IRNA American magazine TIME listed Commander of the Qods Forces of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major-General Qasem Soleimani among 100 Most Influential People in the World 2017. Due to the measures taken by Soleimani, he attracted the worlds attention, TIME reported. When ISIS overran Northern Iraq, it was Soleimani who armed the ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Major General Qassem Soleimani described ISIL as the US protg, and cautioned that Washington is doing its best to keep the Tafiri terrorist group alive and in power in a bid to use it as a pressure leverage against the Muslim community. "The US intends to protect the ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Major General Qassem Soleimani blasted the US double-standards in the Middle East, saying that Washington sees its ties with Israel as a yardstick for interacting with other countries. "Israel is the benchmark for US interaction with the regional countries," Major General ...

REY (Tasnim) Senior commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) attended a ceremony in Shahr-e-Rey, south of Tehran, in commemoration of Abu Muntadhar al-Muhamadawi, a top commander of Iraq's Badr Brigade, who was recently martyred in the fight against ISIL in Fallujah.      ...

[caption id="attachment_145516" align="alignright" width="214"] General Qassem Suleimani, the once rarely seen commander of the powerful Quds Force, has become the public face of Irans support for the Iraqi and Syrian governments.[/caption] TEHRAN: An Iranian general who has been a key adviser in Iraq's fightback againstISISwas voted Iran's person ...

[caption id="attachment_152820" align="alignright" width="199"] A man walks past a billboard featuring photographs of Iranian General Hamid Taghavi of the Iraqi Shi'ite militia group Saraya al-Khorasani, who was killed during fighting against the Islamic State in northern Iraq in December, in Baghdad January 26, 2015. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad[/caption] (Reuters) ...

[caption id="attachment_147533" align="alignright" width="147"] Qassem Soleimani (center) with Shiite militia leaders in Iraq. Photo: bna.ir[/caption] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told world leaders at the Davos Economic Forum that his countrys collaboration with the Iranian military in fighting Islamic State (ISIS) ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian university professors in a letter sent to the Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force on Sunday appreciated Major General Qassem Soleimani for his successful and positive role in the regional developments and against the hegemonic policies of the western governments in the region. "In the current ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Saturday and picked headlines from 16 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Iranian newspapers on Saturday were dominated by the Supreme Leaders speech at a meeting with Basij volunteers on nuclear talks in which he supported the countrys negotiating ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian dailies on Tuesday and picked headlines from 30 of them. The comments of the Judiciary spokesman about recent acid attacks in Isfahan caught the attention of Iranian dailies on Tuesday. Meetings between Iranian officials including President Rouhani with the visiting Armenian prime minister were also ...

The death of a reporter for Irans State outlet Press TV, in a road accident, has provided the platform for Irans latest denunciation of Turkey. Serena Shim, a US citizen of Lebanese origin, was killed on Sunday when the car in which she was travelling collided with a truck in Suruc in southeast Turkey. She had been reporting across the border from ...

The recent capture of Sanaa by Zaidi fighters was celebrated in the Iranian media as a "victory for the revolutionaries". The Arab press, by contrast, accused Iran of trying to influence events in Yemen after already getting involved in Iraq and Syria. The conflict increasingly threatens to be seen as an exclusively Sunni-Shia power struggle. "The ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A senior Iranian commander predicted the ultimate failure of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group as well as the US military campaigns, saying they both lack reality. Either the US campaigns or the ISIL terrorist measures are doomed to failure since they lack reality, and their approaches will not be effectual ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Mehrdad Moarefian and Iran Intern Amir Toumaj, with contributors Chris Rawlins, Diana Timmerman, and Marie Donovan. Official Statements   Senior Political Adviser to the Representative of the ...

Iran is pressing its campaign to coordinate political and military operations in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State. Tehran is seeking to win over regional actors, adding to its alliance with the Syrian regime, to push aside the US-led interventions in the two countries. The Supreme Leader, President Rouhani, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad ...

[caption id="attachment_117998" align="alignright" width="225"] Irans President Hassan Rouhani (R) and British Prime Minister David Cameron[/caption] The headline of President Rouhanis diplomatic offensive in New York on Wednesday was a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron. Beyond the photo opportunity and the cordial greetings, the ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Mehrdad Moarefian and Iran Intern Amir Toumaj, with contributors Chris Rawlins, Diana Timmerman, and Marie Donovan. Official Statements Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani congratulated ...

Iran expressed its worries about terrorism on Wednesday, as it confirmed three guards were killed by gunmen on the Iraq border. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said, Causing insecurity, disrupting democratic trends, overcoming ballot boxes, imposing weapons and terror rather than (promoting) democratic trends all of these suggest that ...

A not-so-funny thing happened to President Rouhanis press conference on Saturday: the celebration of the anniversary of his election was overtaken by the crisis in Iraq and Irans involvement. Amid mounting reports that Irans elite Qods Force, troops, Basij militia, and commanders are in Iraq, Rouhani insisted that the issue of Iranian forces engagement ...

Even as a senior Iranian official told Reuters that Iran is considering cooperation with the US to check the insurgent advance in Iraq, Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani was putting out a far different message on Friday. Larijani told a conference in Tehran that the US was responsible for the Islamic State of Iraq and as-Sham, which has led the insurgency:...