News Archive - 23 February 2023

The plane carrying President Raeisi on board landed at Shahid Bakeri's airport in Urmia on Friday morning. Accompanied by some of his cabinet members, he was welcomed by the local officials at the West Azerbaijan province in the northwest of Iran. During this trip, the water transfer tunnel project from...

The first celebrative Islamic occasion of the glorious month of Shabaan is the birth-anniversary of the 3rd Infallible Imam and the 3rd descendant of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W) The second son of Imam Ali (A.S) and Hazrat Fatima Zehra (S.A) enlightened Madina-e-Munawwara a year after the...

In a meeting with the Iraqi National Security Advisor Qassem Araji in Baghdad on Thursday evening, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian announced the imminent visit of the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council to Iraq to sign a security cooperation document. In the meeting, the Iranian...

Tusi was born in Tus in 1201 and died in Baghdad in 1274. Very little is known about his childhood and early education, apart from what he writes in his autobiography, Contemplation, and Action (Sayr wa suluk). As a young boy, Nasir al-Din was encouraged by his father to study...

Iran’s agriculture minister Javad Sadatinejad said on Wednesday that the country had secured an agreement with China under which Iranian dairy companies can launch exports to the country for the first time. Sadatinejad said the agreement was finalized during a visit last week by Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi to China...

Informed sources in Kabul reported that a senior Taliban commander was killed in an explosion in Kabul on Thursday morning. According to the sources, the bomb explosion took place at a Taliban checkpoint in the Sartapeh area of ​​Kabul seriously wounding 4 people. So far, no one has claimed responsibility for...

The collapse on Wednesday at an open-pit mine in the Alxa League operated by Xinjing Coal Mining Co left a pile of debris roughly 500 m (550 yards) across and an estimated 80 m high, state media reported, Reuters reported. "I had just started work at 1:15 in the afternoon...

Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights and the Judiciary chief’s deputy for international affairs defended the verdict against Jamshid Sharmahd after German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called the ruling “absolutely unacceptable” and threatened a “strong reaction.” Berlin also expelled two Iranian diplomats over the ruling...

The US, as a strategic ally and the biggest supporter of the Zionist apartheid regime, can continue its permanent support of the regime as well as all-out pressure on some countries to normalize relations with it, Nasser Kan'ani tweeted on Thursday, adding, "But there will be definitely no change in the...

The incident took place while the helicopter was landing in a sports complex in the Baft city of Kerman Province. According to eyewitnesses 14 people, including the Iranian Minister of Sports and Youth and the Director General of Sports and Youth office of Kerman Province, were seriously injured. Media sources reported that the advisor...

According to the reports, a gas leak caused the explosion of 70 gas cylinders in the LPG center of Hamedan city of Iran on Thursday. The governor of Hamedan city said that the incident left one woman and two men injured. He also added that five vehicles were completely burnt. RHM/

According to the latest data released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration, which excludes crude oil exports from the country in its statistics, Iran’s trade with BRICS member states, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, reached 39.2 million tons worth $31.8 billion during the first...

The attacks early on Thursday sent plumes of black smoke rising over one of the targeted locations north of Gaza city, according to Aljazeera. Hours earlier, rockets fired from the Gaza Strip lit up the night sky and triggered sirens in the Zionist settlements of Sderot and Ashkelon. There were...

"A Su-25 plane of the Russian Aerospace Forces crashed while returning to its airfield in the Belgorod Region after accomplishing a combat mission. The pilot died," the ministry said in a statement. The plane crashed in a desolate place and there is no destruction on the ground, it specified. "According...

“The embassy security service found a transparent bag on the ramp while touring the area. The package contained two RGD grenades,” the telegraph channel writes. Baza states that police officers and officials came to the embassy. Telegram channel Shot also reported that a package containing two grenades was found on the...

The bodies of pilot Rufino James Crisostomo Jr., crew member Joel Martin, and Australian technical consultants Simon Chipperfield and Karthi Santhanam have been found on Mount Mayon volcano, and a team was working to retrieve them, CNN Philippines reported, citing Camalig Mayor Carlos Irwin Baldo. All four men were...

The sources reported that the Somalian intelligence forces, in cooperation with international allied forces, carried out an air strike against al-Shabaab terrorists in the region of Hiran. According to the report, the air attack targeted a vehicle belonging to al-Shabaab terrorists, leaving 20 of them killed. Earlier on Tuesday, media sources...

"The suspect in a series of shootings today that left three dead, including a woman in her 20s, a 9-year-old girl, and a News 13 employee. We extend our deepest condolences to all of their families," the Orange County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday, Sputnik reported. Orange County Sheriff John Mina during...

Kayhan: Zionist crimes left 10 killed, and 120 injured in Nablus Etela'at: Iran FM: Tehran ready for reaching strong JCPOA agreement Arman-e Emrooz: Souvenir of Oman King for Iran Iranian woman skier Beyrami makes history at World C'ships Jomhuri-e Eslami: Iran supports reaching agreement through path of diplomacy Aftab: IAEA...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his accompanying delegation met with Iraq’s Parliament Speaker Mohamed Al-Halbousi in the capital Baghdad on Wednesday night. During the meeting, the two officials discussed Iran-Iraq relations and stressed the importance of bilateral cooperation in different fields. Amir- Abdollahian considered the development and progress of Iraq very...

The conference of the commanders and officials of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was held on Thursday with the recitation of the message of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. "Holding such meetings to outline the horizons of the IRGC and Basij's movement towards the...

Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting with the members of Iran’s Assembly of Experts on Thursday morning. The Assembly of Experts is a clerical body empowered to appoint and dismiss the Leader of the Islamic Revolution and monitor his performance. The Leader said some enmities toward the Islamic...

The European hostile rhetoric against Iran has come with Israeli allegations that the Europeans are planning to snap back international sanctions on Iran before the upcoming UN General Assembly meeting later this year.  Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen predicted that the Western powers would trigger “snapback” sanctions on Iran...

Speaking in an interview, Amir-Abdollahian told reporters that he had discussed the issue of border security with high-ranking Iraqi officials. It is not acceptable for Tehran that terrorist and separatist groups based in the northern region of Iraq pose a threat to the security of the Islamic Republic of Iran, he...

"Iran has also expressed its desire to join the negotiation process ... The modalities of holding a quadrilateral meeting at the level of foreign ministers, involving Iran, are being worked out now. We all have a common goal to resolve the situation around Syria and stabilize the environment in the Middle...

The Bam-based team won the title with 50 points in the 12-team league. Sepahan became runners-up with 46 points and Shahrdari Sirjan finished in third with 36 points. Khatoon, formerly Shahrdari Bam, is the most decorated team in the league, winning ninth titles out of 15 editions. Khatoon Bam represented...

TEHRAN, Feb. 23 (MNA) – The graduation ceremony of army students at AJA University of Command and Staff (DAFOOS) was held on Thursday in a ceremony attended by Commander of Iran’s Army Major General Seyed Abdolrahim Mousavi.         ...

TEHRAN, Feb. 23 (MNA) – Here are the front pages of Iran’s English language dailies on Thursday, February 23.