TEHRAN, December 18 - Iran, Russia, and Turkey are close to agreement on composition of a Syrian constitutional committee that could pave the way for drafting a new charter followed by elections, diplomats said on Monday.
TEHRAN, December 18 - Iran’s president will take a visit to Turkey’s Ankara to attend the fifth session of Iran-Turkey Strategic Relation Supreme Council.
TEHRAN, December 18 - Iran’s vice president for legal affairs said the US knows very well that it cannot “ignore” the International Court of Justice’s ruling on the country’s lawsuit against Washington for breaching the 1955 Treaty of Amity and re-imposing sanctions against Tehran.
TEHRAN, December 18 - Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami warned of hostile plots hatched by enemies to undermine the country’s military capabilities through an economic war.
TEHRAN, December 17 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has strongly dismissed the possibility of holding negotiations with the United States after Washington set conditions for talks with Tehran, saying the Islamic Republic will never talk to those who set conditions for it.
TEHRAN, December 17 - Iran says it is fully ready for joint anti-terror operations with neighboring Pakistan after terrorists killed six Pakistani troops in an ambush near their joint border Friday.
TEHRAN, December 17 - The European Union has been holding the Iran nuclear deal hostage so that it can press Tehran into meeting its other unrelated demands.
TEHRAN, December 17 - Iran says Saudi Arabia’s decision to invade Yemen is the result of the Riyadh regime’s “delusions” about its military power and the “strategic mistake” it made by undermining Yemeni people’s ability to defend themselves.
TEHRAN, December 17 - CEO of Iran Air Farzaneh Sharafbafi said the country’s aviation experts have managed to conduct the C-check of the first airliner purchased from Airbus after the coming into force of the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
TEHRAN, December 17 - The central banks of Iran and Iraq are finalizing negotiations to begin trade in their own currencies, chairman of Iran-Iraq Chamber of Commerce said.
TEHRAN, December 17 - Past experiences show that Iran does not remain silent in the face of moves aimed at destabilizing the region, Head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Kamal Kharrazi said.
TEHRAN, December 17 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said a special purpose vehicle (SPV) that the European Union has developed to save the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is not only about supplying medicine and foodstuff to Iran.
TEHRAN, December 17 - 313,311 MT of commodities worth over $309.5 million were traded on Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME), the trading volume and value experienced a growth of 50 and 35 percent, respectively in the second week of December.
TEHRAN, December 16 - The head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization started an official visit to Saudi Arabia to hold talks with senior officials of the Arab country about ways to facilitate Iranian nationals’ pilgrimage during next year’s Hajj season.
TEHRAN, December 16 - "The Leader of the Islamic Revolution is master and dominant in security, defense and military issues, and we can extract the defense strategy from his thoughts in the best way", said Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army, Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi on Sunday.
TEHRAN, December 16 - The Islamic Republic of Iran has joined a select group of countries with 3 dimensional radar technology - an advanced technology used in weather monitoring, air defence and surveillance which only a handful of countries possess.
TEHRAN, December 15 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says economic sanctions imposed by the United States against Iran will fail to have any impact on the policies of the Islamic Republic at home or abroad.
TEHRAN, December 15 - The Iranian Navy’s 58th flotilla of warships docked at the southern port city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday after a 53-day mission in international waters.