Iran

TEHRAN, Dec 22 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said yesterday that, if the red lines of the Islamic Republic are respected, Iran is ready to take final steps to reach an agreement on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal.

He said that, there was an opportunity to discuss issues related to the lifting of anti-Iran sanctions with EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, and EU coordinator for the nuclear talks, Enrique Mora, during the visit to Jordan.

DUBAI, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini have ushered Iran into a new era of deepening crisis between the clerical leadership and society at large.

Amini's family said she was beaten after being arrested by the morality police on Sept. 13 for violating the Islamic Republic's imposed dress code. Amini died three days later. Authorities have blamed the 22-year-old's death on preexisting medical problems.

BANDAR ABBAS, Iran, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- China's Consulate General in Bandar Abbas was officially opened on Wednesday in the capital of Hormuzgan Province on the southern coast of Iran, marking the establishment of China's first consulate general in Iran.

In his address to the official opening of the consulate general, Chinese Ambassador to Iran Chang Hua hailed the consulate general in Bandar Abbas as a fresh "landmark moment in China-Iran relations."

TEHRAN, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Wednesday that he spoke to his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, one day before, marking the highest-level engagement reported between the two countries since they severed ties in 2016.

19 Dec 2022; MEMO: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Monday that his country is ready to resume relations with Saudi Arabia "when Riyadh is willing to", reports Anadolu Agency.

"Tehran is ready to resume diplomatic ties with Riyadh, reopen embassies," Amir-Abdollahian told the Tehran Dialogue Forum.

18 Dec 2022; MEMO: Iran's nuclear agency chief says the country's capacity to enrich uranium has more than doubled "in its entire history", crediting it to a bill passed two years ago, reports Anadolu Agency.

TEHRAN, Dec 18 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, said that, the Americans’ presence in any country has solely resulted in “taking the people’s lives,” according to the semi-official Fars news agency.

Making the remarks in an address to a number of people, in the eastern Iranian province of South Khorasan, Raisi noted that, to know about the “Americans’ destructive presence in other countries,” there is no need to read history books, “what has taken place in western Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq as a consequence of the U.S. presence, is right before our eyes.”

TEHRAN, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Tehran police chief said on Sunday his forces seized 300 cold weapons, 55 firearms and hunting weapons as well as a shoulder-fired missile during an operation in the Iranian capital on the same day, according to the official news agency IRNA.

Hossein Rahimi made the remarks in an address to reporters on the sidelines of the 61st stage of the police operation dubbed Ra'ad in Tehran to improve security.

TEHRAN, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Iran's minister of communication and information technology said on Sunday the country will launch at least two homegrown satellites into space by March 20, 2023, which is the end of the Iranian calendar year.

Making the remarks in an interview with official news agency IRNA, Issa Zarepour said that in addition to the two communication satellites Nahid 1 and Nahid 2, others are to be launched later.

The two satellites are both produced by the Iranian Space Research Center, with Nahid 1 unveiled in late January 2017.

TEHRAN, December 17. /TASS/: Iran has boosted the uranium enrichment rate to a record high ever in the history of the national nuclear industry, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami said on Saturday.

"The capacity for the enrichment of uranium in Iran is currently twice as high as the total capacity since the genesis of the nuclear industry in the country," the Tasnim news agency quoted him as saying.