A group of Iranian lawmakers paid a visit to the countrys border areas near the Nagorno-Karabakh region, where fighting has broken out between Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan since last week. Members of the Iranian Parliaments National Security and Foreign Policy Commission have traveled to the areas near the common border with the disputed ...

Tasnim - A group of Iranian lawmakers put forward a motion for an automatic withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal in case the activation of snapback mechanism in the JCPOA would re-impose the UN sanctions on Tehran. The proposal, signed by 49 MPs and submitted to the Parliaments presiding board, asserts that Iran must withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive ...

MNA � Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei met with members of the Parliament through videoconferencing on Sunday noon. The meeting was held through a videoconference according to the guidelines and protocols for preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus. The details of the meeting will be published later.

Al-Monitor - Iran has continued to see a rise in coronavirus-related deaths as the virus spreads across provinces. Iran has seen its coronavirus infections and related deaths continue to rise as the virus spreads across the country. According to Health Ministry Spokesperson Sima Sadat Lari, total infections have exceeded 250,000. In the last 24 ...

ISNA | Hadi Zand: Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif answered the questions of the Iranian lawmakers in the open session of the Parliament on Sunday.    

ISNA | Farzad Khabooshani: Elected MPs and senior officials of the country attend a ceremony on Wednesday to mark the start of the new Iranian Parliament, which is known as 'Majlis' in the country.   ...

MNA Iranian lawmakers approved on Monday a monetary bill to shave four zeroes off the national currency. As per the bill Reforming Monetary and Banking Law, the monetary unit will change officially from the rial to the commonly used toman. Furthermore, the minor monetary unit of the new currency will be the parseh. So, as per the newly ratified ...

MNA Iranian parliamentarians have decided to allocate 20% of their next month's salary to those families affected by the economic consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country. Deputy Parliament Speaker Abdolreza Mesri revealed the decision on Wednesday's open session of the body. MP Akbar Ranjbarzadeh had earlier informed Mehr News Agency ...

MNA An Iranian lawmaker informed that in an open session on Tuesday, MPs have conferred on allocation of one month of their wages to combat against Covid-19. According to Akbar Ranjbarzadeh, "Iranian MPs are getting prepared to grant some part or all of their wages of the current month to anti-coronavirus purposes." As he said, MPs' wages will ...

Al-Monitor - As the coronavirus continues to spread in Iran, some officials have called for more restrictive measures and even quarantine of highly infected areas in order to stop the spread of the virus that is overwhelming hospitals across the country. According to the spokesman of Irans Health Ministry, Kianoush Jahanpour, in the last 24 hours ...

Tasnim Chairman of the Iranian Parliaments National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mojtaba Zonnour said the members of the commission plan to pay visits to the countrys nuclear sites in the coming weeks. Speaking to Tasnim, Zonnour said according to the schedule, the new round of visits by the lawmakers to the nuclear sites will start after ...

MNA With the majority votes of Parliament representatives, the export of goods and services were exempted from taxation. Representatives of the Iranian Parliament in a bylaw stipulated that the export of goods and services overseas or to the free trade-industrial zones are exempted from taxation. In todays open session, members of the Parliament ...

Al-monitor | Navid Kalhor: After years of delay, Irans parliament suddenly approved 331 articles of the first book of a massive trade reform bill in just one week in mid-September. This came as a surprise to many economic and legal analysts and raised concerns about the fate of the remaining four commercial code books awaiting lawmakers' final verdict....

Tasnim | Hamed Malekpour: The Iranian Parliament held an open session on Sunday chaired by Speaker Ali Larijani. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attended the session to answer a number of questions.    ...

Tasnim Irans lawmakers proposed a motion that requires the administration to provide financial and spiritual support for anti-imperialist institutions and universities that study hegemonic policies of the US. The motion, released on Saturday, has been signed by more than 180 lawmakers in a bid to counter Washingtons hostile measures against the ...

Tasnim A group of Iranian lawmakers have proposed a motion that reporters from countries advocating the anti-Iranian sanctions should be barred from entering the Islamic Republic. More than 160 Iranian parliamentarians have signed the motion, according to which reporters from the countries that support the sanctions against Iran will be refused ...

Tasnim Irans lawmakers on Tuesday expressed their gratitude to President Hassan Rouhani for ruling out direct talks with the current US administration. In a statement signed by 150 Iranian MPs and read out during an open session of the Parliament on Tuesday, the lawmakers appreciated Rouhanis position on negotiation with the US and said, For more ...

MNA Iran's Parliament has given the vote of confidence to both candidates proposed by President Hassan Rouhani to fill in the position of minister of education and minister of tourism. Rouhani had nominated Mohsen Hajimirzaei as minister of education, and Ali Asghar Mounesan as minister of cultural heritage, tourism and handicrafts. After extensive ...

MNA In a statement on Monday, the MPs in the Iranian Parliament condemned the US move in sanctioning the foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. In the afternoons session as many as 150 lawmakers in the Iranian parliament expressed their support for the foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and condemned the US action in sanctioning him. The ...

MNA Iranian lawmakers have given the green light to the government to establish the Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development of Disaster Information Management (APDIM) in the country. During Sundays open session, 174 lawmakers voted in favor of the bill, one against, and three in abstention. The approval was issued based on an agreement ...