News Archive - 27 August 2021

US says Kabul airport attack carried out by one bomber Pentagon officials believe the attack outside Kabul airport on Thursday was as a result of one explosion, not two, Al-Jazeera reported. “We do not believe that there was a second explosion at or near the Baron hotel, that it was...

GOP Sens. Josh Hawley and Marsha Blackburn on Thursday joined a wave of other Republicans calling on President Biden to resign, a demand that that surged in the hours following multiple bombings around the airport in Kabul, killing 13 US service members, The Hill reported. Hawley said in a statement...

Around 136 school children were taken from the school in Tegina town in May but on Monday the school's owner said that six had died of illness, Reuters reported. The releases were confirmed by an official who asked not to be named because the government planned to issue a...

The series of hostile actions of Zionists against Palestinian citizens still continue in the occupied lands and territories. Zionist military forces attacked various parts of the West Bank, Palestine Al-Ahad News reported. According to the report, fierce clashes broke out between Zionists and Palestinian citizens following the widespread and...

The United Nations Children's Fund has published a comprehensive report on the latest crimes committed by Zionist military forces against Palestinian children in the occupied lands and territories, Palestine Al-Youm reported. According to the report, Zionist military forces killed nine Palestinian children in less than two months. These children...

Although Yemeni forces have not yet confirmed the drone attack in southwestern Saudi Arabia, the Saudi-led coalition claimed to have intercepted and destroyed a Yemeni drone flying over the town of Khamis Mushait. This is while that Yemeni officials including Spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces Yahya Saree have repeatedly...

During his speech on Friday, Nasrallah explained the importance of Lebanon’s 2nd Liberation and its implications regionally and internationally, in addition to several other Lebanese issues before concluding his speech with the issue of Imam Moussa Sadr and his companions, Al-Ahed News reported. The Resistance Leader asserted that Lebanon's Second...

President Raeisi, who is visiting Khuzestan in an unannounced program, inspected the existing situation in Hoor-Al-Azim Wetland as the largest lagoon in the southern province of Khuzestan. President Raeisi then flew the Jofeir region, 50 kilometers west of Ahvaz, to review the latest developments in the wetland and Karkheh River...

Speaking on Thursday, the first day of his tenure, Owji said, "The most important issue that should be seriously pursued is gas imbalance and winter fuel supply, which is very important. Today we will have the first meeting of the Council of Deputies and a meeting for winter fuel soon.

Referring to the meeting of the foreign ministers of Iran and Pakistan on Thursday, Mousavi in his Twitter account wrote that a very important meeting was held on the first day of taking office by Hossein Amir-Abdollahian as new foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, adding that the meeting between...

According to the statement released on Friday by the Iranian Health Ministry, 36,279 new cases of infection with the COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours, 4,799 of whom were hospitalized. Some 571 more Iranians have died from the coronavirus disease over the past 24 hours bringing the total deaths to...

According to the website of Tanker Trackers, which tracks the shipment of oil cargo, the Iranian ship contains fuel for the electricity grid. "The tanker that is laden with fuel for the power grid has departed today while the other one that is loading gasoline is anticipated to depart...

The powerlifting competitions in -65 kg at Tokyo Paralympic Games kicked off at 16:30 on Friday at Tokyo International Forum. In this category, 10 athletes from different countries of the world were present and Amir Jafari represented the Islamic Republic of Iran. At the end of the competition in this...

After Hossein Amir-Abdollahian became the Iranian foreign minister yesterday following securing a confidence vote at the parliament, congratulatory messages are pouring in. Following the congratulatory messages from the Russian, the Yemeni, Kuwaiti and Azeri foreign ministers, the foreign ministers of Sultanate of Oman, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan and Turkey have also taken...

China's State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in a message on Fri. congratulated Hossein Amir-Abdollahian as foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Turning to the age-old and longstanding friendship between Iran and China as well as the 50th anniversary of political relations between the two countries,...

He made the remarks in a speech on Fri. regarding the presence of US forces in Iraqi territory and reiterated that the Iraqi government has recently called for the expulsion of 5,000 US forces from Iraqi land and territory, Russia Today reported. During the recent round of strategic talks...

With the arrival of other 2,220,000 doses of Chinese vaccines on Thursday, the number of COVID-19 vaccines imported into the country exceeded 28 million doses, Mehrdad Jamal Arvanaghi added. He also put the number of shipments of COVID-19 vaccine imported into the country up to the present time at...

In a message addressed to the Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi on Fri., Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari called the “Government Week’ as a symbol of unity of the Iranian nation and government on the path of progress and development in the glorious history of the Islamic Revolution of...

A roadside bomb was exploded en route of Syrian army forces at the distance of Sheikh Meskeen area on the outskirts of Daraa, Al-Akhbariya News reported. According to the report, two Syrian army forces were killed and eight others were wounded in the blast. This is while that local...

The US ambassador in Afghanistan informed his staff that the explosion killed four marines and left three others wounded, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing an official with knowledge of the briefing. Fox News has confirmed the report, citing US officials. The Pentagon spokesman John Kirby has...

Saeed Khatibzadeh Spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Fri. revealed that a delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran will be headed by Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian to attend the Regional Summit in Iraq. Baghdad Regional Summit will be held on Sat. Aug. 28 and representatives from countries...

He made the remarks in his meeting with visiting Pakistani Minister of Foreign Affairs Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Tehran on Thu. and pointed out that strengthening bilateral relations can pave the way for the development and consolidation of regional and international cooperation between Iran and Pakistan. President Raeisi pointed...

During the phone talk held between Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Thu., the two sides exchanged their views on the expansion of bilateral cooperation in various fields, the continuation of consultations on regional and international issues especially latest developments in Afghanistan.

Condemning the targeting of the defenseless people of Afghanistan and any kind of terrorist operation in which women, men, youth and children are attacked, Saeed Khatibzadeh expressed hope that with the formation of an inclusive government in Kabul as soon as possible, the responsible organs and institutions will be responsible...

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TEHRAN, Aug. 27 (MNA) – Former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif handed over Foreign Ministry's office to his successor Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Thursday.      ...

TEHRAN, Aug. 26 (MNA) – Basij Chief Brigadier General Gholamreza Soleimani paid a visit to western Hamedan Province to inspect the Basij voluntary forces' campaign against the Covid-19 pandemic.    ...