News Archive - 27 May 2023

The whopping rise in the number of inbound tourists may be attributed in part to the general relaxation of global preventative measures taken in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, Financial Tribune reported. However, the figure pales in comparison to 2019 when 9.11 million tourists visited the country —...

Alireza Paymanpak, who led Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization until earlier this month, said on Saturday that Iran’s gold-for-exports receipts had totaled only 80 kilograms in the three years before March. Paymanpak said imports of gold by exporters to settle their foreign exchange debts to the government is one of the...

Media sources in Occupied Palestine reported on Saturday that more than 120 fires were reported in settlements near the Gaza Strip. Yedioth Ahronoth has put the number of fires at 120. Israeli army radio expressed concern about the spread of the fires to the Ashkelon power plant. The regime's media...

"For Russia, the loss of Sevastopol, which was always not Ukrainian in history, would be such a comedown that the cohesion of the state would be in danger. And I think that’s not desirable for the world after Ukraine," Kissinger said in an interview with Wall Street Journal published on Friday,...

Aleksey Danilov told the BBC that the military top brass are now waiting for the right moment to launch the attack. It could happen tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or in a week,” Danilov answered when pressed about a potential start of the counteroffensive, which Kiev has been talking about...

This year’s session is being held under the slogan “75 Years On..We Will Return”. European MPs, key Arab and Palestinian figures as well as pro-Palestine activists in Europe are supposed to take part in the event. Seminars, folklore performances, and heritage exhibitions are all part of the conference. The...

The Saudi technical team concerned with reopening the Saudi embassy in Syria has arrived in the capital, Damascus, in implementation of the Kingdom’s decision to resume work in its diplomatic mission in Baghdad. And the Saudi Press Agency, “SPA”, stated that the Saudi technical team, headed by Minister Plenipotentiary Ghazi...

On Friday, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported, citing two unnamed “insiders” within the German military, that Ukraine “urgently wants” Swedish-German Taurus missiles. These munitions could be allegedly placed on US-made F-16 fighters, which are now being considered for delivery to Kiev by several Western countries, Russia Today reported.  Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky...

Clashes between herders and farmers have killed at least 10 people in southern Chad, a region regularly troubled by such violence, a local governor told AFP on Saturday. The fertile border areas of Chad, Cameroon and Central African Republic have been gripped by confrontation between predominantly Muslim nomadic herders and...

"The air defenses have intercepted two Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles, 19 rockets fired from the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and two HARM antiradar missiles," TASS quoted as Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov saying. In addition, according to Konashenkov, twelve Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were brought down near Zatishnoye, Kremennaya, Chervonopopovka...

The convoy was travelling to South Waziristan when the bomber attacked them in Chahkan area of Dera Ismail Khan district, BDS (Bomb Disposal Squad) in-charge Inayayatullah Tiger said on Saturday, Outlook reported. The injured were transferred to the Combined Military Hospital in Peshawar, they said. The entire area has been...

During the clash between Taliban forces and Iranian border guards in the Makaki distrcit at the shared border between Iran and Afghanistan today, some media have reported that two of the Iranian border guards were martyred. According to reports by the Iranian media, Taliban forces opened fire at the Sasoli...

Iran’s unemployment (jobless) rate dropped slightly to 9 percent last year in the Iranian calendar, according to the latest figures released by the Statistical Centre of Iran (SCI). The SCI on Saturday published the results of its latest job tolls for the year 1401 in the Iranian calendar (March 21,...

The detention and trial of Assadollah Assadi are considered a blatant violation of the basic principle of diplomatic immunity, Mohammad Dehghan reacted on Saturday to the release of the former Iran diplomat. His release shows the Islamic Republic's determination to protect the rights of Iranians anywhere in the world. Congratulating the country’s...

Brigadier General Doustali Jalilian said on Saturday that the police forces in the southeastern province could identify an armed drug-trafficking gang in the province who were trying to transfer a big shipment of illicit drugs into the central parts of the country. During the operation, 7 smugglers were arrested and 1.

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She finished in the first place with 239.6 points. French shooter Gaelle Edon came second with    237.1 points and the bronze medal went to Rubina Francis from India. Faezeh Ahmadi from Iran also finished fourth in the event. As many as 226 shooters from 41 nations are...

The agreement was signed by Major General Mubarak Saeed Ghafan Al Jabri, Assistant Undersecretary for Support and Defence Industries at the Ministry of Defense, and Akio Isomata, Ambassador of Japan to the UAE. The agreement, which was signed at the Ministry's HQ in Abu Dhabi, aims to carry out cooperative...

Two of the ISIL terrorists were killed during clashes with Pakistani forces, according to the reports. The news comes as the ISIL terrorists, in cooperation with Tehrik-i-Taliban terrorist group, recently carried out several attacks in northwestern Pakistan and left 10 people killed and injured. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan also claimed responsibility for the...

There were no casualties and operational services were working at the scene, he said, according to a Reuters report. MNA

The incident occurred following an explosion in a base that formerly belonged to the ISIL terrorists but now was used by Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) – known as the Hashd al-Shaabi. 1 PMU force was killed and two others were injured following the blast in western Iraq. Issuing a...

The blast happened around 4 p.m. at Zangtun police station where police officers were sampling and identifying fireworks suspected of being illegally traded, Xinhua reported.  According to a preliminary investigation, 11 people were at the scene. So far, nine have been rescued, among whom four showed no vital...

"I have no doubts that the puppeteers in Washington and London begin to concern themselves with how mentally stable these people are," the Russian minister said according to TASS.  "I hope that sanctions will follow against these so-called officials. All statements that it is necessary to kill all Russians,...

While calling for peace in the Ukraine conflict, the Italian protesters on Friday further demanded from the ruling right-wing government in Rome a wage increase of 300 euros per month as well as a minimum wage of at least 10 euros per hour. TV and Social media footage of the...

Russian warplanes launched a series of attacks on the headquarters of the terrorists of Al-Nusra Front in Zawiya Mountain in southern Idlib, Syria, media sources reported on Friday. A field source revealed to Sputnik that Russian reconnaissance planes monitored the movements of "Al-Nusra" and "Hurras al-Din" terrorists in southern Idlib,...

The landslide was reportedly triggered by an avalanche on Shounter Pass in Astore district of  Gilgit-Baltistan, CGTN reported.  According to local media reports, the dead and injured include women and children.   The calamity has raised concerns about the potential rise in the death toll as many people remain...

Following the release of Senior cleric "Mohammed Sanqour", a researcher of Islamic affairs, after four days of detention, the people of Bahrain staged a demonstration after the end of Friday prayers in "Al-Draz" District in the west of Manama. The demonstrator condemned the repression of Shia religious scholars and chanted...

According to the Ministry, the rear supply vehicle driven by the servicemen, who went missing on May 26, at 9 pm, was found on the inter-positional road. The car was loaded with food and water intended for the combat bases, Public Radio of Armenia reported.  The Armenian side refutes...

The Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning’s made the remarks during her regular press conference on May 26 and in response to the question "It was reported that a Taiwan defense official said on May 25 that the US government has started to deliver its plan to send weapons aid...

The resulting clashes on Friday between Kosovan police and protesters opposed to the ethnic Albanian mayors prompted Serbia to put its army on full combat alert and to move units closer to the border, according to Reuters. "We urge the institutions in Kosovo to de-escalate immediately & call on all...

“A (People’s Liberation Army Navy) flotilla of 3 ships, led by the Shandong aircraft carrier, passed through the Taiwan Strait around noon today,” Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said in a statement. According to the statement, the flotilla went “to the west of the median line, heading northward”, referring to...

“Given the high dynamics of the development of cooperation with Iran, the entry into force of the Free Trade Agreement and its subsequent implementation are priorities for us in the context of a real expansion of trade cooperation with third countries,” Pashinyan was quoted as saying by Public Radio of...

Mohsen Khojastehmehr made the remarks in his speech during a ceremony to commemorate the 115th anniversary of Iran’s first oil exploration in Masjed Soleyman, the southwestern province of Khuzestan, the National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC) reported. NIOC has a 100-year vision for exploration, he said, underlining, “We are determined...

Speaking in an IRIB TV program, Iranian Deputy Defence Minister General Seyyed Mehdi Farahi briefed about Iran's defense achievements in the field of missile systems. In the last 40 years, Iran achieved many successes under the pressures and sanctions and the Khorramshahr-4 missile is one of them, General Farahi said. The...

Speaking to the Turkish NTV channel, Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said that the representatives of Turkey, Syria, Russia, and Iran will hold a meeting at the level of deputy foreign ministers to discuss drawing a road map to normalize relations between Ankara and Damascus in the coming days. These...

Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said on Friday that only Iran and other regional countries will ensure the security of the Persian Gulf and there is no need for the US and other countries to be present in the strategic waterway. “You are damn wrong to be present in our region,”...

The conflict took place in the Makaki area of ​​Kang district of Nimruz province between Taliban forces and Iranian border guards. This conflict reportedly took place at noon today on the border of Iran's Sistan and Baluchistan and NimrUz province of Afghanistan and in the areas near Sasoli, Hatem and...

Morteza Shahmirzaei made the offer in his meeting with Iranian ambassadors and consuls general, calling for the diplomatic apparatus to facilitate and accelerate the participation of foreign investors in Iran’s petrochemical projects. The NPC CEO and diplomats exchanged views on “strategies to promote international cooperation in Iran’s petrochemical industry”, with...

Raeisi made the remarks in a meeting with the Secretary-General of OPEC Haitham al-Ghais in Tehran on Saturday. Considering the constructive interaction of OPEC members with each other as an important factor in the success of this international organization, the Iranian president added that the Islamic Republic of Iran has always had...

Taliban's senior diplomat Hafiz Zia Ahmad in a tweet announced that the Special Representative of Iran's President for Afghanistan Affairs met and held talks with the Taliban interim government's foreign minister on Saturday. During the meeting, Kazemi Qomi expressed the positions of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Doha meeting...

The 96-kilometer section of the security wall in the Çaldıran district of the eastern province of Van, on the Iranian border, has been completed, Turkish officials announced on  Saturday. The operation of constructing the 3-meter high and 30-centimeter-wide wall along the Iran-Turkey border has started since 2015. Turkish officials said...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held a phone conversation with his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein on Friday, discussing the bilateral relations between Tehran and Baghdad. During the phone conversation, Hussein touched upon the issue of the reduction of gas exports from Iran to Iraqi power plants, an issue that has...

A report by the Israeli regime Jpost newspaper has put the spotlight on the threats that the Iranian missiles pose to the Tel Aviv regime. The report was a reaction to the successful test-fire of the precision-guided Khorramshahr-4 or Kheibar long-range ballistic missile on Friday, which revealed the growing threat...

Iran aided the Syrian nation and government when they were at war with terrorist groups and Tehran is now also ready to assist Damascus to rebuild the country by transferring its experiences, Rahimi cited, considering the cooperation between Iran and Syria in the fight against ISIL and terrorism as a...

After the success of Iran's national women's wrestling team gaining the championship in the classic division and Asian free wrestling competitions in Uzbekistan, the officials of the Asian wrestling team awarded the head coach of Iran's wrestling team, Hoda Naghibi, as the best coach of the year 2023 in Asia.

Iran beat Japan 4-3 on Friday in the semi-finals of the ANOC World Beach Games Asian Qualifier in Jeddah to advance to the final and qualify for the world championships, which will be held in Indonesia. Moslem Mesigar scored three goals and Mohammad-Ali Mokhtari scored one for Iran. Iran will...

The rocket was launched at 12:14 a.m. Moscow time. This is the eighth launch of a Russian carrier rocket this year and the first one from the Vostochny spaceport, a TASS correspondent reports. The satellite will deal with mapping of the Earth’s surface, environmental monitoring, and the prospecting of...

TEHRAN, May 27 (MNA) – Hasir Bafi, or mat weaving, is one of the oldest fields of handicrafts in the Iranian plateau. Mat is woven with palm leaf fibers in the Iranian southwestern province of Khuzestan.         ...