Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has pledged to fight corruption and prepare a comprehensive reform plan following a call by the country's most senior Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.

A senior Iranian official has reaffirmed the Islamic Republic’s support for a political and win-win solution to the ongoing conflicts in the region.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has criticized Democratic Senator Charles Schumer for deciding to vote against the conclusion of Iran nuclear talks, suggesting it would only pave the way for military option.

Iran has identified more than 1,200 promising gold prospects, including a positive anomaly discovered recently in the Darreh Bidan of Yazd whose reserves have not been determined yet, a senior mining official has said.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says a Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike in an Israeli jail is "at immediate risk" of death.

An Iranian lawmaker dismissed the accusations of clean-up activities in the country’s Parchin military site as a US-engineered propaganda campaign for forcing Iran to accede to the IAEA’s access to the military center.

A senior Iranian cleric says the United States will definitely fail to change the hostile attitude of the Israeli regime toward the recent breakthrough in the nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries.

The vice-president of the Supreme Islamic Shi’ite Council of Lebanon stated that Egypt’s position among Islamic countries is important for the preservation of Islam and stressed on the importance of communication between Egypt’s al-Azhar and the seminaries in Iran.

Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi has written a letter in response to statements made by the Grand Imam of al-Azhar University calling for a "scholarly conference" to be attended by Sunni and Shi’ite scholars.