Al-Monitor - While gradually reopening much of the economy amid lowering coronavirus-related mortalities, the Iranian government has extended a shutdown of religious sites nationwide. The closure of holy sites in Iran has been extended for two more weeks, until May 4, amid fears that religious gatherings may complicate wider coronavirus containment ...

Iran Front Page - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Monday, November 19, 2018, and picked headlines from 16 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The top story in all papers today was the ongoing controversy over Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarifs remarks about ...

IFP- A senior Iranian cleric has hailed the recent remarks by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif about Tehrans preparedness to withdraw from the JCPOA, and called on Rouhanis government to immediately pull out of the harmful nuclear deal. Addressing a huge gathering of worshippers on Friday, Iran Leaders representative in Mashhad Ayatollah Ahmad ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Thursday and picked headlines from 23 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution has appointed Hujatoleslam Alamolhoda as his representative in the northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi; this grabbed ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in a decree on Wednesday appointed Hojatoleslam Seyed Ahmad Alamolhoda as his new representative in the northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi. The appointment comes less than a week after death of Ayatollah Abbas Vaez Tabasi, the former representative of the Leader ...

The Friday prayer leader of Mashhad has said anywhere the remnants of the 2009 sedition and their sympathizers are, from municipalities, to ministries, to parliament, the US is making at attempt at infiltration there. Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda further said it was the dream of rising to power that led the seditionists [a reference to those who contributed ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Monday and picked headlines from 17 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Remarks of the Supreme Leader in a meeting with a group of senior Navy officers in Tehran generated headlines in Iranian dailies on Monday. The hike in the value of dollar ...

More than five years after the disputed 2009 Presidential election and protests by millions of its people, Irans regime is still warning of the threat of sedition. Tehran Friday Prayer Leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami (pictured)issued the latest call: In truth, the sedition of 2009 stood against the republicanism of our system of governance.I get the ...

The Tehran Friday Prayer continued Irans condemnation of the US campaign in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State, withAyatollah Kazem Seddiqi (pictured) declaring, The coalition between the United States and a few Arab countries is clearly a hoax under the guise of combating terrorism. Seddiqi spoke of the Islamic States imminent capture of the ...

As nuclear talks resume between Iran and the 5+1 Powers (US, Britain, Germany, France, China, and Russia) in New York, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has declared that any deal is better than no deal. Iran and the 5+1 Powers are seeking a comprehensive settlement before the expiry of interim arrangements on November 24. Zarifreopened ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by the AEI Critical Threats Project's Iran research team. President HassanRouhani announcedThis year is the year of economic growth and the resistance economy. We must strive to stand on our own feet in various fields of science and technology and ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEICriticalThreats Project Iran AnalystWill Fulton and Iran Intern Amir Toumaj.   Politics Tehran Interim Friday Prayer Leader Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani praisedSupreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameneis approval of the majority vote ...

In what appears to be a significant softening of tone, a hard-line Iranian cleric, Mashhad Friday Prayer leader Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda, has said that it is wrong to consider opposition leaders Mir Hossein Musavi and Mehdi Karrubi as "seditionists." Alamolhoda was speaking to the semiofficialFars news agency, which is said to be affiliated with ...