Iranian Diplomacy - An expert of Afghan affairs believes: Prior to Irans talks with the Taliban, the government ofAfghanistanhad embarked on Afghan-to-Afghan talks with the Taliban. However, Kabuls harsh position against Tehran has been taken from an angle of inactiveness on their part as a reaction to Irans initiative. Afghanistans deputy foreign ...

Alwaght - Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani recently visited India to discuss expansion of relations between the two Asian nations. Ghani and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India both highlighted the commitment of their countries to increase counterterror efforts. The Afghan president also met with the Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 12 (MNA) Iranian deputy FM underlined that Riyadh tries to compensate for its inaction to Iran's success in nuclear talks by execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr and creating tension in the region. Recent events in Saudi Arabia unveils the governments true face in seeking by every means to prevent implementation of the Joint ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The spokesman for the Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy commission said the parliament will closely examine the text of a document Iran and major world powers recently finalized on Tehran's nuclear energy program. The national security and foreign policy commission as well as a 15-strong specialized commission ...

Tehran, July 12, IRNA A group of MPs thanked the country's negotiating team in the nuclear talks with the world powers for standing firm on the redlines specified by the Islamic Republic. During the Sunday meeting of the parliaments National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, the lawmakers thanked the countrys negotiating team for insisting ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The spokesman for the Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy commission said a number of negotiators involved in the nuclear talks with six world powers will attend a session of the commission in coming days. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Nozar Shafiee said the members of Iran's negotiating team will attend ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian lawmaker said the country's team of negotiators in the nuclear talks with world powers insists on changing the venue of the talks from Austria to somewhere else after revelations of cyber-attacks on the hotels hosting the negotiations. Rapporteur for the Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy commission,...

Tehran, April 7, IRNA - A senior lawmaker said the final nuclear deal to be reached with the P5+1 group of world powers will be an international agreement and its observance is mandatory. Nozar Shafiei, a member of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, told Iran Daily that the framework announced in the Swiss city of Lausanne ...

Tehran, March 12, IRNA Member of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Nozar Shafie on Wednesday proposed a trio solution to Syria crisis, including formation of contact group by the pro-Syria states, closing Syria borders and overseeing Syria elections. Shafie told the first meeting of the heads of foreign policy commissions of ...

Tehran, March 10, IRNA Member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Majlis Nowzar Shafi?ie said that the presence of the European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in Iran will positively affect the nuclear talks with 5+1. Talking to IRNA on Monday, he said the visit will benefit both sides. He noted that Ashtons ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian lawmaker strongly criticized the United Nations for appointing a special advisor for the relocation of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, NCRI or PMOI) members from Camp Liberty in Iraq. The UN should confront the terrorists, rather than protecting them, a member of the parliaments National ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian legislator said the UN inspectors' report confirming the use of chemical weapons in Syria indicated that the rebels had conducted the August 21 attack on Ghouta in Damascus countryside. "The report shows that the Syrian government has not used chemical weapons," member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Iranian legislator lashed out at the US and Israel for hatching plots against the Egyptian nation, and reiterated that Washington and Tel Aviv are behind the ongoing crisis in Egypt. This scenario has been designed by the West, specially the US and Israel, to suppress the Egyptian revolution and make the Arab country ...