TEHRAN(Basirat) :Iran's state TV said on Friday night eight border guards were killed in clashes with a group of militants in the country's northwestern Azarbaijan province that borders both Iraq and Turkey.

TEHRAN (Basirat) : Political analyst Abdollah Ganji has, in an article published in the Persian-language Sobeh Sadegh, weighed in on the US officials’ recent warmongering rhetorics to exert multi-sided pressures on Iran, one naturally should expect a tit-for-tat response from the Islamic Republic. Iranian politicians may have a number of responses in the their minds but the invitation extended by President Hassan Rouhani to his French counterpart to visit Iran raises the possibility that one of the options may be a European JCPOA or a JCPOA minus “the chief”, i.e. the US.