News Archive - 5 February 2022

According to Xinhua, Deqow Abdinur Aden, an army commander in Jubaland State in southern Somalia, said the passenger bus was heading to the southern port city of Kismayo when it was hit by the landmine. "Three others were injured in the landmine blast carried out by militants. The injured...

The world's silence in the face of catastrophe in Yemen, where the people of this country are deprived of electricity, oil, gasoline and medical equipment, is meaningless, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky stated. Speaking on Saturday at a virtual conference to review the dimensions of aggression in Yemen, Zakzaky pointed to...

"The only upside of Trump’s disastrous “maximum pressure” Iran policy was that it definitively proved that unilateral sanctions make things worse, not better," American senator Chris Murphy wrote in a post on his Twitter account on Saturday. Murphy further repeated the false claim against the peaceful Iranian nuclear agreement and...

The Cessna 207 single-engine plane belonging to the Aerosantos tourism company came down shortly after takeoff from the small airport of Maria Reiche in Nazca around noon, it said in a statement. There were no survivors among the seven on board, which a diplomatic source told AFP included two...

In his message to his Sri Lankan counterpart, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Iranian President Raeisi congratulated the country's Independence Day. "I offer my sincerest congratulations to Your Excellency on the anniversary of Independence Day of your country," Raeisi said.  The President also expressed hope that the relations between the two countries will be expanded in various...

Mohammad Reza Mirtajjudini, a member of the Budget Integration Commission at the Iranian parliament pointed to the approval of his respective commission on Saturday afternoon and said that "At today's meeting of the Commission, the proposal of the Energy Commission in the 1401 fiscal year budget was approved, which obliges the...

The Saudi-led coalitions have bombarded Yemen's Sanaa airport four times on Friday night, Elnashra reported.  Meanwhile, earlier in the day, 3 people were killed in the Saudi coalition attack on Al-Raqqa in Saada province.  According to the reports, some areas in al-Wadi and al-Jawbah cities in Marib province have been...

More than 330,000 customers were without power from Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee up through Ohio and into New York, Poweroutage.us showed on Friday after an ice storm downed power lines and trees across the area, AlJazeera reported.  Freezing rain and snow weighed down tree limbs and encrusted...

Palestinian groups called on Arab and African countries attending the African Union (AU) summit that is slated for Saturday to revoke the Zionist regime's membership in the union, Palestine Al Yaum reported.  In a statement issued on Saturday, the Hamas movement urged AU members to oppose the Zionist regime's membership...

France will help the United Arab Emirates with its air defense system after a series of ballistic missile and drone attacks launched from Yemeni forces, its defense minister said on Friday. Paris has close economic and political ties with Abu Dhabi and has a permanent military base in the...

Dmitry Peskov, Putin's press secretary, said Friday that Vladimir Putin will meet with his counterpart Emmanuel Macron of France on February 7, AlJazerra repported.  The Kremlin has said also that the Russian president is slated to meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on February 15. They will discuss...

Erdoğan was due to attend an inauguration ceremony in northern Turkey's Zonguldak on Saturday, but his attendance was switched to videoconference earlier in the day, the state-run Daily Sabah reported. During his address, Erdoğan said that he had to cancel his visit over cold and problems with his voice.

In a tweet on Friday, Seyyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini wrote, “I was deeply saddened to hear about the news of occurrence of a terrorist attack in Pakistan’s Balochistan province which led to the killing of several people.” While condemning terrorism in all its forms, the envoy stressed the need...

Aftab: Most dangerous scenario for United States 'alliance of China, Russia, Iran' Ebtekar: Putin meets Xi; changing of global equations Asia: Leila Hatami awarded at Vesoul Int’l Film Festival of Asian Cinemas Etemad: Preparation of region for revival of JCPOA Etela'at: Iranian satellites to be placed in 2000 km orbit next...

In a tweet on Saturday, Iran’s top security official Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani wrote, “#Iran's legal right to continue research and development and to maintain its peaceful nuclear capabilities and achievements, along with its security against supported evils, cannot be restricted by any agreement.” MA/IRN84638853...

Another statistic showed that $280.630 million worth of steel and steel products were exported from the country from March 21 to Dec. 22 in a way that mining and mineral sector accounted for maximum 55.6 percent export share to itself. In this period, 3,098,000 tons of products...

Speaking to reporters on Saturday, the Iranian Foreign Minister emphasized that, instead of sending messages through its intermediaries in Vienna talks, the United States must show its goodwill. In response to a question of Mehr news agency regarding removal of some restrictions on nuclear sanctions announced by the United States...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday signed several sanctions waivers related to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Some believe that the move by the Biden administration is in fact in line with the White House's "blame game" and can not have economic positive effects on...

But Israel’s hurry to jump in dampened hopes for a rapid thaw. A string of missile and drone attacks against the UAE over the last few weeks significantly has flamed tensions in the already boiling region of the Persian Gulf. The attacks were claimed by the Sanaa-based government, a...

President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi congratulated the Italian President on his re-election. "Congratulations on your re-election as President of Italy," Raiesi told Sergio Mattarella at the start of his message.  Emphasizing the friendly relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Italy in addition to recalling the...

In an interview with Al-Arabiya, Rafael Grossi said that an agreement could be reached in the coming days, but it is a complicated issue. The IAEA chief was quoted by Al-Arabiya as saying no agreement will be reached without Iran's commitment and the cooperation of all parties. Meanwhile, he expressed concern over the...

"The US decision to restore “nuclear” waivers is a move in the right direction. It will help expedite restoration of #JCPOA and mutual return of #US and #Iran to compliance with 2015 deal, "Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said on Saturday in a post...

"Real, effective and verifiable economic benefits [for Iran] is a necessary condition for reaching an agreement in Vienna," the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani wrote on his Twitter account in reaction to the restoration of sanction waivers to some countries cooperating with Iran by the United States. Also...

The Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported on Saturday of a telephone conversation between Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi during which they discussed the relations between the two countries. According to an official statement from the Iraqi Prime Minister's public relations department, the telephone conversation focused...

Speaking in an interview with Mehr news agency on Wed., Ali Bahadori Jahromi reiterated that sanctions are not going to be removed just on paper, because, such issue happened in the previous administration of the country in a way that the then governor of Central Bank of Iran (CBI) had...

Late last week, after many ups and downs regarding the Iranian national wrestling team's trip to the United States, this trip was canceled due to the non-issuance of visas for six wrestlers of the 20-member Iranian team. As a matter of fact, this visit had been raised with the official...

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ARAK, Feb. 06 (MNA) – Sarband Ski Resort in Shazand is one of the tourist attractions in Markazi province which attracts many enthusiasts to sports activities during the winter season. Located 45 km southwest of Arak, Markazi province, Sarband Ski Resort welcomes people from all over the province every...

TEHRAN, Feb. 05 (MNA) – Foreign minister and the foreign ministry's personnel visited the mausoleum of Imam Khomeini on the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on Saturday.   ...

TEHRAN, Feb. 05 (MNA) – The Fajr International Film Festival is underway at Tehran's Milad Tower for the 6th day Sat. The event is held annually on the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution with the participation of filmmakers from Iran and overseas.             ...