A top Senate Democrat and Republican on Monday unveiled a bill to impose extensive new economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran over its nuclear activities. The U.S. Senate Banking Committee released details of its 61-page bipartisan bill late on Monday and senators will consider the measures and vote on them at a hearing on Thursday....

A report by Irans official IRNA news agency has denied there was any direct link between the country and an oil tanker fire that took place on Friday in the Far East. The Saturday report by IRNA said neither the tanker that had caught fire near China a day earlier nor its crude oil cargo were related to Iran. IRNA has learnt from informed sources ...

Foreign minister of Pakistan Shah Mehmoud Qureshi arrived in Tehran on Tuesday afternoon to meet with Iranian high-ranking officials. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for West Asia Rasoul Mousavi published in a Twitter message the news of Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Tehran. Mousavi said that meetings with President Hassan Rouhani, Majlis Speaker ...

The Jerusalem Post - Twitter said it discovered attempts by possible state actors to access the phone numbers, after a flaw in the companys contacts upload feature was found. Twitter said Tuesday morning that Israel and Iran may have each accessed users phone numbers associated with their Twitter accounts. The social media giant said it had discovered ...

ISNA | Aria Jafari, Mohsen Esmaeilzadeh, Mohadese Zare & Pouria Pakizeh: A rare phenomenon, ring-type partial solar eclipse, was visible the Middle East and Asia including Iran on Thursday December 26.  

Iran, Russia, Turkey have united stance on preserving Syria's territorial integrity Iran, Russia, Turkey have united stance on preserving Syria's territorial integrity TEHRAN, Sep. 16 (MNA) The three presidents of Iran, Turkey and Russia agree on preserving Syria's territorial integrity and all oppose foreign interference in the country, President ...

MNA Irans Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said on Sunday that Iran and China are on one front in information technology (IT) sector to combat US oppression and unilateralism. Making the remarks in a meeting with Chinese Ambassador to Iran Chang Hua and before his departure for Dalian, Jahromi underscored ...

TASS - President of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen said before negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin that he will discuss with him relations between the two countries and the Iranian issue. Van der Bellen is staying in Sochi on a working visit on Wednesday. "I am eagerly waiting for todays negotiations with Vladimir Putin. The issues ...

Sputnik - Former Defence Secretary James Mattis declined to carry out orders from President Trump or otherwise limited his options in order to manage the escalation of tensions with North Korea, Iran and Syria, a report from The New Yorker has suggested. "The president thinks out loud. Do you treat it like an order? Or do you treat it as part of ...

Press TV - The first trilateral meeting between the foreign affairs committees of parliaments of Iran, Turkey and Russia has been held in Moscow. The participants have held talks to promote peace and stability in the region.

RT - The past year was full of events that inevitably split the global geopolitical space into two camps: those who still support using US currency as a universal financial tool, and those who are turning their back on the greenback. Global tensions caused by economic sanctions and trade conflicts triggered by Washington have forced targeted countries ...

IRNA An Iranian official said on Sunday that the level of water in Lake Urmia, northwestern Iran, has increased compared to the same period last year on December 23. Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Saturday, Farhad Sarkhosh, Head of Urmia Lake Restoration Project said that the water level of Lake Urmia in northwest Iran reached ...

IRNA- Spokesman for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) blasted the West for hatching plots against Iran, but meantime said that enemies have experiences successive defeats in confrontation with the Islamic Republic. 'We can now see the enemies' defeats,' Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif said pointing to foreign plots hatched to undermine ...

IRNA Iran is the most honest country in confronting Global Arrogance and helping Palestinians, Arab media 'Al Mayadeen' quoted a member of Fatah's central committee as saying Monday. Abbas Zaki called for maintaining Palestinians' unity in fighting the Zionist regime of Israel, saying victory will not be achieved by overcoming Fatah or Hamas but ...

IRNA - Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization (WTO) Zurab Pololikashvili on Tuesday stressed the need for cooperation with Iran to help promote tourism industry. In a meeting with Irans Ambassador to Spain Hassan Qashqavi, he explored the ways for promoting cooperation between Iran and WTO in tourism sector. Qashqavi elaborated on ...

MNA Ismail Haniya, the senior political leader of Hamas, will soon embark on an Asian and African tour to discuss Palestinian developments with leaders of different countries. A source has told Arabi21 website, Ismail Haniya will start his tour with the Egyptian capital Cairo, followed by Russia, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, Qatar, Kuwait, Mauritania,...

IRNA - Chairman of the Fourteenth Conference on Child Diseases, said that according to the results of the report of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the progress of health in countries from 1990 to 2017 in 130 countries, Irans rank has risen from 100 to 58. Ali Akbar Sayyari, a former deputy minister of health on Monday, added, 'Reducing premature ...

MNA The incident of the city of Strasbourg in France was a very primitive scenario for facing the deep social and political crisis that the Macron government is facing. As predicted, French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced that the terrorist, who apparently was responsible for the shooting in Strasbourg, at 9 p.m. on Thursday,...

Press TV - United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura is set to host top diplomats from Iran, Russia and Turkey, as guarantors of the Syria peace process, in Geneva this week. De Misturas office said Monday that the talks scheduled for December 18 would likely be one of his last meetings with high-level officials from the three countries ...

IRNA - Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad underlined his countrys interest in promoting collaboration with Iran. In a meeting with the new ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Irani, Al-Sabah welcomed the Iranian ambassador, saying, We consider Iran as our neighbor in the region and we are interested in developing and expanding ...