UN Security Council must compel Israel to stop aggression on Syrian soil: Iran envoy

An Iranian envoy to the United Nations (UN) has called on the Security Council to pressure Israel to stop its violation of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity amid the regime’s constant aggression on Syrian soil.

Imam Khomeini ’s role was also central in shaping the new political order that emerged from the ...

US seizes Qur'anic tiles from Iran for mosque in Virginia

US custom authorities have confiscated a set of Iranian tiles to be used in construction of a new mosque in Virginia, demanding they must be shipped backed to Iran or destroyed.

The chain of events that ended in February 1979 with the overthrow of the Pahlavi regime

God liberated Khorramshahr, Imam Khomeini stressed

Iran this year is marking the 39th anniversary of the liberation of the southwestern city of Khorramshahr from forces of the ex-Iraqi dictator’s regime in the course of the eight-year war imposed on the Islamic Republic in 1980s.

Clashes continue as Israel restricts worshipers’ access to mosque during Ramadan

Israeli forces have detained a total of six Palestinians, as clashes continue in the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds over the Tel Aviv regime’s restrictions to Muslim worshipers’ access to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound for prayers in the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

US, allies accomplices to Saddam’s chemical attacks on Iran

On April 10, 1988, Saddam Hussein's warplanes unleashed chemical attacks on the Iranian city of Marivan, Kurdistan. Many civilians were killed and injured. Thirty-three years later, some victims are still suffering from the physical and psychological consequences of those attacks.

President Rouhani says enemies cannot speak to Iranians with ‘language of force, threat’

In his message to the nation on the occasion of the Persian New Year or Nowruz on Saturday, President Hassan Rouhani has commended the patience and perseverance of the great Iranian nation, saying the enemies have admitted that they cannot speak to the Iranian people with the language of force, threats and sanctions.