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  • President Hassan Rouhani will participate in a trilateral summit attended by his Azeri and Russian counterparts in Baku next month.

    Rouhani will leave Tehran for the Azeri capital on August…

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  • Islamic Revolution Guards Corps forces dismantled two terrorist groups in northwestern Iran and killed 23 militants, a commander announced. "Two teams of terrorists were fully destroyed in the…

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  • Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani criticized some western states and Saudi Arabia for their attempts to prevent Iran from receiving the benefits of last year's nuclear deal with world powers.

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  • Islamic Revolution Guards Corps forces have arrested three people suspected of being behind a recent terrorist attack targeting a lawmaker in the western province of Kermanshah, an IRGC commander…

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  • A nuclear official said Tehran intends to send a note of protest to the UN nuclear agency over the leak of a confidential document it submitted to the agency outlining its plans to expand its…

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  • Naval vessels have been equipped with Chaff, a radar countermeasure system using metal projectiles to confuse and distract anti-ship missiles, Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari…

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  • Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif scorned the West over its “deafening” silence on atrocities committed by the western-backed militants in Syria.

    Zarif posted a tweet on Friday after a…

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  • Croatian Parliament Speaker Zeljko Reiner in a meeting with Iran’s Ambassador in Zagreb Mohammad Reza Sadeq called for expansion of mutual interactions.

    “Parliamentary relations between…

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  • A senior nuclear official said on Saturday Iran has the capability of restoring its uranium enrichment operations and even developing its capacity if the nuclear deal with world powers fails as a…

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  • Iran's Foreign Ministry censured Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir for his "ludicrous, baseless and repetitious" allegations against the Islamic Republic.

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  • Iran stands prepared to quickly restore previous levels of nuclear activity in case other parties to the 2015 nuclear deal renege on their commitments, the nuclear chief said.

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  • A senior diplomat said Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif's West African tour has the potential to take Iran's relations with the black continent to a higher level, as the July 2015 nuclear…

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  • Islamic Revolution Guards Corps forces have dismantled a group of four counter-revolutionary outlaws close to the Turkish border in West Azarbaijan Province.

    On Thursday, Alireza Madani,…

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  • Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will start a tour of West African nations on Sunday as part of regular diplomatic travels. In his six-day tour, Zarif is scheduled to visit Nigeria, Ghana,…

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  • Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani blamed the US administration for keeping anti-Iran sanctions in place though it was supposed to terminate them under last year’s nuclear agreement, saying Americans…

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  • Ali Akbar Velayati, an international advisor to the Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, called for efforts to strengthen and diversify relations between Iran and Malaysia,…

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  • A senior Russian diplomat said it is "fair" for Iran to reproach the West for dragging its feet in fulfilling its part of last year's nuclear deal amid Tehran's complaints that it has not received…

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  • A lawmaker said furious anti-Iran remarks by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir in recent months stem from his frustration with the kingdom's regional failures.

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  • Security forces have arrested 40 members of a terror cell that planned to carry out attacks in the eastern parts of the country, the interior minister said.

    On Thursday, Abdolreza Rahmani…

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  • A former Iranian diplomat criticized the support of some European and regional states for certain terrorist groups as a major obstacle to an effective global anti-terror campaign.

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  • Chief nuclear envoy, Abbas Araqchi, said the world powers with which Iran concluded a deal last year to curb its atomic program in exchange for sanctions relief had agreed with Tehran on Tuesday…

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  • United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hailed Iran's full commitment to its nuclear deal with major powers.

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  • Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati was reelected chairman of the Guardians Council.

    In a Wednesday meeting of the council in Tehran, Mohammad Reza Alizadeh was elected deputy chairman of the council…

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  • Mohammad Reza Aref, the top vote-getter in the recent Majlis polls in Tehran constituency, was elected chairman of the parliamentary faction “Hope”. In a meeting of the General Assembly of the…

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  • Iran's parliament speaker has urged its atomic energy organization to begin to consider ramping up nuclear enrichment in response to the US measures against last year's nuclear deal.

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