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  • Foreign Ministry spokesman reiterated Iran's call on all sides involved in a political crisis between its southern Arab neighbors to show restraint and solve their differences through dialogue.

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  • President Hassan Rouhani said preferring peace with foes is more difficult than choosing war, and tolerating peace is much harder than confrontation with adversaries.

    He made the statement…

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  • The Navy commander announced that Iranian warships have provided security for thousands of oil tankers and cargo ships in the high seas.

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  • A nuclear negotiator said the US Senate’s recent legislation to impose new sanctions on Iran runs counter to Washington’s commitment under the nuclear deal to act in good faith and refrain from…

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  • Qatar's foreign minister expressed desire for constructive relations with Iran after several Persian Gulf Arab countries and Egypt cut their diplomatic ties with Doha.

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  • A lawmaker has called on organizers to hold future elections using e-voting machines, saying this is "the only safe, proper and indisputable" way of conducting polls.

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  • The commander of a terrorist cell responsible for the twin Islamic State-claimed attacks in Tehran last Wednesday "was neutralized" Saturday in a joint operation involving security agents and "…

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  • South Korea's Ambassador to Iran Kim Seung-ho called for expansion of trade relations between Seoul and Tehran. "Iran is a major supplier of crude oil to South Korea and without Iran's oil, the…

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  • Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei called on poets to focus on poems satirizing the contemporary world's strange and bitter facts, such as the US partnership with Saudi…

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  • Foreign Ministry spokesman denounced Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government for its plan to hold an independence referendum, saying Iran supports territorial integrity of its neighboring Arab…

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  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday she was concerned about the situation in Qatar, stressing that all Persian Gulf Arab nations, plus Iran and Turkey, should work together to resolve…

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  • A US Republican senator warned about the consequences of fresh US sanctions against Iran, saying such unilateral measures could prove counterproductive.

    The US Senate voted overwhelmingly…

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  • A delegation from Palestinian resistance movement Hamas headed by the new leader of the movement’s political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, plans to visit Iran in the near future, according to a Hamas…

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  • Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday he and his Iranian counterpart Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif discussed the process to help end the Syria crisis and how the Qatar…

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  • The hunt is on for accomplices in the Wednesday terror assaults, setting off a chain of arrests in connection with the first Islamic State terror operation hitting a chief adversary, Iran.…

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  • Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, condemned the deadly twin terrorist attacks in Tehran and offered condolences to those affected by the assaults.

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  • Vice President Es'haq Jahangiri said the government will stick to its reform plans to revamp the business sector and build investor confidence.

    "The government is determined to create an…

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  • Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi reiterated his country's  support for Iran's accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

    Iran joined the SCO in 2005 as an observer nd has been…

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  • The US Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to advance a bill that would impose new sanctions on Iran, the same day deadly terror attacks hit Tehran, as lawmakers planned to add a package of…

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  • American and coalition forces operating in southeast Syria were attacked Thursday by a drone that hit a coalition patrol, part of a rapidly escalating war with Iranian-backed militias in the…

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  • The United Arab Emirates’ Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash on Thursday criticized Qatar’s decision to ask Iran and Turkey for help following the decision by several Persian Gulf…

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  • Iran, Russia and Turkey have postponed a planned round of talks on Syria in Kazakhstan, which Moscow had proposed for June 12-13, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. A spokesman for the…

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  • Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said the twin terrorist attacks that hit Tehran Wednesday would not stop the nation from moving forward "united and with a firm…

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  • Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei renewed criticism of the UN's 2030 education plan, to which the government is a signatory, for limiting Iran's independence in drawing up…

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  • China’s Ambassador Pang Sen told press conference in Tehran Tuesday that his country believes all the parties to the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement should stick to the deal “honestly”, recalling…

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