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Alwaght- Operation Eagle Claw 2 is the latest in a series of Turkey’s operations in neighboring Iraq’s north. Over the past few days, fierce clashes erupted between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and the Turkish forces in Garreh Mountain in Duhok province of the Kurdistan region. The operation comes as in ...

Alwaght- Less than a month after his inauguration, Joe Biden and his foreign policy team have made clear their stances almost on all important foreign policy cases. While the new US president was expected to reveal a new policy regarding Iraq, he has so far avoided to do so. Even ...

TEHRAN, Feb. 12 (MNA) – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has criticized a statement by the European trio that urges Iran to return to the nuclear deal obligations without referring to the other JCPOA parties’ non-compliance. In a tweet on Friday evening, Zarif wrote: “Have our E3 partners ever read ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Tehran’s Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences Hassan Abolqassemi blasted the western states for medical sanctions against Iran, saying that the Pfizer pharmaceutical company has long refrained from supplying Iranian cancer patients with the needed drugs for chemotherapy. “A simple medicine that is the mainstay of chemotherapy ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A number of countries have already requested to purchase the Iranian COVID-19 vaccine, lawmaker Malek Fazeli said Saturday, adding that the move proves the failure of sanctions. “World countries believe in Iran’s know-how and technology in making coronavirus vaccine, and some of them have even asked for buying ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underlined that expulsion of the American forces from the region is the best way to take revenge for the assassination of former IRGC Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani. “Ending the US forces’ presence in the region will be the best ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to Vienna-based International Organizations Kazzem Qaribabadi announced on Tuesday that the country’s nuclear experts have installed new centrifuges at Natanz and Fordow sites in Central Iran. “Thanks to our diligent nuclear scientists, two cascades of 348 IR2m centrifuges with almost 4 times the ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday that the country has approved Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine and plans to both import and produce it. Tehran has given the go-ahead for the Sputnik V jab, made by Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute, to be used as part of ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iran-made coronavirus vaccine which has been injected to 30 volunteers in 2 stages has not shown any side effects so far, a senior member of the team to assess the efficiency of the vaccine said on Monday. “The vaccine, which underwent its first test on January 29 ...

The hostile attempts to hinder Iran’s progress have backfired, since the sanctions imposed on the country have helped the Islamic Republic develop its military industries, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said. During a Saturday visit to a plant manufacturing the homegrown Yasin training jet, Hatami said Iranian military ...