TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The new deputy chief of Iran’s Army for coordination stressed the need for keeping the military knowledge and hardware up-to-date, assuring the nation that the country’s armed forces will counter all types of threats. Speaking to reporters in Tehran on Saturday, former commander of the Navy Rear ...
Read More »Saudi Arabia is the cradle of terrorism, says Iran
Iran says Saudi Arabia, “the cradle of terrorism,” has been attempting to distort facts into their exact opposite version by accusing Iran of sponsoring terror and meddling in the affairs of regional countries. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi made the remarks on Saturday in reaction to earlier comments by ...
Read More »Erdogan to Saudi crown prince: You don’t own Islam
In harsh but indirect remarks addressed to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the Saudi official does not own the Islamic faith. President Erdogan said on Friday that the notion that there was a “moderate” Islam and an “immoderate” one had been invented by the ...
Read More »Partial removal of Saudi-led blockade of Yemen not enough: UN
A United Nations official says the re-opening of the port city of Aden and a land border crossing for dispatching humanitarian aid to Yemen is not enough as the Saudi-led coalition is still blocking desperately-needed UN aid deliveries to the impoverished country. “Humanitarian movements into Yemen remain blocked,” Russell Geekie, ...
Read More »US, Israel furious about big anti-terror achievements in Middle East: Rouhani
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has commended the “very big achievements” made by regional nations in confrontation with terrorists, saying the US and Israeli regime are irked by these gains. Speaking to reporters after a meeting of the heads of the three branches of the Iranian government on Saturday, Rouhani said ...
Read More »Abadi: Anti-Daesh campaign has inflicted $100 billion in losses on Iraq
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says the military campaign against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has cost the conflict-stricken Arab country $100 billion worth of damage as government forces, backed by fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units, are driving the extremists out of their last redoubt in the country. “Iraq ...
Read More »Israel’s continuing development of its nuclear capability threatens security in ME: Syria’s Al-Jaafari
Syria’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari said that the West has supplied Israel with nuclear technology and worked to exclude it from international oversight by turning a blind eye to its possession of nuclear weapons. In a statement during a UN General Assembly session on Friday on ...
Read More »November, 10, 2017 – 12:35 KARBALA (Tasnim) – Millions of black-clad Shiite pilgrims are converging on the holy city of Kerbala for the Arbaeen religious commemoration, the largest annual gathering of people anywhere on earth.
Read More »Yemen’s Supreme Political Council Calls for Massive Rally against Saudi Blockade
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Yemen’s Supreme Political Council called on the people of the Arabian Peninsula country to participate in a massive rally in the capital on Monday to condemn the Saudi-led coalition’s blockade of all air, sea and land ports into the country. The Supreme Political Council, in a statement, ...
Read More »Iran’s Zarif Attends Int’l Security Conference in Uzbekistan
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An international conference on security and sustainable development opened in Uzbekistan on Friday with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in attendance. A number of Asian and European officials, including Zarif and European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini, have attended the international conference in the Uzbek ...
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