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January 12, 2021 21:13
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December 13,2020Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi will be leading the Iranian delegation in the meeting of the 2015 nuclear deal’s Joint Commission scheduled for Dec. 16 via... -
December 13,2020Iran’s permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Austria, has called on the International Atomic Energy Agency to maintain its impartiality in the face of pressure by the... -
December 13,2020President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday announced that most provinces across Iran are reporting a decline in infections, as National Coronavirus Headquarters removed a further 22 cities from red alert... -
December 11,2020Health Minister Saeed Namaki said on Tuesday daily deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic have dropped by 40% in the past three weeks, as tightened safety measures and increased public... -
December 11,2020Health Minister Saeed Namaki said on Tuesday daily deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic have dropped by 40% in the past three weeks, as tightened safety measures and increased public... -
December 09,2020Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underlined the significance of the Khaf-Herat railroad ahead of the project’s inauguration on Thursday. -
December 09,2020Iran will soon start vaccinating its high-risk population against Covid-19, President Hassan Rouhani announced on Wednesday. -
December 09,2020Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov described Iran as a friendly neighbor, reiterating the determination of top officials in Baku to expand multifaceted ties with Tehran. -
December 09,2020Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, ex-judiciary chief and Islamic jurist, passed away at the age of 89 on Wednesday. -
December 09,2020Iran is negotiating with four vaccine manufacturing countries to pre-order 21 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to halt the spread of the infectious disease that has killed over 50,000 Iranians... -
December 07,2020Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad discussed a broad range of issues in a meeting in Tehran on Monday. -
December 07,2020Iran said European powers are pursuing the United States’ “maximum pressure” policy against Iran under the guise of demanding fresh talks. -
December 07,2020Health Minister Saeed Namaki on Sunday night cautioned against false assumptions of a return to normality due to the recent drop in cases and deaths, noting that complacency could make the... -
December 06,2020Overnight deaths caused by the coronavirus outbreak in Iran fell to its lowest in nearly two months, returning to just under 300, and confirmed cases sank below 12,000 for the first time in three... -
December 06,2020A senior diplomat said Iran’s decisions on the development of its nuclear program are based on its interests and not affected by foreign pressures. -
December 05,2020Iran’s representative to Vienna-based organizations censured the International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday for breaching the confidentiality of safeguards information, after classified... -
December 05,2020Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on the three European powers to correct their own wrongful conduct before setting limits for Iran’s activities. -
December 05,2020President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday said coronavirus transmissions have declined in Tehran, now on alert Level Two, but that it can regress to Level Three within a week or two, if health protocols... -
December 05,2020Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the United States to first show goodwill by respecting the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal, saying Iran will then return to full compliance. -
December 05,2020The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Iran soared past one million on Thursday, less than 10 months into the pandemic, as the Health Ministry reported a decline in hospitalizations and... -
December 03,2020The government on Wednesday wrote a letter to the Guardians Council about its concerns over a parliamentary bill on countering sanctions, which requires Iran to curb cooperation with the United... -
December 03,2020The National Coronavirus Taskforce moved 96 cities across the country, including the capital Tehran, from the alert level “red” to “orange”, as restrictive measures introduced since last month... -
December 01,2020Iran’s Foreign Ministry has expressed opposition to a parliament bill on countering sanctions, saying it fails to take the ministry’s expert views into account. -
December 01,2020Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called attention to an anti-Iran psychological operation by the Saudi-Israeli-US axis that resulted in the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist,... -
December 01,2020Iran’s latest scheme to stem the spread of Covid-19 involves speeding up testing and isolating infected patients, Tehran’s Governor General Anoushirvan Mohseni Bandpey said on Tuesday.
