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Iran plans to boost its ballistic and cruise missile capacity and acquire modern fighter planes and submarines, a senior Defense Ministry official was quoted as saying on Saturday.

The visiting UK Junior Foreign Minister Alistair Burt has been urged to work for a swift European action on a planned package of economic measures to offset the US pullout from the 2015 nuclear…

Delegations from Iran, Iraq, Russia and Syria led by their respective deputy chiefs of staff, attended a security meeting in Baghdad Saturday to broaden security and intelligence collaboration…

A member of the parliament’s presiding board said Sunday President Hassan Rouhani’s failure to convince lawmakers on economic-related questions will not be referred to the judiciary.

The Majlis on Sunday called off a planned vote to impeach the education minister, offering some respite to the embattled government of President Hassan Rouhani.

Twenty-nine lawmakers…

Iraq’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday it was “astonished” at a Reuters report that Iran had moved missiles to Iraq and that the article was “without evidence” .Iraq is not obliged to respond to…

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the possibility of military hostilities against Iran is bleak in light of ongoing political developments, but the Armed Forces…

The government has been outspoken in criticizing France for hosting rallies organized by the banned Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization group, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in remarks to…

The United States resorted to diversionary tactics at the International Court of Justice during hearings this week for its violation of a decades-old treaty with Iran, says a senior official,…

Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani cast doubt on the ability of European powers to do enough to prevent the collapse of the Iran nuclear deal in the wake of a US decision to abandon the agreement…

Security forces killed four members of a terrorist group in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan during an armed clash on Friday.  The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps' Ground…

A visiting UK diplomat discussed a range of issues, including the future of the 2015 nuclear deal in talks in Tehran on Saturday.

Iran says Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s decision to sack Falih Alfayyadh, national security adviser and head of Hashd al-Sha’abi, is an internal matter.

“This is an internal…

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran is keen to enhance relations with Malaysia under the leadership of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.

A US delegation is visiting Jordan, Turkey and Israel to discuss the situation in Syria and Iran's role in the region.  

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed a claim by the US security chief that Moscow was in talks with Washington on Tehran's behalf to persuade the US administration to postpone a…

Britain's Junior Foreign Minister Alistair Burt was to arrive in Tehran on Friday to discuss the future of the  international nuclear deal, in the first visit to the country by a British…

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif conferred with  Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan on a range of issues, including bilateral cooperation and economic and political developments…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country was engaged in talks with Iran and Russia to avoid what he described as a “humanitarian disaster” in Syria’s rebel-held region of Idlib.…

Iran has remained within the main restrictions on its nuclear activities imposed by a 2015 deal with major powers, a confidential report by the UN atomic watchdog indicated on Thursday.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has pardoned or reduced the sentences of 615 inmates, his official website reported on Wednesday.

Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani will visit Russia early this month to take part in a meeting of the Iran-Russia Inter-Parliamentary Commission, the press attaché of the Russian Embassy in Tehran…

Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Wednesday the government should concentrate on domestic capabilities rather than European support for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal,…

The Foreign Ministry on Friday dismissed a French call for more negotiations with Tehran over the international nuclear accord and its missile program and said some of France’s partners are “…

The United States told UN judges Tuesday they had no jurisdiction to rule on Tehran's demand for them to order the suspension of nuclear-related sanctions against Iran.

Washington cited…