News Archive - 11 June 2021

A grandmother and her 1-year-old grandson were shot and killed Thursday at a Publix grocery store in Royal Palm Beach, Florida, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, CNN reproted. The shooter is also dead. The motive in the shooting is also not known, and the sheriff's office...

The Biden administration is pressing the United Arab Emirates to remove Huawei Technologies Co. from its telecommunications network and take other steps to distance itself from China, raising the risk that the country’s purchase of some $23 billion in F-35 jets and drones may be at stake, people familiar...

In the match held at the Khalifa Sports City Stadium in Isa Town, Team Melli won the game against Cambodia 10-0 on Friday. In the 16th minute of the match, Alireza Jahanbakhsh opened the scoring for the Iranian team from the penalty spot. Six minutes later, Shoja Khalilzadeh made the match 2-0. Iran’s...

Rear Admiral Sayyari: Iran sends naval fleet to Atlantic Ocean for first time Deputy Chief of Iran's Army for Coordination announced that an Iranian naval fleet, comprising Sahand destroyer and Makran ship has left Iran for the Atlantic Ocean for the first time without mooring in other countries' ports.

"The next meeting of the Joint Commission of #JCPOA will be held this weekend," he tweeted.  "It will mark the beginning of the sixth round of the #ViennaTalks on the restoration of the nuclear deal. Will it be the final round? Nobody knows but all negotiators hope so.

Saber Kazemi scored 27 points for Iran and Weber Linus earned 15 points for Germany, the Tehran Times reported. Iran volleyball team is scheduled to meet Australia, Brazil, and Slovenia in Week 4. A total of 32 of the world’s top national teams compete at the VNL 2021 bubble...

The event is showcasing over 600 artworks on the themes of hope and evolution. “Since we are in the last year of the century [in the Iranian calendar], we decide to put our spotlight on the themes of ‘hope’ and ‘evolution’ this year,” the director of the exhibition, Ashkan...

As reported they covered a number of foreign policy issues, including Afghanistan, China, Iran, and Russia.  The negotiations focused mainly on relations between London and Washington. "The Prime Minister and President discussed the importance of the relationship between the UK and the US for protecting our people, boosting...

A spokeswoman for the Iranian Ministry of Health Sima Lari said that coronavirus claimed the lives of 124 people in the country over the past 24 hours, putting the total number of deaths caused by COVID-19 at 81,796. She also put the total number of COVID cases in the...

A senior official at Imam Khomeini International Airport in southern Tehran Alireza Majzoobi said on Friday that the Austrian airline will offer weekly flights to Austria’s capital. Austrian Airlines AG, often shortened to Austrian, is the flag carrier of Austria and a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group. The airline is...

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday delivered a speech entitled "Uphold Multilateralism and Seek Common Security" at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. In his remarks, he emphasized the need to step up diplomatic efforts to get the JCPOA back on track, adding that the...

The Russian Defence Ministry said the maneuvers took place in the central Pacific, and include exercises on the management of a heterogeneous group of forces at considerable distances from their home bases, the defense of sea communications, and the organization of the interaction of ships and aircraft to search...

Pictures on social media show plumes of smoke rising from the flames at a sub-station in the capital, San Juan. "The fire caused major blackouts across the entire island. The situation is under assessment and work is being done to restore the system," LUMA Energy tweeted, stating that restoration...

Turkey should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan under the 2020 deal for the pullout of US forces, a Taliban spokesman said on Thursday, effectively rejecting Ankara's proposal to guard and run Kabul's airport after US-led NATO forces depart, Reuters reported. "Turkey was part of NATO forces in the past...

The Lebanese newspaper Al- Akhbar reported today (Friday), quoting informed sources, that Haniyeh, who is currently in Cairo, will visit Iran and Lebanon. The same report added that the head of Hamas' political bureau intends to travel to some countries in the region and has begun making arrangements for trips to Lebanon...

Expressing concern about cooperation between Iran and Russia in this sector, the US officials have claimed that Russia intends to provide Tehran with an advanced satellite system to improve Iran's monitoring capability of the US and Israeli regime's military targets. In its latest report, Washington Post has claimed that...

The US State Department spokesman Ned Price would not speculate on what the vessels were carrying, saying only “that if this is an effort to transfer weapons or otherwise to violate its international obligations we would be prepared to respond.” “We have seen the press reports regarding this...

The outgoing chief of the Israeli regime’s Mossad intelligence service offered the closest acknowledgment yet the Zionist regime was behind recent attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear program and a military scientist, Zionist sources reported. The comments by Yossi Cohen, speaking to the Israeli regime’s Channel 12 investigative program “Uvda” in a...

In an address to a Thursday meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors in Vienna, he urged the international body to refrain from pursuing any political agenda and stop biased treatment of member states. “The Agency should not act in a way that it would be directly or indirectly...

Her birthday is named the National Day of Girls in Iran. The sister of the eighth Shia Imam, Imam Reza(AS), is buried in the Iranian central city of Qom.