News Archive - 1 July 2022

Saudi aggressor coalition still continues widespread violation of ceasefire in Al Hudaydah province in a way that Saudi-led coalition violated the ceasefire 42 times in this province, Almasirah TV website reported. According to the report, ceasefire is also violated in other Yemeni provinces. Earlier, a member of Yemeni Ansarullah Movement's...

Six people were fatally shot when police fired live ammunition at protesters in Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, Al Jazeera reported. Across the Nile River in Khartoum, another person died from a gunshot wound in the head and a child died after being shot in the...

The document says that autonomous sanctions are being imposed on Russian Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev, Transport Minister Vitaly Saveliev, and Minister for Construction, Housing and Utilities Irek Faizullin. Australia has already introduced sanctions against 828 Russian and Belarusian nationals over Ukraine, including the two countries’ presidents, Vladimir Putin and...

Joe Biden is scheduled to travel to the Occupied Territories under the control of Israeli regime and Saudi Arabia in the middle of this month. Two European diplomats with direct knowledge of this week’s negotiations said that, while talks didn’t progress, efforts to resurrect the accord were expected to continue...

Speaking on Friday morning in ceremony to commemorate the national Marriage Week in Vahdat Hall, Ayatollah Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi said, "One of the most important celebrations is helping young people to get married, and whoever facilitates this good deed will enjoy its blessings in life." The President also praised...

In a meeting held between CEO of Sberbank of Russia and accompanying delegation with the Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade on Friday, they emphasized broadening trade and economic ties. During the meeting, the two sides discussed issues such as creation of financial infrastructures and also joint trade-commercial infrastructures.

On his twitter account on Friday, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian wrote, “Dr. [Ali] Bagheri Kani continues to negotiate logically, reasonably and actively for the removal of sanctions at the earliest opportunity and in full coordination with me.” "We are continuing our efforts with power and logic. US realistic approach and receiving a...

OPEC reported $560 billion in revenue from oil sales in 2021 in its annual report, which shows a 77 percent increase in comparison with a year earlier. The revenues of 13 members of OPEC from oil exports stood at $317 billion in 2020. Iran also earned more than $25.313...

In continuation of his regional visit to Turkey, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian will leave Tehran for Damascus on Saturday to visit high-ranking Syrian officials, Nasser Kanaani stated. This is the fourth visit of Hossein Amir-Abdollahian to Damascus after taking office last August. Reviewing bilateral ties between Iran and Syria...

After more than eight years since the horrific crime of Iraqi Speicher crimes in June 2014, the General Directorate of Security of Al-Hashd al-Sha’abi announced on Friday in a statement the arrest of a person named "Zargham Abu Haidar" who played a key role in this crime. He admitted during...

EU leaders last week granted Ukraine candidate status to join the bloc, formally opening a process that is expected to take years before it becomes a member of the union that now comprises 27 countries. In a speech by video-link to the Ukrainian assembly, Ursula von der Leyen underlined the...

Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Kazem Mousavi made the remarks in an interview with IRNA on Friday. Turning to the visit of high-ranking officials of different countries to Iran, the lawmaker said that these visits show the active diplomacy of Iranian government under President Raeisi in the field of enhancing economic ties with...

Javad Owji made the remark after 30th OPEC and Non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting, OPEC+ coalition, held via video conference on Thursday, June 30, 2022, adding, “Today, OPEC Plus decided to continue with its decision agreed last month that was to add 648,000 barrels to its daily crude oil production for June...

Seyyed Mihammad Ali Hosseini made the remarks in his meeting with Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb in Islamabad on Friday and said that the two neighboring countries of Iran and Pakistan can exchange films, TV serials and programs due to their many commonalities. During the meeting,...

An Iraqi government source announced on Thursday evening that Iraq would host a meeting between Iranian and Saudi diplomats. Russia Today Arabic Language said. The previous five meetings held in Baghdad between Tehran and Riyadh were at "security and intelligence level" while the next meeting will be at the diplomatic...

Center for the Middle East Strategic Studies in cooperation with the Geneva Center for Security Policy and University of Shahid Beheshti will be hosting the International Conference of “New Transnational Threats Towards Regional Cooperation in the Middle East” on July 5th, at 2:30 p.m. Tehran Local Time. The name...

Speaking during this week's Friday Prayers in the Iranian capital, the temporary Imam said that "The fact that some people refer to the formation of a military NATO in the Southwest Asia region is due to the fact that they are witnessing the growing power of the Muslim Ummah." "The...

Speaking to Mehr correspondent, Abolfazl Amouei, spokesman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said on Friday that "We still cannot express definite optimism that Washington will remove the anti-Iran sanctions," despite some optimism in that regard. "True optimism is based on the internal capabilities of the country;...

All of the victims — eight adults and one youth — were in stable condition at two Newark hospitals, the city’s acting public safety director, Raul Malave, said in a statement. He said the police had responded to the shooting, in the 200 block of Clinton Place, a residential area...

During the phone talk on Thursday evening, the two sides discussed bilateral ties and issues of mutual interests. Given the recent meeting between Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Turkmenistan and also his own talks with the Russian foreign minister, Amir-Abdollahian said that Islamic Republic...

Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Majid Takht Ravanchi announced that the Islamic Republic of Iran believes in multilateral diplomacy that would guarantee the effective and verifiable removal of unlawful sanctions imposed against Iran. "We believe that JCPOA is a hard-won multilateral diplomatic achievement that remains the best...

Speaking in a telephone conversation with Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein on Thursday evening, Amir-Abdollahian urged Iraqi government regarding the facilitation of Iranian Hajj affairs. During the phone conversation, the two sides discussed expansion of bilateral ties and also latest developments in the region as well as issues of mutual...

Speaking in a ceremony held in the central Iranian city of Esfahan to commemorate Martyr Beheshti on Thursday, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami said that "The terrible thing we face today in nuclear energy has its roots in the Hypocrites (terrorist MkO organization) and...

TEHRAN, Jul. 01 (MNA) – On the anniversary of Imam Ali's marriage to Prophet's daughter Fatimah (PBUH), ceremony to commemorate “National Marriage Week” was held in Vahdat Hall of Tehran on Friday with participation of President Ebrahim Raeisi.          ...