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Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said  late Wednesday he had "very useful and helpful" nuclear negotiations with the six major powers in Geneva.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow is taking steps to improve trade turnover with Iran despite “foreign pressure”, adding that his country has made great efforts to diversify trade with…

Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani will start a regional tour on Sunday which will take him to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, IRNA reported on Friday.

Iraqi Kurdistan plans to strengthen its relationship with Iran, the prime minister of the semi-autonomous region said on Wednesday in an acknowledgement of the deepening ties between Arbil and…

Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said on Wednesday Iran has no intention to become an empire in the region, adding that western claims in this regard are part of a wider campaign to spread "Iranophobia…

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has expressed hope that Tehran and Ankara would be able to resolve their differing views on the Syrian issue through increased consultations.

After a…

President Hassan Rouhani has expressed sympathy with the families of the victims of Tuesday's deadly attack on a school in Pakistan, saying Tehran is ready to work with Islamabad in the fight…

Senior foreign ministry officials from Iran and the major powers held a new round of nuclear talks in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday for the first time since they agreed in November to extend…

The spokesperson for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran says the process of manufacturing components for the Arak heavy water reactor is underway.

"Smaller components of the Arak…

President Hassan Rouhani says the Syrian forces' resistance against terrorist groups indicated that it is not possible to overcome the resistance front relying on foreign aid.   

Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani met with his Iraqi counterpart Salim Abdullah al-Jabouri, who was accompanied by a high-ranking parliamentary delegation, in Tehran on Tuesday.

The two officials…

The head of Iran-Britain parliamentary friendship group said there is a "positive" attitude toward the reopening of UK Embassy in Iran.

The deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs said on late Tuesday that Tehran and Moscow will seriously pursue their common strategy to support Syria and Iraq against terrorists.

Former first vice president Mohammad Reza Aref says the reformists' strategy is to encourage people to have an effective participation in the parliamentary election in 2016.  "We will try to…

President Hassan Rouhani says the expatriates who work in the private sectors of other countries are a “great asset” that should be tapped to help develop the country.

The president made…

Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Meshaal says the Palestinian resistance movement seeks to strengthen ties with the Islamic Republic. "The movement has never severed its relations with Iran and…

Singaporean Ambassador to Tehran Chew Tai Soo says expansion of relations with Iran, which is an important regional country, is high on the Southeast Asian country's foreign policy agenda.

Ambassador to the United Nations Hossein Dehqani has called on the international community to adopt firm and urgent measures to counter violence and extremism amid rising levels of violence and…

Diplomats from Iran and the United States met again on Tuesday in Geneva, Switzerland for the second day of bilateral talks over Tehran’s nuclear program.

Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas…

Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has expressed concern over the growth of terrorist groups in Muslim countries and efforts by some extremists in the country to provoke sectarian division and…

Russia played a constructive role in the talks on Iran’s nuclear issue in Vienna, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Monday.

The spokesperson for the Ansarullah movement (the Shiite Houthi political faction) has urged the Yemeni government to increase relations with Iran “as an important regional power.”   

Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim Abdullah al-Jabouri heading a delegation arrived in Tehran on Tuesday for a three-day visit at the invitation of Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani.

The foreign policy spokesman for the co-ruling Social Democratic Party of Germany says his country wants the dispute over Tehran's nuclear program to be resolved in the shortest possible period of…

The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said despite the fact that the enemies make efforts to give the impression that the government and the IRGC are in conflict, there is no…