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ISTANBUL (AA) – The US said on Tuesday that the enrichment of uranium up to 60% in Iran “has no credible peaceful purpose.” “No other country in the world today utilizes uranium enriched to 60% for the purposes of its claims,” US State Department’s spokesman Vedant Patel said at a press briefing. Patel further said […]
ANKARA (AA) – South Korea and Iran discussed the release and transfer of frozen funds to Tehran during a phone call between their top diplomats, according to an official statement. The development follows recent reports that Iran and the US reached an agreement for the release of American citizens in exchange for the release of […...
Cadiz, Spain – AFP The European Union’s top diplomat confirmed on Tuesday that Johan Floderus, a Swedish diplomat working for the EU, has been held captive in Iran for more than 500 days. Arriving at a meeting on development in the Spanish city of Cadiz, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters that Brussels […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Iran’s new ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Alireza Enayati, is set to begin his diplomatic mission in Riyadh on Tuesday. “I will leave for Riyadh on Tuesday,” Enayati told the state news agency IRNA. He said the new Saudi ambassador to Iran will also start his mission in Tehran “in the same period […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Six miners have been killed in an explosion inside a coal mine in northeastern Iran, local media reported on Monday. Rescuers recovered the bodies of six miners killed in the explosion that took place on Sunday in Semnan province, the state news agency IRNA reported. “An explosion occurred in the eastern Alborz […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – An Iranian soldier from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was killed in Syria, Iranian media reported on Monday. The semi-official Fars News Agency identified the soldier as Yahya Rostami, who was killed on August 31. The agency, however, did not give further details about the circumstances of his death. Iran, which...
ERBIL, Iraq (AA) – Iraq has notified the United Nations of Iran’s halt of the flow of the Little Zab River into the country. Originating in Iran, the Little Zab River traverses the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah before meandering its way to Kirkuk and eventually into the heartland of Iraq. The river is a […]
Tehran, Iran — AFP Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has said that the West had failed to isolate his country, while also holding out the prospect of resuming talks on reviving a nuclear deal. “The enemy tried to follow two strategies: one was to isolate Iran from the world and the other was to discourage the […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has said that it has reached an agreement with the Iraqi government on disarming and relocating “armed ‘terrorist’ groups” in northern Iraq by next month. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani told reporters that the Iraqi government has “committed to disarming the armed separatist ‘terrorist̵...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – A court in Tehran has ruled that the United States must shell out $330 million in damages to survivors and victims of the 1980 Nojeh coup plot to overthrow the then-Iranian government. In a recent ruling, the international wing of the Iranian judiciary accused the US of “orchestrating and executing” the […]
