August 6, The Iran Project Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attendance inOIC extraordinary meeting on Palestine in Turkey, Trump signing sweeping sanctions bill targeting Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei formally endorsing Rouhani as Iran president, World leaders arrival in Tehran to join Rouhani inauguration and The swearing-in ceremony of Irans ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Khartoum summoned Saudi charge d'affaires to the foreign ministry after the Saudi Kingdom prevented a Tehran-bound liner carrying Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir from flying over the country. The monarchy has refused to allow the plane with the Sudanese president on board enter the Saudi airspace to attend the swearing-in ceremony ...

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Tuesday sent a message congratulating new Iranian president Hassan Rouhani on his inauguration, and inviting him to new nuclear negotiations as soon as possible. Mr President, I write to tell you that, together with the E3+3, I stand ready to continue talks to find a resolution as quickly as ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's Civil Aviation Authority says the reason that the Sudanese president's plane was barred from crossing Saudi airspace en route to Iran earlier this weekend was because it did not ask for routine permission. It said in a statement Tuesday that the plane's pilot declared he was carrying President Omar al-Bashir ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has been invited by the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General, Jan Kubish, to take part in the UN Disarmament Conference to be held on the sideline of the UN Security Council meeting. Jan Kubish, who was in Tehran to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new Iranian president on Sunday, said the ...

Irans First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri has praised the resistance of the Syrian nation in the face of the hardships caused by the violence in the country. Jahangiris remarks came in a Monday meeting in Tehran with visiting Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi. The Iranian vice president thanked the Syrian premier for representing his country ...

Iranian President Hassan Rohani says the Islamic Republic has always favored expansion of ties with all countries of the world, particularly friendly and neighboring states. In a meeting with National Assembly of Azerbaijan Speaker Ogtay Asadov in Tehran on Monday, Rohani said cooperation between Tehran and Baku can help enhance and consolidate regional ...

Iran news headlines on Monday include Supreme Leader appointment of Ahmadinejad to expediency council; Iran condemnation of west support of terrorists in Syria; top Korean official describing Tehran-Pyongyang as global role models; Iran hosting of Int'l conference on campaign against cyber crimes; country Foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi remarks ...

ArmenianPresident Serzh Sargsyan met today with the new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. According to the Armenian presidents press service, H. Rouhani thanked S. Sargsyan for attending his inauguration. During the meeting the sided discussed a wide range of bilateral and multilateral issues. They stressed that the agenda of Armenian-Iranian relations ...

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has expressed his countrys readiness to hold substantial talks with Tehran following the inauguration of Irans new president, Hassan Rohani. We are open to substantial talks, Westerwelle said on Sunday. Rohani took the oath of office on Sunday in Majlis in a ceremony attended by Iranian lawmakers and senior ...

International Relations and Co-operation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said in Tehran on Sunday that South Africa wanted to study expanding economic and trade relations with Iran under its new government. "We will never forget the support extended by the Iranian nation and government for the South African peoples campaign against the apartheid regime,...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Heads of states, officials and ambassadors from 50 countries plan to join Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's inauguration ceremony scheduled for Sunday afternoon. Leaders and officials from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Armenia, North Korea, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Swaziland, Russia, Venezuela, Algeria,...

Hassan Rouhani is a centrist who has kept lines of communication open to most of Iran's competing power centres. The inauguration of a new president inIranis an opportunity for sending messages andHassan Rouhanidid not waste it. He told America inhis inauguration speech yesterdaythat if it wanted an adequate response from Iran, it should not speak ...

Irans Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has held meetings with a number of African dignitaries who were in the capital Tehran to attend the inauguration of new Iranian President Hassan Rohani. In a meeting with his Burundian counterpart Laurent Kavakure on Sunday, Salehi conveyed his appreciation to the countrys president for sending an envoy to take ...

Iran�s President Hassan Rohani took the oath of office, following his endorsement by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.     By Fars News Agency

Irans Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has called on the three branches of government to remain vigilant in order to fulfill national resistance, saying the legislative body will fully cooperate with the new administration. The Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis) as the important base of democracy will have all-out amicable cooperation with the new ...

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Araqchi has expressed deep regret over the prevention of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's plane from flying to Iran. We were informed by the Sudanese Embassy in Tehran that one of the countries on the flight route of Mr. Omar al-Bashirs plane did not give permission for his plane to fly over its airspace,...

Irans new President Hassan Rohani has taken the oath of office at the Iranian Majlis (Parliament), one day after being endorsed by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. Iranian lawmakers and senior officials as well as foreign dignitaries attended the swearing-in ceremony in Tehran on Sunday. Rohani, whose four-year tenure ...