Radio Farda - A member of the Iranian Parliament's National Security Committee says the blast at Iran's main nuclear establishment in Natanz on July 2 was caused by a "security breach". The Persian word Javad Karimi Qoddousi has used to describe the cause of the blast can also be translated into infiltration of security, which makes it slightly ...

Tasnim An Iranian lawmaker said the intelligence forces have dealt blows to 140 terrorists team in the country. Speaking at a conference in the southern city of Kerman on Saturday, member of the Parliaments National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Javad Karimi Qodoosi hailed the Iranian intelligence forces for ensuring security across the ...

Tasnim The Iranian Foreign Ministry categorically denied the claims raised by a lawmaker that the ministry is making efforts to hold talks with the US in a neighboring country. In a statement on Saturday morning, the Foreign Ministrys public relations department dismissed as wrong and baseless the comments by a controversial parliamentarian about ...

Tasnim Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is going to attend a session of the parliaments National Security and Foreign Policy Commission for talks on regional developments, a lawmaker said. Zarif has been invited to a meeting of the parliamentary commission on Tuesday, member of the commission Javad Karimi Qoddousi told Tasnim on Saturday....

MNA Foreign ministrys public relations office has resorted to sarcasm in warding off claims by a Principlist MP who made new claims on Zarif. The statement issued on Tuesday even deemed claims made by Mr. Javad Karimi Ghoddousi, an arch-critic of the nuclear negotiations, as unfit for the subject of an official denial. Mr. Karimi Ghoddousi had ...

MNA The Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Alaeddin Boroujerdi said the release of any confidential news of the Committee has been due to an individual action out of approved criteria.He made the remarks on Monday, while explaining the Committee's meeting with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif last ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian lawmaker expressed his disapproval of a recent secret visit to Iran by a Democratic member of the Utah State Senate, saying the intelligence minister will be asked for an explanation for such a trip that is part of a Western plot for making inroads into Iran. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency on Sunday, Mohammad Javad ...

Tehran, Aug 24, IRNA Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi dismissed claims by lawmaker Karimi Qoddousi that a member of the delegation accompanying Foreign Minister to Turkey in his latest trip has been arrested. He said the claim that was published in a number of Iranian press was 'baseless, irrelevant, a pure lie and wrong quotation'....

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Tuesday and picked headlines from 16 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The unanimous vote of the UN Security Council for the Vienna nuclear deal dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Tuesday. Reformist dailies hailed the vote ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior member of the Iranian parliament revealed that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani do not see a big chance for a final nuclear deal to receive the approval of the US Congress. "Both the foreign minister and parliament speaker didnt have a positive view about the endorsement (of a possible ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian parliamentarians plan to present a bill with the highest degree of urgency to the floor which will require the government to suspend nuclear talks with the world powers while the US continues its threats against Tehran. Javad Karimi Qoddousi, a member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, told ...

Tehran, April 8, IRNA 212 Parliament (Majlis) lawmakers urged the Foreign Ministry to release Iranian version of Lausanne fact sheet, a senior MP reported. A member of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Javad Karimi Ghodoosi, in an interview with IRNA on Saturdy, said that the lawmakers in an open letter to the Foreign Ministry ...

An Iranian lawmaker says the US and Pakistani intelligence services lead the Pakistan-based Jaish-ul-Adl terrorist group responsible for the recent deadly attack on Iranian border guards. The key point in this case is the role that US spy agencies play by means of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in conducting such terrorist attacks. This ...

An Iranian lawmaker has described possible reaction from Tehran as the main reason behind Washingtons decision to give up the idea of a military strike on Syria. When our military commanders introduced Syria as the red line and Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei sensibly elaborated on Syria developments, Americans came ...

An Iranian lawmaker says the European Union (EU) will regret its blacklisting of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah. The European Union decided to put the name of the Lebanese Hezbollah on the list of terrorist groups out of anger, and [it] will regret its move in the future, Javad Karimi Qoddousi, member of the Majlis National Security and ...