News Archive - 18 March 2022

Khatibzadeh: Settlement of UK’s debt to Iran not link to any issue Iran's frozen assets in the UK were restored with dignity and without any connection to any issue, the Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson said, dismissing claims that the money is in the position of the Swiss government. The...

Blasts were heard at about 6 am local time on Friday, preceded by the sound of air-raid sirens, as a mushroom-shaped plume of smoke could be seen rising in the sky. Lviv’s mayor, Andriy Sadovy, said the civilian airport had not been hit and that authorities were assessing the situation...

An Iraqi security source on Friday announced the neutralization of ISIL movements in the west of the country, saying that an ISIL member had been arrested. The ISIL element was seeking to enter Haditha which is a city in the western Iraqi Al Anbar Governorate. According to the source, he was...

Avri Steiner, a representative of the Blue and White centrist and liberal political alliance led by the Zionist minister of military affairs Benny Gantz, made the suggestion during a board meeting of a subsidiary of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), according to a report published in the Hebrew-language Maariv...

The list of sanctioned individuals includes Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as well as four deputy defense ministers: Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, Aleksey Krivoruchko, Timur Ivanov, and Dmitry Bulgakov, Sputnik reported. The Japanese sanctions also hit Russian defense entities, including Rosoboronexport, Russian Helicopters, and the United Aircraft Corporation. This is...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday spoke about the recent developments in Ukraine, saying, "West today uses more human idioms, but it perpetrates more crimes against peoples of the world." The incidents that took place in Syria have forced the west to take off those masks gradually, he said, adding...

Adopting a political and selective approach to human rights not only does not help to promote it but also destroys and undermines human rights, Saeed Khatibzadeh said in reaction to the claims of Javid Rahman, Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Iran. Iran has provided detailed comments...

“It is our natural right to destroy any base from which any attack is carried out against the security of Iran and this is a red line” for us, Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif told Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network on Thursday. According to Sharif, Iran’s ambassador in Iraq Iraj...

Negotiations to have the United States rejoin the Iran nuclear deal are down to the last issues, two top Biden administration officials told lawmakers Thursday — another sign the once-defunct accord might soon be revived. Brett McGurk, the National Security Council’s top Middle East aide, and Iran envoy Rob...

Speaking in sermons of Friday prayers at Imam Khomeini Mosalla, Hojatoleslam Seyyed Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard reacted to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's trip to Saudi Arabia. "If the UK is really concerned about human rights, why did Johnson travel to Saudi Arabia immediately after its horrible crime of mass execution?" Aboutorabi Fard said, referring...

Sabereen News reported late Thursday that several explosions were heard from Al-Khalis city in Diyala province. The sound of eight explosions, followed by the firing of several rockets, was heard from Al-Khalis, the source reported. Al-Mayadeen also reported that four rockets were fired from the village of Zanboor in the...

TEHRAN, Mar. 18 (MNA) – The people of Tehran on Thursday night celebrated the birth anniversary of the 12th Shia Imam, Imam Mahdi (May God hasten his reappearance).