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The United States is holding as many as 15 Iranians hostage under the pretext of bypassing American sanctions against the Islamic Republic, an official at Iran’s Judiciary said. Ali Baqeri, the Judiciary’s deputy for political affairs who also heads the government branch’s High Council for Human Rights, made the remarks …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said that the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission has agreed to boost the country’s defense power. “The parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission has always strongly supported the Armed Forces in defense fields,” General Hatami said after a …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi in separate meetings with his Afghan counterpart Mirveis Naab and Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser Hamdollah Moheb on Saturday discussed bilateral ties and peace talks between Kabul and Taliban. Araqchi and Naab in their meeting in Kabul conferred on peace talks and …

Iran imposes sanctions on US envoy to Yemen Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Wed., emphasizing pivotal role of US Ambassador to Yemen Christopher Hansel in humanitarian crisis in Yemen, and placed his name on Iran’s sanctions list. Iran welcomes Nagorno-Karabakh peace agreement Iranian Foreign Minister noted …

Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh called on Saudi Arabia to reverse the wrong policies and know its limits when commenting about Iran. “Saudi Arabia has treated its neighbors inappropriately and must change track. That would benefit itself and the region,” Khatibzadeh said at a press conference on Monday when …

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Robert David Steele, a former CIA agent, said that the Tel Aviv regime assassinated top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh to provoke Iran’s counterattack, adding that the sweetest revenge for the death of the physicist is “the death of Zionist Israel”. “The sweetest revenge for the deaths …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh blasted the recent remarks by Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir, and said that nearly all terrorist groups in the region have graduated from Saudi-funded schools. Khatibzadeh wrote on his Twitter account that the Riyadh’s regime should revisit its …

Fearing Iran’s retaliation for last week’s assassination of top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, senior officers in the “Israeli” War Ministry have met in recent days with their counterparts at US Central Command. According to ‘Israeli’ Haaretz Newspaper, several military measures have been taken in anticipation of a possible Iranian retaliation. …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Hundreds of Iranian university professors and academics in an open letter to the heads of the government, parliament and judiciary on Wednesday called for the expulsion of the UN nuclear watchdog’s inspectors after assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. “One of the proposed operational measures of the university …