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  • Saudi Arabia and Iran owe it to the international community to put aside their differences in the Middle East and focus on opposing the styled Islamic State militant group, German Foreign Minister…

  • Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to travel to Tehran on January 23 at the head of a high-ranking political and economic delegation. Experts believe the visit, a first by Xi, could usher…

  • US Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken repeatedly recently to Saudi and Iranian officials to encourage dialogue, the US State Department said on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with…

  • President Hassan Rouhani wrote a letter to Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani on Wednesday, requesting the case of the attacks on the Saudi Embassy in Iran to be given priority and be…

  • Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the government of President Hassan Rouhani has been seeking to defuse tensions in the region and develop interactions with neighboring countries.…

  • US President Barack Obama is expected to stop a bill scheduled to go before the House of Representatives today, which would bar Obama from waiving sanctions against certain Iranian banks after the…

  • A prominent principlist figure said the Principlist Coalition Council is putting together its list of candidates for the upcoming elections of Majlis and Assembly of Experts, scheduled for Feb. 26…

  • Saudi Arabia said on Monday it would restore ties with Iran when Tehran stopped its alleged meddling in the affairs of other countries and pledged that Riyadh would continue to work “very hard” to…

  • Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani pledged on Tuesday that the legislature will increase support for the country’s missile program by boosting the budget allocated for the industry in the next…

  • The United Nations envoy on Syria, Staffan de Mistura, is to visit Tehran on Saturday for consultations on the lingering Syria crisis. However, the informed source at the Foreign Ministry also…

  • Kuwait recalled its ambassador to Iran on Tuesday, after Persian Gulf Arab allies Saudi Arabia and Bahrain severed relations with Tehran following attacks on Saudi missions by Iranian protesters…

  • Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei hailed the initiative of Afghan officials to create a national unity government as a key step toward the settlement of the eastern…

  • President Hassan Rouhani said the Iranian government is eager to boost ties with European countries, especially Denmark.

    In a meeting with visiting Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen…

  • An electoral official said the Interior Ministry has approved the qualifications of nearly 95% of Tehran's nominees who registered for the upcoming parliamentary election due on Feb. 26.

  • There is no evidence that Iran is planning to depart from a deal reached with world powers last year to scale back its nuclear program and it could even fulfill all of its agreements this month, a…

  • The Iranian government will uphold the principles of international relations by making every effort to arrest and prosecute all those involved in the assault on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran.…

  • The process of vetting nominees for the upcoming parliamentary election by the Guardians Council will begin in the coming days, the spokesman of the Election Central Monitoring Committee announced…

  • Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz called on Iran and Saudi Arabia to exercise "restraint" and engage in dialogue, following growing tension between the two countries after the execution of…

  • The United States on Sunday responded to Saudi Arabia's decision to cut diplomatic ties with Iran by encouraging diplomatic engagement and calling for leaders throughout the region to take "…

  • The Leader of the Islamic Revolution underscored the importance of a high public turnout in the upcoming elections, which is key to the Islamic system's "credibility."

    Ayatollah Seyyed Ali…

  • Saudi Arabia's decision to sever diplomatic relations with Iran is an attempt to deflect attention from the Arab monarchy's "great error" of executing prominent Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Nimr al-…

  • Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari said while the policies of Saudi government are aimed at creating tensions, improvement of Tehran-Riyadh relations would be impossible.

  • Iran has tried to do its best in helping Yemenis who are bearing the brunt of Saudi airstrikes and Tehran will bolster its support in future, a prominent official said.  

  • Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the last hurdle to expanding cooperation between Tehran and Copenhagen will be cleared once the July nuclear deal with major powers takes full effect in…

  • A US congresswoman called on Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan to establish a special advisor on Iran to help ensure the President Barack Obama administration is imposing all required sanctions…