News Archive - 9 October 2021

The Sabereen News Telegram channel reported on Saturday afternoon that a US drone had been shot down by Iraqi Resistance groups on the border with Syria. The telegram media reported that the American drone was carrying out a hostile mission against the Resistance forces (Iraqi PMU), which was shot down...

Afghan media reported that two Taliban members were killed and wounded in a motorcycle bomb blast in Nangarhar province, eastern Afghanistan. Official sources have not yet commented on this terrorist attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident, but ISIL is active in Nangarhar province who previously claimed responsibility for...

Taliban political spokesman Suhail Shaheen told the Associated Press there would be no cooperation with Washington on containing the increasingly active ISIL terrorist group in Afghanistan.  “We are able to tackle Daesh independently,” Shaheen said, when asked whether the Taliban would work with the US to contain ISIL, according...

The US military forces brought from Iraq 50 vehicles and trucks carrying military equipment and weapons into Syria, Al-Mayadeen reported. According to the report, vehicles were carrying a number of American troops who were transferred from Iraq to Syria. This is for the second time in the past two...

Iranian parliamentary delegation has traveled to the Italian capital of Rome to attend the Pre-COP26 Parliamentary Meeting. The delegation met and held talks with the head of the Italian Parliament's Committee on Environment. At this meeting, the two sides stressed the need for boosting bilateral cooperation in various fields...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who arrived in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Saturday morning after visits to Russia and Lebanon, met and held talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In the meeting, the strengthening and deepening of bilateral relations between the two countries were emphasized, according to a...

Dr. Hossein Fallah Mehrabadi, spokesman for the Tehran-based Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute said on Saturday that after issuing the emergency use permit from the health ministry, "we will produce up to 20 million doses this year." Fallah Mehrabadi added their vaccine will be added to the group of vaccines...

"Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will meet with Israeli [regime] Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and the UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan on October 13 in separate bilateral meetings and then in a trilateral setting," the State Department said in a statement. France 24 has...

The short film "Sweet Taste of Darkness”, directed by Mitra Raeesmohammadi, entered the competition section of the 8th Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth (SIFF) in the United Arab Emirates.   The synopsis of the work reads, "A seven-year-old boy who identifies with the character of Batman...

In a message of condolence, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf Iran’s Parliament Speaker expressed his deep regret over the terrorist act in Shiite mosque in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province and emphasized that new officials of Afghanistan are responsible for ensuring security and supporting rights of suffering Afghan people with any religion. The criminal...

Ensuring the security of the Afghan people is the duty of the Afghanistan government while all countries have a duty to fight against Takfiri terrorist groups, Tahan Nazif Spokesman for the Guardian Council said in a tweet on Saturday, in reference to a recent deadly terrorist attack in Afghanistan's Kunduz.

Speaking in a meeting with producers of home appliances to review objectives and programs envisioned for this industry on Sat., Seyyed Reza Fatemi Amin Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade said, “With the coordination made in this regard, domestic manufacturers of home appliances will be supported duly in...

In a tweet on Sat., Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf Iranian Parliament Speaker wrote, “I congratulate the winning of gold medal by Mohammad Hadi Saravi and also history making of heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler Ali Akbar Yousefi in World Wrestling Championship to the noble nation of Islamic Iran, their coaches and...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran’s first president after the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution who fled Tehran after being impeached for challenging the growing power of clerics as the nation became a theocracy, died Saturday. He was 88.Among a sea of black-robed Shiite clerics, Banisadr stood out for...

Al-Jazeera quoted a well-informed security source as saying that a drone targeted Iraqi forces positions in the Al-Bukamal region of Syria, located on the Iraqi-Syrian border. Some media sources also reported that an unidentified drone had targeted the positions of Iraqi resistance groups in the border city but that the Iraqi Hashd...

Four people have died as a result of a single-engine plane crash at the DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in the US State of Georgia, media reported. The Cessna 210 single-engine plane caught fire after the crash on late Friday, Sputnik news agency reported. The airport was closed after the incident. The...

The Israeli regime attacked the military's T-4 airbase in the desert on Friday evening, the Syrian official news agency SANA reported. “At around 9:33 p.m. this evening, the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack from the direction of the al-Tanf area, with rockets launched toward the T-4 military...

Several people were injured on Friday in an explosives-laden drone attack at King Abdullah airport in the Saudi southern city of Jizan, the state news agency (SPA) said citing the Saudi-led coalition spokesman. Some of the airport's facade windows were also shattered in the attack, the coalition spokesman added.

The United States and the Taliban will hold their first in-person talks since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan starting Saturday, the State Department said. The US delegation will meet Saturday and Sunday in the Qatari capital Doha with senior Taliban representatives, a State Department spokesperson told Agence France-Presse. The...

Nigerian officials on Friday announced that a number of gunmen suspected of being members of “Jan Sakai” illegal group in the northern Nigerian state of Sokoto have killed 11 people, including a number of children and a mosque leader, in a shop attack, Anadolu news agency reported. The killing...

Iraqi media reported that Iraqi forces have launched a new operation against ISIL terrorists in Kirkuk province. According to the reports, Iraqi army forces smashed the positions of ISIL terrorists during the operation and arrested 5 elements of ISIL terrorists. On Wednesday, Brigadier General Yahya Rassoul, spokesman for the commander-in-chief...

The volcano began erupting on September 19 and has destroyed more than 800 buildings and forced the evacuation of about 6,000 people from their homes on the island. La Palma, with a population of about 83,000, is one of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic. The magma destroyed at...

"To achieve the reunification of the motherland by peaceful means is most in line with the overall interests of the Chinese nation, including our compatriots in Taiwan", Xi stressed, Sputnik reported. He urged Taiwan to "stand on the right side of history jointly to create the glorious cause of...

Brazil has become only the second country in the world to record more than 600,000 coronavirus deaths, Al-Jazeera reported.  Brazilian President Jair Messias Bolsonaro has faced criticism for downplaying the severity of the virus. He has faced mass protests during the past several months, with demonstrators slamming his government’s COVID-19...

Fifty-one bodies had been recovered by late on Friday from the boat that sank during the night of Monday to Tuesday, and almost 70 are believed to be missing, Nestor Magbado, a spokesman for the governor of the northwestern province of Mongala, told AFP news agency on Saturday. He...

As the 2021 World Wrestling Championships continue in Oslo, Norway, three Iranian players defeated their opponents in different weight categories on Saturday.  In the 63 kg weight category, Meysam Delkhani defeated a German opponent with a score of 9-0 and advanced to the quarterfinals.  Another Iranian representative, Mohammad Reza Geraei in...

"It sounds alarming that the unjust, illegal, illegitimate self-serving and unilateral approaches adopted by a few are undermining and threatening multilateralism when it is needed most," Majid Takht-Ravanchi said on Friday at the General Debate of the Second Committee of the 76th Session of the General Assembly in New...

Referring to his meetings with Lebanese officials, the Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir- Abdollahian in a tweet on Saturday wrote, "I hold important talks with high-ranking officials, party leaders, and elites." He also said that he had a good meeting with the Secretary-General of Hezbollah. Congratulating the formation of the new government...

Ezzatollah Mehravaran passed away on Friday night in Atieh Hospital of Tehran after a short illness due to the infection of coronavirus. He was born in 1949 in Masjed Soleiman, Iran. He started his career with the movie "Wine Seller" by Vali Muhammad, and then he played in movies such as "Glass Agency"...

Seyyed Rouhollah Latifi broke the news on Sat. and stated that 19,841,000 tons of non-oil goods, were exchanged between the Islamic Republic of Iran and world countries from August 21 to Sept. 21, showing a 135 and 98 percent hike in terms of weight and value respectively. He went...

Ali Akbar Yousefi from Iran defeated Zurabi Gedekhauri from Russia in 130 kg in 2021 World Wrestling Championships, underway in Norway to make history by winning the first gold medal in this weight category for Iran. Yousefi is the first Iranian heavyweight wrestler to win a gold medal in this weight...

"Relations between Iran and Syria are strategic and Syria is a strategic ally of Iran, and we have shown over the years that we will never leave our allies on their own in difficult times," said Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Saturday evening after meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad...

Addressing the opening ceremony of the festival, Tabesh also paid special attention to children with disabilities. “This edition of the festival will also commemorate the selfless hero “Ali Landi”, he added. The secretary of the 34th International Film Festival for Children and Adolescents said: “We will open this year’s...

In a message of condolence on Saturday, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said that the tragic incident caused a lot of grief and sorrow. Ayatollah Khamenei called on officials in the neighboring and brotherly country of Afghanistan to bring bloodthirsty perpetrators behind the heinous crime to justice...

The figures released by the Health Ministry of Iran indicate that 62,978,788 doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered in the country as of Friday. More than 44.37 million Iranians have received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, while over 18.6 million have received the second...

Directed by Yousef Kargar, ‘Gabriel’ will take part in the competition section of the 30th Tous Courts Short Film Festival in France. The 30th edition of the festival will be held in France from November 30 to December 4. ‘Gabriel’ narrates the story of a father who has to decide under...

TEHRAN, Oct. 09 (MNA) – The 34th International Film Festival for Children and Youth kicked off on Saturday in collaboration with the Iranian Cinema Organization, Farabi Cinematic Foundation, and Isfahan Municipality.           ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 09 (MNA) – Attended by the Iranian Parliament's Speaker and the head of the Office of the Leader, an inauguration ceremony was held for the new head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), Peyman Jeballi on Saturday.

TEHRAN, Oct. 09 (MNA) – Here are the front pages of Iran’s English language dailies on Saturday, October 9.  ...

HAMEDAN, Oct. 09 (MNA) – The First National Plum Festival was held in the tourist destination village of “Heidareh Ghazikhani”, Hamedan province on Friday.          ...