Iran marks 31st anniversary of US downing of passenger plane

Iran is commemorating the 31st anniversary of the downing of its passenger plane by a US Navy guided-missile cruiser in the Persian Gulf waters.

IRGC force shoots down intruding US spy drone

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has shot down an intruding American spy drone in the country’s southern coastal province of Hormozgan. In a statement issued early Thursday, the IRGC said the US-made Global Hawk surveillance drone was brought down by its Air Force near the Kouh-e Mobarak region — which sits in the central district of Jask County — after the aircraft violated Iranian airspace.

FM Zarif warns about long-term repercussions of US blacklisting of IRGC

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.

FM Zarif says Iran will never allow others to decide its fate

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said in a Twitter post that the Iranian nation's struggle to nationalize the country's oil industry in 1951 is proof that the country will never allow others to decide its fate.

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

Birth of Imam Khomeini on the 20th of Jamadí as-Sani was not a mere coincidence

The 20th of Jamadi as-Sani, the auspicious birth anniversary of the Most Noble Lady, Hazrat Fatema az-Zahra (peace be upon her), which is celebrated as “Mother’s Day in the Islamic Republic of Iran, was the day on which one of her devoted servants, the Father of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini (God bless his soul), was born.

Students day reminds of universities' contribution to Islamic Revolution

The ceremony for commemorating “Student Day” in Iran has been held at Tehran University to mark national student day. Student Day is commemorated annually for the three students of Tehran University who were killed on December 7, 1953 at the university, four months after the Iranian 1953 coup d'état.