TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif sent a New Years greeting message in English in his Twitter page. I wish everyone a happy, healthy and peaceful new year, Zarif posted on his Twitter page on New Years Eve, December 31. In a separate message on his Facebook page on December 24, Zarif had also felicitated the birth anniversary ...

In the wake of startling tweets fromIranwishing Jews a happy Rosh Hashanah,an unusual public debate has broken out among the country's leadership over whether officials should usesocial mediato send policy messages to a global audience. Over the past several years, Iranian officials or their representatives have opened accounts on Twitter, Facebook ...

SUMMARY:The internal conflict within Irans regime over Syria appeared to ease on Sunday, as former President Hashemi Rafsanjani pulled back his controversial declaration that the Assad regime had used chemical weapons. However, tension was not far away, even as Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wascriticising US military interventionduring talks ...

(Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday dismissed the significance of reports that the new Iranian president and his foreign minister had both issued greetings to mark the Jewish New Year. Twitter messages that appeared to have been issued by newly-elected Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, wishing Jews a good ...

The World Jewish Congress offered cautious praise Friday for the surprising.welcomeRosh Hashanah greetings offered to the Jewish people by Irans new presidentandforeign ministeron Twitter this week, but said the Iranian leaders welcome words of tolerance on the occasion of the Jewish new years holiday should be followed by concrete actions. The Rosh ...

TEHRAN, Iran Jews arent our enemies, said Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif when asked by IransTasnimnews agencyabouthis statements on the Holocaust on a social-media websitein a conversation that originated with his tweet of "Happy Rosh Hashanah" on Sept. 5. The foreign minister, whose name means in Persian elegant or "delicate," ...

The Iranian Foreign Minister said on Twitter that Iran does not deny the Holocaust, distancing the government from the often belligerent stance of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mohammad Javad Zarifbegan tweeting Wednesday in English from an account, confirmed by CNNsChristiane Amanpour, as part of what appears to be a concerted Internet campaign ...

Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif launched his eagerly anticipated Twitter debut yesterday, thanking Twitter users for their warm welcome and expressing his wish to #interact and stay in touch. In the wake of Dr. Zarifs first tweet, many of his over 2,600 followers began retweeting and favoriting the foreign ministers debut message, with one follower ...

Irans influential Assembly of Experts, concluding a two-day meeting on Wednesday, put outa general statementwith a focus on the Syrian crisis: We call on scholars of the Muslim world, the scientific and academic centers and the elites to deal with the Takfiri Salafi current, which is heresy in religion and is not in conformity with Quran and Islamand ...