News Archive - 9 August 2023

Commander of the West Coast Forces Maj. Gen. Mohammed al-Qaderi warned the United States on Wednesday in an interview with Al-Masirah TV channel. The commander said, "The Yemeni Coastal Defense has been monitoring the American forces since they entered the Suez Canal and does not allow them to approach the...

Mohsen Khojastehmehr made the remarks when he was speaking to reporters on the occasion of the National Journalists' day.  Stating that Iran produced 2.2 million barrels of oil per day when the incumbent government under President Ebrahim Raeisi took office in August 2021, he said that by next...

On his Twitter account on Wednesday, Nasser Kan'ani hailed the National Day of Defenders of Holy Shrine which is commemorated on August 9 in Iran. In his post, the Kan'ani paid tribute to top Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and Mohsen Hojaji – an Iranian military adviser who...

The cultural event was inaugurated on Wednesday at the Iran Cinema Museum, located in Tehran with the presence of a delegation of high-ranking government and cultural officials of Vietnam and will wrap up on August 11. During the event, handicrafts, traditional clothes, books and photos taken from touristic, cultural and...

Arash Dadgar as the director of the play in collaboration with the Quantum Theater Group will stage the play in the coming days. Hessam Manzour will also act as Macbeth.  Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's finest plays and presents a man's conscience and the effect of guilt on his...

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The Russian men's basketball team beat the national Iraian men's basketball team 71:57 in Perm on Wednesday, according to Tehran Times. Russia had also defeated Iran 72:59 on Monday. Point guard Alexander Shcherbenev had 12 points, five assists and three rebounds. The warm-up matches were played as part of the...

The fighting has also triggered outbreaks of disease and an increase in malnutrition, according to William Spindler, a spokesperson for the UN refugee agency, ABC News reported. From mid-May to mid-July, the UNHCR recorded over 300 deaths from measles and malnutrition, mainly among children under 5, Spindler said, speaking to...

"There was an attempt to fly two combat drones into the city," Sobyanin said on Telegram, Sputnik reported. "Both were shot down by air defenses. One near Domodedovo [town in the south of Moscow], and the other one near the [Moscow-] Minsk highway." The mayor said there was no...

"Reports are coming in that sabotage and reconnaissance groups of terrorists are trying to cross the engagement line from the Idlib de-escalation zone in the Aleppo and Latakia provinces," Vadim Kulit said on Tuesday. He added that the Russian taskforce and the Syrian army are taking measures to eliminate the...

According to the city government, days of heavy rain hit areas in the city’s mountainous western outskirts especially hard, causing the collapse of 59,000 homes, damage to almost 150,000 others, and flooding of more than 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) of cropland, AP reported. Scores of roads were damaged, along with...

Ali al-Qhoom, a member of the political bureau of Yemen's Ansarullah movement, wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter) that the continuous deployment of American soldiers and US warships to the coasts of Yemen, the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait, as well as the islands belonging to this country is closely...

Sullivan and Emirati President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan met on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi, where they discussed “close, strategic” US-Emirati relations, as well as regional and international developments, the official WAM news agency reported. They also “stressed the importance of joint action to ensure peace and stability in...

The explosion occurred around 9:30 a.m. local time at the Zagorsk Optical and Mechanical Plant (ZOMZ), a state-owned enterprise that is part of the Rostec corporation. The plant develops and manufactures optical and optoelectronic devices for military and civilian use. The explosion injured 11 people and damaged several buildings...

Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on “The situation in the Middle East” in New York on Tuesday, Dandi argued that the UN body’s insistence on convening monthly meetings on the so-called Syrian chemical file, while no incident has actually happened, is meant to invent pretexts for certain Western...

The ninth floor of the nine-story building under construction in Anseong, some 60 km southeast of Seoul, collapsed onto the eighth floor at about 11:49 a.m. local time (0249 GMT), Yonhap news agency reported. The accident left two Vietnamese workers buried and four others wounded. The Vietnamese men were...

Defense firm Naval Group won the contract to build four Gowind navy corvettes for Romania and renovate two existing frigates for 1.2 billion euros ($1.32 billion) in 2019 in partnership with Romanian company Santierul Naval Constanta, Reuters reported. But the deal was held up, first by legal challenges...

The report indicates that among those killed was a leader of the group's transport unit, CGTN reported.  The Somali government has been waging a determined war against Al-Shabaab militants since President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud assumed power in May 2022. However, the group still maintains control over certain parts of...

The official Syrian news agency SANA reported the explosion resulting from a roadside bomb in al-Shiah district in the suburbs of Daraa in the south of the country on Wednesday, killing four Syrians, including two soldiers and two journalists. According to the report, Syria News TV cameraman Ahmed al-Masalmeh, SAMA...

"The meeting with [Turkish President] Recep Tayyip Erdogan will not take place under the conditions proposed by Ankara," he stressed, adding, "Holding talks with him [Erdogan] in the current situation would mean recognizing the Turkish occupation of northern Syria." Assad also blamed Turkey for supporting terrorist groups during the...

"Security guarantees presuppose the words 'guarantees' and 'security' and, overall, a range of certain characteristics as well, but these are missing here. No one here can even say anything about it, so these are empty, absolutely groundless excuses that are becoming more and more numerous," the diplomat told Sputnik Radio.

"ECOWAS' military intervention against Niger is unlikely to help normalize the situation in the country and in the region as a whole," Russian Foreign Ministry deputy spokesperson, Alexey Zaitsev, told a news briefing on Wednesday.  He added, "We emphasize that Niger's neighboring countries, including Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad and Algeria,...

The Arabic language al-Akhbar daily newspaper reported an analysis of the new agreement between Turkey and the US after the NATO conference on July 12. Citing Turkish media sources, this newspaper describes Ankara and Washington on the path of creating new insecurity in the region, spreading terrorism, and confronting "the...

The blaze broke out before 6.30 a.m. (0430 GMT), as the holiday-goers with disabilities and their carers were still asleep in the two-storey building in the town of Wintzenheim, about 70 km (50 miles) south of Strasbourg, Reuters reported.  "We think we have located the 11 bodies,"...

“From an intelligence perspective … about half of what we do is focused on China. About 25 percent of what we do is focused on Russia, and a lot of that has to do because of the current conflict,” US Space Force intelligence deputy chief Maj. Gen. Gregory Gagnon said,...

Al-Numan stated that the ISIL terrorist group has suffered huge losses and has lots its capabilities in different aspects. The terrorist groups in Iraq are residing in mountainous areas that allow them to hide more easily, he said, stressing that those areas are far from the cities. ISIL tries to...

Somali News Agency, citing Mohamed Ibrahim, governor of Lower Shabelle region, said on Wednesday the attack happened on a road between Qoryoley and Marka districts and that another 12 people had been injured. Ibrahim said an armed group’s attack had caused the explosion, the news agency said on X, formerly...

A French military aircraft “deliberately cut off all contact with air traffic control on entering our air space,” from 6:39-11:15 am (0539-1015 GMT) on Wednesday, the Niger junta said in a statement read on national TV, according to media reports. Niger’s new military rulers also accused France, the country’s traditional ally,...

Group A features Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, Kenya and Iran. Sweden, the Czech Republic, Paraguay, and Ghana are in the group B. Group C includes Switzerland, Kuwait, England and Denmark. Japan, Argentina, Bulgaria, and the APDSC team are in the group D of the event. The competition is to take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, between November 10...

Fada Hossein Maleki, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian parliament, said on Tuesday that Iran will exhaust all measures to secure the release of the funds blocked in South Korea. “We have repeatedly said that Iran will not sit idle if this $7...

Abrar: Iran, BRICS partnership starts in several fields Pakistan to purchase more electricity from Iran Abrar Eghtesadi: Iran to export electricity to Pakistan Eskenas: Tokyo supports JCPOA revival Afkar: Iran, BRICS partnership in transit starts Tejarat: Russia backs Iran's membership in BRICS Jomhouri-e Eslami: Raeisi: Iran never left negotiation table...

The ministry issued the remarks in a statement on Tuesday following a meeting in Tehran between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and his Iranian counterparts Ali Bagheri-Kani and Reza Najafi. Tehran and Moscow were unanimous in believing that the failure to implement the deal stemmed from the "erroneous policy...

In its latest report, the Iranian Steel Producers Association (ISPA) expounded on the latest situation of steel exports in the first four months of the current Persian year, saying it showed a significant 37 percent hike compared to the same period last year. According to statistics, the export of iron...

"Wherever Islamic Iran was, its presence created security and the presence of enemies and foreign powers in this region definitely did not create security," President Raeisi said in a gathering of the families of Holy Shrine defenders who went to Syria to battle against Takfiri terrorist groups and defend holy...

In an interview with IRNA News Agency, Kazemi Qomi stressed that every development related to Afghanistan will affect the security of the two countries of Iran and Pakistan as well. He added that since the Taliban took power, the number of Afghan immigrants that entered Iran has increased dramatically, so...

Iranian media have cited an official as their source that the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Tehran "started operation three days ago." The source told IRNA that "The Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the Islamic Republic of Iran has officially resumed its activities in our country...

Following the posting of meddling remarks by the British ambassador to Tehran Simon Shercliff on one of the social networking websites at the same time as National Journalists Day in Iran, he was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the Director General of Western Europe on Wednesday evening,...

Abbas Ali-Abadi and Vuong Dinh Hue, who is on a visit to Tehran at the head of a delegation, met and held talks on Wednesday, according to a report by the Iranian industry ministry's public relations department. The Iranian minister said that Iran and Vietnam have gone through hard period...

Taha Behboudnia and Mohammadreza Alejalil collected 14 points each for Iran, while Serbian Nikola Brboric scored 19 points. Iran had previously defeated South Korea, Colombia, Puerto Rico, and Nigeria in Pool C. The young Persians will meet the winners of Bulgaria and Brazil in the quarterfinals. The 2023 FIVB Volleyball...

Iran will Brazil on Thursday in the 13th-16th place match. The young Persians had previously defeated the Faroe Islands 29-27 and Burundi 46-24 in Group H and were held by Sweden 26-26. Iran had also lost to Saudi Arabia 29-26 in Group VI. The 2023 IHF Men's Youth World Championship...

In their fifth match of the competition on Wednesday, Iran faced Chinese Taipei-B and lost the match 74-64.  Iran had previously lost to South Korea, the Philippines and Chinese Taipei-A and Japan.  The 42nd edition of the William Jones Cup is being held with matches in the women’s...

Francis, who is 86 and said in the past he does not know how to use a computer, issued the warning in a message on Tuesday for the next World Day of Peace of the Catholic Church, falling on New Year's Day, Reuters reported. The Vatican released the message well...

The satellite was launched by a Long March-2C carrier rocket at 6:53 a.m. (Beijing Time) and entered the planned orbit, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The launch was the 482nd mission by the Long March rocket series. Satellites are used to identify high-risk areas for floods, wildfires, landslides,...

The missile, which is actually a new generation of Iranian cruise missiles, is currently in the test stage, Tasnim news agency reported. Known as a new generation of Iranian cruise missiles, the supersonic projectile will open a new chapter in Iran’s defense technologies, as it is extremely difficult to intercept...

Given the long-haul missions of destroyers, the impossibility of shore support in many cases and the variety of aerial threats, including fighter jets, drones and missiles, it is absolutely necessary to equip military vessels with air defense systems enjoying pinpoint accuracy, Tehran-based Tasnim News Agency reported Wednesday. Iranian military experts...

The accomplishment was achieved in the form of a project between Tehran University’s Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Science and Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. Mostafa Baghani, associate professor at Tehran University’s Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, said the production of silicone stents was put on the...

TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) – Here are the front pages of Iran’s English language dailies on Wednesday, August 9.            ...

August 9 marks the sixth year that Iranian military adviser Mohsen Hojaji was martyred by the Takfiri Daesh terrorists in Syria. Hojaji was taken hostage by the ISIL terror group near the Iraqi border on August 7 and beheaded two days later. The Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution (SCCR)...