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A senior security official says Iran seeks enhanced ties with regional Arab states and supports every effort aimed at helping resolve the challenges facing Arab countries, including Syria, Iraq…

Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri is scheduled to travel to Tehran on Tuesday at the invitation of Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani to hold talks with Iranian officials on bilateral ties and…

The press counselor at the Iranian Embassy in Azerbaijan denied  reports that Iran and the United States have held secret talks on the so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group in Baku,…

Several states pledged on Thursday to back a UN nuclear agency request for 4.6 million euros ($5.7 million) as soon as possible to pay for its monitoring of an extended, interim nuclear deal…

Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi announced on Thursday that the next round of nuclear talks between Iran and the six major powers will resume on December 17.

Araqchi said the talks…

Tehran agreed to extend permits for 450,000 Afghan refugees whose temporary visas were due to expire this month to allow them to stay in the country for another six months.  

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is scheduled to visit Iran on Wednesday at the invitation of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to hold talks with Iranian officials on bilateral ties…

In a statement which was read at a special meeting of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the interim deal on Tehran's nuclear program on Thursday, the Non-…

The ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) criticized the UN nuclear agency for announcing its decision to turn down Iran's offer of access to a region in western Iran where…

The director of the Center for Strategic Research of the Expediency Council says Iran supports the Afghan nation’s battle against terrorism.

Ali Akbar Velayati made the remarks after a…

British MP Richard Bacon says London and Tehran are making arrangements to reopen their embassies following a thaw in relations between the two countries.  

Bacon told ISNA on Saturday…

The deputy foreign minister says arming the Syrian opposition is in contradiction to the UN plan to bring peace to the crisis-hit Arab country.

Hossein Amir Abdollahian made the remarks in…

The ambassador to France says terrorism cannot be categorized into “good and bad,” urging the countries that provide political and financial aid to terrorist groups to cut their support and close…

Former diplomat Seyyed Hossein Mousavian says it is unlikely that the US Congress will impose new sanctions on Iran by March 2015.  Iran and the major powers agreed in late November to extend…

A senior security official has condemned the Friday’s terrorist attack near the Iraqi holy city of Karbala, stressing that acts of terror run counter to the spirit of true Islam.

Terrorist…

A member of the Combatant Clergy Association told the Fars news agency on Wednesday that the principlist group plans to hold a major congress next month. Jafar Shojuni said members of the Society…

The presidential chief of staff highlighted the importance of the Conference on World Against Violence and Extremism, which was held in Tehran on Tuesday and Wednesday, saying the conference…

The spokesperson for the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee has cited Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi as saying that the major powers engaged in the nuclear talks with…

Former Norwegian prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik says the sanctions that have been imposed on Iran are “unconstructive”.

Bondevik made the remarks in a meeting with Foreign Minister…

The secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) said the attempts by the supporters of terrorists to wage a "war of attrition" in Syria are "doomed to failure."

Ali Shamkhani…

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday that the rise in violence and extremism in the region is the consequence of “wrong policies and thinking” of some regional countries.…

Iran and Russia reviewed a three-year joint plan of action to combat transnational organized crime.

In its meeting on Tuesday, the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution decided by a unanimous vote to establish December 18 as National Day of Campaign Against Violence and Extremism, ISNA…

The ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other international organizations in Vienna renewed Tehran’s call for turning the Middle East into a zone free from nuclear…

The nuclear chief says Iran has no plan to launch its uranium enrichment machines that are installed but are not operational as the talks between Iran and the major powers on a final nuclear deal…