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  • US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz said the joint statement outlining the key parameters of a final nuclear deal issued in Lausanne on April 2 provides a "sound path" toward reaching a settlement…

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  • In a decree issued on Sunday, Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli appointed his deputy for political affairs Mohammad Hossein Moqimi as head of the election headquarters, which is tasked…

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  • Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was expected to arrive in Madrid today to hold talks with Spanish officials on bilateral ties, nuclear talks, and international issues, IRNA reported.

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  • International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano said an IAEA delegation will travel to Tehran on Wednesday to hold talks with Iranian nuclear officials, Fars news agency reported…

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  • The deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs warned that provoking the Saudi government to attack Yemen was part of a plot to undermine and break up the Persian Gulf kingdom.  

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  • In a meeting in Tehran on Sunday, the first deputy Majlis speaker and the Latvian deputy foreign minister underscored the significance of expansion of ties, ICANA reported.

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  • A member of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said on Monday a rapprochement between Tehran and Washington demands a "gradual" and "time-consuming" process.

    "In view…

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  • The US secretary of state defended the framework agreement reached between Iran and the major powers on April 2 on Tehran's nuclear work, acknowledging Iran's full commitment to whatever…

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  • Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran makes efforts to forge "strategic cooperation" with Kazakhstan.

    He made the remarks in a meeting with Kazakh Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov…

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  • Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said the spread of security crises and "institutionalization" of violence and extremism in the Middle East make it necessary…

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  • In a decree issued on Monday, Chairman of the Assembly of Experts Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi appointed his first deputy Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi as head of the secretariat of the clerical…

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  • A parliamentary delegation, led by head of the Iran-Kuwait parliamentary friendship group Ahmad Ariaeinejad, travelled to Kuwait on Monday to hold talks with Kuwaiti officials on bilateral…

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  • Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani praised the Pakistani parliament for voting not to join the Saudi-led military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen.    

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  • Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi said sanctions should be removed at the same time as Iran fulfills its commitments under a prospective nuclear deal.

    He made the remarks in a…

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  • The chairman of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said critical remarks concerning the nuclear issue should be directed at the United States and the nuclear negotiating…

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  • President Hassan Rouhani ordered the preparation of “a precise and comprehensive” report on the recent sexual abuse of two Iranian teenagers by Saudi officers at the Jeddah airport.  

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  • In an interview with ISNA published on Sunday, the spokesperson for the Combatant Clergy Association said the reformists will be the principlists’ “main rival” in the February 2016 parliamentary…

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  • In separate meetings on Saturday, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif received the newly appointed ambassadors of Bulgaria, Brunei, and Armenia who submitted the copies of their credentials to…

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  • The army commander said terrorist groups operating in the region are not capable of posing any threat to Iran.

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  • US President Barack Obama expressed optimism that major powers and Iran could finalize a deal on Tehran's nuclear program.

    On Iranian officials' demands that a final deal result in an end…

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  • The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said on Saturday the joint statement issued after nuclear talks early this month indicates solutions have been reached and seemingly the other…

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  • The chairman of the Expediency Council warned of the serious consequences of the sectarian strife raging in Yemen, likening the situation in the war-hit country to a "mire" in which "the…

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  • An informed source at the foreign ministry denied the report that two Iranian officers have been arrested in Yemen and said there are no Iranian military forces in the crisis-hit Arab country.…

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  • Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani was scheduled to travel to Moscow to attend the 10th meeting of heads of the national security councils of Shanghai…

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  • In his trip to the holy city of Qom on Saturday, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei met some marja taqlids, including grand ayatollahs Hossein Nouri Hamadani, Jafar…

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