News Archive - 12 August 2022

Salman Rushdie, the author of a blasphemous anti-Islam book, has been attacked on stage during an event in New York, according to US media. A man rushed to the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and attacked Rushdie as he was being introduced, a witness told Reuters, adding the attacker was...

Amin Hazbavi, Saeid Saharkhizan, Amirreza Eslamtalab and Amir Shahim were on target for Iran against Tajikistan. Samad Marfavi’s boys claimed the title with eight points, two points above Uzbekistan. Hosts Tajikistan came third with six points, followed by Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. Earlier on the day, defending champions Uzbekistan had been...

Eleven people, including two children and a gunman, were killed in a mass shooting in Montenegro on Friday, and six others were injured, a state prosecutor told Vijesti TV after an initial investigation of the crime scene. Montenegro Police director Zoran Brdjanin said that around 3.30 p.m.(1330...

Arman-e Emrooz: Iranian cryptocurrency to be unveiled in coming month Arman-e Melli: Cryptocurrency to enter Iran's official trade Aftab: Everything for failure of democrats available Etemad: Salman Rushdie' on verge of death Russia backs EU's roadmap for JCPOA revival Etela'at: Salman Rushdie stabbed in New York Iran says reviewing EU's proposal...

Salman Rushdie, the author of a blasphemous anti-Islam book, has been attacked on stage during an event in New York, according to US media. Rushdie’s condition was not immediately known, but video footage from the incident showed people rushing to his aid after he was attacked at the event in...

The Belize-flagged ship Sormovsky carrying 3,050 tons of wheat left the Chornomorsk port destined for Tekirdag, northwestern Turkey, according to the Turkish Anadolu Agency. The other ship, Marshal Islands-flagged Star Laura, sailed from the Yuzhny port with 60,000 tons of corn for Iran. On July 22, Turkey, the UN, Russia,...

The Middle East conflict is not in the EU’s hands, he said, pointing the finger at the US. “We are often criticized for double standards. But international politics is to a large degree about applying double standards. We do not use the same criteria for all problems,” he told El...

Saudi sources reported a suicide attack in the Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah on Friday. According to Saudi sources, the suicider who was wanted by the Saudi security forces killed himself after detonating his explosive vest in Jeddah. The reports say that in the suicide attack, a Pakistani citizen and three security...

Referring to the US violation of Human Rights in the West Asian countries and beyond, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Lijian Zhao criticized that US sanctions imposed by Trump's administration cost Iran at least 200 billion dollars in economic losses. UK, Russia, China, Germany, the United States, France, the European Union, and...

"America's growing rhetoric about a politically bankrupt element, a prominent terrorist and a coup plotter against independent countries and governments, is an escape forward with the aim of escaping from responsibility for an international crime," Nasser Kan'ani, Iranian Foreign Ministry wrote in a tweet on Friday in reaction to the...

Speaking at the sermons of Friday prayers held at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla (Mosque) in Tehran, Ayatollah Kazem Seddiqi spoke about the importance of the issue of Imamate in Islamic and Shia society. Shi'a Muslims believe that imams protect the religion and help to guide Muslims along the right path.  The...

The top Turkish diplomat Mevlut Cavusoglu made the remarks while addressing reporters on the last day of the 13th Ambassadors Conference in Turkey's capital Ankara, where he said Sweden and Finland are yet to deliver their commitments arising from the trilateral memorandum signed at the NATO summit in Madrid in June...

Following the raid of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump released a campaign-style video on his social media platform Truth Social. In the video, he condemned what the United States has become under the current administration, a nation in decline. According to local US media, Trump points to record inflation,...

The Palestinian death toll from the recent aggression of the Zionist regime against the Gaza strip rose to 48 Thursday after an 11-year-old girl and a man died from wounds they suffered during the worst violence in over a year. Meanwhile, two wounded Gaza children, ages 8 and 14, were fighting...

According to a statement released by ISIL, the suicide bomber of this group, despite the presence of various security forces, entered this school and blew himself up in Sheikh Rahimullah school using explosives embedded in his body. On Thursday, media sources reported that senior Taliban official Rahimullah Haqqani was killed in an...

A suspect was killed Thursday afternoon in a gunfire exchange with officers following an hours-long standoff in Cincinnati, Ohio, authorities said. Officials said the standoff began after the suspect attempted to breach the Cincinnati FBI field office building at around 9 a.m. and then led officers on a pursuit.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) stated that there was no immediate threat to nuclear safety after the shelling incident that occurred on Saturday near the dry spent fuel storage facility at the country’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), Republic World reported. As per the statement issued by the UN...

"The Russian #MFA: according to the #EU spokesman the participants in the #ViennaTalks face a choice- either to accept the current text or to recognize that the talks failed. The Joint Commission of the #JCPOA didn’t authorize the EU Coordinator to make statements like that," wrote Russia’s Permanent Representative to...

Upon arrival in Kerman province on Thursday afternoon, Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi expressed satisfaction with the successful conclusion of the first round of provincial trips of the Popular Administration to Kerman Province. "Kerman is the cradle of sophisticated men and women, poets, writers, artists, and prominent scientific figures," he...

The opera is about the battle of Imam Hussein (AS) and his companions against the Umayyad dynasty during Ashura, the tenth day of the month of Muharram on the lunar calendar, the day upon which Imam Hussein (AS) was martyred in Karbala in 680 CE. The Ashura opera puppet show...

TEHRAN, Aug. 12 (MNA) – On the second of the visit to the southeastern Kerman Province, President Ebrahim Raeisi addressed a gathering of the people in the city of Bam on Friday.   ...