News Archive - 8 June 2021

Antony Blinken made the comments in a meeting of the Senate  Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, during which he anticipated that hundreds of sanctions, including those imposed by the Trump administration, will remain in place, even if the US and Iran return to their JCPOA commitments. US Secretary of State said...

 Iran's Agriculture Minister Kazem Khavazi made the remarks in a meeting with his Iraq counterpart Muhammad Karim Jassim Al-Khafaji in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad on Tuesday afternoon. "We have very good trade relations with Iraq and a large volume of our goods are exported to Iraq, about 23% of...

In the 30th year of its operation, MAHAK unveiled its special 30th anniversary logo. Sharif Nezam Mafi, the CEO, asserts that MAHAK's achievements in the past 30 years can be summarized in providing comprehensive support for over 35,000 cancer-stricken children and their families – a feat contributed to the...

A human rights institution in the city of Bogota reported that at least 58 people have been killed in anti-government protests in Colombia that has begun three weeks ago, The Associated Press reported. The protests were accompanied by clashes with police and blockades of streets by protesters, the report added.

The flight is scheduled for July 20th, just 15 days after he is set to resign as CEO of Amazon, CNN reported. Blue Origin said Bezos' younger brother, Mark Bezos, will also join the flight. "Ever since I was five years old, I've dreamed of traveling to space," Bezos,...

Turkey has offered to guard and run Kabul’s airport after the United States and other NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan, but US officials say Ankara is imposing conditions that need to be resolved as their leaders prepare to meet next week, Reuters reported. Turkish officials say Ankara made the proposal at...

Mohammad Reza Al-Haidar stressed that there is no intelligence cooperation between Iraq and Turkey against PKK elements. Noting that the presence of Turkish forces inside Iraq is an occupation, he said that the occupation must end. He added that what is happening within the borders of the Kurdistan region...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said leaders of the Chinese government “don’t share our values,” after emerging from a meeting with US President Joe Biden on Monday. Biden is set to attend a NATO summit in Brussels on June 14, where China and Russia will be among the issues discussed,...

In a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas discussed the situation in Karabakh and on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, Armradio reported. The implementation of the provisions of the statements of the leaders of Azerbaijan,...

A house in the village of Ala-Futow, located some 285 kilometers (177 miles) from the capital Mogadishu, was being used as a site to prepare explosives, Somali National Army (SNA) Radio reported, quoting military officials in the region. Materials stored at the 11-room house exploded late on Monday, killing...

Taliban took control of “Jawand’ city in Baghdis province of Afghanistan after a similar incident in Faryab and Ghazni provinces, TOLO News reported. According to this report, Taliban claimed that its members took control of ‘Jawand’ city in Afghanistan’s Baghdis province.   At the same time, some sources have...

Araghchi is to attend an urgent session of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Parliament. MPs have invited the FM deputy to provide some explanation about the ongoing JCPOA talks in Vienna, MP Abolfazl Amouei informed on Tues. Since April, representatives from Iran and the P4+1...

During the meeting which took place at the Foreign Ministry building on Tuesday, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen Griffiths met with Mohammad Javad Zarif to discuss the various dimensions of the Yemeni crisis and ways to achieve peace and stability in the country. Explaining the views of the Islamic Republic...

In this prestigious international event, various sectors are participating and Cultural Office of the Iranian Embassy to Japan would cooperate with this artistic event in line with cooperating with cultural and artistic institutions such as ART FAIR TOKYO 2021 which was already held in Tokyo and Kyoto. In Tokyo...

Making the remarks in an online meeting, he repeated Americans' baseless claims towards Iran saying: "[the US] priority is deterring Iran’s destabilizing activities, which remains the biggest threat to stability in the Middle East." According to the US Department of State, he said that: "I believe that our posture...

Heading a delegation, Jean Arnault who traveled to Tehran to discuss Afghanistan developments, met with the Iranian Foreign Minister on Tuesday.  During the meeting, Zarif emphasized Iran's support for intra-Afghan talks and the protection of the achievements of the Afghan people over the past years, especially in the field of...

Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah started to deliver a speech on Tuesday evening on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Al-Manar TV network. In his speech, Sayyed Nasrallah reassured supporters that he has recovered and is now in good health, reiterating his hope that he prays at...

The handover was conducted on 8 June at the Foreign Ministry Office of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Tehran, during a simple yet solemn ceremony. Dr Hussain was reassigned as WHO Country Representative and Head of Mission to the Islamic Republic of Iran effective 1 April 2021. Prior...

The agreement was signed in an online ceremony participated by the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Baku Abbas Mousavi, the Cultural Attaché to the Republic of Azerbaijan Ghorbanali Pourmarjan, the director of Azerbaijan National Library Karim Tahirov, and Head of Iran National Library Ashraf Boroujerdi. The signed agreement focuses...

 Muhammad Karim Jassim Al-Khafaji, the Iraqi Minister of Agriculture, made the remarks in a meeting with his Iranian counterpart in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad.  The Khorasan Razavi Provincial Govenor was also present in their meeting. The Iraqi minister thanked the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah...

"These relations have been expanding in recent years and there have been collaborations in various fields, such as road, oil and gas, industry and, tourism," said Shahin Mustafayev during the visit to the border strip of Iran and Azerbaijan in Julfa. "Iran is our friend and neighbor and there are many...

Making the remarks addressing an event in Berlin, Maas considered the achieved results in Vienna talks to be the result of Europe's perseverance and confidence. He hoped that Iran would show a political will to conduct these negotiations to reach the finish line. The June session of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)...

"In response to the illegal sanctions imposed by the Canadian government on March 24, 2021, against citizens of Russia under the far-fetched pretext of allegedly persecuting Russian citizen Alexey Navalny, convicted of illegal acts, it was decided to ban the entry to Russia on an indefinite basis for the...

Sudanese prosecutors office of fight terrorism and anti-government crimes arrested nine terrorists in Khartoum with the help of security and military intelligence. Saudi Arabia's Al-Arabiya network quoted Sudan's deputy counter-terrorism prosecutor, as saying that the arrests were made in cooperation with the security police and in coordination with the public intelligence...

A 20-year-old suspect wearing a vest "like body armor" fled the scene after the attack on Sunday evening, and was arrested at a mall seven kilometres (four miles) from the intersection in London, Ontario where it happened, said Detective Superintendent Paul Waight. "There is evidence that this was a...

Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said in an interview with TASS at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) that: "As for embryotoxicity among pregnant women, research was conducted. We tested patients who got vaccinated against COVID-19, and there were patients who were pregnant and did not know that...

US media reported on Sunday that Biden administration officials are in discussions with Pakistani officials to secure bases close to Afghanistan for future operations. The CIA had used a base in Pakistan to execute drone strikes against militants but was expelled out of the facility in 2011 as bilateral...

“Taking the measure of another president is not about trusting them.  And the relationship between the U.S. and Russia is not about a relationship of trust.  It’s about a relationship of verification.  It’s about a relationship of clarifying what our expectations are and laying out...

US President Joe Biden on Monday gave assurances to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on issues such as Ukraine’s NATO membership aspirations and Biden’s upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Zelenskiy’s office said. During a phone call between the two leaders, Zelenskiy also told Biden that a large number...

In this regard, the Information Office of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, released a statement with regards to the statistics on Palestinian martyrs and wounded in the clashes erupted between Palestinians and Zionist regime forces in the West Bank, Palestine Al-Youm reported. According to the report, the statement...

"It remains unclear whether @POTUS and @SecBlinken are ready to bury the failed “maximum pressure” policy of Trump and @mikepompeo, and cease using #EconomicTerrorism as bargaining “leverage”," Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote in a tweet on Tuesday. "Iran is in compliance with the #JCPOA. Just read paragraph 36," he added, stressing, "Time to change course.

In the meeting between Iran's deputy minister of agriculture for animal husbandary affairs Morteza Rezaei and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq Minister of Agriculture, Begard Talabani, the Iranian official explained to the Kurdish minister regarding Iranian achievements in the field of raising livestock and other types of farming. The KRG minister, for her...

Abdul-Amir Taieban, a representative of the Parliamentary Faction of Al-Sadiqoun, announced that US Embassy in Iraq has embarked on preparing a list of commanders of Iraq’s PMU and Resistance groups, Almaloumah reported. The US Embassy in Baghdad has compiled a list of Hashd al-Sha’abi commanders and Resistance groups to be...

Following the injury of Vahid Amiri and Kamal Kamyabinia, the Croatian coach has called on midfielder Milad Sarlak (Persepolis) and defender Aref Gholami (Esteghlal) to join the team’s campaign in Manama, Bahrain. The team has so far defeated Hong Kong 3-1 and Bahrain 3-0 in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers...

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All seven candidates answered "cultural, social and political" questions in the debate and presented their programs in the mentioned fields. Despite the fact that the main focus of the second debate was supposed to be cultural, social and political issues, we witnessed that the candidates talked more about economic issues.

In a tweet on Tuesday, Kazem Gharibabadi wrote, “I Had a fruitful consultation today with #OPEC SG #HEBarkindo. We reviewed the latest developments on international oil market and OPEC.” The meeting comes as observers are awaiting Iran's return to the oil market. Speaking after the 17th virtual meeting of the...

Afghanistan Electricity Company announced the explosion of an electricity tower in Herat province. Zeinab Mohseni, public relations manager of Breshna Company in Herat, said that this morning, the electricity tower exploded in Kohsan city of the province. According to her, with the destruction of this tower, Iran's imported electricity to Herat has...

Directed by Iranian filmmaker Baran Sarmad, the Iranian short ‘Spotted Yellow’ will vie at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in California. 'Spotted Yellow' tells the story of Roya, a young girl with a yellow spot on her face. One day she feels the signs of a real giraffe in her...

The 5th Science Promotion Meeting held by the Mustafa (PBUH) Science and Technology Foundation gathered experts in science communication from India and Iran. The moderator initiated the discussion by pointing to the existing gap between science and media and how this gap has been formed. Mohammad Khodadadi, press deputy...

Iranian Innovation and Technology Club and the National Commission for UNESCO are to run the event. The conference is to be held on August 5-6, 2021. The Head of Iranian Innovation and Technology Club Peyman Sarhaddi said this conference will create a suitable platform for cooperation and knowledge transfer among professors,...

Providing the latest statistics on the coronavirus infection, the Health Ministry’s spokeswoman said on Tuesday that the pandemic has claimed 179 lives over the past 24 hours. The overall coronavirus death toll in Iran stands at 81,362, Sima Lari added. She said the total number of people who tested...

During the phone talk, the two sides also exchanged their views on a wide range of issues including current developments on peace process in Afghanistan, results of visit of representative of UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan Affairs to the Islamic Republic of Iran and also bilateral relations. Taherianfard also emphasized...

Raab who is on a visit to the West Asian region announced that he met with the Saudi Deputy Minister of Defense on Monday. "From the regional threat posed by Iran to the ongoing crisis in Yemen and the new challenges of tackling cyber-attacks," he wrote in a Tuesday...

TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA) – Iranian FM Zarif met and held talks with the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen Griffiths and UN Secretary-General António Guterres' Personal Envoy on Afghanistan and Regional Issues Jean Arnault on Tues.    ...

TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA) – Here are the front pages of Iran’s English-language dailies on Tuesday, June 8.          ...