United States

Mearsheimer: S.Arabia a threat not Iran

TEHRAN, Mar.24 (MNA) –John J. Mearsheimer one of the most important and influential international relations scholar says Iran is not a threat to US, Saudi Arabia is a threat to US.
2019-03-24 11:05
Joining FATF ‘strategic mistake’, Iran Assembly of Experts statement warns

TEHRAN, Mar. 13 (MNA) – Iran’s Assembly of Experts has warned the legislative bodies to avoid approving the anti-money laundering FATF-related bills, calling joining the global watchdog a ‘strategic mistake.’
2019-03-13 22:20
US to set aside special share to counter Iran in 2020 budget

TEHRAN, Mar. 12 (MNA) –The US Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan has said a special share will be allocated to counter Iran in budget for Fiscal Year 2020.
2019-03-12 22:12
By: Heshmatollah Rahnama

Human rights and democracy in US are questionable

TEHRAN, Mar. 12 (MNA) – Ever since the rise of the Islamic Republic four decades ago, Iran has been under severe United States media attack, sanctions and threats.
2019-03-12 18:27
By: Syed Zafar Mehdi

Netanyahu’s political honeymoon over

TEHRAN, Mar. 10 (MNA) – With just a month to go until general elections in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal troubles have compounded, making his re-election bid difficult.
2019-03-10 17:53
Iran, Russia review legal solutions to counter sanctions

TEHRAN, Mar. 07 (MNA) – In the first round of their legal consultations, representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Russia on Thursday reviewed legal solutions to counter US unilateral sanctions.
2019-03-07 16:20
Top Iranian security official:

US employs all capabilities to manage terrorism as useful tool

TEHRAN, Mar. 06 (MNA) – Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani has said the US has spared no efforts to manage terrorism as a useful instrument.
2019-03-06 19:09
Turkey rejects latest US offer to sell Patriot missiles

TEHRAN, Mar. 02 (MNA) – Turkey has rejected a US proposal to deliver one Patriot missile defense system by the end of 2019, which was conditional on Ankara abandoning a deal with Russia that’s strained ties between the NATO allies, two senior Turkish officials said on Friday.
2019-03-02 22:08
Iranian FM to US pres.;

Pageantries, photo-ops, flip-flops don’t make for serious diplomacy

TEHRAN, Mar. 01 (MNA) – In his reaction to the failed US talks with North Korea, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday said that Trump should've now realized that pageantries, photo-ops & flip-flops don’t make for serious diplomacy.
2019-03-01 19:48
Russia views negatively US attempts to put pressure on EU to quit JCPOA

TEHRAN, Feb. 26 (MNA) – Russia’s envoy to Vienna-based international organizations Mikhail Ulyanov said the US have no legal basis for preventing other states from complying with the economic part of the UNSC-approved nuclear deal.
2019-02-26 23:49
Enemies target trust, belief and hope of Iranians: Pres. Rouhani

TEHRAN, Feb. 26 (MNA) – The enemies of Iran are targeting the trust, belief and hope of the Iranians, according to President Hassan Rouhani.
2019-02-26 20:24
fmr. Pakistani defense official:

US involved in recent deadly terror attack against IRGC personnel

TEHRAN, Feb. 21 (MNA) – Former Pakistani defense secretary Naeem Khalid Lodhi has said that the US was involved in the recent terrorist attack on Iranian IRGC forces in Sistan and Baluchistan province and still supports its perpetrators.
2019-02-21 16:35
Russia to take steps if US deploys its missiles in EU: Putin

TEHRAN, Feb. 20 (MNA) – In an address to the Federal Assembly on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned against deployment of US missiles in Europe.
2019-02-20 17:02
By: Sebastián Salgado

It was a revolution of faith

TEHRAN, Feb. 18 (MNA) – There are very few reports on the Islamic Revolution in Iran in the Western media and what springs to mind is the movie Argo on the Iran hostage crisis in 1979.
2019-02-18 23:26
US not to tolerate independent countries: Prof. Adib-Moghaddam

TEHRAN, Feb. 18 (MNA) –Commenting on the US policy towards Venezuela, Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam says This has been the aim of successive US governments to roll back the Boliviarian revolution that is the paradigm of independence for Latin America.
2019-02-18 13:27
By: Martin Love

Coexistence between Sunnis and Shias must be a prime goal

TEHRAN, Feb. 17 (MNA) – It may seem improbable but the very key to whether the world enjoys real (and somewhat relative, if not absolute) "peace" going forward, as well as the fate of the US as any kind of somewhat respected but former imperial (and absurdly imperious) power, depends on two things: the end of US disrespect for international laws, most evident in the “regime change” wars, and on the fate of the Palestinians and whether they are given civil rights and released from bondage in their own country.
2019-02-17 22:23
Zarif to Europe:

Time to get wet if you want to swim against tide of US unilateralism

TEHRAN, Feb. 17 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on the European countries to take practical steps to reject US unilateralism, warning that Iran cannot fight for global security despite EU reluctance to seriously preserve the JCPOA.
2019-02-17 22:21
Video: Part of Zarif's speech at Munich Security Conference

TEHRAN, Feb. 17 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday.
2019-02-17 20:39
Iran dismisses US VP’s anti-Iran accusations as ‘absurd’

TEHRAN, Feb. 16 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi strongly condemned recent anti-Semitism accusations levelled against Iran by US Vice President Mike Pence, saying that Iran’s history is full of high level of tolerance towards other religions and peaceful coexistence among followers of different faiths.
2019-02-16 23:25
Adib-Moghaddam:

We have legitimate govt. voted into power by Venezuelan people

TEHRAN, Feb. 16 (MNA) – Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at the London Middle East Institute believes that “we have a legitimate government voted into power by the Venezuelan people and the supposed champions of democracy such as the US, but also the so called liberal government of Justin Trudeau in Canada and the European Union call for “re-elections” and/or for Maduro to step down.”
2019-02-16 17:58
Warsaw final statement testifies to its failure: Iran

TEHRAN, Feb. 15 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi has dismissed the allegations raised in the final statement of the Warsaw Conference, describing the statement as a proof of the anti-Iran summit’s failure.
2019-02-15 10:41
ICJ to deliver judgment on Iran’s frozen assets case tomorrow

TEHRAN, Feb. 12 (MNA) – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will deliver its verdict on the preliminary objections raised by the US in the case concerning frozen Iranian assets on Wednesday.
2019-02-12 21:56
Anti-Iran Warsaw conference doomed to failure: Senior lawmaker

TEHRAN, Feb. 12 (MNA) - Chairman of National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iranian Parliament, Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh says that the US-sponsored two-day conference on the Middle East region which will kick off in Warsaw on Wednesday is already doomed to failure.
2019-02-12 19:53
Rouhani to US: You cannot redirect Iranians back to pre-revolution era

TEHRAN, Feb. 05 (MNA) – The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has hailed the achievements that Iranian have obtained over the past 40 years, stressing that Iranian nation will not return to pre-revolution era at the request of Americans.
2019-02-05 19:16
Detained Press TV Journalist released by US authorities

TEHRAN, Jan. 24 (MNA) – The US government has released without charge Press TV anchor Marzieh Hashemi after 10 days of illegal detention, the Tehran-based Press TV said Wednesday.
2019-01-24 10:31
US still violates civil rights of black men, women: Zarif

TEHRAN, Jan. 21 (MNA) – The Iranian foreign minister has condemned the continuation of detention of an Iranian female journalist in US jails, saying that the US government still violates human rights of black people.
2019-01-21 23:18
Iranian judiciary chief orders legal officials to secure release of jailed journalist

TEHRAN, Jan. 21 (MNA) – Iranian judiciary chief has called on legal apparatuses of the country to take legal action to secure the release of jailed anchorwoman Marzieh Hashemi.
2019-01-21 19:30
JCPOA Supervisory Board to have final say on leaving or remaining in deal

TEHRAN, Jan. 20 (MNA) – Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi says that the JCPOA Supervisory Board will decide whether to leave or remain in the nuclear deal.
2019-01-20 18:48
Iranians to hold demo against journalist’s detention in US tomorrow

TEHRAN, Jan. 19 (MNA) – Iranian students, journalists and people from different backgrounds have planned to hold a demonstration in front of Swiss embassy in Tehran tomorrow to protest the illegal detention of a US-born anchor working for Iran's Press TV by the US authorities.
2019-01-19 20:34
FM spox.:

Iran backs Venezuela against US illegal interventions

TEHRAN, Jan. 19 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said that Iran supports the Venezuelan government against US unlawful interventions.
2019-01-19 17:31