ANKARA (AA) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has vowed that an Israeli attack that killed five military advisers “will not go unanswered.” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Saturday that five of its military advisers were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus. In a statement, Raisi’s office termed th...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called Tuesday for a “special international inquiry” into Israel’s use of banned weapons in Gaza. Raisi was speaking during a virtual summit of the BRICS group of emerging economies held at the organization’s headquarters in South Africa, the official Iranian agency IR...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – AFP Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called Saturday on Islamic governments to designate Israel’s military a “terrorist organisation”, citing its current operations in the Gaza Strip. “Islamic governments should designate the army of the occupying and aggressor regime as a terrorist organisat...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – AFP Arab leaders and Iran’s president meeting Saturday in the Saudi capital roundly condemned Israel’s actions in its war against Palestine. Host Saudi Arabia “confirms that it holds the occupation (Israeli) authorities responsible for the crimes committed against the Palestinian people,” Cr...
Tashkent, Uzbekistan – AFP Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan hardened his tone against both Israel and the West at a summit of the Economic Cooperation Organisation on Thursday. The leaders of Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Azerbaijan and other Central Asian states met in Uzbekistan for the ECO summit. While not on the official agenda, Isr...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – AFP Saudi Arabia is hosting Arab leaders and Iran’s president for two summits this weekend on Israel’s war against Palestinians. The emergency meetings of the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation come after over one month of Israeli bombardment has killed more than 10,000 people in Ga...
Tehran, Iran – AFP Iran on Monday rejected as unfounded allegations it had a role in the massive assault on Israel by Hamas. “The accusations linked to an Iranian role… are based on political reasons,” foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani told reporters. The Islamic republic, he said, does not intervene “in th...
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 […]...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The “world is changing” amid the emergence of a new international order and the “path is irreversible”, said Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi in his speech at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. Raisi, who arrived in New York on Monday, used the platform of the annual premier conference of world leaders […]...
