News Archive - 9 October 2020

The breakthrough came after some 10 hours of talks in Moscow, in the early hours of Saturday morning, after nearly two weeks of fierce fighting in the disputed territory, Aljazeera reported. Russia’s top diplomat said the Red Cross would act as an intermediary in the humanitarian operation. Lavrov did not...

2020 US Presidential Election has challenged Donald Trump and Joe Biden, two Republican and Democratic candidates in the field of foreign policy issues, including the US policy towards the West Asia (Middle East), the ways to fight against coronavirus, the immigration issues, and etc. Due to its socio-economic consequences, coronavirus...

The spokeswoman for the German Foreign Ministry Maria Adebar noted that new US sanctions against 18 Iranian banks will further complicate the import of humanitarian items for the Islamic Republic. He further stressed that the humanitarian channel for trade with Iran is very significant at a time when the country...

Referring to the Trump administration's defeats in confronting Iran, Vaezi noted that the US has done everything in its power to create challenges for Iran which have failed so far. He went on to say that the US could not achieve its goals by imposing economic sanctions on the Islamic...

He made the remarks in a phone talk with Governor of Central Bank of Iran Abdolnaser Hemmati on Friday, saying that US new sanctions are politically motivated and aim at serving their own internal purposes. Referring to US miscalculation in withdrawing from the JCPOA, he added, “The US government, based...

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who has traveled to China at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, arrived in the southern province of Yunnan at the head of a high-ranking delegation. Upon arrival on Friday, Foreign Minister Zarif was welcomed by Chinese officials. He will meet and hold...

According to the latest figures on Sunday, 36,797,175 people have so far been infected with the novel coronavirus globally, with the deaths passing 1,067,525 and recoveries amounting to 27,694,155 million. Some 217,750 people in the US have been killed by COVID-19 since the outbreak began, and 7,834,289 cases have been...

Referring to the decline of US power, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naghdi noted that the US is no longer a superpower and the country set a date to attack North Korea and Syria but failed to do so. “The US has been struggling to destroy the Islamic Republic for 41 years,...

Iran’s Health Ministry Spokesperson Sima Lari made the announcement on Friday, saying that the number of total coronavirus cases in the country has so far reached 492,378 with the death toll standing at 28,098. According to Lari, 4,392 patients are in critical condition while 401,379 patients have recovered. So far,...

He made the remarks at the meeting of the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly on the fight against terrorism. Takht Ravanchi called the US maximum pressure an example of state terrorism and noted that this policy aims at changing Iran’s establishment by creating social unrest in the country.

“Washington’s intervention in the internal affairs of Lebanon has always been negative because the US’ general approach in Lebanon and the region and perhaps in the world is to lean towards the Zionist regime; a regime has always been eyeing to capture our land,” Member of Lebanon's parliament Mohamed Nasrallah...

The talks on Nagorno-Karabakh are taking place in the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Reception House. A news conference is expected after the talks, TASS reported. The Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers arrived in Moscow a few hours prior to the meeting. They had been invited for consultations on Nagorno-Karabakh by Russian...

In a tweet on Friday, Zarif wrote, “Amid Covid19 pandemic, U.S. regime wants to blow up our remaining channels to pay for food & medicine. Iranians WILL survive this latest of cruelties. But conspiring to starve a population is a crime against humanity. Culprits & enablers—who block our money—WILL...

In a tweet on Friday, Baeedinejad wrote, “The new sanctions against almost all Iranian banking and financial institutions aim to limit Iran’s ability to import essential items against Covid-19 and therefore crime against humanity. This abhorrent US regime knows no bounds for crimes against its own people and others.”...

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TEHRAN, Oct. 09 (MNA) – In a funereal ceremony on Friday, a number of Iranian artists payed their tribute to the late Iranian classical singer Mohammad-Reza Shajarian in Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran with health protocols in place.                      ...