News Archive - 25 November 2021

Blast in Somalia leaves five dead, dozens injured

A large explosion outside a school in Somalia’s capital on Thursday has killed at least five people, including students, witnesses said. The terrorist Al-Shabaab terrorist group claimed the responsibility for the deadly attack, AP reported. The blast sent a plume of smoke above a busy part of Mogadishu during...

Coal mine fire in Russia’s Siberia kills 9, dozens trapped

A fire at a coal mine in Russia's Siberia killed nine people and injured 44 others on Thursday, with dozens of others still trapped, authorities said. The blaze took place in the Kemerovo region in southwestern Siberia. Russia's state TASS news agency reported, citing an unnamed emergency official, that...

Blast rocks Afghan capital Kabul, casualties unknown: Report

"We heard a huge blast in Karte Parwan neighborhood at the Security District 2 roughly at 4:15 pm local time. The whole place has now been sealed off, as the blast also caused panic among the people at the evening rush hour," eyewitness Farukh Shah told Xinhua. The Taliban security forces...

Iran FM voices concern over recent conflict in Caucasus

Speaking in a telephone conversation with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Wednesday, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian voiced concern about the recent military conflict in Caucasus region and called for restraint and respect for territorial integrity. During the phone talk, the two sides discussed various issues including bilateral relations, economic cooperation between...

FM rejects Bahrain claim on detecting weapons linked to Iran

Saeed Khatibzadeh Spokesman for Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wed. pointed out that such false and baseless allegations raised by Bahraini government officials concurrent with organizing ‘Manama Dialogue Summit 2021’, which had become a tribune against Iran, show Bahrain's lack of understanding of regional issues. Bahraini government has preferred to...

Headlines of Iran's Persian dailies on November 25

Arman Melli IAEA chief says talks on access to Karaj site ‘fruitless’ Reaching an agreement with IAEA ‘possible’: Amir-Abdollahian Prediction of behavior change of IAEA with Iran Asia Iran’s absence in International Oil Conference! President Raeisi to depart for Turkmenistan next week BMW denies purchasing parts from Iran Aftab...

OIC has great capacity to help realize Islamic unity: FM spox

Saeed Khatibzadeh Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman made the remarks on Thursday in repornse to a question about the current status of cooperation between Iran and Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). "OIC has high potential for to help realize Islamic unity and core values of Islam," Khatibzadeh said. The foreign minister...

Iran to continue cooperation with IAEA: AEOI spox

In a televised interview and in reaction to the remarks of IAEA Chief Rafael Grossi, Kamalvandi said, "Given that our issues had different components, there were a lot of issues. In themeantime, there was very little time and he (Grossi) travelled to Iran just ahead of meeting of IAEA’s Board of Governors,...

Russia hopes Iran, IAEA to reach an agreement

Russia’s Permanent Representative to the Vienna-based international organizations Mikhail Ulyanov said on Wednesday, "Of principal importance is the continuation of the IAEA monitoring at Iranian nuclear infrastructure facilities that are critically important from the point of view of the JCPOA restoration. As long as the director general confirms the...

Iran, Tajikistan stress enhancing cultural-artistic ties

Iranian Ambassador to Tajikistan Mohammad Taghi Saberi met and held talks with Minister of Culture of the Republic of Tajikistan, Ms. Zulfiya Davlatzoda in Tajik capital Dushanbe on Thursday to discuss promoting ties in the fields of art and culture. On his Instagram page on Monday, Mohammad Taghi Saberi Ambassador of...

China supports Iran's rightful stances: ambassador

Mohammad Keshavarzzadeh, Iran's ambassador to the People's Republic of China, made the remarks on his Twitter account about the phone conversation between the Iranian and Chinese foreign ministers on Wednesday. "Yesterday in Tehran, I attended an online meeting between the Iranian and Chinese foreign ministers which took place a...

Iran emphasizes maintaining good relations with neighbors

A few days left before  the talks in Austrian capital Vienna, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator and Deputy Foreign Minister for the Political Affairs Ali Bagheri Kani will meet and hold talks with Kuwaiti officials as part of Tehran's efforts to prove a willingness to have good relations with its neighbors...

Perpetrators behind Soleimani assassination must be punished

Iran-Iraq Joint Judicial Committee to investigate the assassination case of Iran’s top general Qassem Solmeinai and Iraq’s PMU Second-in-Command Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis issued a final statement at the end of their two-day meeting on Thursday. After two days of talks, it was decided at that all possible judicial and legal measures...

Bagheri meets with Kuwaiti FM to discuss bilateral ties

Kuwait's official news agency 'Kuna' reported on Thursday that Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for the Political Affairs Ali Bagheri Kani, who arrived in Kuwait on an official visit on Thursday, met and held talks with Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah Kuwaiti Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry offers condolences over Bulgaria bus

Following a passenger bus fire incident in Bulgaria, which left a number of citizens from North Macedonia dead and injured, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman offered condolences to the government and people of North Macedonia on the tragic and painful incident, the Iranian Foreign Ministry's official website reported. Saeed Khatibzadeh...

Envoy reacts to Israeli accusations against Iran at IAEA BoG

During the meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency on the implementation of the JCPOA by Iran, the representative of the Zionist Israeli regime made baseless accusations against the Iranian nuclear program. In response, the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the...

Iran VP at meeting of SCO council of prime ministers

TEHRAN, Nov. 25 (MNA) – The First Vice President of Iran Mohamad Mokhber took part meeting of the SCO Council of Prime Ministers, hosted by Kazakhstan via video conference on Thursday.    ...