News Archive - 3 July 2023

Seyed Mohammad Hosseini made the remarks in a ceremony held on Monday on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the downing of the Iranian passenger plane by a US navy guided missile in the Persian Gulf in 1988. The downing of the plane was by no means a mistake,...

“I will note one thing that politicians of all stripes do not like to admit: A nuclear apocalypse is not only possible, but also quite probable,” Dmitry Medvedev said in a statement on Telegram. Medvedev argued that there are at least two reasons for such a scenario to occur, citing...

Lebanon's Hezbollah issued a statement in reaction to a deadly act of aggression by the occupying Israeli regime against Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Monday. According to the latest figures, at least 9 Palestinian were martyred in the heavy raid by the Israeli regime army on Jenin, which...

China's State Councilor Li Shangfu met with Russian Navy's Commander-in-Chief Nikolai Yevmenov in Beijing on Monday, China Daily reported.  According to a statement by the Minister of National Defense, Li said that, under the strategic guidance of the heads of states of both countries, China-Russia military exchanges and cooperation...

"According to the information available in the SVR, the technique of their use was practiced in May in the Syrian province of Idlib by militants of the CIA-controlled local wing of Al-Qaeda. About 100 civilians were poisoned back then," the statement read. The SVR stressed that the US had handed...

Indian refiners have started paying for certain oil imports from Russia in Chinese yuan, Reuters reported quoting sources on Monday. This move comes as Western sanctions on Moscow and its customers have prompted them to seek alternatives to the dollar for settling payments. The imposition of sanctions on Russia over...

Speaking to the local daily Sydsvenskan on Monday, Tobias Billstrom said the Swedish state is struggling to save its reputation. "Sweden's good image will change in the long run if it continues to be portrayed as Islamophobic. It is difficult to predict what the consequences will be in the process...

The system simulates all stages of missile loading, launching, and firing for the user. The system uses the body of the Fath 360 missile, in which a 122 mm Arash rocket is placed instead of the propellant and warhead. The user can practice all stages of missile firing by launching...

"We are saddened that a number of pilgrims from our country were subjected to heat due to such a decision," Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Abdolfattah Navvab, Head of Iranian Pilgrims in Mecca said at the meeting of Hajj Planning and Coordination Council chaired by him. The senior cleric called on the head of...

Khalaji in a tweet wrote that the Iranian specialists are working on the devices to recover and extract information. The results so far are promising, he added. Albanian police forces entered the MKO camp, known as Ashraf-3, on June 20 due to its engagement in “terror and cyber attacks” against...

Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad-Mehdi Esmaili arrived in Moscow on Monday at the head of a delegation. Upon arrival at Vnukovo International Airport, the Iranian minister and his entourage were welcomed by the Deputy Minister of Culture the Russian Federation, Andrei Vladimirovich Malyshev and Iran's ambassador to Moscow Kazem Jalali. The...

Khaji and Executive Director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue David Harland discussed the latest political and humanitarian situation in Libya and Yemen during the meeting, emphasizing the necessity of preserving territorial integrity and political settlement of disputes in these two countries. Khaji also stressed the importance of holding talks between Yemen's Ansar Allah and...

Heading a delegation Ali Bagheri Kani arrived in Baghdad on Monday afternoon to attend a meeting of the joint political committee of Iran and Iraq, as well as consult with high-ranking political officials of the neighboring country. This is the fifth meeting of Iran-Iraq political committee chaired by the deputy...

The major Russian agricultural lender Rosselkhozbank could create a subsidiary that is reconnected to SWIFT to handle the country’s grain export payments. The plan was reportedly proposed by Moscow through UN-brokered negotiations, Russia Today cited a report by Financial Times. Rosselkhozbank was cut off from SWIFT amid Ukraine-related Western sanctions...

During the 23rd SCO Council of Heads of State, the Iranian President is to elaborate on the stances of the Islamic Republic, which is about to be formally approved as a full member of the bloc. Iran has completed the mandatory procedures and will join the family of SCO member...

Armen Grigoryan made the remarks in a meeting with the outgoing Iranian ambassador to Armenia Abbas Badakhshan Zohouri. Grigoryan thanked the Iranian ambassador for his support over the years of his tenure and wished him good luck in his future activities, Armen Press reported.  The Armenian top official attached...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and South African foreign minister Naledi Pandor held a telephone conversation on Monday to discuss the state of bilateral relations and ways to develop them. Amir-Abdollahian pointed to the constructive talks he had held with his South African counterpart on the sidelines of the BRICS+ meeting...

In a post on his Twitter account, Liming Shen wrote "I would like to congratulate the Iranian friends on their memberships in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)." The Chinese diplomat, who wrote his post in Farsi language, continued to say, that "China seeks to strengthen its coordination and cooperation...

Iranian first vice president Mohammad Mokhber held a meeting with the visiting Aide to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, Igor Levitin, in Tehran on Monday.  In the meeting, Igor Levitin expressed his happiness with the deepening and expansion of relations between the two countries and the recent...

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On the last day of the tournament, Iran played against the host Bulgaria and won the game with the result of 3-2. In their first match the Iranian volleyball players faced the United States and defeated their opponent 3-1. The Sofia tournament was held with the participation Bulgaria, Brazil, Iran, and...

The official website of the World Taekwondo released the world and Olympic rankings for July 2023 after registering the scores of the World Championships and the Rome Grand Prix.  Nahid Kiyani accumulated 311.07 points in the Olympic ranking for the 57-kg category, and climbed 10 steps to reach...

The defending champions Iran beat India in three straight sets (25-5, 25-15, 25-11) in their opening match in Pool B and are scheduled to play China on Tuesday.   Hadi Rezaei’s men will play against China on Tuesday. Earlier, the Iranian national women's sitting volleyball team beat South Korea 3-0 (25-11, 25-3,...

"Mohammed Al-Sahaf", the spokesman of the "Al-Harak al-Qanuni" (Iraqi Legal Movement) movement, emphasized on Sunday that American terrorist troops have to be expelled from his country in accordance with a piece of legislation approved by the Iraqi parliament in early 2020 after the assassination of anti-terror commanders General Qassem Soleimani...

According to a report by Palestinian Information Center on Sunday, ten people in Jenin, seven people in Nablus, three people in Ramallah and al-Bireh, one person in al-Quds, one in Tubas, one in Bethlehem and one person in the Gaza Strip were killed in that month. The latest killings have...

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, one of the Palestinian youths martyred in Israel's early Monday raid has been identified as 21-year-old Samih Abu al-Wafa. They were fatally shot after Israeli aircraft targeted a house in the center of the Jenin refugee camp with several missiles. According to eyewitnesses, after...

“I regret to inform you that during the practice manoeuvres … an aircraft of our Bolivarian Military Aviation fell to the ground, causing the physical loss of the distinguished pilot Col. Paulino Jose Millan Sabino,” the president wrote on Twitter. The armed forces said in a statement that the plane...

“Any book considered holy should be respected to respect those who believe in it,” the pope said in an interview in the UAE newspaper Al Ittihad, published on Monday. “I feel angry and disgusted at these actions." “Freedom of speech should never be used as a means to despise...

The devices exploded outside stores in the northeast of the capital within 15 minutes of each other, according to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). The first attack occurred around 4:30 am inside an ATM attached to a bank on the 2300 block of Washington Place and moments later, another device...

"Secretary Yellen’s travel follows President [Joe] Biden’s directive after his meeting with [Chinese] President Xi [Jinping] last November to deepen communication between the US and the PRC on a range of issues, including on the global macroeconomy and financial developments," the statement reads. "While in Beijing, Secretary Yellen will discuss...

"An assassination attempt against the Head of the Republic of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, plotted by Ukrainian intelligence agencies, has been thwarted," the statement reads. "Operational and investigative activities enabled the identification of a Russian national born in 1988 who had been recruited by officers of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU)...

In a collaborative operation with the Anti-Terrorism Branch of the Istanbul Police Department, the agency’s counterintelligence unit apprehended seven people who all confessed to working for Mossad in their testimonies, Daily Sabah reported. According to MIT, the seven suspects are among the 56 operatives linked to a total of nine...

In a statement released on Monday, the Joint Chamber of Palestinian Resistance Groups urged all Resistance fighters in Jenin and its refugee camp to stand by each other and fight the enemy in a unified manner. “The Joint Chamber always stands ready to pursue the brutal aggressions against Jenin. The...

"In general, the enemy did not achieve its goals in any of the directions. This testifies to the skill of our fighters and clearly inflated expectations from the vaunted Western weapons," Shoigu told top military officials, according to Sputnik.  He also announced that Russian forces managed to destroy some...

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According to an analysis of trade figures from the Iranian customs office (IRICA) published by the IRIB News on Sunday, trade between Iran and Turkey had reached a total of $12.7 billion in the last Iranian calendar year, up 19% from the year to March 2022. The report said that...

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'ani said on Sunday that hosting the terrorist cult’s recent gathering simultaneous with widespread political and social unrest in France proves the French government's disregard for the demands of its own citizens and its continued political support for terror groups. “Instead of repeating their past...

The statement said that in the run-up to the raid by the Albanian police into the MEK camps in Tirana, the criminal group had done its utmost to carry out terrorist attacks across the countries but thanks to the countermeasures and traps set by the Ministry of Intelligence almost all...

Kan'ani made the remarks at his weekly press conference speaking about the anniversary of the US attack on the Iranian Air Airbus in 1988 which lead to the killing of dozens of passengers. Referring to the crimes that the US regime committed against the Iranian nation, the senior diplomat stressed that...

“The number of caviar farms in the country increased from 16 to 20 from fiscal 2012-13 to fiscal 2021-22 to 195 farms in 22 provinces of Iran in fiscal 2022-23, of which 145-150 have undertaken mass production,” Nasser Karami-Rad was also quoted as saying by ILNA. The major importers of...

“Currently, Iran has 250 active toy producers with an official brand and if the commercial advisers of our embassies can ease the export regulations to some countries, we can increase the volume of exports in this field,” Ehsan Monshi was also quoted as saying by IRIB News. Iraq, Armenia, Afghanistan,...

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Yahya Al-e Es’haq made the remarks in a meeting attended by the Iranian Commercial Attaché in Iraq and representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday. According to Al-e Es’haq, the opportunity for trade relations between the two countries has been strategic and essential, and its benefits will serve...

On the first day of the competition, in the women's category, the Iranian national team played against South Korea and defeated its opponent with the result of 3-0. Iran will play against the host Kazakhstan on Tuesday. The champion of the Asian Sitting Volleyball Championships will earn a spot at...

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"All the defense equipment installed in the Damavand 2 destroyer is completely up-to-date," said  Rear Admiral Shahram Irani on Monday.  Damavand is equipped with cutting-edge means in all fields, including the latest reconnaissance and combat systems, he noted. Iran’s homegrown Damavand-2, which is an advanced type of Jamaran destroyer,...

Following the recent Quran desecration in Sweden, the Islamic Republic of Iran halted the process of dispatching its newly-appointed ambassador to Stockholm. Theran also summoned the Swedish charge de affairs on Thursday. 

TEHRAN, Jul. 03 (MNA) – Here are the front pages of Iran’s English language dailies on Monday, July 3.            ...