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  • A senior security official said on Tuesday Iran is ready for "straight talks" with Saudi Arabia over contentious issues that have negatively affected relations between the two regional powers.…

  • 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…