Iran will negotiate and interact with Western countries about its nuclear program but will never be blackmailed, Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref says.

The Iranian first vice president says holding a referendum is the sole lasting democratic solution to the Palestinian issue.

Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref says the emergency OIC-Arab League meeting in Riyadh comes at Iran’s proposal and aims to discuss an end to Israeli aggression on Gaza and Lebanon.

Iranian Vice President Aref extends his sincere condolences over the deaths of at least 28 Pakistani pilgrims heading to the Iraqi city of Karbala in a bus crash.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says Israel’s recent massacre at a Gaza school shows once again that the regime is “a stain of shame on humanity.”

Iran's first vice president and Qatar’s emir underscored the need for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, as Israel continues its atrocities in the besieged enclave.

Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, has not yet engaged with the Reformist bloc that hopes to field him as its top candidate in the June 18 presidential election, a spokeswoman for the group says.