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The second debate featuring all the seven candidates running in Iran’s 2021 presidential election has been marked by less aggressive confrontations but also overly broad delineations of policy, in what some of the candidates blamed on the format of the debate. The debate held on Tuesday (June 8), also meagerly …

Brigadier General Bakir Shakir Mahmud, the commander of Iraqi border police, met with Jahangir Ghaderi, Commander of Iran’s Qasr Shirin border regiment in Mandali and Khaneqien region to discuss cooperation. The meeting took place with the aim of developing and expanding relations between the Republic of Iraq, and the Islamic …

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says it still remains to be seen if US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are prepared to depart from their predecessors’ attitude towards Iran. “It remains unclear whether POTUS (President of the United States) and Sec Blinken are ready to …

Firefighters have managed to control a blaze at Zarand Iranian Steel Company in the southeastern Kerman province. The fire broke out with a loud noise early Sunday, but there was no report of casualties. کارخانهٔ فولاد #زرند – کرمان #Zarand Steel Factory – Kerman. Iran pic.twitter.com/3KkCYu5nds — AJ News Club …

The candidates in Iran’s 2021 presidential election have held the first debate on live television, clashing over policy — and credentials — and offering roughly two divergent visions on how the country should be run. The debate, the first of three and intended to focus on the economy, was held …

A serious fire erupted at a refinery in the southern part of Tehran on Wednesday, with eyewitnesses sharing dramatic footage of huge plumes of black smoke billowing into the skies and red flames at the base of the blaze. “The fire has started at the liquefied gas line of Tehran’s …

Iran’s army confirmed crew safely evacuated after the vessel caught fire under unclear circumstances. One of Iran’s largest navy ships has sunk after catching fire near the Strait of Hormuz under unclear circumstances. The Kharg, named after an island nearby that serves as a key oil terminal, caught fire in …

Iran’s top negotiator to Vienna talks on the revival of the landmark nuclear deal between the Islamic Republic and world powers says despite intense efforts made by all involved parties to reach a conclusion in the ongoing fifth round of talks, he is not sure that this will be the …

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman said that negotiations in Vienna have made good and significant progress, but key issues remain. Speaking in his weekly press conference on Monday, Saeed Khatibzadeh answered questions on a wide range of topics. Good progress made in Vienna talks, but key issues remain Answering a question …

Iranian-flagged MT Horse vessel which has been seized in Indonesian waters since January 24, has been released. With the full support of senior officials and consular assistance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ship was released on Friday after successful completion of the proceedings after 125 days of seizure, …

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says her country will be careful in how it decides to lift sanctions from Iran if current talks in Austria on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, better known as JCPOA, bear fruit. Yellen made the remarks on Thursday while answering questions about Iran and …

One person was killed and two others were left injured after an explosion in a pipeline used by petrochemical plants in the port of Asaluyeh, located on the southwestern Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf. Local authorities in the province of Bushehr said that they had launched an investigation into …

Iran’s Interior Ministry has released a final list of the candidates found qualified by the Constitutional Council to run for president in the June 18 election, officially clearing them to start campaigning. The much-awaited list, which was released on Tuesday, includes Saeed Jalili, Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi, Mohsen Rezaei, Alireza Zakani, …

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have agreed to extend by one month the agreement they had clinched for the UN nuclear agency to continue inspection of the country’s nuclear sites while the ongoing talks in Vienna on the revival of a landmark nuclear deal between Tehran and …

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will no longer be able to access images of the Iranian nuclear sites because a monitoring deal with the UN nuclear body has expired. “From May 22 and with the end of the three-month agreement, the agency …

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the parties in Vienna talks have accepted to remove all main sanctions targeting the country’s oil, petrochemical, shipping, and insurance sectors as well as the Central Bank of Iran. “We have taken the main big step, and the primary agreement has been reached,” Rouhani said …

The top Iranian negotiator says “good progress” has been made in Vienna talks between the remaining parties to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, but participants need to return to their respective countries for further consultations on certain remaining issues. “Over the past two weeks, which were the fourth round of …

The Iraqi government on Thursday pledged to protect diplomatic missions, a few days after an attack on Iran’s consulate in the southern city of Karbala. The government said it rejects and condemns any act that would destabilize diplomatic missions in Iraq. Last Sunday, Iraqi protestors gathered outside the Iranian consulate …

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani unveiled plans to vaccinate 13 million high-risk people eligible for the coronavirus vaccine by July 22. In comments at a meeting of the Administration’s Economic Coordination Headquarters on Sunday, the president said 13 million people in the priority groups will be vaccinated against COVID-19 by July …

China welcomed on Monday to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposed summit of world leaders to avoid “confrontation” over a U.S. threat to trigger a return of all U.N. sanctions on Iran. The United States lost a bid on Friday to extend a U.N. arms embargo on Iran. Russia and China …