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Mohammad Ebrahim Taherian, the special representative of Iranian foreign minister, held talks with the Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Mohammad Haneef Atmar in Kabul on Wednesday.

The foreign ministers of Iran and the United Kingdom discussed bilateral cooperation within the framework of the 2015 nuclear deal in a phone conversation on Monday.  

Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations said the UN Security Council is falling short of legitimacy and credibility, calling for reforms in the council. Addressing a Monday…

With the date for the lockdown of 150 cities across Iran fast approaching, Health Minister Saeed Namaki on Tuesday warned that the next two weeks are pivotal in “the history of the nation’s…

President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday has ordered a widespread lockdown of cities hit hardest by the coronavirus outbreak starting next Saturday, as daily infections and deaths are setting new…

Twitter has suspended Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh’s page on Monday, following the United States’ recent batch of sanctions targeting Iran’s petroleum industry. Zanganeh was hit…

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has urged the new American administration to resume honoring the 2015 nuclear deal without any preconditions and make up for losses inflicted on…

The number of newly-identified coronavirus cases continue to climb in Iran, with the Health Ministry registering a record high of 12,543 daily infections on Sunday.  “The fresh cases took…

Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei extended condolences on the demise of Hojjatoleslam Javad Ejei who died of the coronavirus disease, known as Covid-19, at the age of 72…

President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday said starting next Saturday, his government will impose stricter and localized quarantine measures in Iran to ward off the outbreak.

The United States’ special representative for Iran claimed on Thursday that a pressure campaign of sanctions targeting Iran would persist into the administration of Joe Biden, even as the…

Deaths from the Covid-19 epidemic in Iran went past 40,000 on Thursday, as authorities mulled over shutting down cities hit hardest by the virus to give the country’s strained healthcare system…

Both coronavirus infections and deaths set new records in Iran on Wednesday, with cases soaring past 11,500, following which members of the National Coronavirus Taskforce said nothing short of a…

President Hassan Rouhani underlined Iran’s principled policy of strengthening good neighborliness, confidence-building and dialogue with neighboring states. 

Coronavirus infections in Iran topped the 700,000 mark on Tuesday, as the Health Ministry announced ramping up daily testing capacity to 100,000 to prevent the spread of the contagion. …

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on regional countries once again to settle their differences through dialogue, especially now that the United States President Donald Trump is…

Iran’s policy toward the United States will be developed based on Washington’s measures under its new presidency rather than speculations and media analyses, an Iranian diplomat said.  …

United Nations secretary-general’s special representative for Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons, who is in Tehran at the head of a delegation, discussed Afghan issues with several Iranian officials on…

The daily tally of coronavirus infections set a new record for the third time over the past six days, this time taking the number of cases over 10,400, as the government begins to impose a night…

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif discussed ways of expanding bilateral ties with Bolivia’s President-Elect Luis Arce in La Paz on Saturday. He arrived in Bolivia as part of his three-…

President Hassan Rouhani said the United States has an opportunity under the new president to make up for past mistakes, return to global norms and reinforce commitment to international…

Iran reported its largest single-day increase in fatalities caused by Covid-19 on Sunday with 459 deaths, which took the national toll to 38,290, a health official said. “Today we experienced…

The National Coronavirus Taskforce on Saturday issued a night curfew on nonessential businesses in areas hit hardest by the coronavirus, as Iran reported its largest single-day spike in daily…

President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday expressed his gratitude to the Iranian people for its “significant and unique” resistance and patience over the past three years in the face of the United…

Foreign Minister Mohamad Javad Zarif, who is on a three-nation Latin American tour, met high-ranking Cuban officials in Havana on Friday to discuss ways of expanding relations in various sectors…