Al-Monitor - The geo-economic aspects of President Hassan Rouhani's visit to Iraq couldnt be more pleasing to Iran's conservatives. Ever since the US departure from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) last May, conservatives have urged Rouhani to bypass Washington's reinstated sanctions by focusing on trade with neighbors like Iraq as opposed ...

AFP - An ultraconservative Iranian newspaper called Tuesday for the expulsion of French diplomats from the country, accusing France of expelling an Iranian diplomat on the basis of a "ludicrous accusation". The Kayhan daily demanded that the Iranian Foreign Ministry reciprocate "the insolent and vile behavior of France in accusing and expelling ...

Al-Monitor - Whether Iran's President Hassan Rouhani should travel to New York for this year's UN General Assembly is fueling a war of words between his critics and supporters. Hard-line daily Kayhan initially sparked the debate. In a Sept. 10 editorial, the paper advised Rouhani to cancel his trip to New York in order to use it as a chance to humiliate ...

IFP - A conservative Iranian daily has harshly criticized the Rouhani administration, particularly the Foreign Ministry, for not showing proper reaction to the Netherlands expulsion of two Iranian diplomats. Kayhan in a recent critical article that the two diplomats were ordered to leave the country after Amsterdam accused them of being involved ...

IFP- A conservative newspaper has called on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani not to allow Europe to drag its feet on the Iran nuclear deal. In a recent critical article, the Kayhan newspaper took a swipe at Rouhani for not pressuring Europe into adopting a straightforward and clear position on the JCPOA in a timely manner. The full text of the opinion ...

IFP - The Tehran-based newspaper Kayhan says it has obtained a copy of a report by an Arab intelligence apparatus that claims Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has mysteriously disappeared for weeks, could be killed in a shooting incident late April. This intelligence service in a confidential report to the countrys top official insists ...

IFP- A senior Iranian journalist and commentator says Washington is unlikely to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal as the agreement has had numerous advantages for Americans and withdrawing from it will just benefit Tehran. Chief of the conservativeKayhannewspaper has, in a Farsi editorial published in the daily, weighed in on the latest developments ...

IFP- Tehran Prosecutor says the conservative newspaper Kayhan will be suspended for two days because of its Monday headline which was against the Islamic Republics principled policies. Based on a lawsuit filed by Irans Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), the Kayhan daily newspaper will not be published on Saturday and Sunday, November 11 and ...

Al-Monitor- Almost immediately after Yemeni fighterslaunched a missileat Riyadh's airport Nov. 4, Saudi officials and US President Donald Trump both pointed fingers at Iran, sayingTehran was behind the attack. In response, Iranian officials were quick to rebut the allegation. On Nov. 5,Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commanderMohammad Ali ...

IFP - The conservative newspaper Kayhan has received an official warning by the body that supervises the Iranian press for its Monday headline about the next target of Yemeni missiles. Ansarullahs Missile Targets Riyadh; Dubai Is Next Target was the controversial and belligerent headline that appeared in the front page of Kayhan newspaper ...

Al-Monitor | Zep Kalb: On April 23, hours after the conservative daily Kayhan proclaimed that [Islamic] Azad University is awaiting major restructuring, four members of the institutions nine-member board of trustees called a special session. Later in the day, Hamid Mirzadeh, the president of Islamic Azad University (IAU), received a note telling him ...

Iranian Diplomacy- On Monday, Palestinian militant group Hamas unveiled a new policy document, accepting for the first time the idea of a Palestinian state that would fall within the borders that existed in 1967, CNN reported. The immediate response in Irans cybersphere was tinted with a sense of being betrayed. However, Iranian analysts ...

IFP- In an editorial published last week in Kayhan newspaper in Farsi, Hossein Shariatmadari, the veteran journalist, once again referred to the nuclear deal between Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France, and Germany) as a total damage and stressed that the countrys nuclear industry needs a new leader as the incumbent government ...

IFP- According to a Persian report by Kayhan Newspaper, after the Parliamentary elections held last February in Iran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani became known for kicking radicals out of Iranian Parliament and the Assembly of Experts. Meanwhile, Donald Trumps victory in the US presidential election shook the legacy of Rouhani and the turning ...

A leading Iranian daily has suggested the country intercept US cargo ships in the Persian Gulf in response to the American "looting" of Iran'sfrozen assets. The influential Kayhan newspaper made the suggestion on Sunday after Iran's appeal to the UN to stop US violations of state immunity and seizure of the assets generated little hopes. Iranian ...

Clerics and hardline critics poured more pressure on the Rouhani Government on Friday, telling ministers to avoid any attempt to open up Iranian society and culture. Tehran Friday Prayers leader Ayatollah Movahedi Kermani was blunt, I warn both the Ministers of Culture and Scienceto avoid returning to the Reformist period in the fields of culture ...

Representatives of the six world powers who attended this week's nuclear talks in Geneva discussed Tehran's sensitive nuclear work -- and back pain. That's according to a senior U.S. official who briefed reporters in the Swiss city after the two-day talks. The official was asked whether the discussion with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, ...

Maybe Another Time, read the front page of a Tehran-based newspaper after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and U.S. PresidentBarack Obamafailed to meet at the United Nations in New York. The story inShargh, the most popular pro-Rouhani newspaper, followed a decision by Iranian officials that the time wasnt yet right for a handshake between the two ...