News Archive - 26 July 2022

Ali Asghar Khaji has held talks on the phone with the Yemeni National Salvation Government’s top negotiator Mohammad Abdul Salam as part of the Islamic Republic’s continued consultations over Yemen. In the telephone conversation, the two sides discussed the latest developments concerning the peace process in Yemen. The Yemeni top...

The following is the full text of Zahra Ershadi's speech before the UN Security Council: Mr. President The situation in occupied Palestine remains dire, as the Israeli regime's brutality and grave and systematic violations of human rights against the Palestinian people continue unabated.  According to the UN report, the...

An Iraqi security source told Al-Sharq on Wednesday morning that the Turkish consulate in Mosul in Nineveh province was targeted by missile attacks. While some vehicles have been damaged, there have been no immediate reports of casualties in the incident. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Simultaneously, other sources...

Tan Kefei, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense, made the remarks in response to a press inquiry regarding the issue, Xinhua reported. China demands that the United States honor its promise that it would not support "Taiwan independence," Tan said, adding that if the US side insists on...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Ahmed Nasser al-Sabah held a telephone conversation on Tuesday night to discuss the process of consolidating bilateral ties, regional and international issues including the Jeddah conference, and the sanctions removal talks. During their negotiations, the two top diplomats referred to...

"Had serious & constructive exchanges with other sides in the course of the past week on Vienna negotiations," Ali Bagheri Kani wrote in a tweet on Tuesday. "The Coordinator has shared his ideas to conclude the negotiations. We, too, have our own ideas, both in substance & form, to conclude...

Speaking in a telephone conversation with UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan on Tuesday night, Amir-Abdollahian said that European Union continues trying to reach a final agreement and Iran is serious about achieving a good and stable agreement. During the phone call, the two sides...

Arman-e Melli: Raeisi: Agreement accessible if Westerners adopt logical behaviors Asia:  4 Iranian films, 1 judge to participate in Venice Film Festival Etemad: Consequences of non-revival of JCPOA for Iran Etela'at: Agreement accessible if other sides adopts logical behaviors Nasrallah says decline of Israel is close Iran: EU's Borrell acknowledges...

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a phone call with his Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr al Busaidi. The Iranian foreign minister asked Busaidi to convey President Ebrahim Raeisi’s best regards to Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said and appreciated the Sultanate of Oman’s positive viewpoints for expansion of bilateral,...

According to the Palestinian media, Hamas issued a statement and welcomed the motion started by 40 French lawmakers to sign a draft law condemning the Zionist regime's apartheid system against the Palestinian people. Referring to the draft law condemning the Zionist regime's apartheid system against the Palestinians and stressing the need...

"A group of children found a toy-like object in Mizan district at around noon today and began playing with when the device exploded, killing two on the spot and injuring 10 others," the official told media, according to Xinhua. In the meantime, provincial head of public health department Abdul Hakim Hakimi...

"Members of the 2nd brigade of the combat group of the 101st US Airborne Division, stationed in Romania in accordance with the decisions of the Madrid Summit, will conduct demonstration exercises together with the soldiers of the 9th mechanized brigade 'Marasesti,'" the ministry's statement read, according to Sputnik. The drills...

According to Greek media, the Turkish air force committed 19 violations of Greek airspace on Monday, maintaining the climate of tensions in Greek-Turkish relations. The Greek City Times reported that 20 Turkish F-16 fighter jets flew in ten formations, of which 6 were armed. In four cases, the illegal flights...

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UN peacekeepers shoot two demonstrators dead as protesters threw rocks, vandalized and set fire to UN buildings, Reuters reported. Some stormed the houses of UN workers who were evacuated from the city in a convoy of vehicles escorted by the army, the report added. MNA/PR

The 42 new designations added to Britain's Russia sanctions also included Russia's minister and deputy minister of justice, and two nephews of Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who was himself sanctioned by Britain in March, Reuters reported. Vitaly Khotsenko and Vladislav Kuznetsov, the Russian-imposed Prime Minister and First Deputy Chairman of...

As tensions continue to grow between Russia and the West over the ongoing war in Ukraine, Moscow has announced it will quit the International Space Station (ISS) after 2024. The decision, reported by the Russian media, was announced during a meeting between Russia’s president Vladimir Putin and Yuri Borisov, the...

In a tweet, Kazemi Qomi referred to his meeting with Italy's special envoy for Yemen and Afghanistan Gianfranco Petruzzella, commenting on the latest developments in the region. The Iranian diplomat underlined that Ansarullah [of Yemen] is not a terrorist entity at all. Instead it has made a lot of sacrifices...

The energy minister of Iran Ali Akbar Mehrabian said that the agreement was reached during the visit of a Turkish delegation headed by President Erdogan to Tehran on July 19.  The minister said that during the Turkish president's visit, Iran and Turkey agreed to enhance the infrastructure of electricity swap.

In an open session of the Parliament on Tuesday in the course of investigating a single-starred urgency on interim agreement for establishment of a Free Trade Zone between Iran and Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and member states, which had been put forward by the government, the legislators agreed to investigate...

High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell made the comments in a piece written in the Financial Times on Tuesday. Borrell described the  Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) as a landmark diplomatic deal that was the result of years of intense diplomacy on Iran’s...

He made the remarks in his meeting with Palestinian ambassador to Tehran Salam Al-Zawawi on Tuesday evening. He said that the US has breached all international resolutions, international laws and even international consensus on the issue of rights of Palestinian nation. The Chairman of Iran-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group called the...

"Today, I spoke with my brothers, the foreign ministers of Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar, and Iraq earlier in the day," Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in Farsi language in a post on his Twitter account on Tuesday night after holding phone conversations with those counterparts. "Consulting on regional and international issues...

Iran's envoy to Tashkent Hamid Nayyerabadi said that during the past two years, the relations between two friendly and brotherly countries, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Uzbekistan, have been growing in all fields. During this period, good meetings have been held at different levels between the high-ranking...

Mir-Akbar Razavi made the remarks on Tuesday and said that Russia’s Deputy Transport Minister met and held talks with the Head of Iranian Civil Aviation Organization Mohammad Mohammadi-Bakhsh this evening. Iranian and Russian officials in the meeting emphasized the need to boost bilateral cooperation in the field of air transportation,...

"Unfortunately, we heard completely unconstructive and, most importantly, biased rhetoric in the statements that Tel Aviv made in recent months," she told the Soloviev Live TV channel. "When the Israeli leadership expressed anti-Russian assessments at various levels - and this is exactly how they sounded - and adopted a pro-Ukrainian...

"We paid attention to the statement of the State Department’s press office that our country is allegedly becoming an "outcast", and Russian contacts are aimed at "controlling the onslaught of outrage" against us," the Russian diplomatic mission said in a message published on its Telegram channel. "Baseless statements do not...

"The Ministry meticulously registers the calls coming from Europe to stop issuing Schengen visas to Russian citizens. The majority of such statements are being made by odious Russophobic politicians or public figures, and we perceive them accordingly," the diplomat noted, TASS reported. "At the same time, we already observe an...

“This was not a Mission Impossible! Ministers have reached a political agreement on gas demand reduction ahead of the upcoming winter," according to a tweet, Sputnik reported.  This followed the German news agency 'DPA' citing unnamed sources as saying that the EU’s member states have agreed on an emergency...

Significant differences between the sides remain, however, according to two of the sources, including the Taliban's refusal to replace the bank's top political appointees, one of whom is under US sanctions as are several of the Taliban's leaders, Reuters reported. A Taliban official, who wanted to be unknown, said that...

In continuation of its attacks on northern Iraq under the pretext of fighting the PKK, the Turkish military copters heavily bombarded Al-Emadiyeh (Amedi) district in Dohuk province in northern Iraq on Monday night. Turkey's attacks on northern Iraq continue while the UN Security Council issued a statement last night saying, "The...

Erdogan's visit will take place the following weekend, the 5th of August. The Turkish President recently met and held talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Tehran. Erdogan and Putin, along with the Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi attended Astana Summit in Tehran a few days after Biden's unsuccessful trip to the...

The Turkish attacks were carried out in the Iraqi province of Dohuk located in the Kurdistan region. No further details have been published yet.  Turkey's attacks on northern Iraq continue while the UN Security Council issued a statement last night saying, "The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms...

According to PGPIC, Iran's largest company hosted a delegation consisting of the president and members of the Federal Association for the Support of German Economy and Foreign Trade, Iran's ambassador to Germany Mahmoud Farazandeh, head of the German desk in Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ehsan Ghazizadeh Hashemi, a...

Colonel Hossein Hosseinpour announced the confiscation of over 1.6 tons of narcotics in the first four months of the Iranian calendar year (March 21-July 22). Increasing the security in the community is the most important goal of the police force in the country, the official noted. He went on...

Parsyan, along with Syunik Provincial Governor Robert Ghukasyan, met with the Iranian Ambassador to Armenia Abbas Badakhshan Zohouri in April in Armenia and discussed the possibility of opening a consulate in this province. "We have offered several places to the ambassador and the consul. It now seems those issues are...

Special envoy of the Iranian President for Afghanistan Hassan Kazemi Qomi has participated in the two-day conference. Iran attends the event owing to the fact that the Islamic Republic pays attention to neighborhood diplomacy and believes a regional solution approach can bring peace, stability, and tranquility to the region, including...

Speaking in his weekly presser on Tuesday, Iran's Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Ehsan Khandouzi spoke about the economic aspects of the recent visit of the presidents of Russia and Turkey to Tehran. Saying that neighborhood policy is the first priority of Iran's foreign policy, Khandouzi said that Putin's visit to Tehran...

In his Twitter account on Tuesday, Nasser Kan’ani wrote, "Iran has been & still remains a JCPOA member. The party that needs to prove “good faith” & "seriousness" to “re-enter” the deal is the US. We remain committed to reaching a good, strong & lasting agreement that guarantees JCPOA-envisioned benefits...

Produced by Fariba Arab in Chosen Image Company, the short film will be screened in the competition section of the 24th Seoul International Women's Film Festival. The short piece will compete with 19 other pieces from other countries.  ‘Left Handed’ has been filmed in Mashhad, northeast Iran, for seven days.

Schumann made the remarks in a meeting with the Iranian Deputy Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade and Head of Iran Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) Alireza Peyman-Pak. The Iranian and German sides discussed developing commercial relations of the private sector of the two countries with each other, away from political issues.

The participation of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Arab League and delivering a speech a few days after the Jeddah summit with the participation of US president and the trilateral meeting in Tehran means a lot, especially for the West, the United States and the Zionist Israeli...

Iran's President Ebrahim Raeisi made the remarks in a ceremony attended by the Friday Prayers leaders in Tehran on Tuesday. "Iran never left the negotiating table," the president said. He added that "It was the Westerners who put hurdles in the way of the talks while the negotiations were underway...

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Iranian fighters namely Mostafa Rigi and Bagher Faraji won silver medals in the event. Also, Sajjad Mohammadpour, Shahin Mousavi, Hossein Mirahmadi, and Toofan Sharifi got bronze medals. Some 100 boxers representing 21 countries participated in the tournament. Alireza Esteki was the head coach of Iran's boxing team in the event.

This exhibition is being held with the support of Bayamax and some other brands in this field and will host the interested parties for three days. Bayamax has a lot to say at Iran Retail Show! The Bayamax booth, with its creativity in providing business intelligence solutions, hosted many visitors...

TEHRAN, Jul. 27 (MNA) – Here are the front pages of Iran’s English language dailies on Wednesday, July 27.

Sunflower seeds are used to extract edible oil, which is high quality for its high amount of linoleic unsaturated fatty acids. Its press cake is also used as a supplement in poultry and livestock diets due to its high protein content.

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TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi visited Iran Management Synergy Exhibition at Imam Khomaini (RA) Mosalla in Tehran on Monday evening.   ...