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. “...
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AA) – The Iraqi government said Tuesday it had disarmed and relocated armed groups opposed to Iran from northern Iraq’s Kurdish region. In a statement, Iraq’s Higher Committee said the offices of the anti-Iran groups were evacuated and that they were disarmed and relocated to areas away from the border. It said the […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Five US citizens who had been imprisoned in Iran returned to the US on Tuesday after being released under a prisoner swap agreement by the Biden administration with Tehran. A plane carrying these five prisoners, along with two of their family members, touched down at a military facility in Virginia, located just […...
United Nations, United States – AFP The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Monday urged Iran to reconsider its decision to deny access to top UN inspectors, telling AFP that failure to cooperate will carry severe consequences. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Saturday that Iran had withdrawn accreditation fr...
Doha, Qatar – AFP Frozen funds totalling $6 billion have been transferred to Qatari banks under a US-Iran prisoner swap deal, with a plane on standby in Tehran to fly out five American detainees, a source told AFP on Monday. The release of the funds by US ally South Korea, long blocked under US sanctions, […]
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran accused the US and the three European parties to the 2015 nuclear agreement on Saturday of “misusing” the UN nuclear watchdog to achieve “political objectives.” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said in a statement that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been “politicized” despite Tehran’...
TEHRAN (AA) – An assassination attempt on the father of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman who died in police custody in Tehran last year, was foiled by security forces on Saturday, state media said. Several members of a “terrorist group” who attempted to assassinate Amjad Amini have been arrested, the state-run IRNA news agency reporte...
