TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran said Sunday it had thwarted 30 terrorist attacks by the ISIS in recent days. In a statement, the Intelligence Ministry said 28 members of a “terrorist cell” affiliated with the ISIS terror group were arrested in different provinces. The arrests were made following a series of raids in Tehran, Alborz [&helli...
United Nations, United States – AFP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations on Friday that his country is on the “cusp” of establishing relations with Saudi Arabia and said the Palestinians would not get a “veto.” Netanyahu said agreements in 2020 to normalize relations with three other A...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Iran on Friday announced the resumption of diplomatic relations with Djibouti after a seven-year hiatus caused by the East African country’s backing for Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shia cleric in 2016. Iran and Djibouti agreed to restore diplomatic ties late Thursday during a meeting between Ir...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The main accused in an attack on a popular shrine in southern Iran’s Shiraz city has been sentenced to death while two others have been handed a five-year jail term each. Judiciary-affiliated Mizan News cited the chief justice of southern Fars province as saying that the main accused Rahman Ela Norozaf, […]
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York late Wednesday. The meeting held at Egypt’s permanent mission to the UN is being seen as an important step toward full restoration of diplomatic relations betwe...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held a summit meeting with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in New York City on Wednesday. The two leaders discussed the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, the release of radioactive water by Japan from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea and the Ukraine war as well […]...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s parliament has agreed to the trial implementation of the Chastity and Hijab Bill for a period of three years after a majority of lawmakers voted in favor of it, state media reported. Following the report by the parliament’s Judicial and Legal Commission, the bill was put to vote with 152 […]
RIYADH (AA) – Saudi Arabia has welcomed the “positive results” of the peace talks with a delegation from Sana’a, which is visiting the Kingdom to carry forward the peace process in Yemen. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry praised a meeting of Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz with the delegation from Sana’a....
ISTANBUL (AA) – Iran has suspended flights to neighboring Azerbaijan and Armenia, according to local media reports. Under a decision by Iran’s Civil Aviation Authority, the flights have been suspended “for a short time,” Mohammad Mohammadi Bakhsh, head of the country’s Civil Aviation Authority, told the Iranian Labour News Agency (...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu said on Wednesday that cooperation between Moscow and Tehran has advanced to a new level. The US and its allies attempted but failed to derail the process of cordial Russian-Iranian relations, Shoygu said during a meeting with Iranian Defense Minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani in Tehran. “...
