News Archive - 13 February 2021

Two people were killed when a small plane crashed near the northern city of Afula in the occupied lands and territories, the Jerusalem Post reported. According to report, the plane crashed on agricultural land on Saturday. A large number of rescue teams have also been dispatched to the scene of...

Sheikh Issa Qasim made the remarks on Saturday while addressing a ceremony in Qom to mark the 10th anniversary of the Bahraini revolution.  A decade had passed since the uprising of the Bahraini people with the aim of implementing radical and serious reform, he said. Bahraini people will continue the movement...

In a meeting held between Seyyed Abbas Hosseini, Consul General of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Nakhchivan, and Taghiyev, Border Guard Commander of Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan, discussed the expansion of border cooperation and interaction as well as transit of goods on Sat. During the meeting, Hosseini emphasized the...

Speaking in the Meeting of Policy-Making Council of Sacred Defense International-Legal Claims, Iraj Masjedi said, “  In both Iran and Iraq, a special tribunal has been set up to investigate the assassination of Martyr Lt. General Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis. The issue was discussed and followed up during the...

It's been more than a century since a chain of tensions and shocks hit the Iranian society as a result of the imposed presence of "western modernity" in Iran. This trend started from the mid-Qajar era on, and as time went by, modernity became more and more serious and fundamental...

International Deputy of Iran Drug Control Headquarters Nasser Aslani broke the news on Saturday, saying that 18,435 kilograms of illicit drugs consisting of 15,968 kilograms of opium and 1,505 kilograms of hashish, 586 kilograms of morphine, 176 kilograms of heroin, 69 kilograms of crystal, 55 kilograms of grass, and 66 kilograms of...

This film has been produced by the movie company "MAD Movie", Public Relations Management of the movie "Landless" reported. The English poster of the film was designed by Alireza Ghaderi-Aqdam. The movie will be put on display by Eli Image Company led by Elahe Nobakht.  Berlinale is considered as...

Iran’s ambassador to Tbilisi Akbar Ghasemi met and held talks with the Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia, Mikheil Chkhenkeli on Saturday. Both sides emphasized the expansion of scientific, educational, and academic cooperation between the two countries. Referring to the significance of collaboration with Iran, Chkhenkeli noted...

The Saudi coalition claimed on Saturday that it had shot down a Yemeni army drone over Abha Airport. According to the Saudi El-Akhbariya network, the Saudi coalition also claimed that it had thwarted all drone strikes by the Yemeni army in recent days and that Yemenis were trying to target...

An explosion took place near the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, Russia Alyoum reported.  No details have been released about the blast near the Somali presidential palace. Eyewitnesses said the incident stemmed from a suicide attack. Somali security forces have already been dispatched to the scene...

Rep. Ro Khanna, the lead sponsor of a war powers resolution aimed at ending US involvement in the Yemen war -- which is led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE --said the United Arab Emirates Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba was so angry about his push to end US support for the...

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SANA reporter quoted local sources as saying that US occupation forces started on Friday moving their vehicles, military equipment and soldiers from their site at Tal Alou silos in Al-Yarubiya area near the Iraqi border. The sources noted that the occupation forces completely evacuated the site on Friday afternoon, and...

According to Major General Jabbar Hajim Darraji, the commander of operations for Samarra, today, a mistake by a Takfiri led to the death of 21 ISIL members. When the Takfiri suicide bomber tried to detonate his car bomb in front of a Samarra police headquarters, he mistakenly caused the car...

Following a 12-day visit, Alena Douhan, a UN special rapporteur focusing on sanctions, recommended in a preliminary report that the sanctions be lifted and the Venezuelan government be granted access to funds frozen in the United States, United Kingdom and Portugal, Reuters reported. “Unilateral sanctions increasingly imposed by the United...

The push to enforce Nord Stream 2 sanctions comes weeks after the European Parliament voted 581-50-44 in favor of passing a resolution demanding that the construction of the $11 billion Baltic Sea pipeline, which is approximately 90% complete, be stopped immediately. Sens. Jim Risch (R-WI) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) issued a...

“Well obviously there’s a review of our policy as it relates to Saudi Arabia. There’s not a call planned that I’m aware of,” she said in the daily press briefing, Reuters reported. Psaki previously side-stepped a question on whether the administration would impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia for the 2018...

An earthquake measuring 7.1 magnitude on the Richter scale shook Fukushima in Japan, Sputnik news agency reported on Sat. Japan often suffers earthquakes, as it is located within the Ring of Fire - a notorious area in the Pacific Ocean with extremely high seismic activity. The tremor was registered...

Speaking in an interview with Mehr News Agency, Zohre Elahian, the  member of Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said, “As the Leader of Islamic Revolution underlined, Iran will return to its obligations under the JCPOA when the United States lifts all sanctions, in practice and not verbally.” She...

Speaking in Saturday’s session of the National Coronavirus Combat and Prevention Headquarters, President Rouhani spoke about the increasing trend of Covid-19 in the world, saying, “Yet the solution to defeating the pandemic is observing heath protocols, washing hands in a regular manner, keeping social distances in public places and restricting...

Directed by Alireza Teymouri and produced by Peyman Shahmohammadi, ‘Mostafa’ is the story of an Afghan man who lives with his family in Iran. This family does not have any identity cards and this creates a problem for them. The short film has been made with the support of the South...

Also, regarding the status of Islamic philosophy in the western countries, Legebhausen believes that “there is very limited knowledge about Islamic Philosophy in the West. Scholars and students in the West are more attracted to the 'Islamology', a limited part of which is Islamic philosophy. Even those western academics who...

Reuters reported, citing informed sources and publicly-available flight-tracking data that Venezuela has begun to receive the second round of airlifts of materials from Iran to help its troubled oil refineries to produce fuel. The shipment of catalysts to the 955,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Paraguana Refining Complex (CRP) in western Venezuela comes...

Iran’s Health Ministry Spokesperson Sima Lari made the announcement on Saturday, saying that the number of total coronavirus cases in the country has so far reached 1,510,873. She said that during the past 24 hours, as many as 74 new deaths have been recorded bringing the death toll to 58,883 so...

"The fire in the neighbor's house is the fire in our house and we must help Afghanistan with all our might,” Seyed Rasoul Mousavi,  the assistant to Iranian foreign minister and Director General of West Asia at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted on Saturday following a huge gas tanker at Islam Qala...

In several recommendations, they shed light on Russia and Iran as the most challenging foreign policy issues, not to mention the Taliban. Also, in accordance with the so-called principle of “foreign policy begins at home”, CFR advises Biden to revive the concept that domestic disputes are internal matters, and they...

Iran produced 231,000 tons of copper cathode during the ten-month period to register an increase of 13% compared with last year’s corresponding time span. The country’s cathode copper production reached 24,568 tons during the 10th month (December 21, 2020 – January 20, 2021), indicating a 56% jump year on year.

“We need 20,000 doses of vaccine for 10,000 of our national teams’ members across the country,” President of Iran's National Olympic Committee Reza Salehi Amiri told reporters on Saturday on the sideline of an event in Tehran. He noted that the vaccination of athletes will provide them with ‘physical and...

Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi played a unique role in transmitting internal Islamic thoughts and beliefs to the outside world and vice versa, while promoting Islamic culture, conducting numerous researches and leaving no scientific areas behind, Mehdi Golshani a distinguished philosopher and professor told the Tehran Times in an exclusive interview. A principlist...

Saeed Khatibzadeh made the remarks on Saturday, underlining that the Consulate General of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Herat has contacted Afghan officials to investigate the incident. A gas tanker exploded at a customs post in Afghanistan’s border town of Islam Qala near the Iranian border Saturday noon. The...

Major General Hossein Salami made the remarks on Saturday noting that IRGC has played a key role in the victories and achievements of the Islamic Revolution, adding that the forces fight against the conspiracies of the global arrogance. He went on to say that the enemies must not become aware...

The 2015 deal, more formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was signed by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council — the US, the UK, China, Russia, and France — plus Germany and the EU. French President Emmanuel Macron recently said that Saudi Arabia...

According to a statement by the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, published in Alrafidain News, the invitation was extended in a Saturday meeting of Russian Ambassador to Iraq Maxim Maksimov with Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Nazar al-Khairullah in Baghdad. The two sides have highlighted the convergence of Iraq and Russia’s stances regarding...

“153 Taliban were killed and 23 others were wounded during the last 24 hours as a result of ANA operation,” the Ministry tweeted on Saturday. “These TB were killed and wounded in Kandahar, Ningarhar, Balkh, Zabul, Wardak, Khost, Konduz and Helmand provinces. Additionally, 38 IEDs were discovered and defused by...

On Friday evening, Draghi met with Sergio Mattarella, Italy’s head of state, to formally accept his request to form a new government, having won the backing of almost every large political party, CNN reported. Draghi will be sworn in at midday on Saturday, the president’s office said. As one of...

This morning, a car bomb exploded in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province, in southern Afghanistan, wounding seven security forces. According to Kandahar police spokesman Jamal Nasser Barakzai, the blast took place around 7:30 a.m. local time near a police checkpoint in the Kohk area of Arghandab district. Yet,...

According to a joint report issued by four United Nations agencies on Friday, detailing the dire straits facing the war-torn nation amid a global coronavirus pandemic that has choked out desperately needed financial aid. The report, published by the World Food Program (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UNICEF...

The Yemeni army announced on Friday night its successful drone operation against Saudi military positions in the southwest of the country. In a tweet on Friday, Brigadier General Yahya Saree wrote, “The UAV unit was able to target critical military positions at Abha International Airport and King Khalid Air Base...

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In an interview with KHAMENEI.IR, Abbas Araghchi said, “As for the US return to the JCPOA, the important thing for Iran are the commitments these countries have taken within the framework of the JCPOA which specifically requires them to lift the sanctions.” “The JCPOA is based on two...

Born in Medina on February 13, 677 AD, he became the Imam in 713 after his father, Imam al-Sajjad (PBUH) who was the fourth Imam of the Shi'a faith, was martyred and had the responsibility of leading the Shi'a until his martyrdom in 735. Imam al-Baqir (PBUH) made a great...

In a press conference on Friday, Ned Price, in response to a question about whether Biden administration intends to engage with Iran before that date when Iran says it will stop implementing the additional protocols and the inspections, said, "Well, it’s the intent of the administration to follow through with what...

EGFI put the export coverage of the Fund at $2.645 billion in first 10 months of previous Iranian calendar year (from Mar. 21, 2019 to Jan. 19, 2020). In this period, Export Guarantee Fund of Iran issued $2.575 billion worth of different types of export credit insurance policies,...

In a tweet on Friday evening, Kianoush Jahanpour, the Iranian Health Ministry’s head of the public relations and information center, announced the new batch had just arrived in the country earlier than originally planned. “Moments earlier, the second shipment of Sputnik vaccine, including 100,000 doses of the vaccine, arrived in...

Aftab: Macron; Naïve or aid to US Ebtekar: JCPOA; an important keyword in world diplomacy Ghalibaf says Parl. supports boosting Iran-China strategic coop. Etemad: Moscow threatens EU with cutting ties Ettela’at: Republicans, Democrats confrontation over Trump impeachment Zarif: Seven US presidents have lost bet against Iran Raeisi: Ousting Americans from Iraq...

In a tweet on Friday, Mikhail Ulyanov wrote, "The last sentence seems to be absolutely relevant judging by the statements of the Iranian officials." "Hopefully, the countries whom it may concern fully understand that. They have significant experience to make the right conclusions. No question about that," he added.

“The war in Yemen has had a devastating impact on the people of the country... Famine remains a constant threat [in the war-torn country],” Bell Ribeiro-Addy, who has served as the Member of Parliament for Streatham since 2019, told Mehr News Agency. She said the bloodshed should come to an...

Media sources revealed that the Western intelligence services, which claim to be fighting ISIL, have agreed in a series of meetings with the leaders of this terrorist organization to carry out terrorist attacks in Syria. Sputnik news agency wrote in a report published Friday night, quoting an informed source that according...

As Islamic Revolution of Iran, despite tough and oppressive sanctions, turned 42 years, former US President Donald Trump joined dustbin of history and this is a great victory for the Islamic Republic of Iran, the ayatollah reiterated. The Islamic Revolution of Iran turned 42 years at the condition that former...

Mahdi Moradi snatched the gold at the Men’s Long Jump T/F13 with 6.57 meters. Kazakhstan’s athlete won the silver medal with 6.44 meters and bronze medal went to Chinese Taipei’s competitor with 5.88 meters. The other gold was won by Mahdi Olad at the Men's Discus Throw...

ARDABIL, Feb. 13 (MNA) – A gas explosion at a residential building in Ardabil, northwest Iran, has left two people deadand 15 others injured. The massive explosion has happened around 7 AM local time, on Saturday.

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QAZVIN, Feb. 13 (MNA) – Off-road competition was held in Qazvin, the capital city of Qazvin province, on Friday.              ...