Idea of achieving Islamic unity started with efforts of Imam Khomeini: Indian Professor

Indian Professor Mahrukh Mirza in an interview with Mehr News agency said in November last year that the main factor which threatens the achievement of Islamic unity is lack of education and unless this is not resolved, unity will never be achieved.

Leader says Iran to export as much oil as it needs; US cannot block sales

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the US administration’s hostile attempts to block Iran’s oil sales will lead nowhere, and that the country will export “as much crude as it needs and wishes” in defiance of American sanctions. Speaking at a meeting with a large group of Iranian workers on Wednesday, Leader played down Washington’s recent decision to end exemptions from sanctions for countries buying oil from Tehran.

US ‘terrorist’ designation of IRGC doomed to fail: Top judge

Iran's Judiciary chief says a recent decision by the United States to put Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on its blacklist of foreign terrorist organizations is doomed to fail like all other mischievous acts previously taken by the US against the Islamic Republic.

FM Zarif proposes terrorist blacklisting of US forces in West Asia

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has proposed that the country’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) should add American forces in West Asia, known as the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), to its list of terrorist groups in the Islamic Republic.

Iranians mark the 68th anniversary of the nationalization of oil industry

US activists come under FBI scrutiny after Iran visit

The co-founder of Code Pink, a grassroots anti-war NGO based in the US, says she and a colleague have come under scrutiny by the FBI after returning from a visit to Iran. Media Benjamin told The Real News Network on Sunday that she and Mary Ann Wright, a retired United States Army colonel and retired US State Department official, had got "called to a secondary screening."

Iranian government plans exports platform to counter ‘economic war’

The measure comes as Iran is trying to prop up its national currency, the rial, which has sunk to record lows in the face of new US sanctions and panic buying of foreign currencies by some citizens.

Impact of US sanctions on Iran cushioned by high oil prices

The impacts of fresh US sanctions on Iran have been cushioned by high oil prices and Washington’s international isolation, with Tehran being better placed to weather the storm, a Reuters analysis says.