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A special parliamentary board in charge of overseeing the forthcoming city council elections has finished vetting candidates and it has approved 2,722 hopefuls to vie for 31 seats in Tehran City…

Presidential candidate Ebrahim Raeisi selected Ali Nikzad, a former housing minister under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as the head of his campaign office.

Six hopefuls cleared to run for president by the election watchdog Guardians Council started on Friday their campaigns for the May 19 vote.  

The list shaping the field of candidates…

Iran strongly countered US efforts to divert the United Nations Security Council's attention away from Israel and instead target the Islamic Republic.

UN Ambassador Gholamali Khoshroo…

Beijing said Iranian and Chinese companies will sign the first commercial contracts to redesign the Arak heavy water nuclear reactor in central Iran by Sunday. Chinese Foreign Ministry…

President Hassan Rouhani hailed people's tolerance of sanctions and their trust in the government's nuclear negotiations that resulted in the removal of the bans, stressing that safeguarding the…

Iran’s top diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif advised US officials, who have leveled a series of anti-Iran tirades in recent days, to replace their hostile behavior toward the Iranian nation with a “…

A series of domestically-manufactured equipment in the field of air defense and civil aviation, including radars and navigation systems for airports, were unveiled in a ceremony on Thursday during…

Expert-level meetings attended by Iran, Russia and Turkey ended on Thursday with a press release on the preparations made for the next round of Syria peace negotiations in the Kazakh city of…

Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari highlighted the deep ties between Tehran and Baghdad, and lauded Iran’s support for Iraq’s counter-terrorism campaign.

Iran's Interior Ministry has released the final list of candidates qualified to run in the May 19 presidential election.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev met in Bishkek on Wednesday to discuss ways of promoting mutual cooperation.

Both sides underlined the need for…

Guardians Council’s Spokesman Abbasali Kadkhodaei explained the process started on Sunday to screen 1,636 nominees registered for the May 19 presidential election.

The council oversees all…

Lawmakers described Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri’s decision to stand in the upcoming presidential poll as a well-thought-out move aimed at protecting President Hassan Rouhani’s reelection bid…

The role of foreign financial institutions in implementing Iran’s nuclear agreement with world powers could be the most critical issue at the upcoming meeting of the commission on the Joint…

A lawmaker censured the recent hostile remarks of a UAE official meant to provoke disputes among Iran’s ethnic Kurds, noting that such comments are the result of blind adherence to the US policies…

The administration of US President Donald Trump has notified the US Congress that Iran is complying with the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated by former president Barack Obama, and says…

Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei highlighted the upcoming elections and the economic situation as top issues, stressing that sound and vibrant elections boost Iran’s…

Iran hopes to develop close ties in all areas of cooperation with Russia, Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanaei said on Tuesday. “The visit by Iranian [President Hassan] Rouhani that took…

The Trump White House is poised to ratchet up existing sanctions against Iran and is weighing a much stricter interpretation of the nuclear agreement between Tehran and major powers.

The US…

A two-day preparatory meeting for the fourth round of Astana talks on Syria, scheduled for May 3-4, opened in Tehran on Tuesday.

The closed-door meeting was attended by experts from Iran,…

Iran agreed on Monday to accelerate its domestic procedures for the ratification of an extradition deal with South Korea by the end of this year, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said. The agreement…

Malicious computer malware that caused substantial damage to Iran's nuclear program may be the work of the US National Security Agency, researchers burrowing into the latest leak from hacking…

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif offered his congratulations over the Turkish people’s “Yes” vote in a referendum allowing changes to the country’s constitution.

Zarif…

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Georgian counterpart, Mikheil Janelidze, met in Tbilisi on Tuesday to discuss ways of promoting mutual cooperation.

Zarif set off on a tour of…