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  • Deputy Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah Naim Qassem said it is necessary for regional countries to have cooperation with Iran to be able to “protect their borders maintain their integrity…

  • Iran and Uruguay denied a report by Israeli media about the expulsion of an Iranian diplomat from Uruguay over his alleged involvement in a fake bomb incident in the Latin American country’s…

  • The spokesman for the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said Iran does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, particularly Yemen, and has no intention to do…

  • A member of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said the repetition of "false claims" by the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) indicates that the UN…

  • The chief of staff of the presidential office said efforts by the Rouhani administration have caused Iranophobia to turn into pro-Iran sentiments at international level.

  • Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held a series of high-level meetings on the sidelines of the annual Munich Security Conference in Germany as part of efforts to push for a deal with the major…

  • A senior Chinese diplomat said a “major opportunity” has arisen for the resolution of the long-running dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program, saying Beijing is ready to help the nuclear talks…

  • International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano claimed Iran had so far been unresponsive to a series of questions regarding its nuclear program and had failed to…

  • Former diplomat Hossein Mousavian said in an opinion piece for the USA Today on Friday that during the ongoing nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN…

  • The deputy foreign minister expressed hope that independence, freedom, strength, progress, stability and integrity would be promoted in Egypt.

  • Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denied the report that in his nuclear meetings with US Secretary of State John Kerry the issue of Iran's domestic politics has been raised.

  • In a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon published on Saturday, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the fact that attacking Islamic values has become widespread in western societies…

  • A member of the Assembly of Experts' presiding board said the chair of the assembly will be appointed at the next meeting of the clerical body which is scheduled to be held on March 6-7.

  • The chairman of the Majlis subcommittee on the Caspian Sea told ICANA on Friday a meeting on the legal regime of the sea will be held in Golestan Province in late February. Nozar Shafiei said such…

  • The caretaker of the permanent mission to the United Nations described “illegitimate” and “illegal” sanctions as an important contributing factor to the increase in inequalities in the countries…

  • A Russian lawmaker commented that expansion of relations between Tehran and Moscow is of “strategic importance”.  

  • A foreign ministry official decried the recent brutal killing of a Jordanian pilot and the beheading of two Japanese nationals by the self-declared Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, calling on…

  • Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said many countries have economic transactions with Iran which do not go against UN restrictions on the country.    

  • Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accompanied by his deputies Abbas Araqchi and Majid Takht-Ravanchi left Tehran for Germany on Friday to attend the Munich Security Conference which started on…

  • The deputy foreign minister said the achievements gained in the battle against terrorism can be sustained through implementing political initiatives.

    Hossein Amir Abdollahian made the…

  • A foreign ministry official denied the reports that an Iranian national has recently been shot dead by the Turkmen police in the Caspian Sea.

  • A foreign ministry official said Iran would increase the number of its uranium enrichment machines if the United States imposed new sanctions.  

  • The head of the Iran-Malaysia Parliamentary Friendship Group, Mehdi Zahedi, and Malaysian Parliament Speaker Pandigar Amin Mulia called for expansion of cooperation between the two countries in…

  • Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said on Thursday Iran has formed bonds and promoted mutual trust with regional nations, IRNA reported.   "Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan are now…

  • c certainly "unite and put up a single list of candidates" in the 2016 parliamentary election.