Health Minister Saeed Namaki said on Tuesday daily deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic have dropped by 40% in the past three weeks, as tightened safety measures and increased public…
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Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, ex-judiciary chief and Islamic jurist, passed away at the age of 89 on Wednesday. Born in 1931 in Iran’s central city of Isfahan, Ayatollah Yazdi became a leading…
Iran will soon start vaccinating its high-risk population against Covid-19, President Hassan Rouhani announced on Wednesday. "Last night, I ordered Health Minister Saeed Namaki to purchase the…
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underlined the significance of the Khaf-Herat railroad ahead of the project’s inauguration on Thursday. “The Khaf-Herat railroad’s significance is…
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov described Iran as a friendly neighbor, reiterating the determination of top officials in Baku to expand multifaceted ties with Tehran. …
Iran is negotiating with four vaccine manufacturing countries to pre-order 21 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to halt the spread of the infectious disease that has killed over 50,000 Iranians…
Iran said European powers are pursuing the United States’ “maximum pressure” policy against Iran under the guise of demanding fresh talks.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad discussed a broad range of issues in a meeting in Tehran on Monday. Mekdad arrived in the Iranian capital on…
Health Minister Saeed Namaki on Sunday night cautioned against false assumptions of a return to normality due to the recent drop in cases and deaths, noting that complacency could make the…
A senior diplomat said Iran’s decisions on the development of its nuclear program are based on its interests and not affected by foreign pressures. “Iran makes decisions on its…
Overnight deaths caused by the coronavirus outbreak in Iran fell to its lowest in nearly two months, returning to just under 300, and confirmed cases sank below 12,000 for the first time in…
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on the three European powers to correct their own wrongful conduct before setting limits for Iran’s activities.
Iran’s representative to Vienna-based organizations censured the International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday for breaching the confidentiality of safeguards information, after classified…
President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday said coronavirus transmissions have declined in Tehran, now on alert Level Two, but that it can regress to Level Three within a week or two, if health…
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the United States to first show goodwill by respecting the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal, saying Iran will then return to full compliance.…
The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Iran soared past one million on Thursday, less than 10 months into the pandemic, as the Health Ministry reported a decline in hospitalizations…
The government on Wednesday wrote a letter to the Guardians Council about its concerns over a parliamentary bill on countering sanctions, which requires Iran to curb cooperation with the United…
The National Coronavirus Taskforce moved 96 cities across the country, including the capital Tehran, from the alert level “red” to “orange”, as restrictive measures introduced since last month…
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called attention to an anti-Iran psychological operation by the Saudi-Israeli-US axis that resulted in the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist…
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has expressed opposition to a parliament bill on countering sanctions, saying it fails to take the ministry’s expert views into account. “We regret that our views…
Iran’s latest scheme to stem the spread of Covid-19 involves speeding up testing and isolating infected patients, Tehran’s Governor General Anoushirvan Mohseni Bandpey said on Tuesday. “The…
The Joint Commission of Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal is slated to hold a meeting in Vienna Austria, on Dec. 16 at the level of deputy ministers and political directors.
Health Minister Saeed Namaki on Monday said infections are set to peak once again during winter and urged against toleration of Covid-19 protocol violations. “We are going to face a winter peak…
President Hassan Rouhani offered condolences on the demise of senior Iranian cleric and politician, Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Mohammad Ali Shahidi, in a message on Sunday.
The Iranian Parliament on Sunday passed a double-urgency motion for the bill on “strategic measures for the removal of sanctions”. The single urgency had earlier been passed in early…
