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Fars News Agency, Iran July 25 2014 Archbishop Calls for Iranians' Massive Turnout in Quds Day Rallies TEHRAN - Archbishop of Armenians in Western Iran Grigor Chiftchian condemned the Zionist regime of Israel's war crimes against innocent Gazans, and called for the massive participation of the Iranians in the International Quds Day rallies across ... (more)

European Union ambassadors have reached a preliminary deal on stepped-up sanctions against Russia, targeting its access to European capital markets and trade in the defense sector, dual-use goods and sensitive... A European Union document shows that among those targeted by the EU-wide asset freeze and travel ban are Alexander Bortnikov, head of the ... (more)

The director general for Italian Foreign Affairs Ministry's Promotion Department Andrea Meloni heading a business delegation met with the Iranian presidential chief of staff Mohammad Nahavandian in Tehran on Thursday.

TEHRAN Iran has sent its first aid shipment to the Egyptian capital Cairo to be delivered to the Gaza people, though Rafah, the Gaza-Egypt border, has been closed.

TEHRAN Iran's total tax income amounted to 187 trillion rials in the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year, which began on March 21, a 48 percent rise year on year, according to Iranian National Tax Administration Director Ali Askari.

Iranian cineastes attend the International Quds Day demonstration in Tehran on July 25, 2014 to show their solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine.

A source knowledgeable about the case of eight young Iranians sentenced to heavy prison sentences for their activities on Facebook told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that in an illegal ruling, Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court under Judge Moghisseh has issued verdicts that are up to three times longer than allowable ... (more)

Millions of people across Iran held protest rallies on Friday, World Quds Day , to condemn Israeli invasion of Gaza and the attacks on the defenseless civilians there.

Back in the 1990s when I was in my early teens, I was sent to the school office at Hoda Girls Middle School for being found in possession of a Michael Jackson videotape.

According to the provincial governor, gunmen stopped two passenger buses in the remote province of Ghor early Friday morning, separated Shiite members of the ethnic Hazara community from the other passengers and executed them on the side of the road.

Iraqi Hezbollah members hold up the yellow flags of the Iraqi branch of the Shiite Muslim party and a portrait of Iran's late spiritual guide, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, as they walk on an Israeli flag painted on ground during a parade marking Al-Quds International Day on July 25, 2014 in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

If the UN truly wishes to play a constructive role in ending the bloodshed, it should be a part of an international effort to bring about the gradual demilitarization of Gaza.

Implying that Gazans are "denied dignity" by Israel is twisting reality, as Hamas is to blame for betraying its own people and condemning them to misery.

In this July 4, 1988 file photo, people looking for family members walk amid bodies of victims from Iran Air Flight 655 in a morgue in Bandar Abbas, Iran, a day after the plane was shot down over the Persian Gulf by the guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes while the plane was still in Iranian airspace.

The mullahs' regime hanged 10 prisoners, including four women, in the central prison of city of Birjand on July 20 and 21. Eight of them were executed in a collective hanging on Sunday night, July 20. Meanwhile, regime's chief justice of city of Qaemshahr reported of a sentence against a 32-year-old that is to be executed twice, once by hanging and ... (more)

Vladimir Putin has no soul, US Vice President Joe Biden concluded after meeting with the Russian leader at the Kremlin in 2011, according to an article in the New Yorker.

A Christian man in Iran has been sentenced to have his lips burnt with a cigarette for eating during the day in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Dr Walid Phares is senior advisor on Foreign Policy and National Security to Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and a co-chair of the Romney Working Group on the Middle East and North Africa MENA.

The issue of Iranian uranium enrichment remains as stubborn an obstacle to a nuclear deal as it was at the launch of the talks six months ago.

On January 20, 2014, Iran for the first time in nearly a decade took specific and verifiable actions that halted progress on its nuclear program and rolled it back in key respects, stopped the advance of the program, and introduced increased transparency into Iran's nuclear activities.