News Archive - 9 April 2021

The academies of medicine and science as well as health-sector workers have urged the government of President Nicolas Maduro to speed up a stalled vaccination campaign, Reuters reported. The Venezuelan government, which has received 750,000 vaccines from Russia's Sputnik V and China's Sinopharm, says the country has been unable to buy...

First home-made metro carriage unveiled by Pres. Rouhani Iran unveiled its first home-grown subway car on Thursday during a ceremony in the capital city of Tehran attended by President Hassan Rouhani through video-conferencing. In the unveiling ceremony, some Iranian officials including Tehran Provincial Governor Anoshirvan Mohseni Bandpey were taking part and...

Written by Nasim Ahmadpour and Shahram Mokri, 'Careless Crime' will take part in MOOOV film festival in Belgium and the 22nd Jeonju International Film Festival in South Korea. The synopsis of 'Careless Crime' reads, "Forty years ago, during the uprising to overthrow the Shah’s regime in Iran, protestors set fire to movie theatres as a way...

In reaction to the incident of an Iranian ship 'Saviz' in the Red Sea, Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi said on Friday that Iran can't react to this incident until the investigation would be ended. After conducting an investigation into the incident of the ship, Iran will no doubt respond to...

The Spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree said in a statement that Yemeni Air Forces accurately hit Fighter Jets' Hangers at Jizan airport with Qasif K2 drones, Al-Masirah reported.  The operation of targeting the enemy's Fighter Jets' Hangers comes within the legitimate response to the continuation of the aggression...

“The US must lift anti-Iran sanctions [and only] then Tehran would resume compliance with [the] JCPOA,” Seyed Abbas Araghchi said in an interview with Press TV in Vienna on Thursday after a meeting with the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi. "As long as the US has...

A statement from Buckingham Palace said, “It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle,” Manchester Evening News reported. The Prince had spent...

Taking into account the threat that mines and explosive remnants of war pose to the lives of United Nations peace-keeping personnel, the Council must continue to consider this issue in the mandates of peace-keeping operations, Majid Takht-Ravanchi said at the UN Security Council meeting. However, it is evident that the involvement...

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in his meeting with Syria’s ambassador to Tehran Shafiq Dayoub on Thursday. Referring to the deep-rooted, friendly and fraternal relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Syria, Amir-Abdollahian said, Syria is at the forefront of the Resistance and Iran will stand by Syria with power." He...

Providing the latest statistics on the coronavirus infection, Sima Sadat Lari said on Friday that the total number of people who tested positive for COVID-19 in the country has surpassed 2,029,412 after the detection of 22,478 new cases since Thursday. Of the new cases detected over the past 24 hours, 2,567 patients...

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In a tweet on Friday, Mikhail Ulyanov wrote, "The Joint Commission meeting in Vienna is over." "The #JCPOA participants took stock of the work done by experts over the last three days and noted with satisfaction the initial progress made," he added. "The Commission will reconvene next week in...

The second round of the 18th Joint Commission of the JCPOA was held in Vienna with the participation of the Deputy Foreign Ministers and Political Directors of the Foreign Ministers of Iran, Germany, France, Britain, Russia, China, and Enrique Mora on behalf of Joseph Borrell in order to evaluate the results of...

Confirming the release of seized South Korean oil tanker, Saeed Khatibzadeh said that following the completion of the investigation into the violation of the Korean ship and at the request of the owner and the Korean government for the release, the prosecutor ordered the release of the ship. The prosecutor ordered...

The Corridor can be used for transferring commodities and energy between the Far East and Europe, said Kazem Jalali in an interview with the Russian daily Vedomosti. He urged governments involved in the Corridor to pave the ground for completing all parts of the multi-state project to turn it into one...

Referring to the 18th Joint Commission of the JCPOA which was held in Vienna, Mohammad Javad Zarif in a tweet on Friday wrote, "Iran proposes logical path to full JCPOA compliance." "US—which caused this crisis—should return to full compliance first," he added. Stating "Iran will reciprocate following rapid verification", Zarif said,...