He noted that the special committee for preparing the ground for establishment of Asian Parliament will convene in Pakistan in the near future.APA is an inter-parliamentarian organization which replaced the Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace (AAPP), the official added.He said that AAPP was established in 1999 to boost peace …

Regarding reports on increase in Iran's oil production to more than 3.9 million barrels per day, Gholamreza Manouchehri told IRNA that statistics reported by Iran and the OPEC are different.'Accordingly, the proposed production ceiling by the OPEC 171st meeting can be increased,' he said.'Based on OPEC agreement, the average production …

Speaking to reporters, Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, said the parliament speaker has ordered establishment of the Committee to probe into the Plasco incident.Interior Minister, Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli, attended the Supreme National Security Council meeting on Sunday to elaborate on different aspects of the Palsco …

According to the seismological center of the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University, the tremor occurred at 10:17 hours local time (06:47 GMT Sunday) in an area located at 49.89 degrees longitude and 32.74 degrees latitude and in the depth of 10 kilometers.There was no immediate report on the possible damage …

Anis Amri, shot dead before Christmas by Italian police after killing 12 people in the Berlin terrorist attack, was allegedly radicalised in prison. His story follows a shocking trajectory that enables murderous terrorism due to the incitement and recruitment of vulnerable prisoners.Cases such as Amri’s show that, today, for the …

'It is necessary to take advantage of a common language to overcome non-cultural differences between Iran and Arab world,' the Secretary of one-day commission Ehsan Qabul said.'The Scientific Commission of the First International Conference on Iran-Arab World Cultural Dialogue is being held at the same time with 5 other commissions …

'Cultural dialogues result in peaceful coexistence among societies and countries,' Javad Aziz al-Mussavi said on Saturday, addressing the first round of cultural dialogue between Iran and the Arab World hosted by Iran's Islamic Culture and Relations Organization.Al-Mussavi also pointed to the signing of several memorandums of understanding between Iranian and …

Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari on Saturday had a meeting with Russia's Special Envoy on Syria Alexander Lavrentiev who heads Russian delegation to the Astana meeting.Ansari has also conferred with Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Ahmet Unal Cevikoz on the Syrian talks to be held …

The MoU was sealed on the sidelines of the 2nd International Industry and Mine Exhibition in Yazd between Indonesian ambassador to Iran Ocatvino Alimudinand and the Managing Director of Yazd International Commercial Exhibitions Mostafa Boustani.Alimudinand pointed to Indonesia readiness to have cooperation with Yazd province to promote relations, saying this …

Speaking to CBC, the online Canadian information source, Salehi stressed that Tehran does not want to see the nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to be torn up, but Iran will go back to the pre-JCPOA conditions if it happens.In the first comments on Trump's …