17 foreign tour groups visit Fatima Masumeh Shrine in Qom

TEHRAN - Seventeen foreign tour groups from nine countries have paid visits to the Fatima Masumeh Shrine in the city of Qom over the past week, the shrine’s international affairs office said.

MI6 admits covert links to HTS during Syria’s regime change

The outgoing chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Richard Moore, has confirmed that London maintained clandestine communications with the extremist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) before the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

By Bahram Moradi

US standing against global will for Palestinian state

TEHRAN – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has shown contempt for the leaders of France, Britain, and Canada for planning to recognize the Palestinian state, calling them “clumsy”.

By Fereydoon Khoupayeh

A look at Britain's role in the rise and fall of Reza Khan

TEHRAN – Reza Khan toppled the Qajar dynasty in Iran in a coup in 1921 and was crowned with the help of the British, subsequently on April 25, 1926.

Iran summons E3 envoys over ‘provocative’ closed-door UN security council session

TEHRAN - Tehran has summoned the ambassadors of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany to express strong opposition to their role in convening a recent United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran's nuclear program.

Iran summons British ambassador over ‘baseless’ accusations of posing security threat

TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the British ambassador to Tehran in response to the repeated and unfounded accusations from senior British officials regarding Iran’s alleged interference in the United Kingdom’s internal affairs.

Two Brits arrested in Iran for spying in multiple provinces

TEHRAN - Iran's judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir says that two British nationals recently arrested in the country's southeastern city of Kerman are accused of spying for Western intelligence services. 

By Ian Proud

UK’s ‘100-year partnership’ with Ukraine is a meaningless political stunt

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a 100-year partnership between their countries during a meeting in Kyiv on January 16. On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th United States president, this was Starmer’s attempt to position Britain as Ukraine’s best friend at a time when Zelenskyy needs all the friends he can get. In truth, the 100-year partnership appears to offer nothing new.

Iran calls nuclear talks with E3 ‘serious, frank, and constructive’

TEHRAN – Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, described the latest round of talks with the European trio (E3) – the United Kingdom, France, and Germany – as "constructive."

Swedes, Brits denounce Europe’s silence on Israeli genocide in Gaza

Hundreds of Palestine supporters led silent marches on Saturday evening in Swedish and British cities to protest the European silence on the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

UK might activate snapback mechanism against Iran, BBC reports

TEHRAN – The UK Foreign Office says is prepared to trigger snapback sanctions against Tehran in a move that reaffirms the West’s continued hostilities against Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.

“Don't bite the hand that feeds you”: British farmers unite against PM Starmer 

Hundreds of British protesters opposing changes to inheritance tax rules for farms gathered outside the Welsh Labour conference as the prime minister defended his government's recent Budget measures, the BBC reported.

UN Security Council members quarrel over Israel’s attack on Iran

TEHRAN – In an emergency meeting on Monday the UN Security Council members quarreled over Israel’s Oct. 26 attacks on Iran’s military installations.

‘A distraction from Gaza genocide’

TEHRAN – Iran’s embassy in the UK has said the Western country’s officials are trying to distract the public from London’s complicity in the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, after the MI5 spy chief claimed 20 “Iran-backed potentially lethal plots” had been disrupted in Britain since January 2022.

US, E3 acting on faulty intelligence, Iran says of claims of missile sale to Russia

'Iran has not delivered ballistic missiles to Russia. Period.'

TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqhchi on Wednesday insisted on Tehran’s previous announcements that the Islamic Republic has not sent ballistic missiles to Russia, saying the United States and the European trio of Britain, France and Germany are again acting on “faulty intelligence”.

Foreign Ministry summons British diplomat over anti-Iran sanctions

TEHRAN – Following Britain’s sanctions against three Iranian individuals and an institution under the pretext of causing instability in the West Asia region, the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned the British charge d’affairs to declare the Islamic Republic’s protest to the move.

The dark legacy of Western interference: slavery, colonialism, and coups: spox

TEHRAN- Nasser Kanaani, the spokesperson for Iran’s foreign ministry, has criticized the United States and the United Kingdom for their meddling in the affairs of other nations, specifically highlighting their involvement in the 1953 coup in Iran that ousted the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh.

Iran condemns U.S., Britain attacks on Yemeni cities

TEHRAN – The spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned last night's attacks by the United States and Britain on areas in the Yemeni cities of Sanaa and Hodeidah, which resulted in the deaths and injuries of dozens of people.

Iranian military says will “cut the foot of aggressor”

TEHRAN – A senior Iranian military spokesman warned on Monday night that Iran will “cut the foot of any aggressor” if its territory comes under attack, warning the U.S., Britain, France and Germany to stop supporting the Zionist regime of Israel.

Raisi talks to Yemen’s Supreme Political Council chief, condemns US air raids

TEHRAN – In a telephone conversation with Yemen’s Supreme Political Council chairman Mahdi Al-Mashat late on Saturday, President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran praised the bravery of the Yemeni nation for their support of the oppressed Palestinian nation and insisted on the principle of the safety of international shipping in the Red Sea.

‘U.S. action is the yardstick not its words’

Nuclear deal can be restored if US shows seriousness: Iran FM 

TEHRAN – If the U.S. shows seriousness in the negotiations the 2015 nuclear deal can be put on the right track, the Iranian foreign minister said on Saturday, suggesting in that situation all parties will return to their compliance under agreement.

West not entitled to shed crocodile tears for Iranians: Foreign Ministry 

TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry late on Friday said a small number of Western countries are not entitled to shed “crocodile tears” for the Iranian nation.

Spies from Sweden, France, and Britain in Iran’s captivity 

Over 50 intelligence services have set up Iran desk

TEHRAN- Esmaeil Khatib, Iran’s Minister of Intelligence, revealed on Sunday that spies from Sweden, France, and Britain are in Iran’s captivity and that some of them had been put to death despite external pressure.

From soldier to prince: new perspective emerges on recovered Sassanian relief

TEHRAN – An Iranian researcher specializing in Sassanid bas-reliefs believes that a recently recovered relief from the UK depicts a prince or a man of royal blood, not a soldier.

Iran to start 2022 IWBF World Championships on Saturday

TEHRAN – Motivated Iran will begin the 2022 International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) World Championships on Saturday.

Tehran Papers

To what extent does the Taliban dance to the tune of America?

In its editorial, Kayhan addressed the recent tensions with the Taliban. It said: We will not abandon the main enemy.  The favorable opinion of America, Britain and Israel - behind the scenes of the operation room against Iran - is to destabilize the region and to push the neighboring countries in a conflict with each other, while our strategy has been friendship, cooperation and synergy between countries.