News Archive - 25 June 2021

Blocking of news websites reveals US' false claims

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah delivered a televised speech on Friday, June 25, at 17:30 (Beirut Time). The speech was to tackle the latest political developments in Lebanon as well as the governmental deadlock and the exacerbating crisis in Lebanon, Al-Manar reported. He addressed Iran's nuclear talks in Vienna saying: "Vienna...

5 Iraqi military forces killed in bomb blast

According to the reports, a bomb exploded on the way of an Iraqi military delegation in Kirkuk, northern Iraq on early Friday. ISIL has reportedly accepted the responsibility for the blast. The ISIL terrorist fired a rocked after the explosion, too. Five Iraqi soldiers lost lives in the bomb...

Emergency declared in Florida as building collapses

On Thursday a multi-story condominium building had partially collapsed in the Florida resort city Surfside. ​According to media reports, one person has been confirmed dead and anywhere from 51 to 99 are presumed missing with 36 rescued after the building collapsed overnight in Surfside. The mayor of Surfside, Charles...

Turkey condemns Honduras for moving embassy to occupied lands

Turkey and the Arab League condemned Honduras late Thursday for moving its embassy in Tel Aviv to the occupied lands, Anadolu reported.  “It was an unfortunate development that Honduras moved its embassy in Tel Aviv to the occupied lands and the opening of the embassy took place today (June...

Negotiators may resume JCPOA talks next week

"My instinct tells me that the #ViennaTalks on restoration of #JCPOA will resume next week, i.e. no later than July 4 or-most probably- earlier," he wrote. "This is not for sure but highly likely. Let’s see." The sixth round of Vienna talks to revive JCPOA kicked off in...

US forced to recognize Ansarullah as legitimate actor

A senior member of Yemen’s popular Ansarullah resistance movement says territorial gains achieved by Yemeni army forces and their allied fighters in battles against Saudi-led coalition troops forced the United States to recognize his group as a legitimate actor in the war-battered Arab country. Abdul-Wahhab al-Mahbashi told Lebanon's al-Mayadeen television...

Rouhani felicitates Slovenia on national day

In a message on Friday to Borut Pahor, Rouhani felicitated the event to the Slovenian people and government. “I hope that with the improvement of conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and in light of mutual cooperation, we would see deepening of friendly relations in various bilateral and international...

Iranian short film to vie at Italian festival

In “Burned”, every night, when Hafeez hears the sound of gunfire at the border, he goes there to take away the belongings of the immigrants' corpses to make a living. One night, between the bodies, he notices a young girl and her child who are hiding in a corner.

Iran COVID update: 10,826 infections, 115 deaths

In a statement on Friday, the Health Ministry announced the new figure, adding that 1,397 of those newly-detected patients have been hospitalized. The total number of COVID cases in the country is standing at 3,150,949. The outbreak has claimed the lives of 115 people since yesterday, bringing the death...

VIDEO: Ayat. Khamenei receives Iranian coronavirus vaccine

“I was being urged to use vaccine earlier. First of all, I was not eager to use non-Iranian vaccines. I said I would wait so the God willing the vaccine will be produced inside the country and I use our own vaccine,” said the Leader. This is a national pride...

Paris waiting for Iran to make decision on JCPOA, FM claims

"We're waiting for Iranian authorities to take the final difficult decisions to allow for the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal," Le Drian told a joint news conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Paris, Reuters reported. Blinken for his part said that there are disagreements with Iran...

Grossi to report on expiration of agreement with Iran

The UN nuclear watchdog and Iran have a temporary agreement on monitoring Iran's atomic activities that expires on Thursday, Reuters reported. As long as the temporary accord is in place, data continues to be collected, meaning that if and when it is recovered the IAEA should still have so-called...

Last chance to see 2021 supermoon

This supermoon became completely full at 2:40 p.m. ET on Thursday afternoon, CNN reported. Viewers all over the world can see the strawberry moon, depending on where they are with respect to the horizon. Definitions of a supermoon can vary, but the term generally denotes a full moon...

Potato harvest in Mazandaran

TEHRAN, Jun. 25 (MNA) – Farmers in different regions of Mazandaran, Northern Iran, have started harvesting potato.    ...