WASHINGTON (AA) – The US imposed sanctions Tuesday on entities in Iran and Russia accusing them of attempting to interfere in the 2024 election. The Treasury Department said a subsidiary of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and an organization affiliated with the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) “aimed to st...
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 (AA) – An Iranian military adviser died Thursday of injuries sustained from an Israeli airstrike on the Syrian capital, Damascus, early this week. The semi-official Iranian news agency Mehr said Majid Diwani served as a military adviser in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Israel launched airstrikes on the Mazzeh neighbor...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Former US President and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has once again downplayed concussions and traumatic brain injuries sustained by US troops during a 2020 Iranian missile strike, dismissing them as minor. “So first of all, injured. What does injured mean? Injured means – You mean because ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Justice Department announced Friday it had charged three Iranian hackers for targeting former President Donald Trump’s campaign and American officials. Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a news conference that the US is seeing increasingly aggressive Iranian cyberactivity ahead of the presidential race in N...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The US has announced a $20 million reward for information leading to the arrest of a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) over an alleged plot to assassinate John Bolton, who served as US national security advisor under then-President Donald Trump. Shahram Poursafi, also known as Mehdi Rezayi and Shah...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has announced the successful launch of its domestically produced research satellite Chamran-1, which has been placed into orbit at an altitude of 550 kilometers (341.7 miles). “The satellite was placed at an orbit of 550 km using the Qaem-100 satellite carrier, a solid-fueled space launch vehicle developed by the aeros...
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has strongly condemned the assassination of Hamas political bureau leader Ismail Haniyeh, saying Iran considers it a duty to “avenge the dear guest’s blood.” The statement came hours after Haniyeh, who was in Tehran to attend Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian&...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Iran has condemned the US military attacks in Iraq and Syria. In a statement, Nasser Kanaani, the spokesperson of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said the strikes were in “violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Iraq and Syria as well as international law, and a blatant breach of the UN Charter.” […...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has vowed to retaliate for the killing of its military advisers in an Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus. Addressing a weekly press conference in Tehran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said the “crimes” of Israel against Iran have “never gone without answer.” Five Islamic Revolutionary Guards C...
