January 21, The Iran Project Holding PUIC Conf. with Parliament speakers in attendance; Pakistani Minister of Defense Production Rana Tanveer Hussain visit to Iran and meeting with senior officials;Ayatollah seyyed Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani receiving top Muslim world parliamentarians; New ambassadors submiting credentials to Iranian president; People commemorating Iranian firemen killed in Plasco building collapse and 33rd Fajr Music Festival wraping up in Iran dominated the countrys media outlets in the past week (January 15January 21).
Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Shamkhani met with speaker of peoples council of Syria and the accompanying delegation, where he said that the will of the Syrian nation will determine the future of this country.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei saysthe US is overstepping its bounds inrecognizingJerusalem al-Quds as Israels capital and planningto moveits embassy there, adding that the measuresare in vain.
Delegations participating in the 13th Conference of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states (PUIC) in Tehran deplored Washingtons decision to transfer its embassy to Jerusalem al-Quds and recognition of the city as Israels capital.
Minister of Defense Brigadier General Amir Hatami said Iran-Pakistan cooperation will be further expanded in the fields of defense, science and technology.
A leader of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, Ismail Haniyeh, has sent a letter to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, praising Irans stance on Jerusalem al-Quds.
US lawmakers have put forward a bill at the House of Representatives, seeking to tighten the term of a 2015 multinational nuclear deal with Iran, despite international warnings for Washingtonto stop attempts to underminethe accord.
The commander of the Quds Force of Irans Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran is standing up to the Zionist regime of Israel with dignity and power.
Iran will dominate many of U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillersons conversations in Europe next week, when he is visiting London, Paris, Warsaw and Davos, Switzerland, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Friday.
Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a senior assistant to Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, has held talks with Alexander Lavrentiev, the Russian presidents special envoy for Syria.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the United States would be makinga very big political mistake if it pulls out of the 2015 multilateral agreement over Tehrans nuclear program.
Iraqi Kurdistan PM Nechirvan Barzani has arrived in Tehran with his accompanying delegation, marking normalizing relations between Iran and the Iraqi Kurdistan region since the controversial independence referendum.
Germany is lobbying among European allies to agree new sanctions against Iran in an attempt to prevent U.S. President Donald Trump from terminating an international deal curbing Tehrans nuclear program, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Saturday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said hes certain that the US Embassy will be moved to Jerusalem in the coming year, much sooner than US President Donald Trump administration officials have estimated.
The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has described his group as one of the most effectiveforces in the fight against terrorism across the Middle East region.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara plans to launch an operation against US-backed Kurdish militants in the northern Syrian city of Manbij as Turkish warplanes launch airstrikes on positions of the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG) militia in Syria.
Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have fired a short-range ballistic missile at a military base in Saudi Arabias southwestern border region of Najran, in retaliation for the Saudiregimes military campaign against the crisis-hit country, Yemeni media report.
The sales chief of European planemaker Airbus predicted Iran would take delivery of dozens of European jets it has ordered under a nuclear sanctions deal with major powers, but warned the transactions could take longer to complete than planned.
French carmaker PSAs (PEUP.PA) global sales jumped by 15 percent last year as strong growth in Iran and Latin America helped to offset difficulties in Britain and China.
Canadian planemaker Bombardier has submitted a draft contract for 10 brand-new CRJ-900 NextGen regional jets to Irans Qeshm Free Area Organization for review and finalization, Reza Baqerinejad, the CEO and Chairman of Qeshm Investment and Development Company told the Financial Tribune on Monday, noting that the final contract will be officially unveiled within a month.
Deutsche Boerse AG (DB1.XE) said Thursday that Irans Bank Markazi has filed a complaint against the German stock-exchange operators subsidiary Clearstream, seeking restitution of assets worth about $4.9 billion.
The Iranian car manufacturing company Iran Khodro and the German Daimler concern signed an agreement on the start of production of Mercedes-Benz cars in Iran from the Islamic new year (late March), the ISNA news agency reported on Friday.
A survey conducted to estimate the Persian leopards population has revealed that at least 10 were living in Bamou National Park in the southern Fars Province. The survey was carried out by the parks management office, in collaboration with a private NGO named Pars Wildlife, from July 21 to Nov. 21 covering an area of 320 square kilometers by 21 camera traps, Mehr News Agency reported.
The city of Tehran (Iranian capital) hosts more than 30 music bands from around the world in the 33rd Fayr International Music Festival of Iran.In this event, the first and only director of the Iranian orchestra, National Orchestra Naghme Baran, has impressed the audience.
In a country where certain jobs, such as radio presenter and reporter, are dominated by men, one woman is sending ripples through the conservative society. Sputnik Iran spoke to Maedeh Alaghmand, a sports commentator who set a new record in Iran as she commented live on kabaddi matches for 10 hours.
Water shortage in Iran has become so acute that people in some cities have held public prayer sessions for rain. Meanwhile, the photo of a man supplicating for rain has received more attention.