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  • The parliament is ready to hold next year's city council polls electronically, a senior lawmaker said, in another attempt to replace old-school ballot boxes with voting machines in Iranian…

  • A senior parliamentary official warned the United States that it will face the Islamic Republic's retaliation, should it violate the Iran nuclear deal. The warning came a day after the House of…

  • The Foreign Min istry spokesman said the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations are not meant to be exploited by western powers in their "political games" to put pressure on independent…

  • US President Barack Obama said on Monday he expects that his successor will likely reconsider campaign vows to undo some of Obama’s signature international accomplishments, including the Iran…

  • Iran is fully prepared to hold joint military drills with China, said the chairman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.

  • Seventy-six national security experts urged US president-elect Donald Trump on Monday to reverse his hostility to the nuclear agreement signed with Iran last year and to use it as a tool to ease…

  • Iran’s Foreign Ministry deplored as unacceptable the killing of Nigerian Muslims by the police in the African country’s northern state of Kano.

    “The recurrent scene of cruel massacre of…

  • A top advisor to the Leader of Islamic Revolution on international affairs reiterated that Iran’s advisory role in neighboring Iraq is aimed at averting a disintegration of the war-ravaged Arab…

  • President Hassan Rouhani plans to go on a tour of the Caucasus and Central Asia in the near future, which will take him to Armenia, then Kazakhstan and finally Kyrgyzstan.

  • President Hassan Rouhani called for closer defense cooperation with China and joint efforts to safeguard security in Asia.

    "One could not make a distinction between security in different…

  • President Hassan Rouhani said the Islamic Republic and Russia will proceed with their "strategic" cooperation in the campaign against terrorism until the elimination of this malicious phenomenon…

  • Top military aide to the Leader of Islamic Revolution Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi expressed hope that US president-elect Donald Trump would change the country’s hostile policies toward Iran…

  • Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi underlined that religion plays no role in the differences between Iran and Saudi Arabia, stressing that Israel is benefiting the most from the rift between…

  • The top EU diplomat said last year’s nuclear deal between Tehran and major powers is enshrined in a UN Security Council resolution and cannot be altered by one government, stressing that it is in…

  • The European Council released a statement at the end of its meeting on Iran on Monday, in which it reiterated its commitment to helping facilitate the full implementation of the Iran nuclear deal…

  • Iranian and Chinese defense chiefs signed a defense agreement in Tehran on Monday, a sign of strengthening alignment between the two militaries in the chaotic West Asia.

  • President Hassan Rouhani called for closer cooperation between government and the public to help address unemployment, water shortage and environmental crises, the country's top problems.

  • The top Iranian lawmaker praised Russia's "positive" role in the West Asian conflicts and its significant contribution to the anti-terror battle.

    Ali Larijani made the statement in a…

  • The Iranian nation's support for the Islamic Republic has remarkably immunized the country against threats and foreign pressure, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said.

  • Russia's upper house of parliament speaker, heading a high-ranking delegation, arrived in Tehran on Sunday for a two-day official visit to discuss ways of relations between the two countries. The…

  • The visiting Chinese defense minister is to sign an agreement on defense and military cooperation in Tehran.

    General Chang Wanquan has traveled to Iran at the head of a high-ranking…

  • A senior lawmaker said the Islamic Republic will act on par with the United States in case of any violation in the implementation of last year's nuclear agreement signed between Iran and six major…

  • Lawmakers said the United States is bound by the 2015 nuclear agreement to let a deal for the sale of Boeing passenger aircraft to Iran to go through.

    Two years of negotiations between Iran…

  • A senior lawmaker said the six world powers that signed the July 2015 nuclear deal are responsible for the violation of the accord by any of them, amid an atmosphere of uncertainty regarding the…

  • Iran’s Foreign Ministry denounced a huge terrorist attack in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province, which killed tens of innocent people, including women and children.

    At least 47 people were…