News Archive - 24 October 2021

The earthquake struck at a depth of 60 kilometres some 65 kilometres north of Taiwan's Hualien City and 30 kilometres south-southeast of Yilan, Sputnik said. There has been no immediate reports about casualties or damage caused by the earthquake. Taiwan is located near the Ring of Fire - an...

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Colombian security forces have captured the country's most-wanted drug trafficker, a rural warlord who stayed on the run for more than a decade by corrupting state officials and aligning himself with combatants on the left and right, ABC News reported. President Iván Duque likened the arrest of Dairo Antonio...

On the auspicious occasion of the birth anniversaries of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and Imam Sadiq (pbuh), the participants in the International Conference on Islamic Unity, the heads of the three branches of government (judiciary, executive, and legislative) together with a group of government officials met with the Leader of the...

"Instead of allocating a $ 1.5 billion budget for evil acts against Iran, the Zionist regime had better focus on supplying $ trillions to repair the damage caused already by Iran's crushing response," Secretary of Iran’ Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani said in post on his Twiiter account...

President Ebrahim Raeisi went to Azadi Indoor Stadium in Tehran on Sunday afternoon to see the National Senior Pahlavani Wrestling Championship in Iran and fasten the armband around the arms of this year's Iran's Pahlavan (Champion). The Iranian medal winners in recent Tokyo Olympics and Para-Olympics are also present in Azadi Indoor...

"The country's foreign policy is to have broad engagement with the world, especially with its neighbors," the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ebrahim Raeisi said on Sunday during the meeting of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei with guests of the 35th International Islamic Unity Conference, which wrapped up...

In an interview with NBC News, International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi said he’s been unable to establish direct communication with Iran’s new administration under President Ebrahim Raeisi. “I have never spoken to the new foreign minister,” Grossi said. “I hope to be able to have the...

The series of anti-terrorist operations of the Syrian army continues in different parts of the country. Syrian fighters bombed Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist positions in Idlib, Al-Mayadeen reported. According to the report, Syrian sources stated that Syrian army fighter jets heavily targeted Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist positions in southern Idlib. In...

One person was killed and two others were injured when a car bomb exploded in the city of Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province in Afghanistan, AVA news agency reported. According to AVA, the explosion occurred in the Police District 8 area of Jalalabad. No group has claimed responsibility for...

A Russia-led military exercise held over six days near the Tajik-Afghan border, designed to demonstrate Moscow stands ready to protect Dushanbe in the event of an incursion from the south, reached its conclusion on Saturday, according to Reuters. The exercise, carried out by the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO),...

The Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI) is investigating the fatal overnight shooting, the CNN reported earlier today. It was Homecoming weekend at FVSU when the tragic incident occurred blocks away from the university campus, which is still an "active scene," according to GBI. The individual who died was not...

In the meeting in Tehran on Saturday, the Iranian foreign minister expressed his satisfaction with the implementation of some of the long-term infrastructure projects in the fields of transportation, trade, finance and banking in ECO and expressed hope that the unfinished projects would be completed during the new ECO secretary...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday that he had instructed the Turkish Foreign Ministry to declare persona non grata ambassadors of 10 countries, including the United States, that have called on Ankara to release Osman Kavala. Now, the United States is seeking clarity from the Turkish Foreign Ministry over...

Speaking on Saturday morning at the meeting of the National Task Force Against Coronavirus, Ayatollah Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi appreciated the efforts of all those who are involved in the fight against COVID-19. "In the fight against coronavirus, persuading public opinion is an inevitable necessity", he said. The president added,...

According to the Public Relations of Tehran International Short Film Festival, the jury members are as follows: Ensie Shahhosseini Born in 1954 in Gorgan. Writer and Director. Graduated in cinema directing. She wrote screenplays such as "Del Namak", "Let's not muddy the brook", "Pourya Vali", "Avinar", "Rush, Sun's gone",...

Ali Salehabadi, the new CBI governor in a virtual meeting with the CEO of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), ministers of economy, governors of central banks and heads of regional financial, said that "Iran, like many other countries, has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic but is now on...

The flight between Iran's Tabiz and Turkey's Ankara will start operating from October 31, Director General of East Azarbaijan Province Airports Ramin Azari said on Saturday. The flights will be carried out once a week with the plane landing at Tabriz's Shahid Madani International Airport at 3:5 PM and taking off from the...

Headed by Iranian lawmaker Gholamreza Nouri Ghezeljeh, Iran-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Friendship Group has traveled to Uzbekistan upon an invitation by Uzbek Head of Central Commission for elections to observe the upcoming presidential elections in Uzbekistan. Referring to the developments of the past few years in Uzbekistan, the head of the Iranian...

Addressing the closing ceremony of the 35th International Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran, the Speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf called for inclusive dialogue among Muslim countries. Ghalibaf said that Mujahideen such as Martyr Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani put in practice the approach of unity among Muslims. "American troops...

"We are ready to cooperate with the Islamic world in the development of nuclear technology in line with the welfare of the people and Islamic societies, in order to pave the way for the new Islamic civilization," Spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi said in remarks...

According to the Information Center of the Office for Preservation and Publication of Works of Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, concurrent with the auspicious birth anniversary of Holy Prophet Muhammad (S) and Imam Ja’far Sadiq (PBUH) and Unity Week, the activity of Indian edition of the Leader's...

The International Islamic Unity Conference kicked off in the Iranian capital of Tehran in the presence of Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi on Tuesday. World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought has scheduled the 35th edition of the Islamic Unity Conference for October 19-24 ending with the birth...

Raeisi congratulates Muslim leaders on Prophet birth anniversary Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi felicitated the birth anniversary of Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) to the heads of Muslim states. In separate messages on Saturday, Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran congratulated the birthday anniversary of...

 Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held a telephone call with his Azeri counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov on Saturday. In the telephone conversation, Amir-Abdollahian pointed to the recent constructive contacts between the two foreign ministers and praised the release of two Iranian drivers detained in the Republic of Azerbaijan, and described this...

On the occasion of the birthday anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and Imam Jaafar bin Muhammad Al-Sadeq (AS) on Saturday, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei agreed with pardoning or reducing the sentences of 3,458 convicts. The list of the convicts had been proposed to the Leader...

TEHRAN, Oct. 24 (MNA) –The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hosted the foreign guests of the 35th edition of the Islamic Unity Conference and Iranian officials at Tehran's Hosseinieh Imam Khomeini on Sunday.   ...