News Archive - 30 May 2023

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Iranian women’s volleyball team competed in the 1974 Asian Games for the last time held in Tehran. The Iranian women now are to play in the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. Iran’s women’s team will first participate at the 2023 AVC Challenge Cup for Women and the tournament will serve...

The SVR said in a statement that "crowded places, shops and government agencies are among the priority targets," Sputnik reported.  The SVR also said that direct control of such operations is conducted from the US At Tanf military base located on the territory controlled by the Syrian opposition, where...

Earlier on Tuesday, Zionist media reported that a settler was attacked. The settler was transferred to the hospital after being shot in the shoulder but died due to severe injuries. Eyewitnesses reported that the shot was fired from a car that had high speed. The perpetrator of the shooting managed...

The explosions sound were heard near the US base in the al-Omar field in the east of Deir ez-Zor. The cause of the explosions is not clear yet and no further details were released so far. Al-Omar field is the largest oil field in Syria, where the American base is...

During the test, several missiles were fired from the coast of Gaza toward the sea. In recent years, the Palestinian Resistance groups in the Gaza Strip have been conducting missile tests from the Gaza coast in order to increase their military forces and maintain their readiness. Recently, the Resistance has...

Maduro hailed a “new era” in relations between Brasilia and Caracas as he met President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday ahead of the regional summit, saying, “Brazil and Venezuela must be united, from now on and always.” Maduro, in his first visit to Brasilia in years, also...

Herzog, who is on a two-day visit to Baku, in a tweet dubbed Azerbaijan as a valuable strategic partner. Aliyev greeted Herzog at the Azerbaijani Presidential Residence and held a bilateral meeting with the Zionist regime's head on Tuesday. Posting several tweets after being welcomed by Aliyev, the head of the Israeli...

The statement followed an outbreak of violence against Serbs in Kosovo.  "The crisis situation in the municipalities of Zvecan, Zubin Potok, and Leposavic, which could have been resolved through a calm compromise, was a tough nut to crack for the NATO ‘peacekeepers’ in Kosovo. They not only showed their...

“We don’t want relations with our neighboring countries to deteriorate. Our request to all neighboring countries, including Iran, is to resolve these issues through diplomatic channels,” Hafiz Zia Ahmad told Arab News on Monday, as tension at their border eased following skirmishes over the weekend. Taliban forces opened fire at...

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Bahadori Jahromi said after the remarks of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution regarding developing ties with Cairo, Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi also called on the foreign ministry to take the necessary measures. Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting with Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq...

President Ebrahim Raeisi made the remarks in a meeting with the visiting secretary general of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) Kairat Sarybay in Tehran on Tuesday. Raeisi pointed to numerous and diverse capacities and potentials of the CICA for the development of the interactions...

Details of their meeting were not published yet.  Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov arrived in Tehran on Tuesday at the head of a high-ranking delegation of political and economic officials to meet with his Iranian counterpart.  During his visit to Iran, several cooperation documents will be signed between the officials of the two...

Speaking in a telephone conversation with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday, Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi felicitated him on his victory in Turkey's Presidential election. Raeisi expressed hope that the economic, political, security, cultural, and commercial relations between the two countries will expand even more in the new administration period. Pointing to the effective...

Eurostat figures indicated that Iran has exported €28.3 million of pistachios in the first three months of 2023. In the first quarter of 2022, Iran exported €49.3 million of the product to Europe, the source added. The export of pistachios has decreased by 42 percent in the said...

In the foreign policy of the Iranian government, relations with neighbors are a priority, Amir-Abdollahian said in an interview with Le Figaro in Tehran, adding that this is why Iran for several months held security negotiations in Baghdad and Oman. During the visit of the Chinese president to Saudi Arabia,...

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a meeting with the visiting secretary general of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) Kairat Sarybay in Tehran on Tuesday. Amir-Abdollahian expressed his appreciation for the efforts and active and positive role of Kazakhstan as the rotating president of...

Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani said on Tuesday that Iran has successfully test-launched a light transport aircraft called Simorgh which is a redesigned and is an advanced variant of a same generation aircraft. The aircraft has been designed with indigenous materials in accordance with Iran's climatic conditions and...

Around 10 million cubic meters of natural gas per day is to be imported from Turkmenistan as per the contract, Javad Owji told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting with the Chairman of Turkmengas State Concern Batyr Amanov on Tuesday. The import of gas is scheduled to be started...

Mehrdad Bazrpash made the comments in the meeting with the head of the Transport and Communications Agency of Turkmenistan which is linked with the Cabinet of Ministers on Tuesday.  Bazarpash emphasized strengthening the relations between the two countries by pointing out that the two countries have a lot in common...

Kazem Gharibabadi made the remarks at a weekly meeting of American human rights records in Tehran on Tuesday where he also said, "Wherever there are footprints of terrorist groups, American support is seen." "When Iran mobilized its facilities and forces under the command of Lt. General Soleimani to fight against...

In the meeting with Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov in Tehran on Tuesday afternoon, Ghalibaf attached great importance to the issue of transit of goods and energy between the two countries and all the countries of the region, calling for stepped-up relations between parliaments, governments and people of two countries. "We need to...

President Raeisi held a meeting with a visiting delegation from Turkmenistan headed by the Chairman of the People’s Council of the National Assembly of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov in Tehran on Tuesday afternoon and the sides held a press conference with the journalists after the meeting. "We had very good negotiations...

Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi made the comments at the meeting of the heads of the Islamic Republic of Iran's missions abroad which was held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday.  "Undoubtedly, in the era of globalization and in the transition period of the international system, which is...

The International Table Tennis Federation announced the new ranking of players in May 2023, and according to the ranking, Noshad Alamian improved by ten places and reached the 47th position in the world. Amir Hossein Hodaei and Nima Alamian dropped five and four places respectively and attained the 130th and...

18-year-old Martin Rezaei won the only medal for Iran on Monday, the first day of the world championships jointly with Uzbek Ulugbek Rashitov.  Rezaei had won a gold medal in the 2022 World Junior Taekwondo Championships held in August in Sofia, Bulgaria. On the second day of the Baku championships on...

Ali Akbar Mehrabian made the remarks in a meeting with a visiting delegation from Turkmenistan, who are accompanying the Chairman of the People’s Council of the National Assembly of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on the Tehran visit on Tuesday. "Good negotiations took place between Iran and Turkmenistan within the framework of...

Brigadier General Alireza Elhami made the comments in a ceremony where the deputy commander of the Air Defense Force, Brigadier General Nasrollah Houshmand was appointed as the new commander of the Southeast Air Defense Command of the Army.  Referring to Iran's defense capability, Brigadier General Elhami said, "The capability of...

"In the early hours of this morning, a UAV attack caused minor damage to several buildings. No one has been seriously injured. All emergency services in the city are on the scene. Please only trust official sources of information and do not spread unverified information," Sobyanin said, according to Sputnik.

Oleg Gurinov, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria (a division of the Russian defense ministry), said on Monday that at 11:45 p.m. Moscow time on May 28, two Israeli F-16 tactical fighter jets delivered an airstrike on Damascus’ neighborhoods from the airspace...

The five-day extension of the ceasefire between Sudan’s military and its rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), was announced in a joint statement late on Monday by Saudi Arabia and the United States. “The extension will provide time for further humanitarian assistance, restoration of essential services, and discussion of...

Ri Pyong Chol, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the North's ruling Workers' Party, said in a statement that the "military reconnaissance satellite No. 1" will be "launched in June," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday. That satellite, along with "various reconnaissance means due to...

Szalay-Bobrovniczky also said the injured Hungarian soldiers were being airlifted to Hungary for treatment, Sputnik reported. "Hungarian soldiers are part of the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, KFOR. Soldiers of the Hungarian army participating in the NATO peacekeeping forces were given the task of dispersing the crowd in the locality...

According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, China's Monday decision was apparently over Beijing's ire at Washington over the latter's sanctions against the Chinese defense minister. The Pentagon had asked for the meeting to take place on the sidelines of an annual security forum in Singapore, which is...

According to ABC News, several of the wounded were taken to a children's hospital, police spokesperson Deanna Bettineschi said. Bettineschi said four children between the ages of 1 and 17 were hit, along with five adults between 25 and 65.  Police added that the shooting happened shortly before 7...

The Coast Guard is searching for four missing people after a fishing boat sank off the coast of Alaska, ABC News reported on Tuesday. Rescuers located one deceased individual near the vessel partially submerged near a small island close to Sitka, Alaska, according to the Coast Guard. The vessel was...

During the recent technical negotiations between the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the case of one of the sites that had been brought up by the IAEA (the alleged Abadeh site) was resolved. As such, the second case of alleged sites by...

Known as Golab-Giri in Persian, the ancient ceremony is annually held in Iran to introduce the paramount role played by the rose in cuisine, cosmetics, medicine, and traditions. The treasured festival is held every year in the spring, usually from mid-May to the end of June. Rosewater, Golab in Persian,...

Peyman Jebelli made the remarks in a Monday meeting with the Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement Ziyad al-Nakhalah in Beirut. He said the fact that Palestinian resistance groups succeeded in imposing their conditions for a ceasefire on the Zionist regime was “a great, lasting and exemplary” victory.

The agreement was signed in the presence of President Ebrahim Raeisi and Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said in Tehran on Sunday, the Oil Ministry’s news service SHANA reported. Based on the agreement, a Master Development Plan will be prepared to review scenarios for bilateral cooperation on the exploitation...

Kayhan: There are no problems in restoration of Iran-Egypt ties, Leader says Etela'at: Iran's Leader expresses hope Islamic Ummah retains its glory, dignity Eskenas: Leader: Iran-Oman coop. of high importance Afkar: Leader hails Raeisi' policy of restoring ties with S Arabia Atrak: Expansion of Iran-Oman ties in interest of both countries...

Competing at Mixed Air Rifle Prone SH2 primary level on the last day of the competitions, the three Iranian para-shooters Masoumeh Khodabakhshi, Zahra Gholamzadeh, and Mohammad Reza Amini failed to advance to finals. The Iranian team ended the tournament by winning 2 medals (one gold, one silver). As many as 226...

Referring to the presence of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO) terrorist organization's ringleader, Nasser Kan'ani in a tweet wrote that it is so regrettable that some of the European Parliament members turned a blind eye to the dark record of the murderers of more than 17 thousand children, women, men, statesmen, and parliament members...

Oman King's visit to Tehran was a new important step in strengthening the strategic cooperation between Iran and Oman, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian wrote in a tweet on Tuesday, referring to the Monday meeting of Haitham bin Tariq Al Said and Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in Tehran. The...

Haitham al-Ghais made the remarks talking in an interview with the Iranian SHANA news agency and Iran Petroleum monthly during his official visit to Tehran. Referring to his visit to Iran, he stressed, "It’s a great pleasure to be in Tehran. As you may know, this is my first official...

Korean and US government officials are involved in working-level discussions under Washington’s leadership to unfreeze the Iranian funds, diplomatic and government sources in Seoul said on Monday. The release, if implemented, will come under stringent conditions that Iran use the funds only for public purposes, the Korean Economic Daily quoted...

Deng Li made the remarks in a meeting with Iran's Ambassador to Beijing Mohammad Keshavarz-Zadeh. The Chinese diplomat hailed Keshavarz-Zadeh's excellent efforts to advance the development of relations between Iran and China. Tehran and Beijing are comprehensive strategic partners, he said, adding that China will continuously develop its friendly cooperation with...

Enayati in an interview with IRNA pointed to the recent visit of Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said to Tehran, saying that the volume of trade between Iran and Oman increased by $2 billion last year. There has been also progress in the field of transportation and shipping between Iran and...

Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al Khelaifi made the remarks at the second edition of the Arab-Iranian Dialogue Conference, organized by the Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, in collaboration with the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations in Iran. Al Khelaifi highlighted Qatar’s role as an international destination for bridging perspectives and building...

The spacecraft will deliver a crew of three to the Tiangong space station, Sputnik reported. The Long March 2F carrier rocket took off as scheduled at 9:31 a.m. Beijing time (0131a.m. GMT). After the launch of Shenzhou 16, the number of people simultaneously in Earth's orbit has reached...

TEHRAN, May 31 (MNA) – The natural landscape of West Azarbaijan province is so eye-catching in spring that can convince almost anyone to tour this Iranian province. The beautiful nature of the mountains of Gadar located in the border city of Oshnavieh, West Azarbaijan province in spring is attractive.

Ahmadi was martyred during the clash between Taliban forces and Iranian border guards in the Makaki distrcit at the shared border between Iran and Afghanistan on May 28. 

TEHRAN, May 30 (MNA) – Here are the front pages of Iran’s English language dailies on Tuesday, May 30.                ...

In a session chaired by Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, lawmakers picked “Reza Morad Sahraei" as Minister of Education with 167 votes in favor, 86 against votes, and 14 abstentions.

Imam Reza's (PBUH) holy shrine is the biggest, most important, and most prominent religious center of Iran that many pilgrims from Iran and all around the world go to this place every year. These days, on the occasion of Imam Reza's birth anniversary, large crowds of pilgrims are visiting his...