News Archive - 29 October 2021

An Iraqi security source reported a mortar attack on the town of al-Maqdadiyah in Diyala province. According to the report, four mortars hit the villages of Al-Harb and Al 'Anbakiyah in Diyala on Thursday evening. A source told Shafaq News Agency that the security forces rushed to the area to locate...

"We regret the confrontational language that has been consistently used by the French government on this issue, which makes this situation no easier to resolve," said a statement from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's office, according to world media. "We have raised our concerns strongly with both the French...

The head of the country's Central Election Commission Zainiddin Nizamkhodzhayev made the remarks at the commission's Friday meeting, where the final results of the election were approved. "A total of 12,988,964 voters, or 80.12% of those participating in the election, cast their ballots for Shavkat Mirziyoyev, nominated by the...

ISWAP is an offshoot of the Boko Haram terrorist group that has been fighting against the Nigerian armed forces for over a decade. The two militant groups later turned on each other. The conflict, which has spilled into neighboring Chad and Cameroon, has left about 300,000 dead and millions dependent...

Turning to his meeting with Deputy EU Foreign Policy Chief and Coordinator of JCPOA Joint Commission Enrique Mora in Brussel on Wed. Oct. 27, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for the Political Affairs Ali Bagheri Kani said, “We exchanged views on the frameworks and requirements for the formation of these...

Seyyed Kazem Sajjadi, the deputy Iranian foreign minister for consular, parliamentary and Iranians’ affairs, has sat down with Andrei Savinykh, the chairman of the International Committee of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus at the Iranian embassy in Minsk, the Iranian Foreign Ministry reported on its official...

Accordingly, 11,409 new cases of Covid-19 were detected across the country since Wednesday. The ministry stated that of total 11,409 new cases of Coviod-19 detected across the country since yesterday, 1,477 people were admitted to the hospital.  Unfortunately, coronavirus, COVID-19, disease claimed lives of 159 people in the...

Majid Takht-Ravanchi made the comments after the UN Disarmament and International Security (First Committee) approved the resolution presented by Iran, according to IRIB. "Unfortunately, nuclear weapons holders are unwilling to live up to their nuclear disarmament commitments and only try to justify that the the necessary ground is not ready for nuclear...

In the meeting, which was also attended by Iranian Ambassador Kazem Jalali on Friday morning at the Russian Foreign Ministry compound, the two sides discussed bilateral relations, resolving existing issues and problems, opening new chapters in bilateral relations and promoting cooperation in various fields in line with the interests of...

The Tehran Friday Prayers were held for the second week today at the University of Tehran after the 20-month halt due to the Covid-19 restrictions. This week's prayers were led by Seyyed Mohammad Hassan Aboutorabi-Fard who focused his speech on the necessity of formation of Islamic government in Muslim nations...

The Iranian veteran painter Iran Darroudi died of cardiac arrest on Friday morning at the age of 85. Iran Darroudi was also a director, writer, art critic, and university professor who was born in 1936 in Khorasan to a prominent dynasty. Darroudi's lifetime achievements include her 60 individual exhibitions and...

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Addressing his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a message on the Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi felicitated him on Republic Day of Turkey, and he expressed hope that the long-standing and friendly relations between the two countries would further expand. "Mr. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, I cordially congratulate your Excellency and the honorable...

"Our relationship with Iran is a permanent one, it's not predicated on the JCPOA or other things. It's a permanent relationship based on their membership on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which requires all countries in the world to have a system of inspections," he told Euronews. "Of...

In continuation of the blatant violations of the JCPOA, the United States issued a fresh round of sanctions against four Iranian individuals and two entities linked to Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps(IRGC), a notice posted on the US Treasury Department's website on Friday showed. The US Treasury has reiterated its baseless accusations of...

TEHRAN, Oct. 28 (MNA) – Closing ceremony of 16th meeting of Iran-Turkmenistan Joint Commission was held in Tehran in presence of Iran's Minister of Roads and Urban Development Rostam Ghasemi and Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov.          ...

BOJNORD, Oct. 29 (MNA) – Saffron , known as 'red gold' in Iran, is usually harvested in the middle of autumn in North Khorasan province, where many families rely on the most expensive spice in the world to make a living.