MNA Two members of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Javad Jamali and Mohammad Hassan Asafari, criticized EUs rejection of Irans ultimatum on JCPOA. Calling EUs act an escape forward, Mohammad Javad Jamali said that despite the EUs rejection, Iran is committed to its announced 60-day ultimatum and will ...

Tehran, May 8, IRNA This year's Hajj pilgrimage seems impossible to be performed by Iranians as time is running out and there is no appropriate answer on the side of the Saudis regarding Iran's conditions, says a senior member of the Parliament. Mohammad Hassan Asafari a member of the Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A number of Iranian lawmakers are going to visit the countrys nuclear facilities in Fordo and Arak next week, an MP said on Wednesday. A number of members of the parliaments national security and foreign policy commission are set to pay visits to the Fordo nuclear facility and a heavy-water reactor in Arak, Mohammad Hassan Asafari,...

Tehran, April 8, IRNA Parliament (Majlis) lawmakers urged the Foreign Ministry to release Iranian version of Lausanne fact sheet, a senior MP reported. A member of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission in an interview with IRNA on Wednesday said that a number of lawmakers in an open letter to the Foreign Ministry urged it to publish ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian lawmaker said the country had better bow out of the nuclear talks with world powers should the other side impose fresh anti-Iran sanctions in the course of negotiations. Speaking to Tasnim, member of the parliaments National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Hassan Asafari said withdrawing from the talks ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian lawmaker underlined the important of role of the Muslim elites in the West in defusing the Islamophobia scenarios and explaining the different dimensions of the highly-important message of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei to the European youth. "The Muslim elites and university students should inform ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian lawmaker strongly condemned the new sanctions imposed by the US against Iran, and said the fresh embargos show the American officials are fully untrustworthy. On Tuesday, the US added nine individuals and legal entities to its blacklist of companies and individuals that have helped Iran to avoid the existing sanctions....

TEHRAN, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- AnIranian lawmaker said the new sanctions imposed by theUnited Stateson Iran over Tehran's nuclear program will fail, Press TV reported Sunday. "The sanctions on seven firms and five other Iranian individuals by the United States are in violation of human rights and against international regulations," Mohammad-Hassan Asafari,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian lawmaker underlined that Tehran would revive and speed up its nuclear activities, including its enrichment program, in case the US refrains from removing all the sanctions against Iran under a final deal. "Our impression is that the Americans do not intend to remove the sanctions and if this is proven, Iran will expedite ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Senior Iranian parliamentary officials warned that if the talks between Tehran and the world powers fail to yield results, the country will launch a large number of centrifuge machines to reach the 190,000 SWUs (Separative Work Units) that it needs for enriching uranium to fuel its power and research reactors. "If the negotiations (between ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A senior Iranian lawmaker rejected the claims made by Saudi Arabian foreign minister on Tehrans interference in regional countries as baseless and irrational.   The Islamic Republic never pays heed to such absurd and baseless remarks and will defend the oppressed people around the world..., Mohammad Hassan Asafari, a member ...

[caption id="attachment_106448" align="alignright" width="205"] A file photo of Irans Majlis[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) The Iranian Parliament will pass a bill under a double-urgency status authorizing the administration to enrich uranium to 60 percent purity level in case the US continues to impose sanctions against the country, an MP announced. Speaking ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian lawmaker asserted that the countrys heavy-water research reactor in the central city of Arak will not undergo any change, contrary to what the Westerners appear to have asked Iran to do as part of a comprehensive nuclear deal. There is no agenda to take Arak heavy-water reactor out of operation, and it will keep operating ...

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 ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Senior Iranian parliamentary officials disclosed on Saturday that the legislature plans to study a proposal for halting the nuclear talks with the six world powers in reaction to the recent Human Rights Resolution adopted by the European Parliament against Iran. Ranking member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A senior Iranian lawmaker criticized the United Nations secretary general for his baseless claims on lack of freedom of expression in Iran, urging President Rouhanis administration to make a firm response to the allegations. In a report to the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon accused Irans ...

An Iranian legislator says Irans Arak heavy water plant is used for medical and research purposes and Tehran will not dismantle it under any circumstances. [The United States of] America and the Westerners cannot make any claims against Arak heavy water (plant) since the facility will not be shut down at all, Mohammad Hassan Asafari, who sits on the ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iranian parliamentarian underlined that Tehran sees no possibility for adding unrelated issues, such as its defense program, to the topics of the negotiations in its nuclear talks with the six major world powers. The recent positions by the White House officials on certain issues are not acceptable, Member of the Iranian Parliament's ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) There is no opposition to the very nature of the landmark nuclear deal between Iran and the major world powers inside the country, a top Iranian lawmaker underlined, but at the same time noted that internal objections are made to the ways of putting the deal into practice. I believe that no individual, group or faction is opposed ...

A senior Iranian lawmaker says Tehran still holds suspicions over the death of the Saudi mastermind behind last Novembers terrorist attack on Iran's embassy in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. We are still suspicious of Majed al-Majeds death. There were hidden hands [behind his death] because he was a treasure trove of information and knew about terrorist ...