The Latest Breaking News from Ali Shamkhani

Iranian state media published a video on Thursday in which British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari, sentenced to death for spying, said he played a role in the 2020 assassination of the country's top nuclear scientist. In a separate audio recording broadcast by BBC Persian on Wednesday, Akbari said he was tortured…

Nikolai Patrushev meets his Iranian counterpart and Iran’s president, as Moscow and Tehran look to deepen ties.

Ukraine says captured Iranian drones were likely delivered to Russia after the war began

A senior Russian security official met Iranian leaders in Tehran on Wednesday and the two countries pledged closer ties in the face of Western pressure over Russia's war in Ukraine.

Iranian parliamentarians found themselves in disagreement on green-lighting the cleric-led country’s nuclear deal negotiating team concluding any deal with the US without first gaining the legislators’ approval. The dispute comes two days after Iran sent a package of proposals in response to the “final text” put forward by the European…

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Wednesday that Tehran did not raise any demands that go beyond the nuclear agreement in the indirect talks with Washington. His comments came a week after the failure of the latest round of diplomatic efforts mediated by the European Union in Doha.…

The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and the United States will hold four-way talks Tuesday on Iran's nuclear programme, the French presidency said, with Tehran's oil exports as one of the issues to be raised. It comes as Iran's foreign ministry and the EU's chief diplomat flagged the resumption of…

Iran will further develop its nuclear programme until the West changes its "illegal behaviour", said Iran's top security official Ali Shamkhani in a meeting with the EU's top diplomat, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported.

The G7 group of nations urged on Saturday Iran to benefit from the current opportunity and facilitate the nuclear talks, which have been veering between success and failure for months now. “It is high time for Iran to seize the opportunity and bring negotiations which started in Vienna more than…

President announced reforms a day before the EU’s coordinator for nuclear deal negotiations arrived in Tehran.

The Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, has warned that Tehran would react swiftly and decisively to any action to harm his country's security from Iraqi territory. Shamkhani spoke during his reception of the Iraqi Speaker, Mohammad al-Halbousi, who arrived on his first visit to Tehran since…