News Archive - 18 February 2017

(Tehran’s Friday prayers. Soroush Seyed Jamali/YJC.)   In their sermons across Iran, this week’s Friday prayers’ leaders echoed the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in his recent speech, and rejected calls for ‘national reconciliation’, a campaign recently launched by Reformists to pave the way for rapprochement with the establishment...

During his brief visit to Kuwait paid on Wednesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met Kuwaiti Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. During the meeting, Rouhani called negotiation the only way through which countries in the region would be able to resolve problems and settle misunderstandings.   After a group of...