News Archive - 18 May 2022

Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations, Mohammad Hussein Bahr Aluloom said at a Security Council meeting about the situation in Iraq on Wednesday that From now on, the attacks of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) can no longer be an excuse for Turkish forces to remain on Iraqi soil." The Iraqi envoy...

Alireza Peyman-Pak made the remarks on Tuesday evening in his meeting with the ambassador and staff of the economic and trade division of the Iranian Embassy to Muscat and stressed the serious determination of the 13th government to enhance trade and economic activities with Oman. Referring to the identification...

In this virtual meeting, envoys of the Islamic Republic of Iran in African countries called for taking advantage of opportunities as well as resolving hurdles ahead of exports growth of the country to the African countries. Turning to the efforts of 13th government to improve foreign trade balance and...

The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults participated in the International Visual Arts Competition, “Louis François” in France by submitting 118 works. Among the works submitted from different countries, eight members of the instute succeeded in receiving awards. Among the members of this Iranian institution whose paintings...

Tajikistan is of great strategic importance due to its geographical location in Central Asia including its border with Afghanistan, Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi said, referring to the recent visit of the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces to Tajikistan. Saying that Iran shares borders with Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Shekarchi...

Speaking in a specialized meeting entitled “Impact of Strategic Measures Introduced by Leader of the Revolution on Advancements of Nuclear Technology", held virtually in holy city of Mashhad on Wednesday, Mohammad Eslami said that Iran has witnessed extraordinary rapid progress of science and technology in all fields especially nuclear technology.

According to Sputnik, the Russian foreign ministry summoned French Ambassador to Russia Pierre Levy earlier in the day to express protest in connection with the decision of Paris to declare 41 employees of Russian diplomatic missions in France personae non gratae. "As a response, 34 employees of French diplomatic...

"Talks are indeed not moving forward and we note the complete lack of will of Ukrainian negotiators to continue this process," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to Barron's. On Tuesday, Kyiv's lead negotiator Mykhaylo Podolyak said that talks with Moscow were "on hold" after being held regularly...

The SVR revealed in a statement that, according to the intelligence it is receiving, the United States is actively recruiting even members of international terrorist organizations, including the ISIL terrorist group as mercenaries to participate in hostilities in Ukraine, English Almanar reported. The Russian intelligence service points to the...

Turkey has blocked NATO's decision to process requests by Finland and Sweden to join the bloc, Financial Times reported, citing a person "with direct knowledge of the matter," according to Sputnik. NATO envoys met on Wednesday with the eye to launching accessions talks on the same day that Finland and...

Seyyed Hasan Nasrallah hailed on Wednesday the heavy turnout in the parliamentary election, which was held on May 15, thanking the voters who elected the candidates of the Resistance and its allies, Al-Manar reported. In a televised speech, Nasrallah thanked specifically the Resistance martyrs’ families, the injured fighters, the elders,...

The UN special rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on human rights, Alena Douhan, who has traveled to Iran from 8 to 18, attended a press conference on Wednesday. Referring to her meetings with Iranian officials to assess the impact of US sanctions on the human rights situation in...

Heading an Azeri high-ranking delegation, Mustafayev on Wednesday held talks with Major General Bagheri in Tehran. The latest regional developments and the expansion of defense and security relations between Iran and Azerbaijan were among the topics discussed during the meeting. Mustafayev paid a visit to Iran last November and held...

A delegation from the Iranian energy ministry headed by the Deputy Iranian Minister of Energy for Water and Wastewater Affairs visited the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat on Tuesday to discuss Iran-Turkmenistan cooperation in the water and electricity field as well as to discuss how to develop cooperation in the...

“I will discuss bolstering joint security cooperation and dealing with regional challenges, chief among them Iran, he said. Gantz will also meet with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during the trip. During the visit, Gantz is scheduled to attend events in Miami and...

Iranian Minister of Agriculture Jihad Seyyed Javad Sadati Nejad made the remarks closing of the seventh two-day meeting of the Joint Commission for Economic Cooperation between Iran and Ghana in Tehran on Wednesday. Th Iranian minister described the seventh meeting of the Iran-Ghana Permanent Cooperation Commission as one of the most...

The film tells the story of a lonely girl who wants to help a poor man who asks her for food behind the door. Zahra Rashidi is the only cast of Shamsi's short film. The Nickel Independent Film Festival is an annual film festival held in St. John's, Newfoundland...

Mohammad Mokhber made the remarks in his meeting with visiting Ghana's Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, who chairs Iran-Ghana Joint Cooperation Commission, in Tehran on Wednesday and said that volume of economic relations between Iran and Ghana should be increased. Emphasizing high interest of Iranian...

The official Oman News Agency (ONA) announced today (Wednesday) that the Sultan of Oman, Haitham bin Tarik, has issued an order to approve a cooperation agreement with Iran in the field of maritime transport. The decree by Sultan comes after Iran’s Deputy Industry Minister and Head of Trade Promotion Organization of...

Rostam Ghasemi made the remarks in his meeting with Shahin Mustafayev Deputy Prime Minister of Republic of Azerbaijan in Tehran on Wednesday. In response to a question about whether the tolls for Iranian trucks entering Azerbaijan will be reduced in line with developing transit and transportation relations between the...

The Iranian team defeated the Iraq team in three straight sets (25-13, 25-19, 25-14) to book a place in the 2022 Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship semifinals. The competitions are held in Tehran, the Iranian capital. Paykan is the most successful Asian team with seven wins so far in the...

Turkey has said it will not approve Sweden and Finland joining it as NATO members, hours after Stockholm followed Helsinki in a historic Nordic security policy shift by formally confirming that it intended to apply for membership of the alliance. As Turkey threatens to block bids to join NATO by Sweden...

According to Zionist sources, a car exploded in the area of ​Judaea in the Occupied Palestinian Territories on Wednesday morning. The cause of the explosion is still unknown.  ...

“The talks are not going on. Ukraine has actually withdrawn from the negotiation process, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said on the sidelines of the 2nd Central Asian conference of the international discussion club Valdai. "The talks are not continuing. Ukraine has in fact quit the process of negotiations,"...

The forces of the Zionist regime raided areas in the Palestinian city of Jenin in the northern West Bank on Wednesday morning and surrounded several houses. Following the Zionists' attack on Jenin, the Resistance fighters engaged in a fierce armed conflict with the occupiers and threw hand grenades at them. According to...

Al-Forat News reported the incident on Wednesday, providing no further details on the possible damage or casualties. Shafaq News on Saturday reported that an Iraqi security officer reportedly perished in a blast from an explosive device in the same Iraqi province. The explosion killed a member of the squad and injured...

A Yemeni military source pointed to the details of cases of ceasefire violation by the Saudi-led coalition and said that aggressors' spy planes carried out seven reconnaissance operations over civilian homes and positions of the army and popular committees in Yemen’s al-Dhale province. A number of 47 reconnaissance and...

"Today the troops have already begun receiving the systems that actually combine the functions of air and anti-missile defenses and these are S-500 weapons," Borisov said, according to TASS. The S-500, like the Tor, Buk, S-300, S-350 and S-400 surface-to-air missile systems, enjoy great demand in the global arms...

Erdogan has called on NATO allies to "respect" his country's concerns over the membership of Finland and Sweden in the alliance. Regarding the two Nordic countries' bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, he said it was "controversial for countries to support terrorism and expect our approval."...

"Pursuant to the scenario of the tactical exercise, the crews of the combat ships practised measures stage by stage to repulse an enemy air attack by missile fire from the Osa-M air defense system, set up aerosol-cloud camouflage and generate electronic interference, following which they performed a series of...

A US military convoy entered the Turkish military base in "Azaz" city, northwest Syria. All vehicles with American flags entered the northern suburb of Aleppo in Syria’s Aleppo which were accompanied by the Turkish intelligence service. At the same time, a number of helicopters and drones, said to belong...

The incident happened on Tuesday in the Sabon Gari area of the city, mostly populated by people who moved to Kano from elsewhere. Mustapha Habib Ahmed, head of the National Emergency Management Agency, said a gas cylinder in a welding shop exploded, killing nine people. Emergency responders pulled bodies...

Chief Justice of Hormozgan Province Mojtaba Ghahremani announced on Wednesday that the ship, smuggling 550,000 liters of fuel, had been confiscated by the Iranian navy forces of the naval zone. During the seizure, seven of the ship’s crew members were detained, he said, adding that the ship and its crew would be...

The spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity, Ahmed Musa al-Abadi, said that Baghdad had recently reached an agreement with Tehran on the sale of gas to Iraq. He told Al Sabaah newspaper that the amount of Iranian gas exports to Iraq will increase from 8 million cubic meters per day to 30...

Since its establishment in 1949 up to 1900, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sought to confront the Soviet Union and expand Western territory. However, contrary to many people's beliefs, not only the Organization did not restrict its activities after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but also it (NATO)...

"The draft agreement on resuming compliance with the JCPOA has been ready for more than two months. That is why the E3 negotiators left Vienna – they were convinced that it could be finalized within a very short time," the French foreign ministry spokesperson said in reply to a question on...

"The Navy escort team rushed into the area this morning and clashed with the attacking boats after receiving an emergency call for help from an Iranian ship being attacked by unidentified boats in the Red Sea,"  Admiral Shahram Irani, Commander of the Iranian Army Navy told reporters on Wednesday. "After the arrival...

In a message to a meeting of the National Population Taskforce on Wednesday, which was read out by the secretary of the taskforce Dr. Froutan, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, expressed his gratitude for all efforts aimed at saving the country from the dangers of the aging population. Ayatollah...

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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announced last Saturday that China had pulled out of hosting the 24-team continental championship, citing the COVID-19 situation in the country. "We were sounded out," Tashima told Nikkan Sports newspaper, without giving further details. "If Japan were able to host, there's no question that...

The exhibition will be held from 3 to 6 July in Tehran International Conference Center of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Summit Hall) (Tehran, Persian Gulf Freeway), Shahr-e Aftab International. Some Part of Iran's goals in joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and holding the mentioned exhibition is maintaining, creating and...

TEHRAN, May 19 (MNA) – UN Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan held a press conference at the venue of Iran National Library Amphitheater on Wednesday on “Negative Impact of Unilateral Coercive Measures on Enjoyment of Human Rights”.             ...

TEHRAN, May 18 (MNA) – The Iranian first Vice President Mohammad Mokhber held a meeting with visiting Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, Ghana's Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture at the presidential compound in the Iranian capital on Wednesday.         ...

TEHRAN, May 18 (MNA) – Iranian administration members answered the questions raised by the journalists after attending the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday.             ...