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Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad discussed a broad range of issues in a meeting in Tehran on Monday. Mekdad arrived in the Iranian capital on…

Health Minister Saeed Namaki on Sunday night cautioned against false assumptions of a return to normality due to the recent drop in cases and deaths, noting that complacency could make the…

A senior diplomat said Iran’s decisions on the development of its nuclear program are based on its interests and not affected by foreign pressures.    “Iran makes decisions on its…

Overnight deaths caused by the coronavirus outbreak in Iran fell to its lowest in nearly two months, returning to just under 300, and confirmed cases sank below 12,000 for the first time in…

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on the three European powers to correct their own wrongful conduct before setting limits for Iran’s activities. 

Iran’s representative to Vienna-based organizations censured the International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday for breaching the confidentiality of safeguards information, after classified…

President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday said coronavirus transmissions have declined in Tehran, now on alert Level Two, but that it can regress to Level Three within a week or two, if health…

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the United States to first show goodwill by respecting the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal, saying Iran will then return to full compliance.…

The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Iran soared past one million on Thursday, less than 10 months into the pandemic, as the Health Ministry reported a decline in hospitalizations…

The government on Wednesday wrote a letter to the Guardians Council about its concerns over a parliamentary bill on countering sanctions, which requires Iran to curb cooperation with the United…

The National Coronavirus Taskforce moved 96 cities across the country, including the capital Tehran, from the alert level “red” to “orange”, as restrictive measures introduced since last month…

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called attention to an anti-Iran psychological operation by the Saudi-Israeli-US axis that resulted in the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist…

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has expressed opposition to a parliament bill on countering sanctions, saying it fails to take the ministry’s expert views into account.  “We regret that our views…

Iran’s latest scheme to stem the spread of Covid-19 involves speeding up testing and isolating infected patients, Tehran’s Governor General Anoushirvan Mohseni Bandpey said on Tuesday. “The…

The Joint Commission of Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal is slated to hold a meeting in Vienna Austria, on Dec. 16 at the level of deputy ministers and political directors. 

Health Minister Saeed Namaki on Monday said infections are set to peak once again during winter and urged against toleration of Covid-19 protocol violations. “We are going to face a winter peak…

President Hassan Rouhani offered condolences on the demise of senior Iranian cleric and politician, Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Mohammad Ali Shahidi, in a message on Sunday.

The Iranian Parliament on Sunday passed a double-urgency motion for the bill on “strategic measures for the removal of sanctions”.  The single urgency had earlier been passed in early…

With Iran’s daily coronavirus death toll remaining below 400 for the second consecutive day, Health Minister Saeed Namaki called the decline “a valuable accomplishment”, but urged the people not…

Last month’s coronavirus-related protocols introduced in 89 counties across Iran have significantly reduced transmission rates, President Hassan Rouhani said, boosting optimism over the effect…

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Saturday has called on the authorities to prosecute those who assassinated a prominent Iranian scientist and continue the martyr…

Iran’s tally of Covid-19 infections surged past 900,000, as the country reported its largest single-day jump in cases on Friday, prompting the government to further tighten restrictions to stem…

The recent lockdown measures adopted in the capital has thinned out the city’s overcrowded public transit, the head of Tehran’s Coronavirus Taskforce said. “The number of passengers has dropped…

Iran plans to procure 18 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine from one of the three international manufacturers who have so far reported their product to be highly effective against the…

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei called on Iranian officials to focus their efforts on nullifying the effects of sanctions instead of seeking their removal, as it…