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  • The foreign ministry's director general for human rights and women's affairs, Mansoure Sharifi Sadr, held separate meetings with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov and Director…

  • China says Iran and the major powers made some progress in the latest round of negotiations on Tehran's nuclear program in Geneva on Sunday.

  • German Ambassador to Tehran Michael von Ungern-Sternberg paid a courtesy call at Financial Tribune on Tuesday (January. 20) evening.

    He met the managing director and chief editor before…

  • In a letter to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the chairman of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee extended condolences over the martyrdom of a number of Hezbollah…

  • Former first vice president Mohammad Reza Aref said the reformists are able to win at least a simple majority in the Majlis in the 2016 parliamentary election if they become united and do not “…

  • Iraq’s Interior Minister Mohammed Salem al-Ghabban thanked Iran for backing the Iraqi government and people in their campaign against terrorism.

  • Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul on Tuesday and submitted President Hassan Rouhani's invitation to him for an official visit to Tehran.

  • The US Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee rescheduled for January 29 a hearing on Iran sanctions legislation entitled "Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2015", which was supposed to…

  • Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday he believes Iran and the US are “serious” about clinching a deal over Tehran’s nuclear program, adding that both sides are heading toward an…

  • The parliament speaker said Iran stands by the Palestinian nation and supports them against the Zionist regime.

  • Tehran and Moscow on Tuesday signed an agreement to increase military and defense cooperation.

    Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan and his Russian counterpart General Sergei…

  • Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari held a meeting with visiting Commandant of Oman's National Defense College Major General Salim bin Musallam Qatan on Tuesday, Fars news agency…

  • Claudia Roth, one of the vice presidents of the German parliament Bundestag, will travel to Tehran on Thursday for a three-day official visit, Fars news agency reported.

  • Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian traveled to Doha on Tuesday to attend the third meeting of Iran-Qatar political committee, Fars news agency reported.…

  • The foreign ministry condemned an Israeli strike in Syria that killed a number of senior members of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah.   

  • The navy's 33rd fleet set sail on Sunday on a mission which will take naval forces as far as the South China Sea to protect cargo ships and oil tankers in international waters.  

    The…

  • Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday the nuclear talks between Iran and the major powers have entered "detailed discussions" on Tehran's nuclear program, adding that the success of…

  • Iraq's Interior Minister Mohammed Salem al-Ghabban conferred with the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) in Tehran on Monday.

  • White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer says the Obama administration will continue consultations with the US Congress to prevent any new sanctions legislation against Iran, which it believes could…

  • A senior advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution described relations between Iran and China as "strategic".

    Ali Akbar Velayati, director of the Center for Strategic Research of the…

  • Prominent Egyptian journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal says cooperation and interaction between Iran and Arab countries can help correct misunderstandings between the two sides and promote their…

  • Former first vice president Mohammad Reza Aref says it is a “futile effort” to try to eliminate reformists because it is impossible to eliminate “reformist thinking”.

  • Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Director Ali Akbar Salehi says Tehran and Moscow have signed an agreement for the construction of two more nuclear power plants in Iran.

  • In a message to Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday, President Hassan Rouhani congratulated him on his election as new Sri Lankan president, IRNA reported.  "I extend my warm congratulations over…

  • First Vice President Es'haq Jahangiri is scheduled to travel to Iraq in the near future to meet with Iraqi officials to explore ways of expanding trade and economic ties between the two…