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Head of AEOI: denies criticizing Geneva deal in letter to Khamenei
Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi has denied having sent a letter to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei criticizing the Geneva deal. Salehi said: “I do not confirm the...
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Secretariat formed at the MFA to pursue implementation of the Geneva deal
Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs and a senior negotiating team member Seyyed Abbas Araqchi said that “A secretariat has been established at the Foreign Ministry to follow up...
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5% enriched UF6 stockpile will increase by 400 kilograms during the six-month...
Based on the first step of Joint Plan of Action, the stockpile of 5% enriched uranium that is to be produced following implementation of the deal should not exceed the current volume as investigated by...
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Basij commander meets family of martyr killed in Bosnia
Mohammad Reza Naqdi met with the family of martyr Haj Rasul Hidari, who was killed in the Bosnian war, praising Hidari during the Iran-Iraq War and then in the Bosnian war. Naqdi said that at the time,...
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Opposition website mocks suspension of uranium enrichment activity at Natanz
Many shouted and screamed and mentioned it as a natural site, and ultimately sealed by Western powers You who wished to get the bomb Your inalienable right is shut Your religion is evil and your voice...
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Majlis members ask speaker for details of interim nuclear deal
150 Majlis members sent a letter addressed to the Majlis speaker Ali Larijani requesting that he provide a detailed draft of the Geneva agreement signed by Iran and the 5+1 in November 24, 2013....
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Ambassador to the IAEA: no need for the agency’s office in Iran
Iran’s representative in the IAEA Reza Najafi said that Iran had not received any proposal from the IAEA to open regional office in Tehran. “We believe that, given the scope of our nuclear activity,...
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IRGC commander: direct battle with the US is the biggest dream of pious and...
IRGC Commander Mohammad Ali Jafari slammed Kerry’s remarks, and underlined that the Iranian nation will give the most crushing response to any possible aggression by the enemies “You could never...
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Rafsanjani : Khamenei approved of the nuclear negotiating team’s performance...
Expediency Council’s Chairman Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani said “The Supreme Leader, both before and after the talks, approved of the negotiating team and its performance, adding that despite this, “some...
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Velayati: US hollow threats will have no effect on Iran’s nuclear program
Khamenei’s international affairs advisor Ali Akbar Velayati said that the nuclear negotiating team should be given time to do their job, which he called “complicated and sensitive”. Velayati praised...
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Zarif: “We didn’t agree to dismantle anything”
“The White House version (of the implementation of the Joint Plan of Action) both underplays the concessions and overplays Iranian commitments… The White House tries to portray it as basically a...
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Kayhan editor bitterly attacks Iranian foreign policy, contacts with the...
A blunt editorial by Kayhan’s Editor-in-Chief Hossein Shariatmadari, which generally reflects the opinions of Iran’s Supreme Leader: “Helpless with Long Tongues” ahead of the last rounds of nuclear...
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IRIB working energetically against nuclear agreement
The television program Thoraiah, which is broadcast on channel one of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting network, is making a concerted effort via its recent programming to express opposition...
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Zarif: more sanctions, more centrifuges
In an interview with the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zarif, rejected reports regarding a secret (nuclear) agreement in 30 pages and said: “There is the agreement that is being implemented. If...
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IAEA inspectors arrive in Tehran to visit the Gachin uranium mine
IAEA spokesman said that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visit is taking place in order to implement the agreement between Iran and the IAEA signed in November according to which Iran...
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Deputy FM: Date, venue of next nuclear talks not determined yet
Following statements from unnamed Iranian officials, the US State Department said on January 27th that the next round of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the 5+1 will take place in New York in...
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IRGC: IRIAF P-3 patrol aircraft took pictures of US aircraft carrier
Twitter and Facebook accounts affiliated with IRGC claimed in an “urgent” post that Iranian Army Air Force (IRIAF) (Lockheed) P-3 (Orion) came near to a USS aircraft carrier in the Sea of Oman and took...
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Ivanov in Iran, meets with FM, SNSC Secretary
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Igor Ivanov met with the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif...
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POTUS/SOTU: “if Congress sends me a new sanctions bill that threatens to...
US President Barack Obama State of the Union 2014 speech: (of all foreign policy topics), Obama spends most words on Iran: …”And it is American diplomacy, backed by pressure, that has halted the...
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Interim steps under the Joint Plan of Action not expected to seriously affect...
According to the president of the nonpartisan Institute for Science and International Security David Albright’s new report, “The interim nuclear deal between Iran and world powers will allow Tehran to...
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IAEA inspectors “manage visit” to Gachin uranium mine
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said that the IAEA inspectors has visited the Gachin mine in southern province of Hormozagan. He added that “the inspectors...
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Religious cleric: Koran emphasizes need for rage against the enemy, infidels,...
In a meeting with Defense Ministry workers, Grand Ayatollah Hussein Nuri-Hamadani discussed recent statements made by John Kerry regarding Iran (all options are on the table) and said that the enemies...
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Supreme Leader representative in the IRGC emphasizes the advantages of...
At a press conference held to mark the Ten Days of Dawn (in February), Hojat al-Islam Ali Saeedi , the Supreme Leader’s representative in the IRGC, discussed the accomplishments and repercussions of...
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Email containing threat reportedly sent to nuclear negotiating team
Acting commander of Iran’s internal security forces Ahmad Reza Radan discussed the oil debts of internal security forces LEF to the government, and said that part of this debt has been paid while the...
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IRGCN commander: Organization of Smart Combat Vessels established
IRGC naval forces Commander (IRGC), Ali Fadavi, has said that “We started discussing the issue of smart vessels years ago due to the tangible enmity of America and its allies with Iran, which is...
View ArticleDefense Minister: Ministry of Defense to soon present other achievements
Hossein Dehghan told reporters that not a day goes by in which we are not witness to another achievement, and on the day that marks the beginning of the Ten Days of Dawn, we will announce the new...
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‘Hag’ and ‘SkyGuard’ missile simulator systems unveiled
Khatam al-Anbia Air Defense Headquarters Commander Farzad Esmaili unveiled the systems at a ceremony and said that “the plan of building and designing the simulator dubbed ‘Ghaffar 1′ was presented and...
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Iran operating volunteer Shia fighters from around the world in Syria
Ahl al Bayt News Agency (which distributes news related to Shi’a Islam around the world and operates in many languages) discussed Shi’a involvement in fighting in Syria. The claim is that when war...
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Head of NSFPC to join nuclear team consultation
In a joint session between the government and Majlis, acting chairman of the Majlis Economic Committee Mohammadreza Purebrahimi said that the atmosphere was positive. The heads of the committee...
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In letter to Kayhan editor, Sadegh Ziba Kalam asks “How did the nuclear...
Tehran University professor, writer and senior political analyst sent a letter to Kayhan’s chief editor Hossein Shariatamdari criticizing his critical approach to the nuclear agreement, and presented...
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Iranian reaction to any military threat will be crushing and regretful
Spokesman for the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Saeed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini discussed recent statements made by the US Secretary of State that the failure of the nuclear...
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Next round of nuclear talks to take place in Vienna
Deputy Foreign Minister and senior member of the nuclear negotiating team Abbas Araqchi announced that the next round of talks with the 5+1 would be held in Vienna. When asked whether there was a...
View ArticleZarif: Iran to continue centrifuge research in final agreement as well; US...
Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is attending the Munich Security Conference, said in an interview with Reuters, that Iran will not be willing to abandon its centrifuge research as part of the...
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Foreign minister posts updates on Facebook page regarding his participation...
Mohammad Javad Zarif: “I write these lines to you from Berlin. I was in Munich from Friday until Sunday to participate in the fiftieth security conference that took place there. The plans that were...
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Acting IRGC commander mocks US military and political strength, warns of...
In an interview broadcast live on Iranian television, Hossein Salami reviewed Iran’s military and defensive capabilities in honor of the thirty-five years since the Islamic revolution. Key points: The...
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Air Defense Cmdr.: Hawk missile system upgraded
Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base Commander Farzad Esmaeili said that the effective range of the radar system of the medium-range surface-to-air Hawk missile system has been doubled and that the...
View ArticleNew communications system
Head of the Information Technology and Communications Division in the Internal Security Forces Majid Soltani announced on the Ten Days of Dawn the unveiling of a local radio communications network for...
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Iraq signs arms deal with Iran
Iraq’s ambassador to Iran said that “We signed a military agreement with Iran because we find military equipment manufactured by Iran quite important and efficient and Iraq’s army needs to be equipped...
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Iran has extremely effective means to harm the United States and cause “moral...
Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh, Deputy Commander for Coordination at the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, said on Air Force Day that the Americans have many vulnerable points, adding that in the...
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Bushehr NPP shuts down for refueling
Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) Behruz Kamalvandi said that “The Bushehr (nuclear) power plant (NPP) will shut down on January 3rd in order to change one third of its fuel (27...
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No Majlis member to be added to the nuclear negotiating team
First Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi said that no representative of the Majlis is to be added to the nuclear negotiating team. Related: Head of NSFPC to join nuclear team consultation
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Next round of talks to begin in Austria on February 18th; EU’s High...
Catherine Ashton announced that she would be arriving in Iran in the next several weeks, following the next round of talks between Iran and the 5+1. The purpose of the visit, according to Ashton, will...
View ArticleIranian FM asks American counterpart to base his statements on the Geneva...
An informed source in Munich reported that during the meeting between Zarif and John Kerry, Zarif called on Kerry to rely on the plans of the Geneva agreement in his statements and not on the fact...
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Memoirs of Quds Force commander from the Iran-Iraq War
Qassem Suleimani, IRGC Quds Force commander wrote the preface to the book The struggles of Victory, which details the operations carried out by Division 41 Tharallah of Kerman Province during the...
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Rouhani praises Ministry of Intelligence, calls it “the eyes of the regime”
In a meeting with the Intelligence Minister, his deputies, managers and employees of the Intelligence Ministry, President Rouhani expressed gratitude and appreciation fro the efforts and sacrifice of...
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U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearings on “Negotiations on...
Wendy Sherman Under Secretary for Political Affairs U.S. Department of State; David S. Cohen, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financing U.S. Department of Treasury David Albright, President,...
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Former top nuclear negotiator: final agreement, if defined well, can last for...
Iran’s former ambassador to Germany and former top nuclear negotiator Hossein Mousavian has said that Iran “will never” dismantle its nuclear enrichment program, and that Tehran’s current promises to...
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FM spokeswoman: US excessive demands effective only for US public opinion and...
Marzieh Afkham, who` was reacting to Wendy Sherman’s remarks (that Iran’s nuclear issue would not deflect attention from Iran’s human rights records, their support for terrorism and interventions in...
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Rouhani: critics of the nuclear agreement “uneducated”; Majlis protests...
President Hassan Rouhani criticized the critics of the Geneva agreement, calling them people of “limited intelligence”. “Is it that only a small group, which is being fed from a special place, should...
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AEOI spokesman: Iran not to discuss polonium issue with IAEA
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran spokesman of the (AEOI) Behruz Kamalvandi has denied reports that the talks with the IAEA to be held on February 8 in Tehran are to focus on the polonium issue. “We...
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