News Archive - 13 March 2022

“We think that sanctions will not solve the problem,” the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said while answering a question about Turkey's position on imposing sanctions against the Russian Federation, according to TASS, as cited by Trend of Azerbaijan. “For example, the closure of airspace. We cannot close it in...

The attack was carried out at a checkpoint in the city of Makhmur located in southeastern Mosul, according to the security official, Baghdad Al-Youm reported. The area was occupied by ISIL in 2014 and after three and a half years of fights was completely liberated in 2017. Although the Iraqi government...

An American journalist, Brent Renaud, was killed in Ukraine amid Russian attacks, the Kyiv police and New York Times confirmed on Sunday. According to the Politico news website, Renaud, a Peabody-winning filmmaker, was reported to have been wearing a New York Times press badge — though the Times on Sunday...

Hamid Nayyerabadi made the remarks on Sunday and said that the two countries of Iran and Uzbekistan enjoy the high potential to broaden and enhance their bilateral trade. After meeting between the two presidents of the two countries in the very near future, it is expected that relations between Iran and...

"I'm surprised that some journalists seem to think the Vienna talks are concluded," Mohammad Marandi on Sunday wrote in a tweet, adding, "There is no final agreed upon text yet." "We're near the finish line and the US and E3 need to stop dragging their feet like children," he...

Speaking after a parliament session on Sunday while talking to reporters, Mahmoud Abbaszadeh Meshkini, Spokesman for Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said, "Today's meeting was held without guests and on the Vienna talks and its various scenarios. We still believe that the technical issues of the negotiations have...

"Field and Diplomacy - as two components of Iran's power - are used proportionally and judiciously to protect our security & national interests," Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) wrote in a post on his Twitter account in reaction to the Sunday morning's IRGC missile attack...

Speaking in a Cabinet meeting on Sunday, President Raeisi termed a significant move taken by scientists of the country in achieving advanced technology “very valuable and honorable” and said that achieving this technology is one of the manifestations of national authority. Attaining this advanced technology is of the clear...

In reaction to the recent mass executions in Saudi Arabia, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh on Sunday called inhumane act committed by Saudi Arabia’s government as ‘gross violation of basic principles of human rights and international law and contrary to humane principles and legal procedures accepted without observing...

"Salgashtegi" (state of getting older) is one of the successful works of this theater director, which has been performed in Iran as well as other countries such as Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, the United States, Lebanon, and Chile. "Salgashtegi" has been staged in Madrid from March 11 to...

Speaking in a meeting with Iran’s Deputy Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Ali Rasoulian on Saturday, the envoy pointed to the age-old relations between Iran and Bulgaria which dates back to 125 years ago and stated that the two countries enjoy the high potential to broaden and enhance their...

The Sri Lankan Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran G.M.V. Wishwanath Aponsu met and held talks with Abdolnaser Derakhshan Chairman of Iran-Sri Lanka Parliamentary Friendship Group in Tehran on Sunday to discuss mutual ties and issues of mutual interests. During the meeting, Derakhshan pointed to the...

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“[Currently] the toll is 61 dead, men, women and children [and] 52 injured who have been evacuated,” Marc Manyonga Ndambo, director of the infrastructure at the SNCC train operator, told AFP news agency on Saturday. Local media quoted the provincial governor, Fifi Masuka, as saying 60 people had been...

"This package will include further defensive assistance to help Ukraine meet the armored, airborne, and other threats it is facing," Blinken said in a statement released by the US Department of State, TASS reported. According to him, "this drawdown will bring the total security assistance provided by the United...

"We are the committed allies of the Russian government," the Venezuelan top diplomat said in an interview with Turkey’s Anadolu news agency on the sidelines of a diplomatic forum in Turkey’s Antalya. According to TASS, Felix Plasencia told EU High Commissioner for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell...

A man who was denied entry to the Museum of Modern Art because his membership had been revoked jumped over the reception desk and stabbed two employees on Saturday afternoon, the police said, NYTimes reported. The police were still searching for the 60-year-old suspect hours after the incident, which began...

Somalian army also managed to thwart several terrorist explosions, Al-Ahram reported. Somalia has stepped up security operations against al-Shabab in the central and southern regions. However, the terrorist group still controls large swaths of rural areas where they ambushed military forces. Al-Shabaab is an armed terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaeda...

The joint exercise (Eagle Resolve 22) kicked off at the US Fort Carson base in Colorado, USA. The drills will continue from March 6-17, 2022 with the participation of the Saudi Armed Forces headed by the Commander of the Diriyah Joint Operations Center Major General Turki Al-Enezi, in addition...

Almaalomah, citing security officials, reported that several officers of the Zionist regime's spy agency, Mossad, were killed and wounded in a missile attack on the Mossad spy headquarters in Erbil. Al-Mayadeen also reported that the Mossad headquarters on Saladin Road was completely destroyed and several Israeli mercenaries were left killed and injured.

Referring to the targeting of the Mossad training centers in Erbil by precision-guided missiles, the IRGC General Public Relations in a statement stressed that the repetition of any evil act of the Zionists will face harsh, decisive and destructive responses. "Following the recent crimes of the Zionist regime and the previous announcement...

An unveiling ceremony was held with the participation of Deputy Commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces Brigadier General Amir Nozar Nemati at Shahid Zarahran technical base in Tehran on Sunday to unveil newly manufactured and engineered trailer trucks that are capable of carrying huge shipments. The trailer trucks...

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iraq issued a statement on the meeting of the Iraqi Foreign Minister, Fuad Hussein, and the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Hassan Sheikh al-Eslami, on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum. According to the statement, the two sides discussed several topics, including security and...

Recently, the Iranian national freestyle wrestling team was scheduled to play a friendly match in the United States at the official invitation from the American Wrestling Federation, but after the American government refused to issue visas for chairman of Iran's Wrestling Federation Alireza Dabir and five other members of the...

A total of 160 lawmakers in a statement on Sunday have called on the country’s negotiating team not to accept the West's artificial deadlines in the ongoing talks in the Austrian capital of Vienna and to pursue the case with preservation of national interests and preannounced country’s red lines...

Walls Street Journals has cited a senior US State Department official as saying that the US won’t negotiate exemptions to Ukraine-related sanctions on Russia to save the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal and instead would try to strike an alternative agreement that excludes Russia if the Kremlin doesn’t back off...

Nouri's arrest at Stockholm Airport on November 9, 2019, indicates a trap and collusion between the Swedish judiciary and MKO terrorist group in such a way that two members of this terrorist group submit a report containing false allegations against Nouri to Swedish authorities in November 2019 through a...

A memorandum of understanding between Azerbaijan and Iran was signed in Baku on the creation of new communication links between the East Zangezur economic region of Azerbaijan and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic through the territory of Iran. The signing of this document was timed to coincide with the 30th...

AUS logistics convoy was targeted in the capital of Dhi Qar province, Nasiriyah, Sabereen News reported. Minutes later, two US logistics convoys came under attack in the Iraqi province of Diwaniyah, according to Sabereen News. No further details have been released so far and no groups or individuals yet claimed responsibility...

At first, Iraqi media, citing Kurdish officials, reported that several missiles had landed in Erbil early Sunday, but there were no confirmed casualties so far from the incident. Later reports, quoting the Kurdistan region's intelligence sources, said as many as 12 ballistic missiles were used in the Erbil attack. "Twelve...

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At 7:00 2,577 polling stations opened across Turkmenistan. More than 3.45 million voters were registered to vote in the presidential race. The Central Election Commission of Turkmenistan has registered nine candidates for the highest state post of Turkmenistan, Business. Com reported. The Election Commission said in Ahal province...

“I believe the negotiation process will work out the optimal form of an agreement,” said Mikhail Podolyak who has been leading Ukraine’s delegation in talks with Russian officials. “We will, in principle, come to a truce and a ceasefire, I think, in the near future,” Podolyak, an adviser to...

Arman-e Melli: Negotiations pause can be solved with direct talks Saudi Arabia executes 81 people in single day Etemad: Iran not to be dependent on non-national powers Etela'at: Turkish citizens hold anti-Israel protests, chant "we’re all Qassem Soleimani" E3 calls for finalizing nuclear agreement in shortest time possible UNICEF...

Reports indicate that Iran has unilaterally suspended talks with Saudi Arabia. The report comes as Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said Saturday at Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Antalya that the fifth round of talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia will be held next Wednesday. The foreign minister's comments came after on February...

On the Occasion of the 30th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Tehran and Baku, Iranian Foreign Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov sent congratulatory messages to each other. "The relations between Iran and Azerbaijan originate from the friendship and good neighborliness of our nations who share common spiritual...

The spy network was trying to carry out acts of sabotage inside Iran but with the vigilance of the intelligence forces, these threats were neutralized and the spy network was dismantled, told Director-General of Intelligence of West Azarbaijan Province to reported on Saturday evening.  The scope of activities of the...

The European Union foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said that the pause was due to “external factors” which he refused to specify. “A pause in #ViennaTalks is needed, due to external factors. A final text is essentially ready and on the table. As coordinator, I will, with my team,...

Referring to the latest developments on the sanction removal talks in Vienna, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that verification of the sanctions removal is of high importance for the Iranian negotiation team. Saeed Khatibzadeh went on to say that at the moment issues related to verification have been...

The meeting is organized to hold talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal stalled and Russia's military operation in Ukraine, Republic World reported.  Al Thani could also potentially meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Saturday, Al Thani spoke to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Iran’s Foreign Minister...

Inattention to observing health protocols and guidelines will cause new peak of coronavirus in metropolis Tehran and people are recommended to take the said issue into serious consideration.

TEHRAN, Mar. 13 (MNA) – The commemoration ceremony of the families of martyrs and Sacred Defense's veterans was held on Sunday in the presence of President Raeisi and Head of the Martyrs and Veterans Affairs Foundation Seyyed Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh.