News Archive - 26 January 2022

Iran eliminated from 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup

This was Iran's second heavy defeat after the Iranian women lost 7-0. In the match today against the Chinese Taipei team, the Iranian team lost 5-0. Iran in its first match drew against the hosts, India 0-0. Chinese Taipei has won the AFC cup three times so far while the most...

Iran knows its rivals at VNL 2022

Iran’s National Men’s Volleyball Team will compete with 12 teams in three hosts countries of Brazil, Bulgaria and Russia in different stages of the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Nations League. Each team will play 12 games in the preliminary round, and given that these competitions will be held with the presence of...

Over 90,000 foreign students study in Iran: minister

Speaking to the Iranian media, the Iranian science minister Mohammad Ali Zolfigol said that 90,000 foreign students are studying at Iranian universities. Meanwhile, deputy science minister Salar Amoli said that the increase in the number of foreign students is due to the increase in the rankings of the Iranian universities...

Saudi warplanes conduct 50 airstrikes on Yemen in 24 hours

The air raids started on Tuesday, and lasted until early Wednesday, Yemen's al-Masirah television network reported. The network identified the targeted locations as the Jabal Habashi District in the Ta'izz Province that lies in Yemen's extreme southwest, as well as the al-Thawrah, Sanhan, al-Sabahah, and al-Sab'ain Districts in the...

Explosion heard in Iraq's Basra

Media sources on Wednesday reported that an explosion was heard in Al-Zubair district in Basra Governorate, Iraq. Earlier on Tuesday, The Sabereen News also reported that the sound of an explosion was heard in the Wadi Zaitun area in Kirkuk. A security source reported that police officers were injured in an explosion in...

millions of under 12 Iranian to get COVID vaccine

After the vaccination of this group, the younger group will also be called to receive the vaccine, according to Gooya. According to the latest statistics released by the Iranian Health Ministry on Tuesday, 60,544,155 Iranians have received the first dose, 53,733,768 people the second dose, and 15,254,504 people the third dose of the COVID-19...

Croatia to recall all troops from NATO if tensions escalates

"As the commander-in-chief, I have been closely following statements indicating that NATO - not one country, not the United States - is building up its presence and sending some reconnaissance ships. We do not have any bearing on this and we will not have anything to do with this.

Iranian President Raeisi felicitates India on National Day

Felicitating the National day of India, Raeisi in his message to the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind wrote, "As two countries with rich culture and ancient civilisations in Asia, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of India have always had excellent relations and will undoubtedly create a new...

Iran receives 2nd shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from Poland

On January 25th, 2022 the second shipment of 1 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, donated by the Polish Government to the Islamic Republic of Iran, arrived at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, reads the statement released by the Polish embassy in Tehran. The shipment, assisted by the European...

The US ‘hostage’ that turned out to be a spy

The negotiator, US Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley, has acknowledged that the issue of four Iranian dual nationals held in Iran was separate from the talks underway in Vienna intended to revive a 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Malley, however, considered...

Rallies to be hold in Iran in support of Yemeni People

Issuing an announcement, the Islamic Development Coordination Council of Iran called the people of Tehran to hold a rally in support of the Yemeni people after Friday prayers. The Iranians will condemn the inhumane acts and brutal killing of the oppressed Yemenis by the Hebrew-Arab coalition during this rally. Saudi Arabia, at the head of an...

Rockets target Iraq parliament speaker's home, 2 injured

Two children were wounded Tuesday night when rockets were fired towards the home of Iraq's speaker of parliament, security sources said. Three Katyusha rockets landed some “500 meters” (1,640 feet) from the home of Mohammed al-Halbussi in the Gurma district of Anbar province, west of the capital Baghdad, a security...

Russians more optimistic than Westerners in Vienna talks

"The JCPOA participants (without Iran) and the US met this evening to assess the current state of affairs at the Vienna talks", Russia’s permanent representative to Vienna-based International Organizations wrote in a late Tuesday tweet. "As always Russians were more optimistic while Western colleagues were more skeptical. The eternal dispute -...

US Coast Guard searches for 39 people after boat capsizes off

The United States Coast Guard is currently on a frantic search looking for survivors, after a boat capsized off the east coast of Florida, Anadolu reported. Thirty-nine people are believed missing. Coast Guard officials said a good Samaritan rescued one of the survivors on Tuesday morning about 45-miles east...

UAE should expect bigger attacks if invading Yemen continues

Advisor to the Yemeni Prime Minister Hamid Abdul Qader Antar made the remarks on UAE aggression in Yemen, Al Mayadeen reported. Abdul Qader stated that Emiratis should expect bigger attacks from Yemenis if they don't stop invading the country. Citing that the blood of Yemenis is not worthless, he said that Saudi...

Ukraine 'flooded' with US, NATO weapons, advisers

According to Russian representatives in the UN, "cultivating Russophobia among its citizens and like-minded states, talking about the accumulation of Russian troops as almost the root cause of all problems, [the US] forgets to clarify that the talk is about Russian forces on Russian territory", Sputnik reported. This is...

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Front pages of Iran’s English dailies on January 26

Arman-e Melli: Direct negotiation with US in case of sanctions lifting Asia: Tehran-Riyadh disputes unsolvable  Ebtekar: Good agreement precondition of direct negotiation with US Tehran seriously aims expand cooperations with African countries: FM Etemad: US requested direct negotiation whiles ago: President  Etela'at: Trade centers to be opened in neighboring...

Iranian, Qatari FMs discuss regional issues, bilateral ties

The Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Tuesday night had a phone talk with his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani. The two senior diplomats discussed regional issues and emphasized the need to strengthen diplomacy and dialogue in resolving matters, as well as discussing some important issues of interest. Regional developments...

Maximum pressure campaign an abject failure

Speaking in his daily press conference on Tuesday, Ned Price said that the US now is left with just a terrible set of options. "The maximum pressure campaign was an abject failure. Everything that it promised, the opposite ended up coming true", Price added, saying that it could not put brakes...

Iran to nullify sanctions through diversifying trade partners

Reaching a full agreement to remove the sanctions is on the agenda of the Iranian delegation in the ongoing Vienna talks, Abolfazl Amouei, member of the Iranian Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said on Tuesday. The interim agreement is not in line with the policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran,...