News Archive - 21 April 2021

According to U.S. News, the US ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan said he would travel to the United States this week for consultations, four days after the Kremlin suggested that Washington recall him amid a diplomatic crisis between the two countries. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the return of...

Four people were killed and injured in an explosion in Afghanistan's Baghlan province, TOLO News reported. Security sources in central Baghlan say that a man and his wife were killed and two others were injured on Wednesday evening when a bomb exploded in a residential house. No further details have...

At noon local time on the 20th, about 30 South Korean university students held a protest in front of the Japanese Embassy in South Korea to oppose Japan’s recent decision to discharge nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea, YCN News reported. Some of the students...

Russia's foreign ministry added, "Moscow will soon take further steps as part of Russia's response to recent US sanctions." Russia's foreign ministry earlier on Wednesday summoned the deputy head of the US embassy in Moscow. The US ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan said he would travel to the United...

He announced his view in two tweets on Wed. "Why do almost all countries support restoration of #JCPOA? Because it is a key element of the int. non-proliferation architecture. The deal, if restored, can provide credible assurances of peaceful character of the Iranian nuclear program via intrusive #IAEA verification," Ulyanov...

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Minoo Mohraz, of Iran’s National Coronavirus Task Force, who has worked as a key member of a team working on one of the anti-Covid-19 vaccines being developed in Iran dubbed COVIran Barakat, said on Wednesday the second phase of the vaccine trial on 18-50 aged group people has ended with...

The AFC Executive Committee has agreed to the criteria of establishing the AFC’s representatives for the FIFA Futsal World Cup Lithuania 2021, following the cancellation of the AFC Futsal Championship Kuwait 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the AFC’s press service. The AFC Executive Committee decided to combine...

Rouhollah Latifi, the spokesman of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration said on Wed. that during the 12 months last year, the volume of Iran's foreign trade with its neighbors in terms of weight amounted to 82.5 million tons of various goods equal to $36.5 billion. In the...

Ghalibaf held a meeting with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in Tehran on Wednesday during which he stressed expanding ties with Islamabad. During the meeting, Ghalibaf said that Tehran is determined to expand ties with neighboring countries.  The Iranian parliament speaker expressed his happiness with the reopening of...

Speaking in an interview with FNA correspondent on Wed., Mohammad Hassan Zibakhsh stated that it is necessary to provide a negative coronavirus (PCR) test with a validity of 96 hours at the origin in countries hit severely by COVID-19 as preliminary terms and conditions for admitting passenger. It is...

In their meeting in Zagreb, the two officials review the current mutual memoranda and stressed the need to implement or update the existing bilateral documents. They also discussed the historical, cultural, and natural capacities of the two countries as well as cultural commonalities and friendship between the two nations, as essential components for...

Mick Wallace, a member of the European Parliament on his Twitter page accused the United States of playing a role in creating the ISIL terrorist group in Iraq. He said that many of the ISIL terrorists were those inmates who had been tortured in the US-run prisons.  The EU parliament lawmaker...

The US-based Washington Free Beacon has described the bill as a largely symbolic move meant to handicap the Biden administration's diplomacy with Tehran. The legislation, dubbed the Maximum Pressure Act, would formally codify the Trump administration's tough sanctions campaign on Iran and force the Biden administration to submit any revamped nuclear...

The Corps released the footage on Wednesday as means of vividly portraying its state-of-the-art advancements in the field of drone technology. The video recorded by an apparently four-strong drone squadron, provides real-time and remarkably close details of every warplane as well as other military aircraft and equipment deployed on the carrier.

Under the contract inked between the Iranian Ministry of Health and the Russian Direct Investment Fund, the sixth cargo of the Russian ‘Sputnik V’ vaccine including 100,00 doses was handed over to the Iranian embassy in Moscow. The consignment is scheduled to be transferred to Tehran on Thursday via Mahan Air.

Pointing to his meeting with his visiting Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Tehran on Wed., Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a tweet wrote, “Iran and Pakistan agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation and regional coordination on Afghanistan, Palestine, multilateralism and fighting anti-Muslim bigotry.” “Excellent meeting w/...

Although the United States has been a major supplier of weapons to the invading Saudi-led coalition since start of Yemeni war, the envoy has claimed that Iran's support for Houthis (Ansarullah) is "significant and deadly." Elsewhere in his remarks, Lenderking claimed that conflict in Yemen’s Ma'rib area is the...

A vehicle carrying Afghan National Security forces was targeted by a suicide bomber in the 15th district of Kabul on Tuesday night. Kabul police have confirmed the blast, but no further details have been released yet. Meanwhile, three people, including two children were injured due to an explosion of a...

"We thought that it would be beneficial to postpone it ...We consulted Qatar, the US and the UN and decided to hold it after Ramadan and Eid festivities," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told the Haberturk news channel, adding there is "no need to hurry" after the recent decision by the...

Chauvin is accused of placing his knee on Floyd’s neck although Floyd said he could not breathe. Jurors assigned to the Chauvin trial declared on Tuesday that the former cop was guilty on all charges, bringing to a close three weeks’ worth of witness and expert testimony. Charged with second-degree...

The six Premier League clubs who had signed up to become members of a European Super League pulled out on Tuesday night, less than 48 hours after the competition had been announced. Chelsea led the way on Tuesday, signalling an abrupt U-turn just 48 hours after Sunday’s bombshell announcement about...

This will be the first meeting between the two presidents since Biden’s win in the US Presidential election. Biden has invited dozens of world leaders to join the two-day virtual summit starting on Thursday, after bringing the United States back into the 2015 Paris Agreement on cutting global carbon emissions,...

Syrian Army-affiliated National Defense Forces clashed with US-backed elements in Al-Hasakah province in northeastern Syria last night. Local sources told Sputnik that the clash took place between the National Defense Forces and members of some tribes in the province with Kurdish militants known as 'Asayish' in Qamishli. The 'Asayish' forces are...

A newspaper affiliated with the Yemeni Army announced on Monday that the release of Ma'rib is close to happening. The Yemeni army has reportedly been able to carry out several operations in recent weeks. It could also target the centers of power of the ousted Yemeni President Abd al-Mansour Hadi's...

The Zionist Haaretz reported that the huge explosion took place this morning at a sensitive security factory in the center of occupied Palestine and that no details were yet available about the possible casualties. According to the report, the residents of occupied Palestine saw a lot of smoke in Gush Dan this...

Iraqi Popular Mobilization Unit (PMU)’s forces launched a large-scale operation on southern Samarra to pursue remnants of ISIL elements, Al Forat News reported. According to the report, Hashd al-Sha’abi forces have launched a new operation against remnants of ISIL Takfiri terrorist elements. Iraqi media reported that large-scale operation has begun...

The Afghanistan Ministry of Defense announced in a statement on Wednesday that as many as 34 Taliban militants were killed and 10 others were wounded in clashes with security forces in Herat, Farah, Ghor, Kandahar and Ghazni provinces. The Afghan Ministry's statement added that a large amount of ammunition, weapons,...

Some sources reported that a 15-year-old girl was shot dead by police in Columbus, Ohio, Rusiya al Youm reported. According to news sources, the person, who was wounded by a bullet, was taken to hospital but died due to his deteriorating condition. MA/5194252

The official Syrian News Agency (SANA) reported Wednesday that incumbent President Bashar al-Assad has officially announced a run for the upcoming presidential election. Hammouda Sabbagh, the speaker of the Syrian parliament announced that the parliament has been informed by the Supreme Constitutional Court that Bashar al-Assad has officially applied to run in...

The Indonesian government has yet to issue an official statement but Janes has confirmed with Indonesian Navy (Tentara Nasional Indonesia – Angkatan Laut: TNI-AL) sources that the missing boat is KRI Nanggala (402), which was deemed to be in distress after missing a scheduled reporting call with the TNI-AL at about 03:00 local time...

Speaking on Tuesday among reporters, Peskov reiterated that return of the US envoy ‘John Sullivan’ to Russia depends on the situation, while relations between Washington and Moscow are at all-time low level. On Tuesday, Sullivan confirmed that he had traveled to Washington for consultations and would return to Moscow in...

Speaking at a press conference at the end of the JCPOA Joint Commission on Tuesday, Seyyed Abbas Araghchi said that this session was in fact the sum-up of the six-day talks that the Iran and P4+1 had had in Vienna during the past fortnight, that include the practical move that the...

Vladimir Putin made the comments during his annual speech on Wednesday afternoon. During the speech, the Russian president warned that Russia's response to western countries' provocations would be swift and decisive, and expressed hope that no country would cross Russia's red lines. His warning came amid new escalated tensions between Russia and...

Asia Iran not to permit nuclear talks turn to tiring negotiations Aftab Tehran-Riyadh talks; national – security Ebtekar Revival of JCPOA, at last step Iran, Saudi Arabia at the negotiating table Hamshahri Claims of private sector from lifting sanctions Ettela’at 200 people killed in Russia’s airstrike to terrorists’ training center...

Wang Qun, Chinese Envoy to the United Nations and other international organizations in Vienna, on Tuesday, reiterating that nuclear talks in Vienna have entered a new stage. Wang made the remarks after attending the latest meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in the Austrian capital Vienna, Xinhua reported. The meeting...

Director-General of Transit at the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development Amin Tarafo made the announcement in an interview with Mehr News Agency, saying, "The Persian Gulf-Black Sea transit corridor will be set up in order to develop the transport diplomacy of the member countries and their joint benefit from comparative...

“This important announcement asserts the firm resolve of the Syrian people and their leadership to thwart the enemy’s attempts to subjugate Syria, just as the destructive war against it has failed for ten years, and their practices, their economic pressures and sanctions have also failed,” Director of Foreign News at...

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During the meeting that was held on Tuesday evening, Ghazizadeh said that deepening and strengthening the friendly relations between Iran and the Slovak Republic in various fields, especially in the parliamentary arena, has an effective role in helping to increase the level of interaction between the two countries and removing obstacles...

“Today, it is clear to all parties to the JCPOA, Europe and the regional countries that the full implementation of the JCPOA is the only solution to Iran’s nuclear issue,” Iranian President Hasan Rouhani said in the cabinet session on Wednesday. The implementation of the word by word of the text of...

Frank Kenneth McKenzie, head of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) - which Tehran recognizes as a terrorist organization - acknowledged the defense power of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is not the first time McKenzie expresses concern about Iran's defense capabilities. “Iran poses a daily threat to the US and...

During the meeting with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday, Rouhani pointed to the importance of cooperation with Pakistan as Iran's Muslim neighbor,  and stressed the need to develop and deepen relations between the two countries in various fields, including economic and trade relations, as well as the development...

Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi, known by his pen-name Saadi, was one of the major Persian poets of the medieval period. Saadi is known as a mystic and metaphysician in the history of Persian literature. He is recognized for the quality of his writings and for the depth of his social...

In the re-opening ceremony of the Pishin-Mand Border Crossing, the Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami and some other provincial officials from the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan were present, and from the Pakistani side, Minister for Defence Production Zubaida Jalal attended the ceremony. Addressing the ceremony, the Iranian minister said that reopening of...

Providing the latest statistics on the coronavirus infection, the Health Ministry’s spokeswoman said on Wed. that the pandemic has claimed 388 lives over the past 24 hours, one of the highest numbers of fatalities over the past five months. The overall coronavirus death toll in Iran stands at 67,913, Sima...

Riverside International Film Festival will be held from April 27 to May 1 through online platforms. Directed by Iranian filmmaker Javad Daraei, 'Metamorphosis in the Slaughterhouse' will be screened at this film festival. The film is a product of Iran, Germany, and Canada, produced by Mehdi Koohzadeh. 'Metamorphosis in the Slaughterhouse'...

Hossein Tanhayi lamented that despite the cooperation between the two sides, a small part of the job has been done at the present time. "South Korea agreed to pay one billion dollars of its debt to Iran in cash, but so far the agreement has not been implemented," he said. Underlining that...

TEHRAN, Apr. 22 (MNA) – During the holy month of Ramadan, Iranian firefighters, who are on standby, break their fast at their fire station, sitting around the iftar table with their colleagues.

TEHRAN, Apr. 21 (MNA) – Livelihood foodstuff packages were prepared and distributed among the needy and underprivileged people in Tehran within the framework of “Equality, Empathy and Sincere Assistance Maneuver”.            ...