News Archive - 28 July 2021

The Russian military has warned of the presence of ISIL terrorists in Afghanistan as clashes between Afghan government forces and the Taliban escalate in recent weeks as the United States prepares to end 20 years of occupation in Afghanistan. On July 23, the Russian military issued a warning about the...

Soheila Zakzaki, the daughter of prominent Nigerian Sha Muslim cleric Sheikh Ebrahim, who is the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) made the remarks in an interview with Mehr correspondent. "Zakzaki will be released and there is no reason to continue his detention," she said. She added...

A court in Nigeria has acquitted Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, Leader of Islamic Movement of Iraq (IMN), and his wife of all charges and issued their release warrant, New York-based Sahara Reporters news agency reported. According to the report, “Kaduna” State Supreme Court on Wednesday announced the news as the...

Afghan Foreign Ministry on Wed. issued a statement regarding the visit of a delegation from Taliban to China, announcing that China informed Afghan government of the delegation's visit and has expressed its concern about the presence of foreign terrorists alongside the Taliban group in Afghanistan. Afghanistan Foreign Ministry said...

Typhoon Nepartak weakened to an extratropical cyclone Wednesday over the Sea of Japan off the coast of northeastern Japan after it traversed through Iwate and Akita prefectures, the weather agency said. It made landfall on the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi in the morning, veering off the initially projected...

Assange fled to Ecuador’s embassy in London in 2012 to avoid extradition to the US, but his asylum status was later revoked. Ecuador’s justice system formally notified the Australian that his naturalisation had been nullified after Ecuadorian authorities said the supporting letter had multiple inconsistencies, different signatures, the possible...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei made the remarks while speaking in the last meeting with the officials of the twelfth Iranian government on Wednesday morning. Referring to the experiences of the 11th and 12th governments,  the Leader of the Islamic Revolution reiterated a significant fact that...

Tajikistan will support a decision to admit Iran to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) if such a decision is adopted by consensus, Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin said at a press conference in Dushanbe on Tuesday. According to him, the process of countries' membership in this organization is time-consuming.

The inauguration ceremony was held in the presence of the ambassadors of several Islamic countries, including Kazem Jalali, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Moscow. In a message to the conference participants, the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Reshetnikov described the event as an...

President Rouhani made the comments during a meeting on Wednesday morning with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei. The Leader received the outgoing President Hassan Rouhani and his cabinet ministers a few days before a new administration is formed in Iran under president-elect Ebrahim Raeisi. Rouhani, who spoke...

Nine Taliban representatives met Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin on a two-day visit during which the peace process and security issues were discussed, a Taliban spokesperson said, Reuters reported. Wang said the Taliban is expected to “play an important role in the process...

He and the accompanying delegation also visited the Syrian Assembly on the sidelines of the meeting. Sabbagh and Ghalibaf held a joint Press conference on Tues., where Ghalibaf said: “I take this opportunity to express my heartfelt congratulation for the success of Syrian people for participating in the elections and...

The public relations department of RGC's Ground Force Quds said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon that succeeded in identifying and capturing a shipment of weapons in the southeast of the country. The statement said 34 handguns with ammunition were seized by the Quds headquarters forces in the Saravan border region.

The Iranian Judiciary said in a statement on Wednesday that the convicts received reduced jail sentences or are freed on bail after the new Judiciary head Mohseni-Eje'i recently held meetings with the families of those convicts. The statement also said that prior to this, on a number of different other...

Dr. Alireza Raeisi, Spokesman for the National Task Force for Fighting Coronavirus made the announcement on Wednesday a day before the Eid Al-Ghadir. Raeisi thanked the school teachers for their patience during the past a year and the half period since the pandemic began and added that, long-distance education created some problems for...

Member of the Provincial Government of Lower Austria and Deputy Secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights emphasized expansion of bilateral cooperation on judicial and human rights issues and exchange of information and experience between the two countries of Iran and Austria. Martin Eichtinger, member of the Provincial...

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The 16-minute Iranian documentary is about a girl named 'Fariba' who lives in a far-fetched deprived village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province and is dealing with some challenges to continue her school studies due to lack of facilities. London Lift-Off Film Festival started back in 2010 with its first-ever call...

The new vaccine that the Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said on Tuesday will enter its third clinical phase within the next two weeks is called "Fakhra".  Hatami said the second phase of its clinical trial was carried out successfully the report of which will be sent...

As zionist sources announced, the Israeli regime's War Minister Benny Gantz will meet with French Defence Minister Florence Parly on topics including the crisis in Lebanon, nuclear negotiations with Iran, and the Pegasus malware  The Pegasus malware is made by the Israeli regime firm NSO, which was allegedly used...

Following the intelligence activities of the forces of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, a network of members of the Zionist regime’s Spy Organization (Mossad) was arrested on the country's western border, said Director-General of Counterintelligence of the ministry on Tuesday. He added that a big haul of weapons and ammunition, including, pistols, grenades, Winchester rifles, shotguns...

A shooting and hostage-taking incident in the US State of California left five dead, "FOX 11" TV Network reported. According to the report, shooting and hostage-taking incident took place in “Vasco” area of San Joaquin Valley in California, in which, deputy sheriff and four others were killed. The city...

"Due to the inauguration ceremony of the President on August 5 and in order to comply with safety and security requirements, all TMA airports in Tehran, including Mehrabad, Imam Khomeini, Payam, Azadi, and Qazvin airports will be closed from 04:30 p.m. to 07:00 p.m. local time," he...

Boris Johnson has rejected Brussels’ latest attempt to iron out problems with the post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland, insisting that the withdrawal agreement signed last year must be renegotiated. According to the Guardian, a series of proposals published by the European Commission on Monday with the aim of easing implementation of the...

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A landslide at a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh killed at least six people and injured several others, Reuters news agency reported. According to the report, the landslide caused by heavy monsoon rains and floods in parts of southern Bangladesh in recent days. In this regard, Mohammad Shamsud Douza,...

Over 1,500 troops from Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan will take part in joint drills at the Kharb-Maidon training ground, 20 km from the border with Afghanistan, on August 5-10, the press office of Russia’s Central Military District reported on Tuesday, according to TASS agency. The troops will practice thwarting...

"I think that it is more likely that the United States and Russia will end up to war, a full-fledged war with full power and this war will be the result of cyber attacks," Biden stated in a meeting with some US intelligence and security officials yesterday.  The...

On Wednesday morning, the aggressive Saudi coalition claimed that it had intercepted and countered two armed drones and two ballistic missiles fired by the Yemenis at the Jazan region, southwestern Saudi Arabia. In early 2019, the Yemenis unveiled these drones on a special offensive mission against Saudi-Emirati-American mercenaries at Al Anad...

Armenian media reported on Wednesday revealed the casualties of the new military conflict between Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan. The Armenian Defense Ministry announced that three Armenian soldiers were killed and two others were wounded in a military attack at 8:30 am on July 28. The statement of the...

Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education announced the new figures for Wednesday according to which 3,694 of the newly-detected patients have been hospitalized since yesterday. The total number of people detected with coronavirus so far has increased to  3,310,163. The pandemic has claimed the lives of 303 people in...

Hamzeh Seyed al-Shohada headquarters of the IRGC Ground Force said on Tuesday that a terrorist team consisting of three terrorists who were seeking to carry out acts of sabotage and anti-security actions inside the country were dismantled by their forces. The statement added that the team of three terrorists...

As the tensions in Afghanistan have intensified, a Taliban political delegation has traveled to China to meet with senior Afghan officials. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a co-founder of the Taliban who also heads the Taliban’s political office in Qatar, met Wang in the northern city of Tianjin on Wednesday, according...

Although there is insecurity in Afghanistan, the border between Iran and Afghanistan enjoys peace and security, and there is no particular problem, said Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour on the sidelines of the honoring ceremony of health defenders on Tuesday.  The IRGC ground forces performed very well in the area of the...

Located in the west of Iran in Kordestan Province's Sarvabad County, "Uraman Takht" or "Hawraman Takht" rural landscape was inscribed in UNESCO World Heritage List on Tuesday. Hawraman inscription comes a few days after Trans-Iranian Railway was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List on Sunday during the extended...

Describing the achievements of the historical presence of Iran's navy in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Finland, Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi said, "The main message of this honorable presence was to show authority, ability and self-reliance." He pointed to the important decision of the Navy for...

Ghalibaf who arrived in Syria yesterday met with President Assad in Damascus on Wednesday afternoon. Iran’s ambassador to Damascus Mehdi Sobhani and Syrian Parliament Speaker Hamouda Sabbagh were also present in the meeting between Assad and Ghalibaf. Ghalibaf arrived in Damascus with expanding economic cooperation between Damascus and Tehran on...

Saeed Khatibzadeh said, "Iran stands beside Tunisia in passing the current situation." He called on all Tunisian parties to stay united and stressed the need for dialogue among all of them on the way to get out of the current tensions. He underlined the significance of the political and security stability...

The unveiling ceremony was attended by the chief of Iran's National Olympic Committee Reza Salehi Amiri, Iranian ambassador to Tokyo Morteza Rahmani Movahed and other Iranian officials. Simultaneously with the unveiling of the Tokyo Olympic handmade carpet tableau, an exhibition of sports carpets was also opened in Tokyo. As Salehi...

The Iranian national men's futsal team played Egypt for their third game in the Thai tournament on Tuesday afternoon. They drew 2-2 with their African rival.  However, the Iranian side advanced to the semi-final stage of the international competitions as the leaders of their group. Iran heavily defeated the...

The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi made the comments during a meeting with the lawmakers at the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee at the Iranian parliament on Tuesday afternoon. The parliament's piece of legislation dubbed "Strategic Action Plan to Counter Sanctions and Protect Rights of the...

He made the remarks upon his arrival in Damascus Airport late on Tue. and reiterated that comprehensive trade and economic agreement between Iran and Syria will pave suitable way for better activity of the two countries’ public and private sectors in post-war era, rebuilding Syria and taking advantage of trade...

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Ebrahim Azizi, the lawmaker that represents the people of Shiraz in the Iranian parliament said about today's meeting between Ebrahim Raeisi and the lawmakers that in the meeting the MPs expressed their viewpoints on various and important issues in the country with the President-elect. Azizi said that a large number of MPs...

According to a statement by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held a telephone conversation on Tuesday afternoon with his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov. During the phone conversations, the two top diplomats discussed the latest developments in bilateral relations and regional issues. The last time the two foreign...

Ghalibaf: Iran-Syria agreement to help bilateral economic interests Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that agreement between the two countries of Iran and Syria will help strengthening and enhancing bilateral trade interests. He made the remarks upon his arrival in Damascus Airport late on Tue. and reiterated that comprehensive...

Etema'ad: Iran's Oraman region registered as World Heritage  Etela'at: UNESCO registers Iran's Oraman region as World Heritage Iran: Oraman landscapes registered as World Heritage Intelligence forces arrest Mossad terrorist network in W Iran Javan: Ghalibaf: Iran, Syria preparing MOU on boosting economic coop. RHM...

The result signaled a first defeat for Iran in the Games after two wins against Poland and Venezuela. Perrin John Gordon scored 16 points for Canada while Amir Ghafour pocketed 13 points for Iran. Iran will play Italy on Friday. The 12 men’s teams are divided into two pools...

 Iranian saber fencers competed against the United States, becoming close to fifth place in Tokyo 2020 Olympics. In this match, the national team of the Islamic Republic of Iran defeated its American rival with a result of 45 to 36. Iranian saber fencers will compete against Egypt to achieve fifth place.  RHM/5267444...

Speaking in an interview with CNBC News in Russia on Tue., Rustam Zhiganshin reiterated the trade volume exchanged between Islamic Republic of Iran and Russian in the first six months of 2021 faced a giant leap as compared to the same period of last year. Following the trade...

To hold meetings with senior Syrian officials, as well as businessmen and economic activists of Iran and Syria, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has traveled to Damascus on Tuesday evening. Upon his arrival at Damascus Airport, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that an agreement between the two countries of...

The Mixed Gender Team Taekwondo Competition is a new competitive format that is held as a showcase alongside the regular matches in Tokyo Olympics this year for the first time. Five teams – from China, Cote d’Ivoire, Iran, Japan and Russia entered this non-medal event.  The national Iranian mixed-gender taekwondo...

In their second game at the Olympics, Iranian basketball players lost to the US 66-120. HJ/5267608...

The First International Competition for Inventors and Innovators recognized as members of the Federation, INV Members, was held virtually and online from 18 to 20 July 2021.  The scientific secretary of the National Scholastic Festival of Ibn Sina said that Iranian students won a total of 43 medals including 13...

The meeting was held on Wed. between the European Union's Special Envoy for Afghanistan Tomas Niklasson and the Iranian Ambassador to Kabul Bahador Aminian. During the meeting, the two sides discussed multilateral cooperation to advance the peace process in Afghanistan, also the increasing level of violence in the country. Iran's...

According to the data recently released by China's National Bureau of Statistics, China's GDP grew 12.7% year-on-year in the first half of this year, which puts average H1 growth for the past two years at 5.3%. Steadily strengthening and improving, China’s economy continues to inject confidence to the...

TEHRAN, Jul. 28 (MNA) – Kids in Varamin County in the south of the Iranian capital of Tehran celebrated the Eid al-Ghadir, which marks the day on which Holy Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) appointed Ali ibn Abi Talib(AS) as his successor.     ...

TEHRAN, Jul. 28 (MNA) – Vaccination of reporters and journalists, as one of the endangered jobs in Coronavirus, started today in Khuzestan province.

TEHRAN, Jul. 28 (MNA) – Imam Ali holy shrine in Najaf, Ira, is getting prepared to preserve Eid al-Ghadir celebration.    ...

AHVAZ, Jul. 27 (MNA) – “Tarashok” Village is a village in western part of Susan District in Izeh. Susan Plain and Tarashok Village enjoy beautiful and breathtaking views and landscapes.          ...

In his visit, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf is scheduled to hold high-profile talks with his Syrian counterpart and other ranking officials of Syria to discuss bilateral ties and issues of mutual interests.

TEHRAN, Jul. 28 (MNA) – In the last days of the 12th Government, President Rouhani and members of the Cabinet met with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei on Wednesday morning.       ...