ISTANBUL (AA) – Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says that recent developments in Syria cannot be attributed solely to external intervention, but they stem from “unresolved” problems over the past 13 years. Speaking at a news conference alongside his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, who is on an official visit to Türk...
NEW YORK (AA) – The US national security advisor has said the Syrian opposition’s advances in and around Aleppo are linked to a new situation “in which the Syrian government’s main backers, Iran, Russia, and Hezbollah, were all distracted and weakened by conflicts and events elsewhere.” The opposition “took ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, says that his country is preparing for a “proper response” to the recent Israeli attack, the Tasnim news agency reported. On October 26, Israeli fighter jets launched strikes on Iran, weeks after Tehran fired ballistic missiles at Israel in respon...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has categorically denied its involvement in the killing of an Israeli rabbi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Israel said on Sunday that Rabbi Zvi Kogan, an Israeli-Moldovan dual national, was found dead, days after he went missing in the Gulf country with Israeli media claiming that Tehran was behind […]
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...
