Forty-five years ago, on September 17, 1980, the Ba'athist regime of Iraq tore up the 1975 Algiers Agreement, a pivotal treaty that had delineated the border with Iran along the thalweg of the strategic Arvand River and ushered in a brief period of détente between the two neighbors.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 08:45
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei made the remarks on Saturday at a ceremony marking the 33rd anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Revolution.
Saturday, June 04, 2022 10:49
As Ayatollah Khamenei stressed, the nature of the Islamic Republic is against oppression. The Supreme Leader went on to say that the enemy has counted on public protests in order to put people against the Islamic Republic; and surely the enemy’s forecast is wrong like its many other ones.
Saturday, June 04, 2022 09:55
Iran's defense minister has dismissed US reports of harassment by Iranian vessels as "baseless" and said the "illegal and aggressive" American presence in the Persian Gulf is causing insecurity in the region.
Friday, April 17, 2020 10:32
Iran‘s Foreign Minister, Mohamad Javad Zarif, has highlighted the significance of maintaining security in the Persian Gulf, saying that either all countries in the region will benefit from security or all will be deprived of it.
Thursday, October 10, 2019 10:14
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the US has no business and is not welcome in the region and must leave it, stressing that the security of the Persian Gulf can be ensured only by neighbors not outsiders.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 08:25
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has shot down an intruding American spy drone in the country’s southern coastal province of Hormozgan. In a statement issued early Thursday, the IRGC said the US-made Global Hawk surveillance drone was brought down by its Air Force near the Kouh-e Mobarak region — which sits in the central district of Jask County — after the aircraft violated Iranian airspace.
Friday, June 21, 2019 10:29
A senior Iranian commander says the country's naval fleet will continue its presence in the high seas to protect Iran's national interests.
Sunday, November 18, 2018 07:57