News Archive - 12 July 2022

Saudis kill, injure 387 Yemenis during ceasefire period

The official statistics issued by the Ministry of Health of the National Salvation Government of Yemen indicate that the aggressor Saudi-Emirati coalition is not adhering to the ceasefire in this country. The United Nations recently announced that the delegations of the resigned government and the National Salvation Government of Yemen...

Lukashenko blasts NATO, West for pushing world closer to war

"Unfortunately, this Western policy is bringing the world closer to the abyss of a major war where, as you know, there won’t be a winner anymore," he stressed at a ceremony honoring the graduates of military institutions and top officers on Tuesday, according to the BelTA news agency. The Belarusian...

Four killed, wounded in Afghanistan mosque shooting

The Directorate of Information and Culture of Taliban in Helmand province issued a statement on Tuesday, stating that this incident took place on Monday in 6th district of Lashkar Gah city in the central part of Helmand province. According to this announcement, a person named Nur Ahmed along with his...

UN trying to cover up Saudi crimes in Yemen’s Saada

Concurrent with the crimes committed by the Saudi-led coalition in "Saada" province in northern Yemen, UN Special Envoy for Yemen Affairs Hans Grundberg claimed in his report to the UN Security Council that the number of Yemeni civilian victims has decreased during the UN-brokered ceasefire period. In response to these...

Euro, US dollar are at parity for first time in history

The euro hit $1 on Tuesday, down about 12% since the start of the year. Fears of recession on the continent abound, stoked by high inflation and energy supply uncertainty caused by Russia's attack on Ukraine, the CNN reported. The European Union, which received roughly 40% of its gas through...

HR org.s silence towards Bosnian genocide not to be forgotten

About 27 years ago on these days, over 8,000 Muslims were massacred on the "Road of Death" in Bosnia, which was called a safe zone, he stated. The 50 newly examined bodies of this crime are going to be buried, Bahadori Jahromi wrote on his Twitter account. The silence of...

2 ISIL wanted elements detained in Baghdad

Issuing a statement, the Baghdad Police Command announced that accurate information was available to the Baghdad Emergency Regiments Directorate about the presence of two suspects wanted in accordance with the provisions of Article 4 of the Anti-Terrorism Law, and arrest warrants have been issued against them since 2008. The two...

Ghalibaf visits symbol of Uzbekistan's independence

Muhammad Baqir Qalibaf, who traveled to Tashkent at the invitation of the Speaker of the Parliament of Uzbekistan, went to the new park of Tashkent as soon as he arrived in the country on an official visit and paid tribute to the symbol of independence of the country by laying...

Iran’s trade with Uzbekistan records 103% growth: IRICA spox

Seyyed Rouhollah Latifi made the remarks on Tuesday and stated that trade volume exchanged between the two countries of Iran and Uzbekistan registered a 103 percent growth as compared to the last year’s corresponding period. Turning to the trade and economic ties between Iran and Uzbekistan concurrent with the visit...

Qatar, France FMs discuss Iran nuclear deal

During the meeting, the two sides exchanged their views on bilateral ties, and regional and international developments, especially Iran’s nuclear program. Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in a statement that al-Thani and Colonna met in Paris and discussed bilateral cooperation and ways to enhance relations between the two countries.

1st train from Russia en route to India crosses Iran

Seyed Miad Salehi Managing Director of Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (known as RAI) said on Tuesday that the first freight train which started its trip to India from Russian capital of Moscow crossed Iranian territory through the eastern branch of Iran's North-South Corridor. Salehi said the Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber...

Iran, Russia discuss development of peaceful nuclear coop.

During the meeting held between Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Chief Mohammad Eslami and Deputy Rosatom State Corporation for Atomic Energy of Russian Federation Nikolai Spassky in Tehran on Tuesday, the two sides discussed ways to expand bilateral peaceful nuclear cooperation. In the meeting, Eslami invited his Russian counterpart...

MAHAK Mental Health Clinic for employees inaugurated

This project was implemented by MAHAK human resources department with the cooperation of psychologists. Working at a pediatric hospital and helping others in spite of the spiritual and moral rewards that brings, it puts lots of stress and psychological pressures to the extent that may negatively affect the employees’ mental...

Nasrallah to deliver speech Wed. on political developments

Nasrallah is scheduled to deliver a televised speech on Wednesday at 20:35 Beirut Local Time.  He will address the latest regional developments as well as ongoing developments in Lebanon.  AY/5536327

Taliban, Qatar to sign security agreement

Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid in an interview with the national television of Afghanistan said that Qatari authorities are interested in signing a security agreement with Kabul, and Doha will propose the agreement in the framework of cooperation between the two countries. After analyzing and evaluating the details of the agreement,...

US, allies on brink of military confrontation with Moscow

"After provoking an escalation of the Ukrainian crisis and unleashing a violent hybrid confrontation with Russia, Washington and its allies are dangerously teetering on the brink of an open military confrontation with our country, which means a direct armed conflict between nuclear powers. Clearly, such a confrontation would be fraught...

Turkmen president sacks 26 ministers

President Berdimuhamedov dismissed Deputy Prime Minister for Education, Science, Healthcare, Sport, Youth and Social Security Sapardurdy Toilyev and Deputy Prime Minister for Economic, Banking and International Financial Institutions Muhametguly Muhammedov, AKIpress reported. The reason for the dismissal of Sapardurdy Toilyev, who is also President of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan, was...

Russia building new military base in Armenia

Hraparak daily of the Republic of Armenia in a report wrote that the first news about the construction of a new Russian military base in the Armenian territory appeared in mid-June when the government adopted at a regular [Cabinet] session the decision to make amendments to the October 3, 2012 protocol...

US claims to have killed ISIL chieftain in Syria in airstrike

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to provide details, Reuters reported. The killing would be another blow to the terrorist group's efforts to reorganize as a guerrilla force after losing large swaths of territory. In February, the top leader of ISIL blew himself up during a US...

US claims Iran plans to send Moscow armed drones

“Our information indicates that the Iranian government is preparing to provide Russia with up to several hundred UAVs, including weapons-capable UAVs on an expedited timeline,” Sullivan told White House reporters on Monday. Furthermore, Tehran was slated to begin offering related training sessions as early as July, the national security official...

Iran reacts to Joe Biden's remarks on JCPOA

Reacting to an article written by US President Joe Biden on the verge of his trip to the region, Nasser Kanaani stated that Joe Biden's remarks were in line with the same path as Trump's failed maximum pressure policy against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Noting that the previous US government,...

Russian president Putin due in Iran next week

Referring to his recent trip to Russia, Mohammadreza Pour-Ebrahimi stated that the President of Russia will visit Iran next week. Noting that Russia's seriousness for holding economic cooperation with Iran has increased, he said, "Planning for the development of economic cooperation between Iran and Russia will be the priority of...

Biden executor of Zionist regime plans, projects

"All the evidence shows that this trip [Biden's] was arranged by the Zionists and that the American president is implementing the programs and projects that the Zionist regime, as the main enemy of the nations of the region, has designed," said Ghalibaf on Tuesday at the opening session of the...

Iran boosts partnerships with neighbors

From its early days, the administration of President Ayatollah Seyed Ebrahim Raisi attached great importance to upgrading relations with neighboring countries and a host of non-Western powers. Advancing economic diplomacy is the fulcrum of this orientation, known as the Neighborhood Policy. In order to achieve the goals of this Policy,...

Iran ready to promote connectivity between Central, S Asia

Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly session on Strengthening connectivity between Central and South Asia, Ershadi said, "Iran, with its unique capacities, potentials and capabilities, and as an important connecting bridge between Central Asia and South Asia, is ready to help promote the connectivity between these two important regions.

Iran, Italy have bright future in energy coop.

Saying that he has held a meeting with his Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio in Rome, the Iranian top diplomat wrote in a tweet on Tuesday that the Iranian and Italian sides discussed a range of bilateral, regional & international issues. "We agreed that our enormous economic capacities, in particular, in...

Tehran to host Putin-Erdogan-Raeisi trilateral meeting

Earlier on Tuesday, the Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s Economic Commission announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin would pay a visit to Tehran next week. Confirming the news, Dmitry Peskov said that Putin will travel to Tehran next Tuesday and will attend a trilateral meeting with the presidents of Iran and...

Iran exports over €64mn pistachio to Europe in 4 months

Iran’s export of pistachio to the European market registered a 15 percent decline from January to April 2022 as compared to the same period of last year. According to the statistics, Iran exported over €75.597 million worth of pistachio to Europe from Jan. to Apr. 2021, showing growth as...

Trip to Uzbekistan aims to strengthen parl., economic ties

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, accompanied by the Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Tehran, the Iranian Vice President for Parliamentary Affairs Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, deputy parliament speaker Abdul Reza Mesri and Babak Neghadari, the head of the parliament's Research Center, left Tehran for Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan on Tuesday afternoon. Before leaving...

Iran urges UN to hold Sweden accountable for illegal arrest

In a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kazem Gharibabadi, the Iranian judiciary chief’s deputy for international affairs and secretary of the High Council for Human Rights, expressed his “deep concern” about gross human rights violations committed by the Swedish authorities against Nouri. “I request you to...

Iran FM spokesman reacts to Jake Sullivan's claims

"The history of cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation in the field of some new technologies dates back to before the start of the war in Ukraine and there has been no special development in this relationship recently," Nasser Kanaani told reporters on Tuesday. "The position...

Taliban rejects reports on skirmishes at borders with Iran

According to the reports, local governments have rejected any news published by some Afghan media about the border clashes between Iranian and Taliban forces in the suburb of Kang District in Nimruz province on Monday afternoon. This is while local sources in Kang District had reported some clashes over pieces...

Iran, UAE sign a regional environmental MoU

Ali Salajegheh, the chairman of the Iranian Department of Environment and Mariam Almheiri, the UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment held a meeting on the sideline of the regional meeting of the environmental ministers of regional countries in Tehran on Tuesday. During the meeting, the Iranian and the UAE...

Iran, Serbia discuss developing bilateral economic relations

Alireza Peyman-Pak, Iran's Deputy Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade and Head of Iran's Trade Promotion Organization (TPO), who has traveled to Belgrade at the head of a business delegation, met and discussed with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Nikola Selaković. In the meeting, the Serbian top diplomat...

Insecurity for Iran not translated into others' security

US President Joe Biden’s first trip to the Middle East since taking office will run from Wednesday, July 13, through Saturday, July 16. It serves as an opportunity for the US administration to improve relations with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Riyadh, which Biden initially vowed to make a...

Webb delivers deepest infrared image of Universe yet

US President Joe Biden unveiled the image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, during a White House event on Monday 11 July. "Webb's First Deep Field is not only the first full-colour image from the James Webb Space Telescope, it’s the deepest and sharpest infrared...

Protecting environment ‘essential, inevitable priority’

Speaking at the Regional Meeting of Ministers of Environment held in Tehran on Tuesday, he called on all responsible officials to take effective steps in preserving the environment apart from political inclinations. He said that the preservation of the ecosystem and environment, which is the major concern of all people...

Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf embarks on trip to Uzbekistan

TEHRAN, Jul. 12 (MNA) – Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf departed for Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Tuesday at the official invitation of Uzbekistan parliamentary officials and at the head of an Iranian delegation.   ...

Iran Parliament open session

TEHRAN, Jul. 12 (MNA) – Chaired by Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Iranian parliament held an open session on Tuesday morning with the participation of the Iranian Minister of Agriculture Jihad Seyyed Javad Sadati Nejad.          ...