News Archive - 30 January 2021

Chinese bombers recently simulated an attack on a US Navy aircraft carrier in the South China Sea, the US military said Friday, confirming earlier reporting from the Financial Times. As the Navy's Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group sailed into the South China Sea this past Saturday, the Chinese military sent...

An explosion rocked Afrin city which is located on the northern outskirts of Aleppo province, SANA reported on Saturday. The blast occurred near the base of Turkish-affiliated armed groups. No report on the number of casualties has been released so far. No group has claimed responsibility for the blast. FA/ 5134509...

Hashd al-Sha’abi forces arrested an ISIL leader in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul who had forged documents at hand, Al-Mayadeen reported. According to the report, the ISIL leader was involved in major terrorist operations in Bukamal and Baghuz in Syria and also Haditha city in Iraq's Al-Anbar province as...

Iran’s Health Ministry Spokesperson Sima Lari made the announcement on Sat., saying that the number of total coronavirus cases in the country has so far reached 1,411,731 with the death toll standing at 57,889. According to Lari, 3,964 patients are in critical condition while 1,202,893 patients have recovered. So...

Repeating accusations against Tehran, Macron claimed that little time remains to prevent Iran developing a nuclear weapon, Al Arabiya television reported. The claim comes as Tehran has repeatedly announced that its nuclear program is peaceful and the country has no intention to build a nuclear bomb as producing weapons of mass...

Referring to the new claims of the French President regarding the JCPOA, Abolfazl Amouei said, "Unfortunately, the negative performance of the French in the previous negotiations has not been forgotten by the Iranians. Now, these behaviors are repeated." "The claim of the French official that Iran should return to...

He made the remarks in his meeting with the Chairman of the Supreme Assembly of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic Vasif Talibov on Saturday. Expressing satisfaction with the beginning of his regional trip from Baku and its end in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, he described the liberation of the occupied territories...

Mohammad Javad Zarif made the remarks in a press conference after meeting with the Chairman of the Supreme Assembly of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic Vasif Talibov on Saturday. He further expressed his appreciation for the hospitality of the country and noted that the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic will be very vital...

Condemning the recent propaganda that claimed Iranian banks have blocked accounts of Afghan migrants in the country, the council said account holders had been earlier notified of the danger of being blocked and that the blocking was not just for Afghan citizens but for all those who have failed to...

The meeting will be held on the occasion of the birthday anniversary of Hazrat Fatima Zahra (PBUH), the daughter of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), which is celebrated in Iran as National Women’s Day and Mother’s Day. This year’s meeting, however, will be held via video conference due to the coronavirus pandemic. The meeting will be broadcast...

According to the portal of the Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran (PMO), the PMO deputy head, Director General of Political Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India, representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, managers of the Indian company IPGL and provincial...

Written and directed by Saeed Zamanian, the short flick will be screened on February 18 as one of the competition titles at the 11th edition of the French fest. The film is about nine-year-old boy Saeed, who is trying to stop his father from sacrificing his goat. Once the goat...

The exhibition officially opened at Tehran’s Permanent International Fairground this morning in a ceremony attended by Industries Ministry Alireza Razm-Hosseini. More than 130 Iranian and foreign producers are showcasing their latest products and services in the sector. This year’s edition is underway with strict health protocols due to the coronavirus...

Brigadier General Ahmad Ali Goudarzi broke the news on Saturday, saying that border guards of Sistan and Baluchestan province were informed about the activities of a large drug trafficking gang in the Tasuki border area of Zabul city. The border guards gathered intelligence on the activities of this drug band and found out...

In a reaction to the recent remarks of Macron, Saeed Khatibzadeh said "The JCPOA is a multilateral international agreement ratified by Security Council Resolution 2231." "It is in no way negotiable and its parties are clear and unchangeable," he added. "The United States has pulled out of this agreement and Europe...

Joint Secretary, Pakistan Afghanistan & Iran (PAI) division in ministry of external affairs, JP Singh in his visit to Tehran met and held talks with Araghchi where the two sides exchanged views on regional and international issues as well as the JCPOA. Presenting a report on Iran-India political dialogue process, Singh...

Speaking in an interview with Spanish TV Network on Sat., Ghashghavi noted that the measures taken by Iran over its nuclear program one year after former President Trump withdrew US from JCPOA is based on exerting its rights under Paragraphs 26 and 36 of JCPOA and is not a violation...

Kazem Gharibabadi made the remarks in a letter to the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Ghada Fathy Ismail Waly on Saturday. He further criticized the inaction of relevant international organizations in the battle against drug-trafficking. According to Gharibabadi, Iranian law enforcement officers have confiscated...

He also informed that there has been a serious and meaningful dialogue on this topic with Russia. The American envoy added that there is currently no need for a reboot of the Russia-US relations and the two countries should maintain constant dialogue despite the existing disagreements. Sullivan recalled that US President...

In a tweet on Sat., Seyyed Abbas Mousavi stated that visit of Iranian foreign minister to Nakhichevan, in addition to strengthening bilateral relations, is of strategic importance in terms of opening communications corridors and transportation routes in the region in the wake of recent Nagorno-Karabakh war. "Our Foreign Minister's...

Mick Wallace, an independent Irish member of the European Parliament, tweeted on Friday that while millions of people are starving in Yemen, the Western countries continue their support to the Saudi-UAE coalition’s aggression against the war-torn country. He questioned the Europeans’ so-called “values” that are in contrast with their actual...

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According to Baghdad Today, the series of counter-terrorist operations of the Iraqi army forces continues in different parts of the country and Iraqi forces launched a new operation against Takfiris in Kirkuk province. According to the report, Iraqi army forces targeted the positions of Takfiri terrorists during the operation. Security sources said...

"Four US Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bombers returned to the Indo-Pacific region January 28 for a Bomber Task Force deployment, conducting operations out of Andersen Air Force Base, Guam," the Andersen Air Force Base said on Friday. The bombers will participate in strategic deterrence missions with various US allies and...

Mohammad Ali al-Houthi stressed that the situation in this country has reached the level of the greatest humanitarian catastrophe. "We call on the representatives of the Security Council to visit the Republic of Yemen and observe its catastrophic situation, which has reached the level of the greatest humanitarian catastrophe," he wrote...

According to Al-Akhbar, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt have accused Doha of delaying advancing the agreements reached at the Al-Ula summit. The Al-Ula agreement was signed at a recent meeting of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council in the northwestern Saudi city of Al-Ula so as to de-escalate tensions between four...

The freed fishermen will leave for Tehran tonight, the Iranian envoy to New Delhi said on Friday evening. He said that ‌last year a hurricane had caused an incident for the fishermen who were fishing in the international waters near the Iranian Chabahar port but they had to enter India's territorial waters in...

The top Iranian diplomat has tweeted to share the result of his meetings with President Erdogan of Turkey as well as his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in Istanbul on Friday, expressing his happiness with "constructive, friendly, and fruitful" conversations. Zarif added that in the meetings with the Turkish president and top...

"Only way to restore stability in region is through synergy" The Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has described his meetings in Turkey as constructive, friendly, and fruitful conversations. The top Iranian diplomat has tweeted to share the result of his meetings with President Erdogan of Turkey as well as...

Arman-e Melli: Iran, US FMs ask each other for ‘return’ Robert Malley: Maximum Pressure policy against Iran to end Etemad: Iranian diplomats issue JCPOA warning to US; Tehran says it is Washington that must return to deal Ettela’at:  Iran, Russia, Turkey issue joint statement in support of Syria’s territorial integrity...

Repeating accusations against Tehran, Sullivan claimed “A critical early priority [for the administration] is to deal with the escalating nuclear crisis [as Iran] moves closer and closer” to getting a nuclear weapon. Speaking in a webinar with the United States Institute of Peace, Sullivan claimed that Iran was “significantly” closer to...

“It was to take stock of the dossier and to assess what our state of mind is,” a European diplomatic source said of US special envoy Rob Malley’s conversation with the British, French and German foreign ministry political directors, Reuters reported. A second source confirmed that the discussion took place but...

According to Hamid-Reza Goudarzi, the deputy governor of Tehran province for security issues, the sound system in a government office building in Azmayesh complex, Marzdaran district, had technical problems and this was the cause of the alarm being heard in the west of Tehran. He noted that following heavy rainfalls...

He made the remarks in his meeting with the board of Directors of the Syrian-Iranian Chamber of Commerce in Damascus.  Emphasizing the strategic relations between the two countries, Arnous stressed enhancing bilateral economic relations, increasing the mutual commerce between Syria and Iran, and expanding the joint investments that support the national...

Iranian Ambassador to the Russian Federation Kazem Jalali broke the news in Moscow on Sat. and said that the contract for purchasing and also jointly producing Russia’s “Sputnik V” coronavirus vaccine was inked between Tehran and Moscow. Accordingly, the first cargo of coronavirus, COVID-19, vaccine will be sent from Russia...

Javid Dehghan Khald, also known as Mohammad Omar, one of the leaders of a group affiliated with the so-called Jaish ul-Adl terrorist group, who carried out an armed terrorist attack on IRGC agents, was executed on Saturday. In May 2015, following the investigations for identifying and arresting the criminals and terrorist groups,...

Iranian Foreign Minister, Zarif, who visited Turkey as the last leg of his recent tour to Russia and the Caucasian region, has sat down for talks with his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in Istanbul on Friday morning. He also visited the country's President and discussed regional issues with him for two hours without...

According to the Iranian federation’s press service, the appointment was informed to her through an official letter by Antonio Espinós, President of the World Karate Federation. Espinós noted that he is sure Amini’s presence could add to the value of the commission. Con Kassis of Australia is the Chairman of...

“We are collecting data of the case and will hand it over to law enforcement agencies for further investigation. However, we will release these tankers if we failed to secure evidence,” Bakamla spokesman Wisnu Pramandita told Anadolu Agency on Friday. Pramandita admitted that the Indonesian Territorial Waters Law No 6...

Especially when you are in a significant city like Los Angeles, which is one of the largest cities in California, in this sense, you need a professional realtor who is highly aware of every aspect of real estate in Los Angeles. As an Iranian who wants to live or invest...

“We have taken promising steps in the production of the coronavirus vaccine and our specialists are sure that domestic vaccine will be available by the next [Iranian] year [starts March 21],” Rouhani said during Saturday’s session of the National Coronavirus Combat and Prevention Headquarters. The president referred to the cruel...

In continuation of his regional tour, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic on Saturday.  “In the last part of the trip to 5 regional countries, we came to Nakhchivan so as to review the transit facilities and cooperation in the region after the...

Zarif, who is in Nakhchivan for the last stage of his regional tour, met with Vasif Talibov, the Chairman of the Supreme Assembly of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic to discuss the bilateral and regional issue and latest regional developments. Upon his arrival in Nakhchivan, Zarif said, "At the end of the trip to five...

Speaking in a meeting of Iran-EAEU Economic Diplomacy on Sat., Seyyed Abdollah Sajjadi pointed to the restriction of banking system of the country in brokerage relations with foreign banks due to the unjust and oppressive US sanctions imposed against the Islamic Republic of Iran and stated that issuance of...

Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, and Boston Museum of Fine Arts have announced the lineups of their upcoming film festivals, among which is the Iranian film ‘Careless Crime’. “Careless Crime” goes back to forty years ago, during the uprising to overthrow the Shah’s regime in...

TEHRAN, Jan. 30 (MNA) – Choghakhor Wetland in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province is hosting migratory birds during the winter. Choghakhor is considered as one of the most important habitats for the endemic Zagros pupfish, aka Aphanius vladykovi.    ...

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TEHRAN, Jan. 30 (MNA) – Here are the front pages of Iran’s English-language dailies on Saturday, January 30.     ...