News Archive - 20 December 2021

"Diverse conversations on the sidelines of the OIC Summit in Islamabad. I stressed developing cooperation with Pakistan, neighboring and Islamic countries", the Iranian Foreign Minister tweeted. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks referring to his recent visit to Pakistan to attend the 17th Extraordinary Session of the Organization of Islamic...

Martyr Irloo, who was also a chemical warfare veteran, contracted COVID-19 at his mission site in Yemen, Foreign Ministry spokesman said. Due to the late cooperation of some countries, he, unfortunately, returned to the country in unfavorable conditions, and despite using all the treatment measures to improve his condition, he was martyred...

NATO understands that it is impossible to constantly hit Russia's weak spots, dialogue is necessary, otherwise, Moscow will have to give a military response, Konstantin Gavrilov, who heads the Russian delegation at the arms control negotiations in Vienna, said on Monday, according to Sputnik.  He stressed that the...

A Zionist newspaper on Monday reported that a military submarine caught fire at Haifa port. According to the report, the fire caused severe damage to the submarine. According to the IZionist sources, the accident occurred due to a mistake made by one of the submarine's technical crews and caused severe damage to its power...

Fighter jets affiliated with the Saudi coalition launched heavy airstrikes on Sanaa, the capital of Yemen six times, Almasirah reported. According to the report, eyewitnesses reported that Saudi fighter jets targeted six residential areas in Sanaa six times since last night. This is while that a Yemeni official recently...

The Belarusian news agency Belta reported on Monday that a Belarusian diplomat was seriously injured after the country's embassy in London was attacked on Sunday, 19 December. According to Sputnik, some of the attackers were detained by the Metropolitan Police when they attempted to flee the scene of the incident. According...

Head of Joint Operations Command of the Iraqi army Major General Tahsin al-Khafaji on Monday said that American troops have completely withdrawn from the Ain al-Assad base and only advisory forces have remained. In the coming days, an Iraqi security delegation will enter the Al-Harir base in Erbil province...

A truck ran into a US military vehicle on a highway in Bavaria on Monday in what German police described as an accident, the Associated Press reported. The AP cited the military as saying that there were no known injuries among US personnel, but eight soldiers were taken to a...

National Counterterrorism Center forces have killed three ISIL terrorists during an operation in Peshawar city of Pakistan, Pakistani media reported. According to the reports, the incident took place following an armed clash between security forces and ISIL terrorists at their hideout. The mentioned terrorists were the masterminds behind several...

World media have reported on Monday afternoon that an explosion was heard in Kabul 15th Security District at “Khair Khana” roundabout, the capital of Afghanistan. No further details have been published about the blast, the report added. Taliban authorities have not yet made any comments about the incident. Eyewitnesses have told Afghan Tolo...

The Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan stressed the need to develop stable relations with Iran and solidify stability in the region after holding a meeting with an Iranian delegation on Monday.  After the meeting with the Iranian parliamentary delegation headed by Seyed Mehdi Farshadan, the head of...

Moscow has strongly rejected the Berlin court’s verdict which accused Russian of being behind a 2019 assassination of a man in Berlin's Tiergarten park. The Russian foreign ministry summoned the German ambassador on Monday to inform him about the diplomats’ expulsion in what it said was a “symmetrical response to the unfriendly...

Iran FM: Increase in number of Afghan refugees US aggression product Submitting 4 proposals to the OIC meeting in support of the Afghan people, the Iranian Foreign Minister said the increase in the number of Afghan refugees and immigrants is the product of the US aggression and occupation. Addressing...

Atrin Afshari-Tavana won the first award of the painting competition that has been organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations for the third consecutive year. Her sister, Anahita Afshari-Tavana, also managed to win the second award in the international painting competition of Istanbul in Turkey. These...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi on Monday made the remarks in a meeting with the family of Lt. Gen. Qssem Soleimanito to commemorate the second anniversary of the martyrdom of the Iranian top general. The President said that Gen. Soleimani played a key role in saving Iraq and Syria and...

During the meeting, the two sides exchanged their views on the latest situation cooperation of Iran and Iraq on the construction operation of the Shalamcheh-Basra Railway project. For the first time in 2011, Iran and Iraq signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the construction of the Shalamcheh-Basra Railway...

Speaking in a joint meeting with Filippo Grandi,  the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Tehran on Monday evening, Iranian Minister of Interior Ahmad Vahidi stated that UN High Commissioner for Refugees have been formed within the framework of giving humanitarian services to humanity and Islamic Republic of Iran expects...

 The fifth meeting of the "Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Bioresources of the Caspian Sea" was he;d on Monday through video-conferencing with the participation of Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.  According to a report by Iran's agriculture ministry, the Capitan Sea...

The former head of Military Intelligence Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Tamir Hayman has revealed that the Israeli regime played a role in the operation in 2020 to assassinate Iran’s IRGC Quds Force commander-in-chief Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Israeli regime's media said that this was the first time a top Israeli official...

If the country wants to achieve sustainable development, it must take full advantage of maritime opportunities. Speaking at the First National Conference of Economic Diplomacy entitled “Diplomacy and Economics of Sea", which was held at Imam Sadiq (PBUH) University in Tehran on Monday via webinar, Rear Admiral Sayyari stated...

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi met and held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Monday at the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Amir-Abdollahian and Grandi had met on the sidelines of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. During the meeting, the Iranian Foreign...

Richard A. Falk, American professor of Emeritus of international law at Princeton University said in an interview with Mehr News Agency that Iran’s demands in the new round of negotiations with P4+1 in Vienna, are sincere, deserve respect, and are mandated by international law and the UN Charter, and Tehran...

On the third day of the 19th edition of the Asian Karate Championships 2021 hosted by Kazakhstan, Iranian Karate practitioners bagged 4 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals for Iran. The Iranian Karate team has so far won an overall of 13 gold, 5 silver and 8 bronze at...

On the third day of his trip to Iraq, Seyed-Reza Salehi Amiri, President of Iran's Olympics Committee visited several sports centers in Iraq. During the visits, Salehi Amiri visited Iraq’s Physical Education college and stressed the valuable position of Physical Education colleges in Iran with the presence of veterans,...

Secretary of International Avicenna Students Festival Mahdi Rashidi Jahan stated that INEX 2021 was held on 13-16 Dec. 2021 in Hyderabad, India, adding, the competition is held annually with the support of the International Federation of Inventors Associations (IFIA).  He also said that this year students from 30 countries participated...

The victims were villagers in the Giwa Local Government Area, Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna state’s commissioner for internal security, said in a press statement, Anadolu Agency reported. Aruwan said the bandits also burned down homes and set fire to cars, trucks and any agricultural produce they came across. “Security agencies...

Al-Alam News Network quoted Saudi sources as saying that a number of explosions were heard in the Saudi cities of Jizan and Khamis Mushait following a missile attack. According to Yemen's Al-Alam Al-Harbi, several Saudi cities have been targeted by ballistic missiles and UAVs during the operation. According to...

At least 239 people were injured and 52 were missing after Typhoon Rai ravaged the southern and central regions of the archipelago, the police tally showed,  More than 300,000 people fled their homes and beachfront resorts as Rai slammed into the country on Thursday as a super typhoon, Times...

With 99.95% of ballots counted, Boric won with 55.87% of the vote, securing victory over his right-wing opponent, Jose Antonio Kast, who trailed with 44.13%, according to the Electoral Service of Chile. Boric will be sworn in as President on March 11, CNN reported. Earlier Sunday,...

Minister Faraz was on his way to Kohat district when gunmen attacked his vehicle in which his driver got injured, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said in a tweet. The driver was shifted to a nearby hospital, where his condition was stable, Shibli said in a...

China welcomes cooperation with the United States, but is not afraid of confrontation, and in the event of a confrontation, it will “fight to the bitter end,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday, Oops Top reported. “China’s position is clear and unchanging: if the dialogue is equal,...

Araman-e Melli: Iran-Azerbaijan-Georgia-Europe corridor to be activated UAE source of first Omicron variant case in Iran Ebtekar: Technical-security checks on IAEA cameras to be started Etemad: Omicron arrives Iran Etela'at: Overhauled military aircraft, SDVs, destroyer join Iran Navy First Omicron case detected in Iran Iran FM offers proposals for...

"Any threat to the nuclear and military bases of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Zionist regime is not possible without the green light and the support of the United States," said Major General Gholam Ali Rashid.  Referring to Iran's active presence in the Vienna talks and serious...

The recent round of Vienna talks ended last Friday with slight progress on a number of issues. After more than two weeks of intense negotiations, the delegations decided to take a break to make consultations in capitals and prepare for the next round which is expected to take place...

Political, security and social deputy governor of Bushehr province Mohammad Taqi Irani said that the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran carried out a defence drill over Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant on Monday morning. Irani stated that the purpose of this exercise was to prepare and fully coordinate the armed forces, adding...

The Spokesman of the joint exercise of the Payambar-e Azam 17 General Abbas Nilforoshan announced the start of the drill, saying that the exercise will be held for five days on the shores of the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and the general area of Hormozgan, Bushehr and Khuzestan provinces with the...

During the meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the 17th Extraordinary Session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Council of Foreign Ministers in the Pakistani capital on Sunday, the two sides emphasized the need for continued cooperation between Iran and Pakistan in fighting terrorism. Amir-Abdollahian said the two countries'...

Speaking in his weekly presser, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman answered some questions raised by reporters over the latest regional and international developments. Iran has no direct talks with Americans in Vienna Referring to the claims leveled by the US National Security Adviser that he had sent a direct message...

Seyyed Rouhollah Latifi said that 21,778,387 tons of goods, valued at $10,447,084,435, were exchanged between Iran and other ECO member states during the first eight months of the current Iranian calendar year (from March 21 to Nov. 22), showing a 34 and 44 percent hike in terms of weight...

New Mexico inmates sell food to raise money, donate to local charitiesThe Santa Fe New Mexican via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA group of prison club presidents stood in a circle at the Penitentiary of New Mexico's Level 2 facility Thursday reminiscing about the holiday foods they used to enjoy...

TEHRAN, Dec. 20 (MNA) – Esteghlal football team earned a hard-fought win over second-tier Navad Urmia in Iran’s Hazfi Cup Round of 32 in the penalty shootout on Sunday.