TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – In the first Iranian reaction to a row surrounding a canceled football game between Iran’s Sepahan club and Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ittihad, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has said the game must not become a “political lever.” The Asian Champions League (AFC) match was scheduled to take place on Monday at the Naq...
-ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan is in “constant” touch with the US administration seeking a tacit green light to the long-stalled Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline project. However “there are remote chances of a favorable response” from Washington, a Foreign Ministry official said. “In the given geopolitical s...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has successfully launched the imaging satellite Noor-3 into orbit 450 kilometers (280 miles) above the Earth’s surface. Minister for Communication and Information Technology Issa Zarepour said in a social media post that the satellite has been successfully launched into orbit. He said the aerospace division of the Isla...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – A US prisoner of Iranian origin has died in Iran, Iranian authorities have confirmed. Faramarz Javidzad, 60, died at a hospital on Saturday due to health complications, Iran’s Prisons and Security and Corrective Measures Organization (PSCMO) said in a statement. It, however, rejected reports that the prisoner had died of me...
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 […]...
