Press TV -(Wed May 15, 2013) An Iranian UN envoy has called on the international community to take effective measures against different types of smuggling, particularly human trafficking. Addressing a UN General Assembly meeting on human trafficking in New York on Tuesday, Iran’s Deputy Ambassador to the world body Gholam-Hossein Dehqani underlined the necessity to support [...]
Press TV -(Wed May 15, 2013) Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have started a fresh round of negotiations in the Austrian capital, Vienna. Iran’s Ambassador to the IAEA Ali Asghar Soltanieh and the agency’s Deputy Director General and Head of the Safeguards Department Herman Nackaerts opened the talks on Wednesday. The ongoing talks are [...]
Press TV -(Tue May 14, 2013) Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has warned that any attempt to disintegrate Syria or to cause a potential power vacuum in the Arab country would affect the entire region. “The Islamic Republic supports Syria’s integrity, unity and sovereignty, and everyone should do the same,” said Salehi. He made the remarks [...]
Press TV -(Tue May 14, 2013) Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says the Islamic Republic hopes that the P5+1 group of powers will give a constructive response to Tehran’s proposals about its nuclear energy program. Speaking in a press conference on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry’s newly-appointed Spokesman Abbas Araqchi said, “Iran’s proposals during the second round of [...]
Press TV -(Tue May 14, 2013) Iran Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Iranian Expatriates Affairs Hassan Qashqavi says Iranian expatriates can cast their ballots for the June 14 presidential election in 120 countries. Speaking at a meeting with the representatives of electoral executive and monitoring committees outside Iran in Tehran on Monday, he said [...]
Press TV -(Tue May 14, 2013) An Iranian deputy foreign minister has criticized US President Barack Obama for openly calling for the downfall of Syria’s legitimate government of President Bashar al-Assad. “Obama cannot decide for the understating people of Syria about the future of this country,” ISNA quoted Hossein Amir-Abdollahian as saying on Tuesday. Following a [...]
Press TV -(Mon May 13, 2013) Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi has expressed support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Mali, urging the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to employ its potentials to settle the crisis in the African country. Salehi made the remarks at a ministerial meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Contact Group [...]
Press TV -(Mon May 13, 2013) Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has reiterated the country’s fundamental policy of promoting cooperation with regional countries, particularly its neighbors. Salehi made the remarks in a Sunday meeting with his Saudi counterpart Saud al-Faisal in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where both officials discussed bilateral ties and regional developments.Continued contacts [...]
Press TV -(Mon May 13, 2013) Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi has discussed regional developments, including the Syria crisis, with his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Kamel Amr. Salehi and Amr met and held talks in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Monday prior to a ministerial meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Contact Group on the crisis [...]
Press TV -(Mon May 13, 2013) Iran has held the eighth international conference on the highly revered Persian epic poet Ferdowsi at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. The conference which is hosting many Iranian and international scholars, experts and researchers kicked off on May 12. The event is to analyze various aspects of the great 11th-century poet’s [...]
