascus airport.
