Politics

A member of Iran’s parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission has said they have invited FM to report on nuclear negotiations.

The sixth round of talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) over a comprehensive, final deal is slated for early July, diplomatic sources said Friday, adding that the current negotiations are making "good progress".

Iran and the six world powers have started drafting the final nuclear deal despite a lack of agreement on major issues, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday, asking the sextet to be realistic and stop raising excessive demands.

Iranian and Italian officials in a meeting in Rome agreed to work more closely together to fight against drug trafficking.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said the United States' wrong approach has made the terrorist groups increasingly stronger.

Iranian Foreign Ministerˈs Deputies Abbas Araghchi and Majid Takht Ravanchi conferred with Helga Schmid, the deputy of EU foreign policy chief on the third day of nuclear talks on Wednesday.

Iran’s president has said Iranians would protect holy shrine of Shiite imams in Iraqi religious cities.

If the international community recognizes Iranˈs right for peaceful use of nuclear energy, Tehran will be ready to take the final step towards resolution of the issue, President Hassan Rouhani said here on Wednesday.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague says "circumstances are right" for the reopening of Britain's embassy in Iran.

A senior Iranian nuclear negotiator has called on the six major world powers to remain “realistic” in the talks.

The nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 powers have reached a critical stage. I am reasonably confident that by next month’s deadline, we can reach a comprehensive agreement that will assure the world that Iran’s nuclear program will remain exclusively peaceful.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham strongly condemned the recent Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and lawmakers in Gaza, describing it as an indication of the Zionists' weakness and internal rifts.

Micheal Mann, the spokesman of the EU foreign policy chief, said Iran and the six world powers are working on the text of a possible agreement in their talks in Vienna, adding that the seven teams of negotiations are resolved to work out a deal pleasant to all parties.

Excessive demands by the US government and its allies from Iran over its nuclear energy program will backfire against Western interests, three university professors write for Press TV.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano held a meeting in Vienna on Tuesday morning to review the two sides' cooperation and the trend of talks between Iran and the world powers.

Official talks between the Islamic Republic of Iran and G5+1 resumed on Tuesday in Vienna.

Iran and the six world nations – known as the P5+1 – are determined to start drafting a comprehensive deal in Vienna talks, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi was quoted as saying on Sunday by Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, rapporteur of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission.

A high-profile German delegation has arrived in Iran to hold talks with senior Iranian officials aimed at bridging the gap between Tehran and Berlin in the negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear energy program.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has dismissed reports about the deployment of Iranian forces in Iraq, but expressed Tehran’s preparedness to provide any help upon Baghdad’s request to fight the Takfiri militants.

Thirty agents linked to the terrorist group al-Qaeda have been apprehended across Iran over the past month, says the country’s deputy intelligence minister.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a telephone conversation with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki discussed the latest developments in Iraq as well as ways to uproot terrorism.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Nobuo Kishi in a meeting in Tehran discussed different avenues for the further expansion of relations and cooperation between the two Asian states.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister and senior negotiator Seyed Abbas Araqchi underlined that talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Ryabkov in the Italian capital were specially important on the threshold of the multilateral negotiations between Tehran and the world powers in Vienna later this month.

Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Brigadier General Hossein Salami underlined IRGC's full readiness to foil enemies' plots, and said the enemies of Iran are in their weakest position.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Iraqi counterpart Hoshyar Zebari in a phone talk discussed the latest developments in the region, specially the recent terrorist operations in Iraq.