Al-Monitor - After a week of lackluster campaigning, Iran held a parliamentary vote Feb. 21, with the country's leadership issuing persistent calls for maximum participation. State media extensively covered what they described as a passionate presence by the public, an account disputed by ordinary citizens on social media, who posted images of what ...

MNA An Iranian lawmaker said that European signatories to the JCPOA are following the US and cannot be independent and accordingly, their statement is not valid. Europeans are following the United States and cannot implement any independent measure, Ali Motahari told Mehr News Agency on Saturday in reaction to E3s recent statement on the deal that ...

IRNA Iran's 60-day deadline is actually an ultimatum to the signatories of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), especially the three European countries, said a senior lawmaker, Ali Motahari, on Sunday. If Iran had made this move sooner, it wouldnt have been so effective. The move made it clear for the world that Iran intends to keep ...

Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: A controversial bill in the Iranian parliament seeks to ban its members from running for office after serving three consecutive terms. Under the new bill, high-profile moderates such as current parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani and outspoken lawmaker Ali Motahari, who have both served three consecutive terms, would not ...

IRNA - The Iranian Parliament Vice Speaker stressed that the Europeans are determined to set up the financial mechanism called Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX), which cannot be said to have great effects but to help alleviate the effects of sanctions. Pointing to the Monday trip of INSTEX president to Iran Per Fischer, Ali Motahhari ...

IRNA - Bulgaria will take measures to remove sanctions against Iran, a high-profile Bulgarian parliamentary official said. Implementing sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran and other countries are an obstacle to the way of development of relations between the two countries,' Bulgarian Deputy Parliament Speaker Veselin Mareshki told his ...

SHANA -- Lawmakers at the Iranian parliament rejected a bill to increase the petrol price or impose several prices to the item. Ali Motahhari, MP, said the parliament ratified a motion which stabilized the price of petrol back in 2005 which had created many troubles including fuel smuggling. Addressing the parliaments Saturday open session, the ...

FNA - Iranian Parliament's Vice-Speaker Ali Motahhari underlined that Europe's interference in his country's internal affairs by linking the declared mechanism for trade with Iran - Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX)- to the FATF is not acceptable. "A minister of one of the European states has reportedly said that implementation of ...

IRNA - Establishment of the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) between Iran and Europe proved the European Union (EU) commitment to the Iranian nuclear deal, said a senior lawmaker on Friday. Registration of INSTEX shows the EU willingness to preserve the Iranian nuclear deal, known also as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),...

Iran Front Page - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday, October 10, 2018, and picked headlines from 15 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Several papers today covered the surprising resignation of US Envoy to the UN Nikki Haley, which was later accepted ...

IRNA Joining of Iran to the Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) convention will facilitate Iran's banking relations with the world. In general, joining CFT is at the interest of the country, Iranian Parliament Vice Speaker Ali Motahari said on Sunday. He noted that joining CFT can lead to types of reform in Iran's banking system and lead ...

MNA Deputy speaker of Iran's Parliament Ali Motahari has called on South Korea to pursue an independent policy from that of the United States and enhance bilateral relations with Iran. Tehrans representative, who is the deputy speaker of Iranian Parliament, made the remarks in a meeting with WonYoo-chul, MP and chairman of the Conference ...

Reuters - It is not a good time for Iran to negotiate with the United States, a senior Iranian parliamentarian said on Tuesday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would be willing to meet Irans leader without preconditions. If Trump had not withdrawn from (Irans) nuclear deal (with world powers) and had not imposed sanctions on Iran,...

Euronews- France's football team is not truly French and only progressed so far in the World Cup by recruiting "giants from Africa", the deputy president of Iran's Parliament has claimed. France's squad includestwo players born outside of the country- Cameroon-born defender Samuel Umtiti who moved to France with his family aged 2, ...

IFP- A senior Iranian lawmaker has called on the Iranian Foreign Ministry to summon French Ambassador to Tehran in protest against the French governments decision to allow an anti-Iran terror group to hold its annual gathering in Paris. Second Vice-Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Motahari made the call on Tuesday on the floor of the Parliament ...

FNA- Iranian Parliament Vice Speaker Ali Motahari blasted the US exit from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) as a move destabilizing the world security. "Violating international agreements and treaties based on poor reasoning and unrealistic excuses have flared up insecurity in the world, Motahari said on Tuesday, addressing the Development ...

FNA- Senior Iranian and Russian parliamentary officials in a meeting in Moscow vowed to broaden mutual cooperation between the two countries' parliaments. During the meeting in the Russian capital on Tuesday, Iranian Parliament Vice-Speaker Ali Motahari and Russian State Duma Vice Speaker Sergei Neverov explored avenues for bolstering and reinvigorating ...

IRNA Majlis vice speaker Ali Motahari said on Monday that the Islamic Republic of Iran accepts no change or amendment in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and believes that the treaty should be implemented practically. He said in a meeting with Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of Russia IIyas Mayomed-Salamovich Umakhanov in ...

IRNA The first Forum on Parliamentarianism started work in Moscow on Monday with the attendance of over 96 countries including Iran. Iran Majlis vice speaker Ali Motahhari heading a parliamentary delegation participated in the event. Members of Iranian delegation and Russian Duma and the Federation Council held talks before the forum. Some ...

IRNA - Massoud Pezeshkian and Ali Motahhari have been re-elected as the vice speakers of the Parliament on Wednesday. The Iranian MPs re-elected Pezeshkian and Motahari as the first and second vice speakers with 157 and 143 votes in favor out of 279, respectively. Last year, Pezeshkian and Motahari were also elected as the first and second deputy ...