News Archive - 8 April 2021

The Joint Commission of the JCPOA will resume its work in person on 9 April at 10.00 CET in Vienna. The Joint Commission will be chaired on behalf of EU High Representative Josep Borrell by the Deputy Secretary-General and Political Director of the European External Action Service Enrique Mora.

Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi Thursday held talks with the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Referring to the fruitful meeting with Grossi, he said that there are some duties for the IAEA that the agency should...

According to the public relations department of the Iranian Archery Federation, the preliminary stage of the Turkish International Tournament, which is held with the participation of 108 archers from 29 countries, ended. At the end of this stage and in the men's section, Iran's Reza Shabani was ranked 17th with 665 points and must...

According to Iraqi News Agency (INA), after the third round of strategic talks between Baghdad and Washington ended, Ahmed al-Sahaf, the spokesman for the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, explained the withdrawal of foreign troops from his country on Wednesday evening. The third round of strategic talks between Washington and Baghdad began on Wednesday...

Delegations from the three countries met in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the current chair of the African Union (AU), in an attempt to break the deadlock in negotiations, Aljazeera TV English website reported. The talks concluded on Tuesday with no resolution to long-running disputes about...

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The controversy stirred the old conflict in Northern Ireland, between separatists and loyalists, Sputnik has reported. For the sixth consecutive day Northern Ireland has seen violent clashes that were marked on Wednesday by protesters hijacking and setting a bus on fire, reportedly injuring the driver and a journalist. The double-decker vehicle...

Authorities said they are conducting an investigation to ascertain the validity of the note and to confirm whether suicide was the cause of death of the 58-year-old, Anadolu Agency has reported. A spokesperson from the embassy also confirmed the death but refrained from disclosing the identity of the deceased. His...

Iran's Minister of Defense Brigadier General Amir Hatami made the comments in a meeting with his Tajik counterpart Colonel General Sherali Mirzo in Tehran on Thursday. According to the Iranian minister, both Iran and Tajikistan like the entire region are living under the threat of terrorism, adding that threats against regional stability come from...

US measures to bring the Iranian nation to its knees has gone nowhere and Iran has managed to gain significant achievements in different areas, including in the fight against coronavirus pandemic, Rouhani told the 10th Summit of the D-8 Organisation for Economic Cooperation on Thursday. The summit kicked off on...

Sima Lari, the spokeswoman of the ministry, announced the new record figure, adding that 2,493 of those newly-detected patients have been hospitalized. The total number of COVID cases in the country is standing at 2,006,093, she added. The outbreak has claimed the lives of 185 people since Wednesday, bringing the...

The top Iranian diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks with his Turkmen counterpart in Ashgabat on Thursday afternoon after arriving in Turkmenistan as the last leg of a 4-nation tour to Central Asian countries following his visits to Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan and holding talks with those nations' high ranking officials. In the...

In the unveiling ceremony, some Iranian officials including Tehran Provincial Governor Anoshirvan Mohseni Bandpey were taking part and the first home-made subway car was inaugurated by President Hassan Rouhani through video-conferencing. According to a report by the Iranian authorities, the completion of the project to produce the metro carriages inside the country took...

The army air defenses intercepted after midnight Israeli missiles aggression that targeted some sites in the surroundings of Damascus and downed most of the missiles. A military source told SANA that at 12:56 a.m. on Thursday dawn, the Israeli enemy launched a new aerial aggression from over the Lebanese...

"In Kazakhstan on third leg of my regional tour, where I’ve had substantive and fruitful meetings with President Tokayev and FM Tileuberdi. Our two countries share many objectives on regional stability and global nuclear disarmament," the top Iranian diplomat has tweeted after meeting with the President of Kazakhstan and his...

Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araghchi, who is leading an Iranian delegation in Vienna to attend the meetings of the Joint Commission on the Iranian nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) held a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria Alexander Schallenberg on Wednesday...

The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi has told Tehran-based Jam-e Jam newspaper recently that "In the document on 25-year cooperation between Iran and China, different areas of energy are mentioned and nuclear energy is also included." Kamalvandi added that "We hope to have good cooperation...

Arman-e Melli: Attack against Iranian ship with aim of undermining Vienna talks Step-for-step return to JCPOA to inflict more damages: expert Ebtekar: Hopes for revival of a deal in Vienna The need for a two-week lockdown in Tehran Ettela’at: Military targets in Jeddah hit by Yemeni drones, missiles Vienna meeting...

Tajik Defense Minister Colonel General Sherali Mirzo held a meeting at the complex of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri. The development of military-defense relations in various fields of research, training and security is...

On Tuesday, April 5, the Iranian ship Saviz was attacked off the coast of Djibouti in the Red Sea. "The day before the incident, an unidentified helicopter scouted Saviz ship for 5 to 10 minutes," one of the ship's crew told Noornews. The source added, "On the day of the incident, more...

The Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in relation to choosing Bahrain as centralized venue for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, Tehran Times reported. In late March, AFC sent a letter to the Iran...

TEHRAN, Apr. 08 (MNA) – Iran's Minister of Defense Brigadier General Amir Hatami held a meeting with his Tajik counterpart Colonel General Sherali Mirzo in Tehran on Thursday.    ...

TEHRAN, Apr. 08 (MNA) – Some women in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran are still weaving traditional tablecloths as a way to make a living.    ...