MNA Deputy Coordinator of the Iranian Army Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari pointed to the Islamic Republic's significant role as the 'main player' in the region, saying that no country can take any measure in the region without Irans presence or determination. He made the remarks in a press conference in Tehran on Wednesday, on the threshold of ...

IRNA - The Polish envoy who is in Tehran to discuss with Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi says Warsaw believes that finding the solution to all the problems of the Middle East without Iran is impossible. The announcement of a meeting titled Middle East Peace and Security Summit in Warsaw scheduled for February 13 and 14, with the ...

IRNA Today no decision can be enforced in the region without the will and effective presence of Iran, Cultural Deputy of Irans Judiciary chief Hojjatoleslam Hadi Sadeqi said on Sunday. Speaking during a ceremony in the southwestern Iranian city of Yasouj to commemorate the anniversary of the Dey 9 Epic which marks the historic rallies held nine ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdallah lauded Iran for its constructive role in contribution to peace and tranquility in the Middle East region. Irans constructive role in establishing stability and security in the region is obvious to all countries, the Omani official said in a meeting with ...

Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has welcomed Irans role in promoting interaction among regional countries. Kuwait believes that Iran has created a better interactive atmosphere in the region over recent months and welcomes it, Al-Sabah said in a meeting with visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Kuwait City ...

Madrid, Nov 27, IRNA Foreign Minister of Spain Jos Manuel Garcia-Margallo said Tuesday that Iran has always been a big power in the Middle East region. He made the remark addressing a conference focusing on present and future talks with Iran in which a number of world officials including Javier Solana, Europes former top diplomat, were present. He ...

Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour says the Islamic Republic of Iran plays a constructive role in resolving problems in the Middle East region. European and Western countries have realized that it is impossible to solve the problems of regional countries without drawing on Irans positive role, Mansour said in a meeting with Iranian Ambassador ...

Tehran, Sept 25, IRNA Member of Iranian Parliament Mansour Haqiqatpour pointed to the enthusiasm of western officials to meet with President Hassan Rouhani on the sideline of the UN meeting and said the West is realizing Irans special position in the Middle East. Talking to IRNA, Haqiqatpour who is the vice chairman of the National Security and Foreign ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari underscored the countrys influential role in the region, and said every event across the region is a testimony to Irans increasing power. Every event that takes place in the region is a sign of the Islamic Republic of Irans might, Rear Admiral Sayyari said on Thursday morning ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A senior Iraqi political figure described Iran as a regional and international power, saying in the absence of this key player no plan in the region would come to fruition. The Islamic Republic of Iran has now turned into a mighty regional and international country, and we always insist that no plan will be accomplished in the region,...

Tehran, Sept 15, IRNA Head of Iran Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi said Iran is the most powerful country in the region and thus plays an influential role in making the US withdraw from its war-mongering policies regarding Syria. Talking in a ceremony on Saturday, he reiterated that the future of Syria will be determined only by its nation....

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian lawmaker said the firm stands adopted by Iran caused western powers to retreat from their previous position to imminently attack Syria. The mighty and firm stands adopted by Iran led to a turnabout in the military approach the West had taken against Syria and to their decision to put off a possible strike," Member ...

Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, has extended an olive branch to the Western world in a number of speeches on possible negotiation and in his appointment of Western-leaning reformists in the new cabinet to normalize relations, something that, if Iran can achieve it, would limit Turkey's role in the region as an influential actor. Rouhani's ...

Islamabad, Aug 28, IRNA A Pakistani parliamentarian on Wednesday said that Iran wants to maintain peace in the region despite having capability to respond to any kind of military misadventure. Talking to IRNA, Senator Kamil Ali Agha of Pakistan Muslim League- Quaid-e-Azam said that Iran has never adopted the policy of aggression. Iran is a peace ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- UN Undersecretary General Jeffrey D. Feltman underscored Iran's influential role in settling the regional crises, and hailed the country's cooperation with regional and international bodies in various fields. During a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Mohammad Mehdi Akhoundzadeh in Tehran ...

Beirut, Aug 20, IRNA Senior Lebanese Shia Muslim scholar Ayatollah Sheikh Afif Nablusi on Tuesday called on Iran to help thwart plots hatched by the US and the Zionist regime to divide the Muslim nations in the region. Addressing a ceremony in southern Lebanese city of Saida, Nablusi urged regional governments to safeguard national solidarity, stressing ...

As President Barack Obama returned from vacation this week a short break interrupted by his need to react to the mayhem in Cairo he may have been thinking that prospects for a major foreign policy achievement in his second term were fading. Long-time U.S. ally Egypt is careening betweenpolice state and chaos, Syria continues to self-immolate while ...

Nowhere is our inability to grasp the realities of Middle-Eastern politics more obvious than in our self-deceiving attitude towards the theocracy in Iran. Yet again the Western world gazes baffled and powerless at the ever more tragic mess unfolding across the Middle East. The wishful-thinking euphoria that greeted the Arab Spring two years ago ...

As the Middle East seems engulfed in a never-ending cycle of violence, with further reports of bloodshed coming from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Bahrain, Iran continues to warn against Israel's plot to fragment and divide the region to better assert its own hegemonic power and claim victory over its nemesis, Islam. While politicians, experts and analysts ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi Monday underlined the high level of the Iranian Armed Forces' might and clout in regional and international arenas, and praised the ministry's staff for the efforts they have made to this end. In a meeting with the ministry personnel at the end of his mission as defense minister,...