Tehran Friday Prayer Leader Kazem Seddiqi said the continued detention and planned trial of Bahraini opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman will accelerate the fall of the Al Khalifa ruling family.…
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Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter expressed his country's readiness to help push ahead the talks between Iran and the six major powers over Tehran's nuclear program in an effort to clinch a…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday there had been progress in world powers’ talks with Iran on its nuclear program and there were grounds to believe an agreement could be…
Spain’s foreign minister has expressed hope that Iran would join the global fight against extremist groups if Tehran reached an agreement with world powers over its disputed nuclear program.
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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei pointed to the importance of winning international sports titles in creating a sense of “national pride” among the public and said…
President Hassan Rouhani has condemned any act of violence perpetrated in the name of Islam, including the recent Paris shooting, as well as disrespecting religions under the pretext of freedom of…
An Iranian general killed in an Israeli air strike in Syria was not its intended target, and Israel believed it was attacking only low-ranking guerrillas, Reuters quoted a senior security source…
The UK Foreign Office accused Home Secretary Theresa May of hampering efforts to reopen the British Embassy in Tehran and undermining "delicate negotiations" for normalization of ties with Iran.…
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said expansion of relations with the neighboring countries is a top foreign policy priority.
Upon his arrival in Tehran after a one-day visit to…
US President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, said any new sanctions on Iran while the nuclear talks between Tehran and the major powers are underway would guarantee the…
The 10th summit of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Member States (PUIC) opened in Istanbul, Turkey on Tuesday.
A senior security official said on Tuesday Iran is ready for "straight talks" with Saudi Arabia over contentious issues that have negatively affected relations between the two regional powers.…
The foreign ministry's director general for human rights and women's affairs, Mansoure Sharifi Sadr, held separate meetings with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov and Director…
China says Iran and the major powers made some progress in the latest round of negotiations on Tehran's nuclear program in Geneva on Sunday.
German Ambassador to Tehran Michael von Ungern-Sternberg paid a courtesy call at Financial Tribune on Tuesday (January. 20) evening.
He met the managing director and chief editor before…
In a letter to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the chairman of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee extended condolences over the martyrdom of a number of Hezbollah…
Former first vice president Mohammad Reza Aref said the reformists are able to win at least a simple majority in the Majlis in the 2016 parliamentary election if they become united and do not “…
Iraq’s Interior Minister Mohammed Salem al-Ghabban thanked Iran for backing the Iraqi government and people in their campaign against terrorism.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul on Tuesday and submitted President Hassan Rouhani's invitation to him for an official visit to Tehran.
The US Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee rescheduled for January 29 a hearing on Iran sanctions legislation entitled "Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2015", which was supposed to…
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday he believes Iran and the US are “serious” about clinching a deal over Tehran’s nuclear program, adding that both sides are heading toward an…
The parliament speaker said Iran stands by the Palestinian nation and supports them against the Zionist regime.
Tehran and Moscow on Tuesday signed an agreement to increase military and defense cooperation.
Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan and his Russian counterpart General Sergei…
Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari held a meeting with visiting Commandant of Oman's National Defense College Major General Salim bin Musallam Qatan on Tuesday, Fars news agency…
Claudia Roth, one of the vice presidents of the German parliament Bundestag, will travel to Tehran on Thursday for a three-day official visit, Fars news agency reported.
