News Archive - 17 January 2022

A photographer at the scene of the explosion reported seeing body parts lying on the ground outside the house of Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu, who was rushed to a hospital, Aljazeera reported. State-run Somali National News Agency said the blast at a junction of a Mogadishu road was from a...

A US military logistics convoy was targeted in Iraqi province of Basra, near border crossing of “Jarishan” on Sunday afternoon, Sabereen News Telegram Channel reported. According to the report, no group has so far claimed responsibility for targeting US terrorist army’s logistics convoy in “Basra” province. In recent months,...

Thousands of "cascarudos", as they are known in Argentina, have taken over parks and gardens in the town of Santa Isabel, in the central province of La Pampa, ABC News reported. They have also been found in the roofs of houses, where they hide in dark holes and spaces...

The volcano exploded in a massive eruption on Saturday – said to be the biggest since Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991 – triggering a tsunami and blanketing the Pacific island nation in volcanic ash. “Communications remain down and the full extent of the harm to lives and property...

Sabereen News announced on Sunday night that two explosions hit the Karada area of central Baghdad, Iraq.  According to the reports, ambulances were dispatched to the site of the explosions.

James Franklin Jeffrey, an American diplomat who served most recently as the United States Special Representative for Syria Engagement spoke about the purpose behind US presence in other countries. The purpose of the US presence abroad is to strengthen the security interests of the United States and its allies and to...

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Aslam Farooqi, the Pakistani leader of a branch of the ISIL terrorist group has been killed in northern Afghanistan, some Pakistani sources reported on Monday. However, no Pakistani official has confirmed the news yet. Some sources in Afghanistan also reported that Abdollah Orakzai, nicknamed Aslam Farooqi, who led a branch of...

The specter of a possible "Russian invasion" in Ukraine has been in the international focus since October. The West accused Russia of a military build-up near the Ukrainian border, threatening another batch of sanctions, despite Kremlin repeatedly stating it has no plans to attack any state, while it is...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen, who has traveled to Tehran at the head of a high-ranking political delegation, met and held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian at the venue of the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Sunday. Earlier on Saturday, Ali Asghar Khaji,...

The Iranian envoy to Syria Mehdi Sobhani met with Latakia's governor Amer Ismail Hilal to discuss the ways of boosting economic cooperation. Sobhani pointed to the vital role of Latakia in Syria's economic affairs and stressed the need to increase economic cooperation with Syria.  He also spoke about the role of provincial cooperation...

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a meeting UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen on Sunday in Tehran. Iranian foreign minister appreciated Pedersen for contributing to the national dialogue and peace and stability in Syria. Amir-Abdollahian stressed that the political solution is Iran's stance to the Syrian crisis since the...

The EU representative in the Vienna talks who coordinates the meetings between Iran and the P4+1 wrote in a post on his Twitter account that the working group on sanctions lifting held a meeting at Coburg on Sunday. Enrique Mora also said more meetings were scheduled for later on Sunday. He...

The Russian state television channel Rossiya-1 on Sunday announced that the Russian President Vladimir Putin will host his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raeisi for talks in Moscow next week as Russia tries to help Vienna talks to progress, Reuters reported. Rossiya-1 did not disclose when precisely the meeting between the...

Kazem Gharibabadi reacted to the French foreign ministry's statement on re-incarcerating Iranian-French citizen Fariba Adelkhah, who was arrested in Iran in 2019 and handed a five-year jail term in a fair trial but recently been under house arrest. Gharibabadi said that she knowingly violated the rules related to her house arrest dozens...

The spokesman for the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) Seyyed Rouhollah Latifi pointed to the upcoming visit of the Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi to Russia and the Russian Federation is one of Iran's important neighbors and the development of trade, economic and political relations between the two...

Ali Asghar Khaji, Special Assistant to the Iranian Foreign Minister made the comments in a phone conversation with the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Yemen Hans Grunberg on Sunday, during which the two sides exchanged their views on resolving Yemen’s crisis. Referring to the role of the United...

Since the United States began to reimpose sanctions aimed at damaging the Iranian economy, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has stressed the need to press ahead with efforts to neutralize the sanctions imposed on the country.  Iran has tried to boost its economic power by expanding...

Mehdi Safari made the comments in an interview during which he referred to the meeting of the Coordination Headquarters for Foreign Economic Relations which was held to discuss free economic zones in Iran. "Some countries are interested in investing in the Chabahar region for the transit of their goods, so...

Iranian economy minister Ehsan Khandouzi pointed to the announcement by the Iranian foreign minister's statement that implementation of the 25 strategic partnership between Iran and China has begun and said on Sunday that the implementation the 25-year long-term memorandum requires deals at lower levels at the level of ministries and economic...

Stating that Iran tends to strengthen the level of its relations with countries like Russia, Mohammad Hassan Asafari in an interview with Mehr News Agency said that Iran and Russia enjoy great economic potential and should increase the level of their trade exchanges.  He also pointed to the role of Russia...

Speaking at a meeting on Sunday, Seyyed Reza Fatemi Amin Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade put the country’s exports value last year in 1399 (ended March 20, 2021) at $35 billion. He said that Iran exported more than $40 billion worth of products overseas since the outset of the current...

The World Bank had previously predicted that Iran would witness 2.5% economic growth in 2021, but in its latest, it announced that Iran's economic growth was 3.1% last year. The World Bank's report also said that Iran's economic growth rate in 2020 was 3.4%. The is while...

Iran economy minister: Ministries in talks with Chinese to implement 25-year deal The Iranian economy minister said Sunday that Iranian ministries are negotiating with the Chinese side to reach shared deals to implement the 25-year strategic partnership signed between two nations last year. Iranian economy minister Ehsan Khandouzi pointed...

Arman-e Melli: Top negotiators return to Vienna to resume talks Ebtekar: Signs of hope, reaching agreement being witnessed in Vienna talks Etemad: Political game in Iraq going to be complicated  Etela'at: Vienna talks to be resumed in presence of top negotiators Iran seeking to expand export to China Snowfall...

In an interview with IRNA on Sunday, Ahmad Amirabadi said that the implementation of a 25-year deal between Tehran and Beijing is in fact a deadline for the West in talks with Iran in order to clarify the fate of the removal of anti-Iranian sanctions as soon as possible. He called...

Iraqi news sources reported on Sunday that the IRGC Quds Force commander Esmaeil Ghaani traveled to Najaf to visit the holy shrine of the first Shia Imam, Imam Ali (PBUH).  After visiting the holy shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf, Gen. Ghaani visited the tomb of the former Second-in-Command of...

He watched Iran downing a US expensive drone, striking a US base in western Iraq with missiles and flying state-of-the-art drones, and then he topped it all off with a bitter confession for America: Iran is stronger than ever. McKenzie’s tenure as the commander of CENTCOM is reaching its end, with...

Speaking in his weekly press conference on Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh briefed on the latest Iranian foreign policy developments and answered a number of questions put forward by the journalists. Some differences resolved in Vienna talks by JCPOA participants Regarding the latest situation of Vienna talks, Khatibzadeh said...

Speaking in an interview with IRNA on Monday, Javad Karimi Ghodousi assessed that President Raeisi’s visit to the Russian Federation is in line with neutralizing sanctions and improving Iran’s relations with the neighboring countries. Russian President Vladimir Putin was the first president that congratulated the election of Ebrahim Raeisi...