TEHRAN- The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) secretary-general, Zhang Ming, met with Iran’s recently appointed ambassador to China to discuss ways to strengthen economic ties with the SCO’s eight members.

Mohsen Bakhtiar said in a social media post on Saturday that he had a meeting with Zhang on Friday in preparation for the SCO’s virtual s

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian announced on Sunday that Tehran has decided to put off dispatching its newly-appointed ambassador to Sweden over the Scandinavian country’s controversial move of allowing sacrilege to the holy Quran. 

Iran has recently appointed a new ambassador to Sweden and all the procedures for the new

TEHRAN – The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence has put out a statement enumerating the acts of sabotage carried out by the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) over the last years, vowing to continue its countermeasures against the terrorist group. 

The statement said that in the run-up to the raid by the Albanian police into the MEK camps in Tirana, the

TEHRAN – Archaeologists have found further evidence about prehistorical metal smelting workshops that are scattered in the Shahdad region of Kerman province, southern Iran.

“Due to its special location and environmental conditions, this area is one of the oldest centers of bronze production…” Mehr quoted Iranian archaeologist Soraya Elikai-Dehno as