News Archive - 11 December 2021

US President Joe Biden has pledged support to states affected by a swarm of devastating tornadoes that demolished homes, levelled businesses and left at least 100 people feared dead, Al-Jazeera reported. Describing the tornadoes as likely “one of the largest” storm outbreaks in history, Biden on Saturday approved an...

Iraqi sources on Sunday morning reported that a logistics convoy of the US army was targeted in Iraq’s Al Diwaniyah. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. The report comes as Iraqi sources reported an attack on US convoys on the Syrian-Iraqi border in recent days. Over the...

Khatibzadeh: 20-year Iran-Russia roadmap almost finalized According to the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, the 20-year Iran-Russia roadmap has been almost finalized. As the sanction removal talks continue in Vienna, the meetings of Iran's ambassadors to the neighboring countries are also under for five days in Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said,...

Russia’s Permanent Representative to the Vienna-based international organizations Mikhail Ulyanov said that the current atmosphere of negotiations between Iran and the P4+1 group is 'positive'. "To my surprise, some analysts and journalists describe the situation at the #ViennaTalks as dramatic, “almost deadlock”. This is not the case in point," wrote Ulyanov in a...

Gunmen killed one police officer guarding a polio vaccination team in northwest Pakistan, Associated Press reported. The attack took place in the district of Tank in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on the second day of a five-day anti-polio drive to vaccinate 6.5 million children in the province. Police officer Sajjad...

The series of counter-terrorist operations of the Iraqi Army and Popular Mobilization Unit (PMU), also known as Hashd al-Sha’abi continues in different parts of Iraq. The Iraqi Air Force on Saturday targeted three headquarters of the ISIL terrorist group in the Hamrin Mountains in Diyala. Prior to the airstrike, Iraqi forces arrested six terrorists in...

Local Syrian sources announced that Turkish military forces, in cooperation with their affiliated armed groups, targeted the village of al-Dardara in the northern suburbs of Al-Hasakah province, SANA reported. The attacks have damaged the houses and properties of the Syrian citizens, according to local sources. The sources also said...

Confirming the airstrikes on Saturday, Iraqi security media source announced that five ISIL hideouts have been bombed by Iraqi F-16 fighter jets in the eastern province of Saladin, Almaloumah News reported. Iraqi security agency in a statement said that seven airstrikes using F-16 fighter jets carried out the operations...

India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told Lok Sabha yesterday that the US sanctions on Iran have not affected India’s Chabahar port project, the Print reported.  Jaishankar made the comments in reply to a question, adding that US sanctions are “not relevant” to India’s Chabahar port project in...

In a statement, the Iranian health ministry said that the number of cases infected with the Covid-19 pandemic in the country has declined to below 2,000 cases for the first time after 460 days. So far, 58,595,066 people have received the first dose, 49,157,835 people the second dose and 2,237,841...

“We will definitely agree to nothing less than that agreement and this will certainly be a red line for the Islamic Republic of Iran,"  Ali Bagheri Kani told Press TV on Saturday. "We have a basic red line, which is backed up by logic,” he said, adding, “We have...

The Leader’s meeting with nurses and families of martyred defenders of health will be held at Imam Khomeini (RA) Husseiniyah tomorrow on Sunday according to the instructions of the National Coronavirus Combat and Prevention Headquarters by fully observing health protocols and guidelines. MA/IRN84573514...

TEHRAN, Dec. 11 (MNA) – Biden's administration is pushing for a bill that allows the Federal government to legally access private citizens' personal financial data. Many deem the bill as unconstitutional and de facto espionage.

Issuing a statement, the ISIL terrorist group claimed responsibility for Friday's attacks in the Afghan capital of Kabul which killed and wounded at least five people. The Iranian IRIB correspondent cited the Taliban sources saying that two people were killed and three others were injured in the first blast, which...

Fierce clashes between Zionist forces and Palestinians in the West Bank city of Al-Khalil came after the Zionist forces brutally raided homes of Palestinian citizens, Palestine Al-Youm reported. Eyewitnesses reported that the Zionist forces used tear gas and plastic bullets against Palestinians after brutally raiding their homes, the report...

While Russia rejects the Western allegations that it is seeking to attack Ukraine, the G7 foreign ministers held a meeting in the northern English city of Liverpool on Saturday to present a united front against Moscow. The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell was also attending the meeting in Liverpool.

Saudi fighter jets mistakenly targeted their positions in Marib province, killing and wounding a number of their coalition member, Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni reported. This is not the first time that the Saudi coalition targets their own positions, according to the reports. Recently, a member of the political council of Yemeni Ansarallah...

At least 50 people are likely dead after multiple tornadoes barreled through southwestern Kentucky late Friday, according to Gov. Andy Beshear, CNN reported. "We believe our death toll from this event will exceed 50 Kentuckians, probably end up closer to 70 to 100 lost lives," Beshear said at a...

Authorities said the suspect had tried to buy a firearm and a hand grenade online and make explosives. Hamburg’s top security official, Andy Grote, described the incident as “very, very serious”. The 20-year-old German-Moroccan suspect — who has not been named — was taken into custody in August. A...

Participants are set to demonstrate against mandatory COVID-19 vaccination, health passes and a number of other social issues, Ruptly which is a Russian video news agency said in a report on Youtube after sharing a video of the protests. The Yellow Vest movement was born in response to a proposed...

Speaking at the meeting of ambassadors of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the neighboring countries, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that relation with Asian countries is one of the priorities of the government's foreign policy. Balanced, active, dynamic, and intelligent diplomacy has been chosen as the slogan of the foreign policy...

Speaking upon his arrival in Tehran late on Friday after his two-day visit to the Turkish city of Istanbul, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf expressed his hope on finalization of comprehensive cooperation document between the two countries which will boost the economy of the country optimally. Iranian Parliament...

During the hiatus, the West mounted a media warfare aimed at pocketing further concessions Iran is unwilling to give. The seventh round of talks was resumed on Thursday with a plenary session of chief negotiators. The meeting in the Coburg Hotel was co-chaired by Deputy Secretary-General of the EU...

Speaking in the meeting with heads of the missions of the Islamic Republic of Iran in neighbouring countries, Raeisi said, "The enemy's strategy is to keep the sanctions [against Iran], and our strategy is to overcome the sanctions in two ways of neutralizing them and taking serious action to remove the...

Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, the Iranian vice president for parliamentary affairs on Saturday held talks with Shafiq Dayoub, Syrian Ambassador to Tehran. During the meeting, Hosseini said that Iran’s 13th administration under president Ebrahim Raeisi is seeking to expand cooperation with the region and neighboring countries as a top priority...

The Sudi newspaper, Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Saturday that the negotiating parties to the JCPOA have entered into deep talks on the proposals made by Iran in Vienna. Iran has not backed down from its position and not presented a new draft other than what it presented last week, the source acknowledged, adding that there...

The Chief Commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami made remarks at the ceremony of delivering 110 speedboats to the IRGC Navy fleet. "Generating power is not a habit for us, but it is inspired by a strong strategy and follows a strategic logic, and...

As the sanction removal talks continue in Vienna, the meetings of Iran's ambassadors to the neighboring countries are also under for five days in Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said, speaking in an interview with IRIB TV on Saturday. Good Neighborliness is the first priority of the foreign policy of the...

Constantine Siokov made the remarks in an interview with Russia Today. Tel Aviv is unlikely to start a war against Iran, and Israel is estimated to have between 200 and 400 nuclear warheads, said the Russian official when asked about the possibility of a war between Iran and the Zionist regime. Iran...

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The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced the nominees for the 2021 Paralympic Sport Awards recently. The IPC has nominated the Iranian national sitting volleyball team as one of the three nominees for the title of the best team this year. Iran has crowned men's sitting volleyball champions for a...

TEHRAN, Dec. 12 (MNA) – Here are the front pages of Iran’s English language dailies on Sunday, December 12.          ...

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TEHRAN, Dec. 12 (MNA) – Heads of Iranian missions in neighboring countries met with President Ebrahim Raeisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian at the Foreign Ministry on Saturday.      ...