TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has warned of a “confrontation” over a resolution submitted by three European powers against Tehran at the United Nations nuclear watchdog. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, in a phone call with his French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot, said that a European resolution at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IA...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who is an adviser to US President-elect Donald Trump, met earlier this week with Iran’s envoy to the UN, Amir Saeid Iravani, to discuss potential ways to reduce tensions between the US and Iran, The New York Times reported Thursday. Iranian officials familiar with the meeting said [&hel...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Violence continued to escalate in Iran’s southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province following the killing of five paramilitary Basij members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Sunday. In a statement, the IRGC’s public relations department said the five local Basij members were killed in a “terr...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has categorically dismissed allegations of involvement in a plot to assassinate former and current US officials, including President-elect Donald Trump, calling the claims “completely unfounded.” In a statement, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei rejected accusations made by the US D...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has downplayed the significance of the US presidential election result, saying it “does not matter” who the US president is. Addressing reporters in Tehran, government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said that the “general policies” remain unchanged. Republican Donald Trump claimed victory in the Nov. 5 elections after...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Iran has said that it will “certainly” respond to Israel’s latest attack in a “well-measured” and “well-calculated” manner. “Iran will certainly respond to the October 26 Israeli attack in appropriate time and manner, and in a well-measured and well-calculated way,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said dur...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued a stern warning to the US and Israel, pledging a “crushing response” for actions against his country. “The enemies – whether the Zionist entity or the United States – should know that they will certainly face a crushing response for their actions agai...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered the deployment of additional military assets to the Middle East, the Pentagon said Friday. “In keeping with our commitments to the protection of U.S. citizens and forces in the Middle East, the defense of Israel, and de-escalation through deterrence and diplomacy, the S...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The new chief of Hezbollah has said that his group is not fighting on behalf of Iran, but to protect and liberate Lebanese territory. “We in Lebanon are not fighting on behalf of Iran or to implement its project, but to protect and liberate our land,” Naim Qassem said in a recorded […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has slammed Germany’s decision to close the Iranian consulates. In a statement on X, Araghchi said the German decision to close Iranian consulates constitute a “sanction” against Iranians residing in Germany. On Thursday, the German Foreign Ministry had ordered...
