Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani denies Iran executes juveniles or persecutes Bah's and accuses west of spreading promiscuity. The chief ofIran's judiciary has accused the EU of spreading homosexuality and promiscuity in the country after the European parliament warnedhuman rightsabuses have continued underHassan Rouhani's new administration. Ayatollah ...

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[caption id="attachment_91806" align="alignright" width="180"] Chairman of National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Irans Majlis Alaeddin Boroujerdi (R) and Dutch Ambassador to Tehran Johannes Douma meet in Tehran on April 8, 2014.[/caption] Dutch Ambassador to Tehran Johannes Douma says the recent European Parliament (EP) resolution ...

QOM, April 8 (MNA) Cleric and seminary school religious students have gathered to protest recent anti-Iran resolution by EP. A large number of clerics and seminary school students of the Qom seminary schools gathered in front of Lady Masumahs holy shrine to show their protest over the recent European Parliaments resolution against Iran.  ...

Tehran, April 8, IRNA Iranian lawmakers, in a statement read in Iran?s parliament on Tuesday, warned against negative effects of European Parliament?s counterproductive actions. ?Despite the fact that the EP recent resolution included some positive points about Iran, it is an unacceptable action that can affect Iran-EU bilateral talks aimed at boosting ...

TEHRAN, April 8 (MNA) A Parliamentarian has said they have cancelled a visit by Irans Parliamentary delegation to Strasbourg. Kazem Jalali, the head of Iran and Europe Parliamentary Friendship Group had been invited by Tarja Cronberg for a visit toStrasbourg, the seat of European Parliament onApril 16 and17, which has coincided with passing ...

TEHRAN, April 7 (MNA) An Iranian Parliamentarian has quoted President Rouhani as speaking in the Parliament that European Parliament lacks political weight. Esmail Jalili, a member of board of a Principalist faction in the Parliament, Rahrovan-e-Velayat (Followers of the Leader) told Mehr News Parliament correspondent that Rouhani had met in the ...

Todays resumption of nuclear talks between Iran and the 5+1 Powers in Vienna has been overshadowed by a weekend dispute: the regime is challenging the European Parliament over a resolution expressing grave concern about human rights in the Islamic Republic. MPs, clerics, and senior officials have denounced the Parliament ever since Thursdays resolution ...

VIENNA, April 7 (MNA) Irans FM has said in Vienna that European Parliament resolutions lack credit and political weight. Mohammad Javad Zarif upon arrival in Vienna, Austria, to attend the new round of nuclear talks with Powers, responded to a question about the recent resolution by the European Union believed to be anti-Iranian. These types of ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian official dismissed as unfounded the recent European Parliament resolution against the human rights situation in Iran, describing it as a move to pressure Tehran to please the US and its allies. The recent EP resolution is merely aimed at exerting political pressure on Iran, said Ali Akbar Velayati, who is a top advisor ...

TEHRAN, April 7 (MNA) A Basij official responsible for Basij official policies has said it will organize a student rally before Greek embassy in Tehran to voice protest over European Parliament anti-Iranian resolution. Mohammad Saeed Sarafraz told Mehr News that Basiji students would rally to condemn European Parliament resolution which, he believed,...

[caption id="attachment_56738" align="alignright" width="180"] Greek Ambassador to Iran Nikolas Garilidis[/caption] Iran has summoned Greek ambassador to Tehran in connection with the European Parliaments (EP) recent adoption of a resolution against the Islamic Republic. In a Sunday meeting, director general of West Europe affairs at Irans ...

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The European Parliament, having regard to its previous resolutions on Iran, in particular those of 10 March 2011 on the EUs approach towards Iran, of 17 November 2011 on recent cases of human rights violations in Iran, of 2 February 2012 on Iran and its nuclear programme and of 14 June 2012 on the situation of ethnic minorities in Iran, having ...

TEHRAN, April 6 (MNA) Irans FM has criticized the European Parliament on the Parliaments recent fact sheet on Irans human rights record. Mohammad Javad Zarif, who was addressing the Parliament with invitation from Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission on the eve of new round of nuclear talks with Powers in Vienna to be held on ...

Nasim A number of Iranian parliamentarians have passed a legislation which requires European visitors to have their fingerprints registered upon their arrival to Iran. The move came to react against an April 3 resolution passed by the European Parliament (EP) over that human rights status in Iran. Senior Iranian officials including Majlis Speaker ...

Tehran, YJC. Clergyman says a certain body of Iranian statesmen have played lax to encourage an EU resolution against the country. Mehr News Agency reports that ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani who was giving a lecture in Qom pointed to the recent European Parliament resolution against Iran and said "It is a pity that some have behaved in a way before ...

Tehran, April 6, IRNA Iranian lawmakers, in a statement issued on Sunday, warned against negative effect of European Parliament (EP) counterproductive actions. Speaking to IRNA, member of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Majlis Mohammad Hassan Asafari noted that 200 Majlis lawmakers have already signed the statement condemning the ...

Nasim A delegation of Iranian parliamentarians canceled their official visit to Berlin, the capital of Germany, to protest the fingerprinting procedure. Upon the invitation of the chairman of Foreign policy Commission of German Parliament, Norbert Rttgen,a group of Iranian lawmakers were supposed to pay a visit to Berlin in April, 2, Alaeddin Boroujerdi ...

Tehran, April 6, IRNA Senior MP Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel said the European Parliament (EP) is still practicing colonialist attitudes. Addressing the Sunday morning session of the Iranian Parliament, he said the tone of the recent resolution issued by the EP reveals that it has not yet forgotten its colonial habits. He welcomed parts of the document ...