President Hassan Rouhani said the much-needed boost in employment figures is contingent on attracting investments, streamlining the key banking sector and developing knowledge-based companies.
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A foreign policy advisor to the Leader of Islamic Revolution dismissed recent remarks by a Saudi official to bring “the battle” for regional influence to Iran as empty rhetoric, noting that Riyadh…
The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said new reliable intelligence has been obtained by the IRGC that reconfirms Saudi Arabia ordered the self-styled Islamic State to carry out…
Promoting security in neighboring countries and the wider region is a foreign policy priority of the government in Tehran and the security of all Middle East nations, including Saudi Arabia, is…
Littoral states in Gulf of Aden are making deliberate attempts to disrupt the presence of Iranian naval flotillas in the high seas, the Navy commander said. He, however, noted that Iranian forces…
In his introductory statement to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors in Vienna on Monday, the director of the UN nuclear watchdog updated the members on the enforcement of…
A former envoy to Germany listed evidence to bolster Tehran's case that Saudi Arabia was behind last week's terrorist attacks on the Iranian Majlis and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini…
President Hassan Rouhani has underlined the need to promote greater political and ethnic tolerance in society.
Identifying the root causes of domestic “ethnic, gender-related and political…
The chairman of Majlis Education Commission said his panel opposes the enforcement of the UN Education 2030 plan, which has recently emerged as a major bone of contention between the government…
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in the Norwegian capital on Monday to attend the Oslo Forum, an annual international conference on ways to promote international peace attended by…
In a message to his Russian counterpart, President Hassan Rouhani called for closer cooperation between the two countries at the international level.
Foreign Ministry spokesman reiterated Iran's call on all sides involved in a political crisis between its southern Arab neighbors to show restraint and solve their differences through dialogue.
President Hassan Rouhani said preferring peace with foes is more difficult than choosing war, and tolerating peace is much harder than confrontation with adversaries.
He made the statement…
The Navy commander announced that Iranian warships have provided security for thousands of oil tankers and cargo ships in the high seas.
A nuclear negotiator said the US Senate’s recent legislation to impose new sanctions on Iran runs counter to Washington’s commitment under the nuclear deal to act in good faith and refrain from…
Qatar's foreign minister expressed desire for constructive relations with Iran after several Persian Gulf Arab countries and Egypt cut their diplomatic ties with Doha.
A lawmaker has called on organizers to hold future elections using e-voting machines, saying this is "the only safe, proper and indisputable" way of conducting polls.
The commander of a terrorist cell responsible for the twin Islamic State-claimed attacks in Tehran last Wednesday "was neutralized" Saturday in a joint operation involving security agents and "…
South Korea's Ambassador to Iran Kim Seung-ho called for expansion of trade relations between Seoul and Tehran. "Iran is a major supplier of crude oil to South Korea and without Iran's oil, the…
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei called on poets to focus on poems satirizing the contemporary world's strange and bitter facts, such as the US partnership with Saudi…
Foreign Ministry spokesman denounced Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government for its plan to hold an independence referendum, saying Iran supports territorial integrity of its neighboring Arab…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday she was concerned about the situation in Qatar, stressing that all Persian Gulf Arab nations, plus Iran and Turkey, should work together to resolve…
A US Republican senator warned about the consequences of fresh US sanctions against Iran, saying such unilateral measures could prove counterproductive.
The US Senate voted overwhelmingly…
A delegation from Palestinian resistance movement Hamas headed by the new leader of the movement’s political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, plans to visit Iran in the near future, according to a Hamas…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday he and his Iranian counterpart Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif discussed the process to help end the Syria crisis and how the Qatar…
