News Archive - 14 November 2021

Turning to the considerable increase in imports and exports through the customs administration of the southern province in the current Iranian year of 1400 (started on March 21, 2021), Behrouz Ghareh-Beigi, Director General of Bushehr Customs said on Wednesday that provincial customs offices are currently trading with 60 countries in...

Saudi-led coalition’s fighter jets targeted a civilian vehicle in the city of Markhah al-Alya in Yemen's Shabwa province. At least four civilians were martyred as a result of an airstrike of Saudi fighter jets, Almasirah reported. Two other people were also reportedly wounded in the airstrikes launched by Saudi...

A bomb attack on a minivan in a Shia neighborhood of Kabul has killed a well-known Afghan television journalist, according to an Afghan media watchdog and the journalist's wife. “Unfortunately we lost another reporter,” the Afghan Journalists Centre tweeted hours after the blast, saying Hamid Seighani, who worked for the...

Fighter jet of the Saudi-led coalition have intensified their airstrikes on various parts of the city of Ma'rib province over the past 24 hours, Almasirah reported. According to the report, the Yemeni media reported that the Saudi aggressor coalition’s fighter jets bombed the city of Ma'rib 19 times in...

The plane went down at an airport on Beaver Island, located west of Mackinaw City, according to the Charlevoix County Sheriff’s Office, Associated Press reported. The identities of the people on the plane weren’t immediately released, and there was no initial indication of the circumstances surrounding the crash. The...

Hashd al-Sha’abi forces in a surprise attack thwarted the ISIL Takfiri terrorists' attempt to infiltrate parts of Nineveh province, Al-Furat News reported. According to the report, ISIL terrorists intended to enter Hatra and some other regions in southern Mosul but they faced the surprise attack of PMU forces.  Following the operation, the...

"Russia has repeatedly expressed readiness to render assistance to the Republic of Turkey [in developing a fifth-generation fighter aircraft], and now we are negotiating this project," Shugayev said at the Dubai Airshow exhibition, Sputnik reported. In October, Ankara said that the US offered Turkey to purchase F-16 jets after...

Dmitry Shugaev made the remark ahead of the Dubai Airshow, adding, "The supplies of the S-400 air defense system to India have started and are proceeding on schedule", Sputnik reported. The S-400 has already entered service in China and Turkey. Russia and India signed a contract on the delivery...

Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, 49, appeared in social media photos in traditional brown robe and turban, and with a grey beard and glasses, signing documents at the election center in the southern town of Sebha, 7 News reported. An official confirmed he had registered. Gaddafi is one of the most...

Russia is a key ally of Belarus, which the European Union has accused of mounting a "hybrid attack" by flying in thousands of migrants, mainly from the Middle East, and pushing them to try to cross illegally into Poland, Reuters news agency reported. As the EU prepares to impose...

Yemeni Al-Masirah TV reported that four Yemeni civilians were wounded in a Saudi artillery attack on the Shada border area in Saada Province in Yemen on Sunday.  According to the TV channel, the Saudi aggressor coalition bombed Al-Juba and Sarwah districts in Ma'rib 12 times in the last...

Following the explosion, another person has been taken to hospital with serious injuries but is not believed to be in a life-threatening condition. No further information about the identity of the person who was killed has been released at this stage, BBC reported. Chief Constable Serena Kennedy for Merseyside...

Pertamina is making efforts to extinguish the blaze and prevent it from spreading, it said while ensuring the safety of people in the area, the Strait Times reported. The fire started at around 7.20 pm local time (8.20 pm Singapore time) and the cause is not yet...

The Iranian team lost to Jordan's Amman 2-1 in the final match. Goals by captain Maysa Jbarah and Shahnaz Jebreen secured Amman the title. Amman conceded a penalty just before the halftime whistle after Fahimeh Arzani’s foul on Jebreen inside the box with Jbarah coolly finding the back of...

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Saturday night received a group of analysts, university professors, media activists and Iranian ambassadors. During the meeting, the Iranian Foreign Minister explained the foreign policy of the 13th administration. Emphasizing the good faith of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the resumption of the Vienna talks, despite the...

Ebtekar: Saudi FM says Riyadh achieved progress in talks with Tehran Etela'at: Iran membership in SCO to boost economic potentials  Top Al Qaeda confirms involving Yemen war in support of Saudi-led coalition Iran: Saana forces on verge of great victory Jomhuriy-e Eslami: WHO: 1 million Afghan children at risk of...

The Iranian cartoonist, teacher, designer, and painter, Hamid Soufi managed to win the first prize "De Tinnen Pot" at the international cartoon competition of 'Olense Kartoenale' in Belgium. This is the second time in a row that this Iranian cartoonist wins the first prize in this competition. The 31st...

Shahram Ahmadi, the Director-General of Environmental Protection of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province said on Sunday that following the revival of the Gandoman Pond due to the recent rainfall, six Dalmatian pelicans have been spotted in the province for the first time.  He also noted that so far, 30 cranes have been spotted in...

During the meeting, the two sides explored avenues for enhancing bilateral relations especially after the historic visit of Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi to Tajikistan as his first foreign tour. Seyyed Ehsan Khandouzi, Iranian Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Nizamuddin Zahedi said that preliminary grounds should be provided...

According to Fars News Agency correspondent, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu will travel to Tehran on Monday and meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.  This is Çavuşoğlu's first visit to Tehran after Amir-Abdollahian was appointed as Iran's foreign minister. Lebanese media had previously reported that the Turkish Foreign Minister would travel to...

"Regarding the prospects of military-technical cooperation with Iran, it is vital to answer that under any circumstances, cooperation will be maintained given strict abidance by active legal norms of both countries, international commitments of the parties, and norms of international law," Mikheev told reporters at the Dubai Airshow 2021...

According to Iran’s Seismological Center affiliated with the Institute of Geophysics of Tehran University, the first earthquake occurred at 15:36 p.m. local time on Sunday at a depth of 18 kilometers. The second one occurred at 15:37 p.m. local time at a depth of 10 kilometers.

According to the public relations department of the Islamic Culture and Communication Organization, the Iranian General Consulate's Cultural Attaché in Kazakhstan Ali Akbar Talebi Matin, met and held talks with the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Eurasian National University.  The dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences...

Jamal Mohammad Vali Samani, head of Water Studies Department at the Iranian Parliament Research Center (IPRC) said the newly inaugurated Turkey's Ilisu Dam which is the second biggest dam in Turkey after the Atatürk dam, can significantly reduce the water that flows in the Euphrates river. Samani added that with the Ilisu dam coming on...

The Iranian council of ministers or the cabinet held a meeting on Sunday chaired by President Edbarim Raeisi, it was decided that Ali Bahadori Jahromi to be in charge of the public relations of the administration and the spokesman. The new Iranian government under president Ebrahim Raeisi did not have a spokesman...

The deputy head of Afghanistan's Chamber of Commerce and Investment "Younis Momand" said that Afghan merchants have imported more than $1 billion worth of goods from Iran since the beginning of the year, while they exported $8 million worth of goods to Iran in the same period. According to Momand,...

The chairman of the Tehran Skiing Association Morteza Saveh Shemshaki said Sunday that the Tochal skiing resort has been re-opened since Wednesday temporarily. Shemshaki said that there has been enough snow fell in the mountainous area of Tochal in the north of the Iranian capital of Tehran recently at an...

Mahmoud Abbaszadeh Meshkini Spokesman for the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said that in a Sunday meeting of the Commission depuity foreign minister and other relevant officials presented a report on Iran’s diplomatic relations with neighbors especially Saudi Arabia. He said that Saudi Arabia is one of the...

Iranian President Ayatollah Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi, in a cabinet meeting and after being informed of the powerful earthquake in some southern provinces of the country, asked all the responsible bodies of Hormozgan province, as well as the neighboring provinces and the relevant ministries, to deal with the situation as soon as...

The commander of Sistan and Baluchestan police Second Brigadier General Ahmad Taheri made the announcement on Sunday, saying that following the intelligence activities of the police forces of the province, a drug-trafficking band that was trying to transfer drug consignments to the central provinces, were identified and dismantled. During...

Nima Yooshij is famous for his style of poetry which he popularized. He is considered as the father of modern Persian poetry.

MASHHAD, Nov. 14 (MNA) – The graduation ceremony of 49 students of Navvab Seminary School was held in Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi province on Sunday. Seyyed Ahmad Alam al-Hoda, Leader’s Representative in the province delivered a speech at the ceremony.     ...

TEHRAN, Nov. 14 (MNA) – A panel of experts from both Iraq and Iran discussed the recent parliamentary elections in Iraq at International Association of Muslim University Professors in downtown Tehran on Sunday.   ...

According to Markazi province’s tourism chief, flowers from 200,000 varieties are used in the carpet, which covers 800 meters and was unveiled on Thursday on the sidelines of the local thanksgiving and pomegranate festival.

TEHRAN, Nov. 15 (MNA) – Marivan county in the western Kordestan Province is home to many storks with two villages of Dara Tefe and Belo hosting hundreds of these migratory birds. The following images show the stoks in Belo.      ...