News Archive - 3 April 2022

Explosion reported near Tel Aviv

Palestinian media reported on Monday morning that an explosion had been heard in the center of occupied Palestine. According to the 'Shehab' news agency, residents of Gush Dan in the Tel Aviv area said they had heard a loud explosion. A resident of the area said the blast was so strong...

Serbia's President Vucic declares landslide victory

"According to our information, I received 59.8% to 60.1% of the vote," he said at a press conference held at the office of the Serbian Progressive Party. "I managed to do what no one in Serbian has ever been able to achieve. I am the only one...

Tehran-Qatar ties development in interest of region

Speaking on Sunday night in response to the phone call of the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Tamim Al Thani, President Ebrahim Raeisi congratulated the holy month of Ramadan, referring to the vast potential for increasing the level of relations and cooperation between the two countries. "Tehran and Doha...

US prolongs Vienna talks by its excessive demands

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in his phone call with Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi on Sunday. The Iranian foreign minister criticized the US for imposing new sanctions against Iranian individuals and entities, saying that Iran is ready for a good and lasting agreement, but the American side, with...

Headlines of Iran's Persian dailies on April 4

Asia: Elon Musk may be US next president Ebtekar: President: Iran backs Iraq's regional, international position FM: JCPOA parties close to reaching agreement Etela'at: Amir-Abdollahian: Deal close to reach in Vienna, ball in US court now Raeisi says Tehran supports Iraqi independence Kayhan: Iranian schools reopened after two years...

Iranian short film awarded in US Big Water Film Festival

This is the 21st international prize for Ghasemi's short film. The synopsis of 'Better than Neil Armstrong' reads, "Four kids start their journey to the moon with the mission of finding a mysterious place called The Redland but the gates of Redland are being guarded by a mischievous snake.

Any Israeli crimes to receive harsher response: Palestinians

In a joint statement on Sunday, the start of the holy month of Ramadan, Palestinian groups stressed the need to continue their actions with a variety of methods and tools and to strengthen the resistance against the Israeli regime. The statement from Palestinian Resistance Groups reads, "Until the Palestinian people...

Mexico suspends gasoline subsidy as US drivers cross border

The suspension of the subsidy from April 2-8 covers cities in the border states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, and Baja California, including Tijuana, one of the world's busiest border crossings, Daily Sabah reported. Mexico's finance ministry said in a statement that there was a gasoline shortage...

Iran enjoys unique security in region: Brig. Gen. Heidari

Referring to the presence of Army units across the country, Brigadier General Kiumars Heidari said, "The presence of army forces at the border does not mean that the country is in danger, but that's because of greater readiness and intelligence aristocracy at the borders." He went on to say that the Islamic...

Hezbollah, Amal call on gov. to accept Iran electricity offer

The Lebanese Hezbollah and Amal movements met Sunday in the southern city of Al-Nabatiyah and issued a joint statement on domestic and regional issues. At the meeting, Amal and Hezbollah reviewed the latest internal and regional developments and stressed the need for measures and planning to alleviate the living...

Iranian documentary to vie at ZagrebDox Intl Doc. FilmFest.

Directed by Mehdi Zamanpour Kiasari, the Iranian documentary film “Water, Wind, Soil, Bread” is ' is slated to take part in the competitive section of the ZagrebDox festival. The 25-minute documentary 'Water, Wind, Dust, Bread', which took more than a year to produce, is a delicate narrative of the life of...

Ukraine retakes "whole Kyiv region": military official

Ukraine has regained control of the "whole Kyiv region," Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hanna Maliar said on Facebook on Saturday according to Xinhua news agency. Ukraine has retaken "Irpin, Bucha, Gostomel and the whole Kyiv region," said Maliar. The Russian military continues to carry out systematic missile and...

Shooting in US Sacramento leaves at least 15 victims

Multiple people were shot in downtown Sacramento early Sunday morning, police said, according to CNN. "Officers located at least 15 shooting victims, including 6 who are deceased," Sacramento police tweeted. The shooting happened in the area of 10th and J Streets, Sacramento police spokesperson Sgt. Zach Eaton said. KI/PR...

Peace proposals verbally accepted by Moscow, except on Crimea

Negotiator David Arakhamia told Ukrainian television channels that any meeting between Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin would “with a high probability” take place in Turkey. “The Russian Federation has given an official answer to all positions, which is that they accept the (Ukrainian) position, except for...

Russia rejects Ukraine war-crimes allegations as provocations

The Russian military said in a statement on Sunday that the claims have been raised by Ukraine itself, some Western media outlets and human rights groups, after Moscow had withdrawn its troops from the outskirts of Ukraine’s capital. All photographs and video materials published by the Kiev regime, allegedly showing...

UK may build seven nuclear plants by 2050: minister

Britain could build up to seven new nuclear power plants by 2050, as well as boost offshore wind to diversify energy sources, a senior minister said on Sunday, according to AFP. "If we fast forward to 2050, there is a world where we have six or seven (nuclear) sites...

Light plane with two on board disappears over British Channel

A search was underway Sunday to locate a British light aircraft with two people on board that disappeared over the English Channel, the French coastguard said, according to "timesofmalta" website on Sunday. The Piper PA-28 plane took off from Wellesbourne, a village in central England, on Saturday for the...

Travel to Iran; All you need to know

I want to share whole my 14 days Iran trip with you guys. My intention for this article is first to write my travel memories down somewhere as a memory, second maybe it becomes useful for those who want to travel to Iran, especially for girl travelers as me and...

Iran strongly condemns Herat terrorist attack

Offering his condolences to the families of the victims of this terrorist act, Khatibzadeh wished a speedy recovery for the injured and once again warned against the divisive conspiracies of the enemies of the Islamic Ummah. The Iranian senior diplomat also stressed the need for the Afghan governing body to ensure...

Ghalibaf felicitates Muslim counterparts on Ramadan arrival

Addressing parliament speakers of the Muslim countries in a message, Iranian Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf congratulated the arrival of the holy month of Ramadan. The holy month of Ramadan is a great opportunity for the strengthening of brotherhood, cooperation, and solidarity among Muslims of all races, and nationalities,...

Iranian club asks AFC to host next Asian futsal c'ships

Giti Pasand, the winner of the Iranian Futsal Super League this year, will represent the country in the 2022 AFC Futsal Club Championship which will be held in August. The 2022 Asian Clubs Cup futsal tournament was scheduled to be hosted by the UAE, but the UAE withdrew its bid. After the...

Mudslides kill 14 in heavy rains in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro

Rescuers answered 850 calls in the last 24 hours and were able to bring 144 people to safety in the affected regions, state authorities said. Rio de Janeiro has been hit by inclement weather over the past few weeks. Landslides and flooding in February killed some 240 people in the...

Moscow poised to offer support to Minsk if Belarus attacked

"We are bound by mutual obligations, first, within our Union State, and besides, within the CSTO (the Collective Security Treaty Organization)," he told  Belarus-24 channel when asked how Moscow would act in case of aggression against Belarus, for example, by NATO or from the Ukrainian flank. The Kremlin spokesman went...

Kazakhstan detains foreign agent plotting attack on president

"On 25 March 2022, in the city of Nur-Sultan, the counterintelligence of the National Security Committee detained a foreign intelligence agent, a citizen of Republic 'A', who was planning the assassination of the president of Kazakhstan and a number of high-ranking civil servants," the authorities stated. The National Security...

20 killed in armed attack on gold mine in Burkina Faso

An unknown number were injured when motorcyclists and gunmen attacked the small-scale Kougdiguin gold mine in the north of the country, Anadolu Agency reported. An attack on March 12 on a gold mine in the Sahel region in the country killed 11 people. On March 12, 11 people were...

Trump says Biden’s physical and mental condition declining

"Nothing we can do to stop Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline; with your vote this November we can stop our country’s decline," he said at his rally in Michigan, TASS reported. According to Trump, the tenure of Biden’s administration will be considered by historians as a stain on...

Pakistan parl. shoots down no-confidence move to oust PM Khan

The deputy speaker announced the decision following Law and Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry’s brief statement in which he linked the no-confidence vote with “foreign conspiracy” and demanded the ruling under Article 5 said that loyalty to the state was the basic duty of every citizen. Following the dismissal of the...

Bomb blast reported in Kabul exchange market

News sources reported that at least five people were injured in the blast, but eyewitnesses put the number at 15 to 20 injured. This is while an explosion took place on Saturday in western Kabul, during which a vehicle carrying Taliban forces was targeted and two people were injured. On Friday evening,...

N. Korea warns Seoul of 'serious threat' over missile remarks

Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said in a statement on Sunday that the South Korean defense minister’s remarks “further worsened the inter-Korean relations and military tension on the Korean peninsula,” according to state news agency KCNA, Al-Jazeera reported. The statement comes after...

Russian-Ukrainian talks to resume virtually on Monday

Russia said on Sunday that peace talks with Ukraine had not progressed enough for a leaders' meeting and that Moscow's position on the status of Crimea and Donbas remained unchanged, Reuters reported. Medinsky said that Ukraine had started to show a more realistic approach to peace talks. He said...

Iran ranks first among world's top 10 steel producers

Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO) announced that the total production of Iranian crude steel reached 5.3 million tons in January and February 2022. According to IMIDRO, Iran's steel production in February reached 2.5 million tons, which is 3.7 percent more than the same...

Al-Ameri urges UK to stop meddling in Iraq's internal affairs

Hadi al-Ameri, the leader of the al-Fateh bloc in the Iraqi parliament met with the Uk ambassador to Baghdad Mark Bryson-Richardson on Saturday. The Iraqi political process from 2003 to date has been based on the three main pillars of agreement, participation and balance, told al-Ameri to the UK ambassador. "We have information from...

Tehran backs Iraq's unity, independence, intl. position

Speaking on Sunday in response to a phone call from Iraqi President Barham Salih, Ebrahim Raeisi congratulated the arrival of the holy month of Ramadan and wished divine blessings to the Iraqi people and all Muslims around the world, emphasising that the Islamic Republic of Iran supports the unity,...

Agreement 'close' in Vienna talks, ball now in 'US court'

"We are close to an agreement in the negotiations [Vienna talks] and we have conveyed our proposals on the remaining issues to the American side through the EU High Representative, and now the ball is in the US court," said Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in his phone call with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on...

'Damavand' destroyer to join navy soon: cmdr.

"In 1401 [current Iranian year started on March 20], the process of building marine equipment will accelerate," said the commander. Stating that the domestically-made 'Damavand' destroyer is under final testing, he added that the destroyer will join the navy soon. Earlier in February, the commander of the Iranian navy...

Khan to continue as PM till appointment of caretaker premier

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Front pages of Iran's English dailies on April 4

TEHRAN, Apr. 04 (MNA) – Here are the front pages of Iran’s English language dailies on Monday, April 4.

Reopening of Iranian schools after 2 years

TEHRAN, Apr. 03 (MNA) – All the schools in Iran reopened on Sunday after two years of online education due to the pandemic.           ...