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  • The European Union extended by another year sanctions against Iran over alleged claims of “human rights violations” despite rapprochement between Tehran and the bloc after the 2015 landmark…

  • Lawmakers have called on the government to protest Britain's decision to prevent Iran's yellowcake purchase deal with Kazakhstan in the next meeting of a panel that oversees the implementation of…

  • A lawmaker dismissed the US threats of imposing new sanctions against Iran and Russia over their roles in the Syria conflict, noting that the recent US attack against Syria was a "clear breach of…

  • Several high-profile politicians signed up to run for president on Wednesday, the second registration day.

    The signing up process for the May 19 presidential election started at the…

  • A naval flotilla of Iran's Caspian Sea fleet, including an indigenous destroyer and a missile-launching corvette, berthed at the Kazakh port city of Aktau on Tuesday.

  • Islamic Revolution Guards Corps forces have arrested two people behind the Monday night’s assassination of a local IRGC commander in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan.

  • Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will travel to Moscow this week for a trilateral meeting with his Russian and Syrian counterparts, a spokesman said. According to Foreign Ministry Spokesman…

  • Naval forces from Iran and Oman held joint drills in the northern waters of the Indian Ocean to practice maritime rescue and relief operations. An Iranian naval flotilla berthed at Oman's capital…

  • A statement released by the joint command operation center of Syrian allies, a group that includes Russia and Iran, warned the US against further military actions in the war-torn country,…

  • A commander with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps has reportedly been assassinated by two terrorists in southeast Iran.

    Commander Ruhollah Aali was gunned down by “two takfiri terrorists…

  • Iran’s foreign minister restated Tehran’s stance on the establishment of an international fact-finding mission to probe the recent chemical attack in Syria, condemning the US strike on a…

  • President Hassan Rouhani reiterated the readiness to work toward a detente with Saudi Arabia, in a sign of goodwill in the Islamic Republic's foreign policy.

  • Iran's Interior Ministry started registering hopefuls for the May presidential elections at its Election Headquarters in Tehran on Tuesday, as curious Iranians wait to see the contenders aiming to…

  • Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said higher employment is not possible unless domestic production is boosted and this objective will not be attained without the…

  • Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said terrorism poses a threat to the followers of all divine religions, stressing that acts of terror are aimed at inciting religious sedition.

  • A senior conservative politician believes the alliance of principlists for the forthcoming elections is not a target easily achievable, adding that major conservative parties approve the overall…

  • President Hassan Rouhani, during a Sunday telephone call with Syrian President Bashar Assad, censured the US hostile move against the Arab country as an infringement of international regulations…

  • Iran's nuclear chief highlighted the positive developments following the 2015 nuclear agreement, citing among other things the recent injection of uranium gas into Iran's latest generation of…

  • Iran on Sunday celebrated the National Nuclear Technology Day with an exhibition of the latest accomplishments of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, which included devices jointly produced…

  • Iran's Foreign Ministry rejected as "ill-advised" the comments made by Jordan's king who has accused Iran of being involved in strategic problems in the Middle East, saying his move to place Iran…

  • Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Friday's US missile assault on an airbase in Syria was "a strategic mistake".  "What the Americans did was a strategic mistake…

  • Narges Kalbasi, an aid worker acquitted weeks ago of charges of alleged negligence leading to the death of an Indian child Asim Jilakara during a picnic she had organized, said she finally…

  • Lawmaker Kazem Jalali has been elected as the deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Jalali was already a member of the executive committee, to which he was…

  • A naval flotilla of Iran's Caspian Sea fleet, comprising an indigenous destroyer and a missile-launching corvette, began a journey to Kazakhstan on Saturday as part of routine and friendly port…

  • Singapore’s Senior Minister of State for Defense and Foreign Affairs Mohamad Maliki Osman stressed the need to boost his country’s relations with the Islamic Republic in various areas,…