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Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday "closer interaction" with African nations is high on the foreign policy agenda.

Zarif, who has travelled to Kenya on the first leg of…

The speaker of the lower house of the Malaysian parliament, Pandikar Amin Mulia, is scheduled to visit the Iranian parliament today, ICANA reported.  He will hold a meeting with Majlis…

The spokesperson for the interior ministry told IRNA on Monday that the political party bill drafted by the ministry was submitted to the cabinet for approval.

Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian conferred with Egyptian president.  

He held a brief conversation with Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on the sidelines of the 24th African Union…

The former ambassador to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said it is necessary that Iran and Saudi Arabia hold negotiations on the basis of their similarities.

“Despite the…

The chairman of the Expediency Council invited people to turn out in large numbers for demonstrations to be held on February 11 across the country to mark the 36th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic…

Ceremonies were held across the country on Sunday to commemorate the anniversary of the return of the late Imam Khomeini from exile under the rule of the deposed dictator Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.…

The Guardian Council spokesperson said if the allegation made by former vice president Mohammad Reza Rahimi against members of the Majlis are proved right by the relevant authorities, the…

US President Barack Obama says imposing new sanctions on Iran would prompt the country to walk away from nuclear talks with the major powers, “an outcome no one wants.”

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Tammam Salam called on Tehran to help end the political crisis in the country.

In a meeting with Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Chairman…

Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani criticized US President Barack Obama for being unable to make "sensible" decisions regarding nuclear talks between Iran and the major powers due to his "weakness" and "…

An informed source, who asked not to be named, told IRNA on Sunday that over 200 Iranian nationals are being held in Turkmenistan’s prisons while their cases are pending.  “Unfortunately,…

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif left Tehran on Sunday at the head of a high-ranking political and economic delegation for a four-day tour of Africa, Fars news agency reported.

A senior adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said the Islamic Republic has expanded its relations with Russia over the past years, emphasizing that the interests of the two countries…

Hassan Qashqavi, deputy foreign minister for consular and parliamentary affairs, along with Abolqasem Delfi, foreign ministry director for Western Europe, were scheduled to attend a meeting of the…

 Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is expected to hold talks with his counterparts from the United States, France and Germany on the sidelines of his upcoming visit to Germany as part of…

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran should continue making progress in the field of nanotechnology, which can serve as a model for progress in other sectors.…

The foreign ministry denounced a series of deadly terrorist attacks across Egypt’s volatile Sinai Peninsula mainly on soldiers and police officers which occurred on Thursday, urging regional…

Iran has deployed “small numbers” of operatives into Iraq to bolster the Iraqi government but there was no sign of a major deployment of army units, the Pentagon said Friday.

A lawmaker says Iran welcomes expansion of ties with regional countries, particularly Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.

At the first forum of the Society of the Loyalists to the Islamic Revolution on Thursday, the secretary general of the Front of the Followers of the Line of Imam and the Leader said the…

In a meeting with students of political science and international relations at the University of Zagreb on Friday, Ambassador to Croatia Mohammad Ebrahim Taherian pointed to the recent visit of…

The new envoy to Rabat officially started his mission in the North African country.

In a meeting on Friday, Ambassador Mohammad Taqi Moayyed submitted his credentials to Moroccan Foreign…

The deputy foreign minister said the Islamic State (IS) and Boko Haram terrorist groups are “two sides of the same coin.”

Hossein Amir Abdollahian made the remarks in a press conference on…

President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday the country is honored to have such "brave diplomats" in nuclear talks with the major powers.