FM Zarif: Sino-Iranian comprehensive strategic partnership deal will strengthen ties

President Rouhani says Iran, China determined to boost long-term strategic ties, fight terrorism

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Iran and China are firmly determined to improve “strategic and long-term” cooperation in various political and economic fields and fight terrorism and extremism in the region.

Iran diplomat says UK plan to boost nuclear stockpile goes against philosophy of NPT

Tehran’s ambassador to Moscow has voiced Iran’s opposition to a controversial plan by the United Kingdom to increase its stockpile of atomic weapons, saying any nuclear technology should serve the concept of atoms for peace.

Leader says US must lift all sanctions before Iran returns to JCPOA commitments

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the United States must first lift all sanctions it has imposed on Tehran after unilaterally withdrawing from a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran before the Islamic Republic would return to full compliance with its its commitments under the deal.

‘Ayatollah Sistani’s wise remarks in meeting with Pope showed dignity of Islam’

An senior official at the office of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says "wise" remarks by Iraq’s prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani during his recent meeting with the Pope showed "the dignity of Islam."

Russia’s Putin responds to leader's important’ message

Russia’s President Vladmir Putin responds in writing to an important message that had been forwarded to him last month on the part of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in which the Leader had underlined the “strategic and strong” nature of the two countries’ ties.

Pope Francis meets with Ayatollah Sistani in Najaf during visit to Iraq

Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has held closed-door talks with Iraq’s prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on the second day of his visit to the Arab country.

European firms sued for aiding Saddam’s chemical attacks against Iranians

Sardasht, a small city in Iran’s West Azerbaijan Province, was targeted by Saddam’s Iraq on June 28, 1987, when Iraqi bombers attacked four densely populated parts of Sardasht with fatal chemical gasses.