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  • Leader's top military advisor, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, said the self-styled Islamic State militant group further blackened its name among Muslims by conducting terror operations in the…

  • Iran's ambassador in Ankara highlighted the significant role Iran and Turkey can play in coordinating the fight against terrorism and extremism in the region. "The effective battle against…

  • A senior official warned that recent allegations made by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon against Iran's missile program indicate an anti-Iran plot is probably…

  • Iran is ready to cooperate with the Arab countries of Persian Gulf in fighting the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group.

    Interviewed by Kuwait's Al-Jarida newspaper, Alireza Enayati,…

  • A senior lawmaker said the United States and its allies used claims about weapons of mass destruction to gain access to Iraq's energy resources during the 2003 invasion of the Arab country.

  • China's delay in implementing its commitments under a cooperation agreement to redesign and rebuild the Arak heavy water reactor will fail to achieve its intended goal of securing concessions from…

  • President Hassan Rouhani held phone talks with seven world leaders this week on issues of mutual interest and concern and conveyed his felicitations on Eid al-Fitr.

    On Tuesday and Wednesday…

  • The police have announced that terrorists who recently killed four border guards in the southeast have fled into neighboring Pakistan. "Taking advantage of the Pakistani government's negligence,…

  • A foreign ministerial meeting of Caspian Sea states will be held in Astana July 12-13. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova made the statement at a press briefing on Thursday. "…

  • Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the arrogant western powers seek to create some breathing space for Israel and push the issue of Palestine into oblivion.

  • US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump does not plan to "get rid of" Iran's nuclear deal but he will "revise" it if he wins the White House in the 2016 presidential election, said his…

  • The Foreign Ministry censured Israel's decision to construct more illegal settler homes in the occupied Palestinian lands, saying its expansionist policies make a mockery of international law.

  • Newly-appointed Chairman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri says countering threats and increasing the defense ability of the military will remain a…

  • Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, exchanged views about ways to boost cooperation between the two countries in the implementation of the July 2015 nuclear…

  • Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran will not give up the fight against terrorism until terrorists and their ideology are defeated.

    "We should not and will not rest until those…

  • A senior advisor to the foreign minister underlined that Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa's endorsement of the decision to revoke the citizenship of senior Shia cleric Sheikh Issa Qassim…

  • In a message Sunday President Hassan Rouhani extended congratulations to his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, and his people on the occasion of Independence Day of the eastern…

  • President Hassan Rouhani says responding to demands of the people can and will be possible only with coordination among the three branches of government, namely the government and parliament.

  • The Foreign Ministry on Sunday said evidence and documents indicate that the four diplomats abducted in Lebanon in 1982 are alive and held by Israel.

    In a statement on the occasion of the…

  • A reformist politician says "the lamentable record" of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes him incapable of seriously challenging President Hassan Rouhani in the 2017  …

  • A lawmaker says the United States is itself a major sponsor of rebel groups and terrorists and always is in search of pretexts to undermine the Iranian economy.

  • Iran’s air defense force plans to stage five large-scale war games in the coming months, in which new missile and radar systems are to be tested, a top commander announced.  Commander of…

  • Spokesman for the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said Tehran opposes the oft mentioned two-state solution to the Palestinian crisis, as it runs counter to the democratic…

  • The Navy successfully thwarted a major pirate attack on an Iranian vessel in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait.

  • A senior naval commander dismissed claims that the US Navy had shot down an Iranian civilian plane in July 1988 as a result of a mistaken identity or system malfunctioning.