News Archive - 7 December 2021

In a late Tuesday tweet, Saeed Khatibzadeh reacted to the new US sanctions against a dozen Iranian government officials and organizations over accusations of human rights abuses, saying, "Even amid #ViennaTalks, US cannot stop imposing sanctions against Iran." "Washington fails to understand that 'maximum failure' & a diplomatic breakthrough are mutually exclusive.

"The presidents touched upon the Iranian problem. <…> Our president stressed the importance and necessity of implementing the initially agreed parameters of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian nuclear program," he said, TASS reported. According to Ushakov, Biden expressed the hope that "the Vienna talks on...

Speaking in his meeting with the Iranian Ambassador to Belgrade Rashid Hassanpour on Tuesday, he appreciated Iran’s logical position in respecting the territorial integrity of different countries, including the Republic of Serbia. Hassanpour also conveyed Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi’s warm greetings to his Serbian counterpart and delivered his invitation...

The man was detained at Roissy airport near Paris as he was about to board a flight to Riyadh, French RTL radio reported. A French police source also told Reuters that extradition proceedings to Turkey were set to begin. RTL said the person arrested was a former Royal Guard...

Ghalibaf stresses need to back Iran-Syria private sectors Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf emphasized the need for supporting private sectors of Iran and Syria. Speaking in his meeting with visiting Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad in Tehran on Monday, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf Parliament Speaker of the Islamic Republic...

“Wasteland” is going to be screened on the Panorama non-competitive section of the Silk Road Film Festival in China which is slated to be held in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province from December 8 to 12, 2021. The synopsis of 'The Wasteland' reads, "A remote brick manufacture factory produces bricks...

The shipment containing US$ 156 000 worth of IV solutions was released from Customs in Bandar Abbas in the southern province of Hormozgan last week and arrived in the capital city of Tehran on Monday 6 December. “The supply of these life-saving IV solutions to the Ministry of Health...

The Iranian delegation was chaired by Sharifi Sadr, Director-General of Women and Human Rights affairs of the Foreign Ministry, and the Indonesian delegation was headed by the Director-General of Human Rights Affairs of Indonesia's Foreign Ministry. The purpose of these talks was to get acquainted with the human rights...

The Iranian national para-athletics team won the title of the Bahrain 2021 Asian Youth Para Games on Monday after bagging 18 gold medals, 14 silver medals, and 10 bronze medals.  The 2021 Asian Youth Para Games, also known as the 4th Asian Youth Para Games was the 4th edition of a...

Officials said unknown motorcyclists hurled a grenade at a police mobile at Mubarak Chowk when it was on patrol duty in the area. The device exploded near the police vehicle, DAWN reported. The personnel — Mohammad Athar and Shahrukh Khan — were injured. Police and other law enforcement personnel...

Brigadier General Yahya Saree on Tuesday held a press conference to detail the extensive Yemeni attacks on different targets in Saudi Arabia, including the Saudi Defense Ministry and the Aramco oil facilities.  The spokesman said that Yemeni forces had targeted critical military positions in the regions of Riyadh, Jeddah, Taif,...

"There is no reason to expect any breakthrough from this dialogue. It will be a working conversation taking place at a very difficult time," he pointed out, TASS reported. Tensions have skyrocketed in Europe recently, the Kremlin spokesman noted. "They are extraordinarily high. It certainly requires a personal conversation...

The next round of Syria talks in the Astana format is due to take place in Nur-Sultan on December 21-22, Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesperson Aibek Smadiyarov said, according to Interfax.  "The next round will be held on December 21-22. The guarantor states and observers have confirmed their participation,"...

The Russain Sputnik news agency quoted on Tuesday the Iwacu news outlet as saying a massive fire in the central prison in the capital of Burundi of Gitega killed at least 38 people and injured 69 others. Vice-President Prosper Bazombanzaas told the reporters that the blaze hit an overcrowded facility in the capital...

A gunman opened fire at a government document center in south-east Moscow, Russian local media have said. According to the Ria Novesti, at least two have been dead while three others have been wounded so far. The gunman has been detained, the report said. There is no official confirmation...

While it was previously announced that the EU foreign service was to open a mission in Kabul by the end of November, now it has been announced again that the union will open its joint office in the coming weeks. A few days ago, the French President Emmanuel Macron...

The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Ali Bagheri Kani, who heads the Iranian negotiating team in Vienna talks, met with his Russian counterpart to discuss the latest developments revolving around JCPOA talks in Vienna in Moscow on Tuesday afternoon. After the meeting with Sergey Ryabkov, Bagheri Kani described the bilateral Iran-Russia...

The Alsumaria TV Chanel reported that an explosion took place on Tuesday in the Wadi al-Shay, a remote area in the southern Kirkuk province of Iraq. According to the reports, two children were killed by this terrorist explosion. This is while the Iraqi province of Basra has witnessed a terrible car bomb explosion a...

Six terrorists were killed on Monday in an airstrike by the F-16 fighters of the Iraqi army against the positions of the ISIL terrorist group in the Anbar desert in western Iraq, a source close to the Iraqi Army reported. The Iraqi army, by a reconnaissance aircraft belonging to the...

Officials with the 49th Wing say no injuries were reported in the Monday morning crash of an MQ-9 Reaper. Base access was not restricted, the US Air Force Times reported. The cause of the crash is under investigation. The US Air Force claimed in a statement that the incident...

A senior member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad Resistance Movement Kheder Adnan on Tuesday announced that a number of freed Palestinian prisoners were arrested again in the occupied lands and territories, Al Mayadeen reported. According to the report, he pointed out that occupying forces of the Zionist regime arrested three...

During the past few hours, US helicopters, with the help of QSD militia, carried out a heliborne operation on some residential houses in the town, and kidnapped several civilians, and transported them to an unknown destination. According to these sources, the US military forces destroyed their homes after abducting...

Speaking in a telephone conversation with Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Nurgozhoevich Japarov on Tuesday, Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi said that friendly and amicable relations between the two countries of Iran and Republic of Kyrgyzstan will continue to grow. Bilateral, regional and international cooperation between the two countries will play a...

Speaking on Tuesday in a meeting with students of Sharif University of Technology on the occasion of Student’s Day, Ebrahim Raeisi referred to the exchange rate fluctuations and said, "We have accurate news that some people are trying around the clock to raise the exchange rate and tie the...

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani, who has traveled to Moscow, met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Alexeyevich Ryabkov. This is Bagheri's second trip to Moscow after taking office. During the meeting which was also participated by the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Russia, Kazem Jalali, the Iranian and...

Yahya Al-e Es’hagh, Chairman of Iran-Iraq Chamber of Commerce broke the news on Tuesday in a meeting of Industrial and Economic Cooperation Development between Iran and Iraq’s Kirkuk province, saying that Iranian and Iraqi governments are determined to develop their regional cooperation in all areas. The determination stems from a special...

In the meeting which took place in Tehran on Tuesday, the visiting Syrian deputy foreign minister Bashar Jafar was also present. Velayati pointed to the strategic relations between the two countries of Iran and Syria and stressed the need for special focus in order to promote and expand the...

Rostam Ghasemi Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development made the remarks in a meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad in Tehran on Tuesday during which he underscored the important role of the private sectors of Iran and Syria in boosting bilateral trade and economic relations. During the meeting, Ghasemi pointed...

Ali Nikzad Deputy Speaker of Iranian Parliament made the remarks in his meeting with the Head of Iran-Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Group in Tehran on Tuesday and reiterated that the current trade and economic relations between the two countries is not satisfactory since the two countries enjoy high potentials and...

Brigadier General Ahmad Taheri said that the police forces managed to arrest the chieftain of the largest drug-trafficking network in the southeast of Iran and the other members. The commander-in-chief of Sistan and Baluchistan province's police said that in an operation, the police forces surrounded the members of the cartel but the criminals ignored...

The Iraqi Security Media Cell announced on Tuesday that a terrorist who intended to carry out a terrorist operation in an Iraqi market was identified and arrested. According to the report, the terrorist was arrested inside a hotel in the city of Kadhimiya. He is the brother of the terrorist who...

Fighter jets of the Saudi coalition launched a large-scale airstrike on Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday morning, Al-Masirah reported. According to the report, eyewitnesses announced that Saudi fighter jets mainly targeted residential areas in Sanaa. This is while that a Yemeni official yesterday disclosed crimes of the recent days...

The latest flare-up brings to around 100 people killed over about three weeks in Sudan's westernmost region, which has been ravaged by unrest for years. "The violence began with an argument and it spiraled into killing six people on Saturday and then on Sunday more than 40 people were...

The car exploded in front of a restaurant that is located near a hospital, the al-Sumaria TV channel reported. The car bomb explosion in Basra has left at least seven people dead and dozens wounded, according to Iraqi media.

The Israeli regime launched an airstrike on the Latakia port area in Syria, Syrian state television reported. Several explosions were heard, it said. According to the TV channel's military source, the attack was carried out with the use of several missiles from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea at a...

On Tuesday, a military convoy belonging to the US army was hit in Al-Hasakah Province, the official Syrian news agency (SANA) reported. According to the SANA report, several bombs were detonated in the way of the American military convoy in Al-Hasakah. The report also said after the attack that several US...

"We are serious about reaching a good deal. Any deal must be comprehensive so that people feel its results in a tangible way," wrote Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in an Instagram post. "What the Iranian negotiating team presented in writing is fully in keeping with the Iran nuclear deal, JCPOA, and...

"With the concerted efforts of all parties, the seventh round of negotiations on resuming the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) kicked off in Vienna. Although there was no breakthrough in the negotiations, all parties showed a serious attitude and agreed to return to the JCPOA...

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Iran is determined to continue negotiations in Vienna on the restoration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the lifting of sanctions, intends to achieve a stable and verifiable deal, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in an interview with Russia’s Kommersant daily. "Despite the lack of...

According to Tasnim News Agency, Iran and P4+1 negotiating delegations finalized the date of the Vienna talks resumption.  The negotiating delegations of Iran and P4+1 will resume talks in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Thursday. According to the report, the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister and head of the Iranian team in Vienna talks Ali...

Upon his arrival to the University, President Raeisi first paid tribute to the sublime status of martyrs of the university. Also, President Raeisi paid a visit to the Technological Achievements Exhibition of Sharif Innovation Center entitled “Driving Force of Innovation, Manifestation of Self-Credence”. In addition, the young Iranian researchers,...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has lifted the curtain on its lists of movies eligible for the 94th Academy Awards in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature, and International Feature Film categories. The Academy lists 26 pics that are eligible in the Animated Feature category and...

He made the remarks in meeting with met Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad on Tuesday morning. The United States is outraged by the collapse of ISIL in Syria and Iraq and the victory of the Resistance Front, said Shamkhani, adding that it is now seeking to create new crises in the region.

Leading a delegation of Emirati officials, the bespectacled UAE National Security Advisor Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al-Nahyan visited Tehran on Monday after weeks of speculation about the date of the visit. He first met with Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, and then Iranian President Ayatollah...

“Spoke to Robert Malley @USEnvoyIran about the negotiation in Vienna to revive #JCPOA. Diplomatic efforts are arduous but rewarding in the end. We are firmly behind the participants’ efforts to sustain the Vienna talk", South Korea's vice minister of foreign affairs, Choi Jong-Kun tweeted referring to his visit with Robert...

TEHRAN, Dec. 07 (MNA) – The Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held a meeting with the members of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Iranian parliament at the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.     ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 07 (MNA) – The commemoration ceremony of University Students’ Day was held at Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran on Monday in the presence of Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.       ...