The Islamic Republic of Iran and Russia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to increase security cooperation between the two countries. Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Alexandrovich Kolokoltsev signed the MoU during a meeting in Tehran on Tuesday. 
 Heading a political delegation, Kolokoltsev arrived in the Iranian capital on Monday for a tw ...

In a 155-page report, four US nuclear experts have called upon the Obama administration to impose tougher economic sanctions against Iran and resort to overt operations through using warplanes and missiles on Iranian nuclear sites. Apart from the fact that morbid mindset of this nature only helps fan up chaos and serves as an impetus to widespread pandemonium in the region, any mention of any such policy le ...

A senior Iranian commander says the United States planned the 9/11 terrorist attacks to use them as pretext to invade the energy-rich Middle East. “The US, looking for a pretext to invade the Middle East, masterminded the 9/11 incident and pointed an accusing finger at Muslim countries,” Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Forces Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan said on Saturday. 
 Pourdastan added ...

Iran will deploy a fleet of warships to the Mediterranean Sea, Navy chief Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said on Wednesday. 
 “The Navy’s 24th fleet of warships will patrol the north of the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Aden, Bab-el-Mandeb, the Red Sea, Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea for three months and will even sail as far as southeastern Asian countries,” Sayyari was quoted by Press TV as saying. The ...

An American-Iranian pastor imprisoned in Tehran since September may face hanging because of his Christian faith. Saeed Abedini sent a letter to his family Jan. 10 detailing his torture and treatment by Iranian authorities. 
 The Jerusalem Post reports: The U.S. State Department expressed “serious concerns” about Abedini’s situation on Friday. Jordan Sekulow, the executive director of the Washington-based Am ...

Iran’s Navy has developed a missile launching system which aims to increase the precision and range of anti-ship missiles. The new system has been designed in collaboration with the Iranian Defense Ministry and Imam Khomeini Maritime University. 
 Given that all naval units are equipped with short-range and medium-range surface-to-surface Cruise missiles, using the new system will be a major move towards im ...

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the Islamic Republic supports the Syrian people and government against the US and its allies. “Iran stands by the Syrian people and government in countering the plots of the Westerners, especially the Americans and their allies in the region,” Amir-Abdollahian said in a meeting with Syrian Ambassador to Tehran Adnan M ...

Head of Iran's Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli says the country plans to launch two indigenous satellites into orbit by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2013). “The launching of the two satellites, Fajr and Shrif Sat, by the end of the current year is on our agenda,” Fazeli told reporters on Saturday. Pointing to the latest developments regarding Iran’s Nahid satellite, Fazeli pointed ...

  An Iranian lawmaker says Israel’s plan to get munitions worth $647 million from the US to renew the stock spent in the Gaza war shows Tel Aviv spares no effort to cover its military weaknesses. “Officials of the Quds-occupying regime (Israel) are trying to buy smart missiles from the US to put a cover on their weaknesses,” deputy chairman of the Majlis (parliament) Committee on National Security and ...

  Iran’s Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology said on Monday that the Islamic Republic is exporting its domestically made drones and UAV technologies to a number of countries including Syria and Venezuela. Mohammad Mehdinejad-Nouri told students at Iran’s Babol Noshirvani University of Technology in the northern province of Mazandaran that the exports were a result of the significant adv ...