News Archive - 22 October 2021

Turkey will deploy heavy weaponry in Syria against the Syrian army if necessary, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters on Thursday, according to Sputnik news agency. This is while Damascus has repeatedly condemned Turkey's illegal deployments in its northern territories, and has demanded that all foreign militaries and...

"I know very well that different people in different countries take different positions on Hezbollah,” the Russian head of state said on Thursday at the conclusion of a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club held in the Russian resort city of Sochi, according to Press TV. “Hezbollah is a...

The death toll in a gunpowder plant blast and fire in the Ryazan Region in central Russia has risen to 16 people and the bodies of 12 of them have been found, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry reported earlier on Friday, according to TASS. It was reported that the fire broke out...

A booster stack, which is the rocket used to accelerate the projectile to hypersonic speeds, failed and the test of the projectile, the hypersonic glide body, could not proceed, the Pentagon statement said, according to the CNN. Because the rocket failed the Pentagon was not able to test the...

The diplomats of 3 countries of Iran, Russia and Turkey known as the guarantors of the Astana format met with the UN special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen on the sidelines of the Syrian Constitutional Committee meeting in Geneva on Friday.  In the quadrilateral meeting, Iranian Foreign Minister’s Senior Advisor on...

According to the official website of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in a telephone conversation discussed the latest developments in Tehran-Ankara ties and regional and international issues of mutual interest such as the Afghanistan developments, holding the Astana summit and the 7th...

Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iranian president's special envoy for Afghanistan said, "Afghanistan is in a complicated and critical situation and the 20 years of American occupation yielded no results but killing, aggression and destruction for the oppressed people of the country." "Under such circumstances, we witness a new wave of terrorist...

The 2022 AFC U23 Asian Cup qualification will be held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan from Oct. 25 to 31 while the Iranian U23 football team is pitted against host Tajikistan, Nepal and Lebanon in Group B. Mehdi Mahdavikia’s boys will kick off the campaign with a match against Nepal on Oct. 25.

Hezbollah Media Relations Office announced that Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah the speech is broadcast live during a ceremony held on the occasion of Prophet Mohammad's birthday anniversary in Ashura Square in Beirut’s southern suburb (Dahiyeh). Hezbollah festival on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) Birthday, held in Beirut’s Southern Suburb, started at 20 O'clock Beirut...

The Friday prayers in the Iranian capital of Tehran were held today for the first time after a 20-month halt amid the Cvoid-19 pandemic.  This week's sermon in Tehran was led by Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Javad Haj Ali Akbari, who focused his speech on unity among Muslims as the Muslims celebrate the birthday anniversary...

The northern province of Ardabil is the eighth destination for President Ebrahim Raeisi and his accompanying delegation as part of his regular visits to different provinces. According to the official website of the presidency, President Raeisi's plane landed at the airport of the border city of Parsabad on Friday morning,...

The Iranian delegation traveled to Tashkent at the invitation of the head of the Central Election Commission of Uzbekistan as the international observer of the presidential election. During this visit, the Iranian parliamentary delegation will convey an invitation from the Speaker of Iranian parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf to Nurdinjon Ismailov the Speaker...

The Friday prayers in the Iranian capital of Tehran will be held later today in Iranian capital for the first time in months after they were halted amid the Cvoid-19 pandemic. This is while the Friday prayers have been underway in other cities, especially in smaller towns across the country at the...

TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) – The new Iranian sports minister Seyed Hamid Sajjadi joined families who were on a walking tour in Arak's Gerdoo tourist area.   ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) – The first edition of endurance horse racing in the categories of 20, 40, 60 and 80 km was held on Friday morning in Isfahan with the participation of 30 competitors from different Iranian provinces.    ...