Iraq’s popular forces say they have foiled a plan by ISIL Takfiri terrorists to attack the holy shrine in Samarra.

"The conference on “Quran in Imam Khomeini’s Seerah and Thought” will be held in Tehran on Sunday, November 1," said The Quran and Etrat deputy of the Iranian culture ministry.

A French legislator says there will be no solution to the four-and-a-half-year crisis in Syria in the absence of President Bashar al-Assad.

Iran has in the strongest terms condemned Saudi Arabia’s recent airstrikes on a hospital run by the medical aid group, Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF, in Yemen.

A senior Iranian official says Pakistan enjoys a key position in the region, noting that Tehran-Islamabad cooperation can contribute to promotion of stability and security in the region, particularly in the eastern part of the Middle East.

An eminent Quran reciter from Egypt will arrive in Iran on Tuesday to start a week-long tour of the country.

Hujjat al-Islam Zonnour explained that the lessons of Karbala and history repeats itself. Imam Husayn fought against the Umayyad Dynasty, and today, we are fighting against the arrogant Western powers.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov conferred Tuesday over the phone the ways of solving the crisis in Syria.

Bahrain opposition parties urged the nation to stage demonstration for siding with Shia cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr against the tyrant rulers in this country.

Iran has called on the US to stop grooming terrorists to wreak havoc in Syria, saying the Arab state's crisis stems from Washington's instrumentalization of terrorists groups.

Iran's minister of economic affairs and finance says the Islamic Republic and Brazil have emphasized their firm resolve to increase the volume of bilateral trade to USD 5 billion a year.

A senior Iranian official says Saudi Arabia is plotting acts of terrorism in Muslim countries on behalf of the United States and its Western allies.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said redesigning of the country’s heavy-water reactor in Arak takes place under a 3-staged process, noting that the official document on the second step has been drafted and is going to be finalized soon.

The Iranian president in a meeting with Japan’s new ambassador to Tehran highlighted the abundant opportunities for investment in Iran.