Iran’s ambassador to Russia, Mehdi Sanaei, on Wednesday announced on Facebook that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit Russia next week to participate in a conference on Caspian energy and that the country’s president, Hassan Rouhani, would follow in September for a similarly themed meeting with counterparts. The...

As Tehran and P5+1 officials talk up the chances of a nuclear agreement, Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said his country’s missile-development program is not up for negotiations. Iranian defense minister, Hossein Dehghan, said that the country will never accept any intervention from the western side on the issue. The...

Western headlines over the weekend suggested Iran had ditched plans to dispatch warships to the Atlantic close to American territorial waters but they largely failed to mention the cancellation was only temporary. The Tehran Times righted that ‘wrong‘ on April 14, as part of the country’s ongoing propaganda war both...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday boasted that the international sanctions regime against Iran was unraveling, echoing a theme that he has been consistently emphasizing since the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) – which provided Tehran with badly-needed financial relief – was signed in November: “With your support, this government has taken the first steps...

Iran’s propaganda machine suggested April 13 that the leading figure in the Syrian opposition demanded “a coalition with Israel,” even being prepared to accept Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Tehran frequently uses its manifold media outlets to diss its opponents by hinting at or saying outright they enjoy relations...

Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Imami Kashani declared in a nationally televised sermon on Friday that Tehran would continue pushing forward with its nuclear program despite the intentions of the country’s “enemies,” prompting the Wall Street Journal – which read the boast against the backdrop of similar remarks recently aired by...