News Archive - 25 December 2023

 In response to an attempted takeover by the Serbian opposition at the Belgrade City Assembly on Sunday, police detained 38 protesters, the country's police officials said on Monday, adding that eight policemen sustained injuries while defending the assembly, Xinhua reports. Chief of the Police Administration Ivica Ivkovic provided details at...

In a Monday meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, who is in Iran to attend the Tehran International Conference on Palestine, Amir-Abdollahian hailed Damascus' firm stance on the ongoing developments in Gaza and Palestine. He said Iran and Syria are supporting each other in dealing with regional issues. Israel...

Seyyed Razi Mousavi, a veteran advisor of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in Syria, was martyred in an Israeli airstrike on the Zainabiyah district of the capital Damascus earlier on Monday. Later in the day, President Raeisi issued a message, extending his condolences to the Iranian nation as well...

Aliabadi made the remarks in St. Petersburg on Monday after Iran signed a free trade agreement with members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) -- Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. Speaking about Iran's joining the EAEU, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the BRICS group of emerging economies, the minister...

Amir-Abdollahian and Sameh Hassan Shoukry held their talks on the phone on Monday night. The two ministers stressed the need for sending further humanitarian aid to war-hit Gaza. Amirabdollahian said that the Israeli regime should immediately stop its crimes against Palestinians in the besieged territory. The Iranian foreign minister has...

A Palestinian man waves Palestinian and Syrian flags in front of an Israeli army vehicle during a military raid in the Jenin refugee camp, a militant stronghold, in the occupied West Bank, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. Palestinian health officials said at least 10 Palestinians were killed in the operation, which...

Media outlets on Sunday reported that in a shocking incident, 21-year-old Jordanian student Mohammad Barakat was reportedly shot dead in Hamburg Germany. Accordingly, The shooting was ideologically motivated in response to Mohammad's social media posts about the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Afterward, the Director of Operations and Consular Affairs at...

Abu Ubaida made the comment in a Sunday statement, saying that at least 35 Israeli military vehicles were either partially or completely destroyed during the past four days. “Our Mujahideen confirmed that 48 Zionist soldiers were killed, dozens were injured with varying degrees of injury, and 24 military missions were...

According to TASS, the UN Palestinian refugee agency wrote on X (former Twitter), "Our teams are doing the impossible to help people in need. We mourn the loss of more UNRWA colleagues killed in Gaza, now 142, the majority with their families". Israel launched the war on Gaza on October...

Units of the armed forces stationed in the countryside areas defended villages and towns against the aerial onslaught, destroying seven drones, Xinhua reported citing the Syrian army statement. The terrorists in northern Syria, particularly in the northwestern province of Idlib, have recently intensified drone attacks against government-controlled areas. The deadliest...

“The criminal Zionist enemy perpetrated a vicious crime in the Maghazi refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip tonight and bombed houses of Palestinians in the area. At least 70 people have been martyred as a result so far,” the group said in a statement released early on...

Mohammed Abdul-Salam, the spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarullah Resistance movement, made the remarks in an X post on Sunday, days after the US announced the formation of a multi-national maritime task force in the Red Sea under the pretext of protecting vessels owned by the Israeli regime or bound for the...

"A total of 558 aircraft, 261 helicopters, 10,040 drones, 442 anti-aircraft missile systems, 14,299 tanks, and other armored combat vehicles, 1,189 multiple rocket launchers, 7,479 field branch artillery weapons, and mortars, as well as 16,660 units of special tactical vehicles, have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military...

Referring to the declaration on security guarantees for Ukraine drawn up by the EU, he stated that the document was "a useless scrap of paper" with no added value. However, it provided Kyiv with the opportunity to make separate agreements with individual countries on weapons supplies, troop training, funding for...

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A prominent Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) military advisor in Syria by the name of Seyyed Razi Mousavi was martyred in an Israeli regime's airstrike on the suburbs of the Syrian capital of Damascus on Monday. Mousavi is said to have been one of the close companions of the martyr...

The incident happened around 4:34 p.m. local time and allegedly began with a disagreement between two groups that ended in a shooting, local US media  reported. One man died on the scene of an apparent gunshot wound, and two were taken to the hospital in serious condition, the Colorado...

The signing ceremony was held in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Monday. Iran’s Minister of Industry, Mine, and Trade Abbas Aliabadi signed the agreement for the Iranian side with Mikhail Myasnikovich, Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission's Board, signing the document on the EAEU side. Deputy prime ministers of Russia, Armenia,...

Russian troops have fully captured Maryinka, a key town in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced on Monday, according to RT.  The town, which is located immediately to the west of the city of Donetsk and has been part of Russia since last year's...

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During the meeting, the Iranian foreign minister thanked Amir Khan Muttaqi and the accompanying delegation for their active participation in the Tehran conference on Palestine. After elaborating on the latest developments in Gaza and the ongoing genocide there and stressing the need for cooperation of all Muslim and freedom-loving countries...

Nasser Kan'ani made the remarks while speaking at his weekly presser on Monday. Iran condemns Zionist regime's deadly attack on Gaza refugee camp: Nasser Kan'ani condemned the lethal bombing of the al-Maghazi refugee camp by the Zionist Israeli regime which led to the killing of more than 70 Palestinians, saying...

In a joint meeting held between the National Habitat Committee (NHC), the international expert of the United Nations and the director generals of the Architecture and Urban Development Office, the two sides discussed sharing experiences and technical know-how for reviving the valuable structures and strengthening hospitals. Japan’s fruitful experience on...

Speaking to IRNA news agency, the ambassador to the international organizations in Vienna Mohsen Naziri Asl said the Islamic Republic of Iran “always emphasizes that it will continue its cooperation with the agency within the framework of the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement.” The safeguard claims over Iran’s nuclear activities are...

Mohammad Kazem Al-e Sadeq made the remark in a meeting with the new ambassador of the European Union to Iraq, Thomas Seiler, in Baghdad on Sunday. He slammed the West’s double standard policies on support for human rights and emphasized the necessity of protecting the lives of the defenseless Palestinian...

Mohammad Marandi made the comments in an interview with Mehr News Agency on the sidelines of the Tehran International Conference on Palestine. Referring to the military and intelligence failures of the Zionist regime in the Al-Aqsa storm operation, Marandi termed the battle between the Palestinians and the Israeli regime as...

According to Arman Khoorsand, the Secretariat of the National Habitat Committee (NHC), in the meeting experiences of Japan in the construction near the fault were shared. Also, in this meeting, future collaborations and joint projects between the Department of Urban Planning and Architecture, the UN-Habitat, and Japan were further discussed.

 Iran's Industry, Mine and Trade Minister Abbas Aliabadi arrived in St. Petersburg on Monday to take part in the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council. He said inking a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) will boost bilateral trade. The agreement on the...

According to Esmail Namazi, the director of TPPH’s Production and Technical Office, thermal power plants accounted for 93 percent of the country’s total power generation during the mentioned nine months. Of that figure, 150 million MWh or 53 percent was the share of combined cycle units, which registered a 3.

Iran’s men’s sitting volleyball team won the 2022 Asian Para Games by beating Kazakhstan in straight sets (25-14, 25-16, 25-18) in Hangzhou. Iran also won the 2023 World Sitting Volleyball World Cup title a month later, sweeping past Egypt in straight sets (25-21, 25-19, 25-17) in the final match. Brazil...

The implementation of the plan to build a 4,000-megawatt renewable energy power plant as the largest plan for the construction of renewable wind and solar power plants in West Asia began on Monday in the presence of President Ebrahim Raeisi and Iranian Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian and is expected...

TEHRAN, Dec. 25 (MNA)– Lebanese Hezbollah continued to strike on Monday the Zionist Israeli regime's outposts near the border in support of Resistance in Gaza and in light of the Israeli aggression on the various South Lebanon villages.

TEHRAN, Nov. 25 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kan'ani held a press conference on Monday and answered the questions put forward by the journalists.