Mehmanparast said Westerners "don't have an accurate understanding of Islamic beliefs and fatwas issued by great scholars," suggesting that the U.S. and its allies must take Khamenei's edit seriously.

Mehmanparast's comments Tuesday come a day ahead of a new round of talks in Tehran with the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, over the nuclear program.

The remarks by the spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, came a day after oil prices jumped to a nine-month high above $105 a barrel following Iran's announced halts in crude shipments in an escalation ...

17 March 2013 TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast stressed that the best way to defend the rights of the Syrian people is to work on halting the "conflict" in Syria, and ...

Mehmanparast also confirmed reports that Iran started changing some of its 20 percent enriched uranium — which is only a small step away from weapons-grade material — into reactor fuel.

Mehmanparast said the visiting IAEA team was made up of experts, not inspectors. He told reporters that the IAEA team was holding discussions Tuesday in Tehran to prepare the ground for future ...

Elsewhere in his remarks, Mehmanparast said a trilateral meeting between Iran, Afghanistan and India as well as a meeting of Afghanistan’s neighbors are on the country’s agenda. Mehmanparast also ...

Iran reiterated on Sunday that three Americans jailed a year ago should stand trial on charges of illegally crossing the country's borders. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Iran ...

There is nothing new, it has been going on for over 30 years," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said, referring to three decades of U.S.-Iranian hostility.

Mr. Mehmanparast said Iran provided detailed explanations to IAEA questions on six outstanding issues in the past, but instead of giving Iran a clean bill of health, the agency leveled new ...

07 December 2012 Referring to capture of US ScanEagle drone by IRGC Navy, IRI Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said here Friday that this proves that US and Zionist regimes are incapable ...

U.S. gets some love, and hate, in TehranMeanwhile, state television flooded airwaves with images of government-sponsored Basiji militiamen, schoolchildren holding mock assault rifles and pro ...