Deputy Foreign Minister and member of Iran’s negotiating team Seyet Abbas Araghchi said that in the midst of the enthusiasm and desire for a meeting between the president and other countries and media, US President Obama asked to meet with Rouhani but organization of such a…
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Majlis’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee (NSFPC) spokesman Seyyed Hussein Naqavi-Hoseyni said that “Rouhani had received the (Islamic) system’s approval to talk to Obama and acted as a representative of the system in America but if there is some pessimism inside Iran in relation to…
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In a Majlis address, Majlis deputy Hamid Rasa’i lashed out at President Hassan Rouhani over his telephone conversation with US President Barack Obama “Breaking down the 34-year resistance of senior Iranian officials, who refused to hold direct talks with America because of the numerous crimes that…
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Fars News maintained that while the Iranian president did not recognize the Holocaust, the CNN aired a translation that contained several words and sentences that were not uttered by the Iranian President. Fars published its own translation with full detail of “discrepancies, mistranslations and fabrications” and…
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Members of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee (NSFPC) will visit two of Iran’s major nuclear sites on 30 September. NSFPC member Seyyed Hussein Naqavi-Husseini said that the committee’s members regularly visit nuclear sites and will inspect Natanz and Fordo this time. The deputies…
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In an interview on Iranian television in honor of Sacred Defense Week, IRGC commander Mohammad Ali Jafari discussed the war with Iraq, as well as several sections of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani’s memoirs from this period in addition to the lack of weapons and blankets. He also…
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IRGC Commander said that “the technology used in Shahed 129 UAV, with missile and bombing capabilities that was designed and produced by the IRGC aerospace force, is at the level of the world’s modern technology…and will stun world powers.” Jafari added that “this smart, precise and…
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Army Ground Force Commander Ahmad Reza Purdastan said that that his forces have managed to produce a new type of suicide UAV, dubbed Ra’ad (Thunder) 85 “capable of destroying fixed and mobile targets,” adding that the new suicide UAV is manufactured in various sizes and can…
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Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian said that “Iran has energy exchange projects with all countries with which it shares a land border, namely Iraq, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan. He added that “the power grids of Iran and Russia can be connected either through Azerbaijan…
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Oil Minister appoints new OPEC governor Bijan Namdar Zanganeh has appointed Hussein Kazempour Ardebili as Iran’s new governor to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Kazempour Ardebili replaced Mohammad Ali Khateibi Tabatabai, who headed the post since 2008. Kazempour served as Iran’s OPEC governor for…
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During a meeting with the visiting Turkish Parliament Speaker, First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri said that “Iran and Turkey can remarkably boost their economic ties in oil, gas, electricity sectors though joint ventures,” and that Iran’s natural gas transmission to Europe via Turkey will enhance cooperation between the…
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Several international news agencies published a report on the latest statement by Rouhani regarding the release of several political prisoners in Iran. Quoting Mr. Rouhani. AFP wrote, “we don’t like to have anyone or see anyone in prison. We would like to have empty prisons.” Iran Human…
Read More →In his op/ed, Chief editor of Kayhan Hossein Shariatadmari wrote that although the Supreme Leader’s intentions with regard to heroic flexibility was clear, it was immediately distorted and assigned other and different interpretations, particularly by Iran’s greatest enemies outside of Iran. For example, the BBC Persian…
Read More →A parliamentary delegation fromIran will visit Azerbaijan this week and will meet with the chairman of the Azeri parliament. Iran’s ambassador in Azerbaijan announced that the delegation would meet, inter alia, with members of the Parliamentary Friendship Association and would visit several sites in Baku….
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Iran Air Defense Force Commander Brigadier General Farzad Esmaeili announced that recent accomplishments of his command in the area of communications includes the ICS frequency switch project installed on vehicles that allows for the simultaneous use of different UHF, VHF and HF frequencies. According to Esmaeili,…
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The fate of plans formed and presented during the previous government to delete zeros from the Iranian currency following a decline in its value is vague and uncertain in the new government. Recent statements made by the Central Bank Governor claims that that the plans need…
Read More →Five men and three women charged with drug-related crimes were executed in the central prison in Yazd. …
Read More →Four death row prisoners, some convicted on drug-related charges, were executed in the central prison in Qazvin. One of the death row prisoners, convicted of murder, was spared at the last minute from execution after the parents of the victim waived their right to execute him….
Read More →Prominent Azeri rights activist Salar Toori was summoned to court in Tabriz, where he was subsequently arrested. This is not Salar’s first arrest, as he is one of the most well-known activists in the city and, inter alia, manager of a traditional Azeri café….
Read More →Judiciary Authority spokesman Mohseni Ajehi announced the Supreme Leader’s agreement to the proposal made by Chairman of the Judiciary Authority Ayatollah Emoli Larijani and pardoned 88 security prisoners, including several charged with the Fitna 88 events. …
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