TEHRAN, Jan 20 - Iranian First Vice-President Eshagh Jahangiri said: "Hajj and pilgrimage have a significant role in promoting spirituality and religious values in the society and we need to try to facilitate exercising religious rituals for the people.”
TEHRAN, Jan 18 -The Iranian Foreign Ministry has condemned as “inhuman and deplorable” a recent deadly bomb attack at a police academy in Colombia’s capital, Bogota.
TEHRAN, Jan 19 - A court in the United States has confirmed the arrest of US-born Iranian Press TV news presenter Marzieh Hashemi as a material witness in an unspecified investigation.
TEHRAN, Jan 18 - EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini will not take part in an anti-Iran conference to be held by the US in the Polish capital of Warsaw in mid-February, Iranian and US media reports say.
TEHRAN, Jan 18 - Commander of the Iranian Army underscored that his forces will keep working hand in hand with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) to foil the US and Israeli plots.
TEHRAN, Jan 18 - Iran’s minister of intelligence reminded the Zionist regime of the blows it has received from Iran, saying the Islamic Republic will continue to inflict defeats on Israel in the intelligence arena.
TEHRAN, Jan 17 - An Iranian parliamentary delegation visiting Syria called for accelerated efforts to carry out the trade and economic agreements that Tehran and Damascus have signed previously.
TEHRAN, Jan 17 - Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri and Azerbaijani President Ilham exchanged views about a range of issues, including ways to boost cooperation between the two neighboring countries in various defense areas.
TEHRAN, Jan 17 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry dismissed the concerns raised by the US and France about Tehran’s move to launch a satellite into space, saying the worrying fact is the atrocities that the allies of certain Western countries are committing in the Middle East every day.
TEHRAN, Jan 16 -Social media users and Press TV viewers have voiced their frustration with the detention and ill-treatment of an anchor for Iran’s English-language Press TV by federal agents in the United States, saying the arrest mocks the US claims of democracy and respect for human rights.
TEHRAN, Jan 16 -The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has vowed to protect Iranian military advisors in Syria, dismissing as "ridiculous and funny" Israeli threats to attack them.
TEHRAN, Jan 16 - US officials are again backpedalling on their pledge to dry up Iran’s oil exports amid warnings of a surge in prices if Washington refuses to extend a waiver issued in November.
TEHRAN, Jan 16 - India’s soymeal sales to Iran are set to spike as the oil producer uses the rupees it receives for its crude exports to cover its animal feed demand amid US sanctions against Tehran.
TEHRAN, Jan 16 - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov voiced his country’s support for Iran’s missile program and said the Islamic Republic has the right to boost its security through the program.
TEHRAN, Jan 16 - The Central Bank of Iran would maintain control over the country’s currency market despite the hostile attempts by the US and its allies, the bank’s governor said.
TEHRAN, Jan 16 - A business forum between the Iranian side and representatives from Iraq’s central and southern provinces was held Wednesday morning in Karbala in the presence of Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif.
TEHRAN, Jan 16 - Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli warned of US plots to undermine the country through economic sanctions and said the enemies are seeking to create widespread discontent in Iran by increasing pressures on its people.
TEHRAN, Jan 16 - US police have arrested Marzieh Hashemi, a journalist and anchor for Iran’s English-language Press TV television news network, for unspecified reasons.
TEHRAN, Jan 15 -Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic's ties with Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region are rooted in history and will outlast the administration of US President Donald Trump.
TEHRAN, Jan 15 -Iran’s Foreign Ministry has called in Dutch Ambassador to Tehran Jacques Werner to express the country’s protest over a recent attack by “some anti-revolutionary and separatist elements” on the Islamic Republic’ embassy in The Hague.