News Archive - 16 May 2023

Mohammad Jamshidi, who serves as a top political aide to Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi, said on Wednesday that Iran and Russia will ink an agreement, maybe in the coming days, to start construction of the Rasht-Astara railway in northern Iran. Jamshidi said in a tweet in Farsi that Raeisi and...

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He made the remarks in a message issued on Tuesday on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe) Day. The Israeli regime claimed existence on that day in 1948 after occupying huge swathes of Palestinian territories in a Western-backed war. "Since the day that has been rightly named...

"We are implementing projects to develop oil fields in Iran and have outlined new projects, where I expect progress soon," he said. The Iranian minister, in turn, said the Russian and Iranian delegations had spent several hours at the negotiating table. Among other participants was Deputy Chairman of Gazprom Management...

Ali Bahadori Jahromi in a tweet on Tuesday said that the completion of a vital cross-country rail link is going to contribute considerably to national and international trade. "With the completion of the north-south railway's [construction], Iran will be able to reclaim its historical status as Asia's trade passage."...

In a tweet late Tuesday, Alireza Peyman-Pak announced the opening of the representative office of Russia’s VTB bank in Iran.  Earlier in December, the state-owned VTB announced that cross-border bank transfers in Iranian rial will be possible for businesses and individuals who open a new rial account with the bank. The Kommersant...

The Ukrainian government previously claimed that Kinzhal missiles had been intercepted by the US-made weapons platform, RT reported. The Russian military did not provide further details about the strike, which was the first time Moscow said to have hit the long-range system supplied to Ukraine by its Western backers. Kyiv...

Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, held a meeting with the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, Mar Awa III, in Tehran on Monday. During the meeting, he said the Iranian people are victims of terrorism as 17,000 innocent people have lost their lives...

A military training jet crashed in central Finland and Monday, the Finnish Air Force said, adding the pilots ejected, Washington Post reported. The British made single-engine Hawk aircraft crashed south of Keuruu, which sits some 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Helsinki. The air force said on Twitter that the...

The death toll in cyclone-hit Myanmar's Rakhine state rose to at least 41 on Tuesday, local leaders told AFP. Cyclone Mocha made landfall near the state capital Sittwe on Sunday carrying winds of up to 195 kilometers (120 miles) per hour that hammered low-lying communities. "We can confirm there are...

Marathon said the cause of the morning fire was under investigation. Aerial footage from Houston television stations showed crews trying to put out flames at the Galveston Bay refinery, which is along a stretch of Texas coast that is heavily populated by petrochemical facilities, Fox News reported. Neither the company...

During this visit, President Raeisi engaged in talks with a number of publishers present at the fair. Over the years, Tehran International Book Fair has turned into a landmark book fair in West Asia and Asia after holding 31 editions in a row. This year, nearly 100 foreign publishers, 200 booksellers, and...

Mohammad Bagherr Ghalibaf received the visiting Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Mar Awa III in Tehran for a meeting on Monday afternoon. Patriarch Mar Awa III was in Tehran for the fourth round of the dialogue between Islam and the Assyrian Church of the East in order to...

According to the news headquarters of the 34th Tehran International Book Fair, a meaning of cultural diplomacy has been introduced as bargaining to reach goals that unite human societies. Achieving these goals is based on common cultural factors between societies. As a rule, countries with a richer culture will have...

Speaking during a TV program on Monday, Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, Iranian ambassador to Kabul and president’s special envoy on Afghanistan affairs, urged the ruling administration in Afghanistan to implement the 1973 Helmand River Treaty. “The issue of the treaty is a legal issue, to which the Afghan government is committed and...

In a meeting with Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Shahram Irani, held in Tehran on Monday, the Russian admiral stressed the significance of increasing ties between the Iranian and Russian naval forces and expressed hope that his trip to Iran would lead to further improvement of cooperation between the two...

The IRGC Intelligence Department busted the “operational and media network of ISIL” in the Fars Province of Iran and arrested the network’s main element. The ringleader, who was being monitored by the IRGC forces for four years, was in charge of detecting and recruiting extremist elements in a number of...

Speaking in an interview with CBC, IAEA chief Grossi claimed that chances of Iran returning to the JCPOA are slim. But it's important to keep interacting with Tehran, he added. "Probably there could be a return to the negotiating table, but if the interactions between Iran and the agency are seen...

Elena Pavlova, the head of the Russian Book Union, in an interview with the news headquarters of the 34th Tehran International Book Fair, said about the role of books in cultural diplomacy: Books can bring different nations together. Every nation and culture has its own interests, but everyone has a...

The head of Iran's Supreme Court Ahmad Mortazavi Moghadam arrived in Moscow on Monday evening in a bid to talk and exchange ideas with the judicial authorities of the Russian Federation. On Tuesday, Moghadam attended a meeting with Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Lebedev, the Chief Justice of the Russian Federation. In this meeting, Moghadam presented the...

A release issued by local police indicated that at least three people were killed before authorities arrived on the scene and eventually killed the suspect, Sputnik reported. Of the injured, two were police officers who have since been declared to be in stable condition. The state of the seven other...

Kirby,, the National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, said on Friday that the US military would work to bolster the defense posture in the Persian Gulf, and “increase coordination” with allies in the Strait of Hormuz following what he called Iran’s seizure and harassment of commercial shipping vessels in...

During this visit, President Raeisi engaged in talks with a number of publishers present at the fair. Over the years, Tehran International Book Fair has turned into a landmark book fair in West Asia and Asia after holding 31 editions in a row. This year, nearly 100 foreign publishers, 200 booksellers, and...

TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA) – Here are the front pages of Iran’s English language dailies on Wednesday, May 17.

TEHRAN, May 14 (MNA) – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei paid a visit to the 34th Tehran International Book Fair at the Grand Mosalla on Sunday morning.      ...