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TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi severely condemned recent Saudi-led air raids on Yemen’s capital of Sanaa on Thursday which claimed lives of six civilians, including children. In a Friday statement, Mousavi expressed sympathy to the families of victims, urging the international community to shoulder ...

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pakistan’s Ambassador to Iran Riffat Masood hailed the Tehran International Quran Exhibition as an important event for all Muslims.   Addressing the opening ceremony of the expo’s international section on Monday evening, she said mounting such an exhibition is even more important given the political, economic, social ...

 TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Yemeni official underlined that the Tuesday drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s vital facilities showed that the US naval fleet deployed in the region is not able to defend Riyadh’s interests. “The operations conducted on Tuesday by the Yemeni army’s drone unit was a unique development with ...

TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) – The head of the Judiciary Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi has said that Iran will come out victorious through pursuing its Islamic Revolution’s values, stressing that neither negotiations nor surrender only resistance will bring victory for Iran. The head of the Judiciary Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi made the remarks in a ...

A senior member of the Iranian Parliament says the United States does not seek a military confrontation with Iran and is only waging a “psychological war” against the Islamic Republic. Head of the Iranian Parliament’s Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh made the remarks after a closed-door ...

Powerful explosions have been reported in the Emirati port of al-Fujairah, where seven oil tankers are said to have caught fire. The blasts took place early on Sunday morning, according to the Lebanon-based Al Mayadeen television channel, which reported the development hours later. It said the seven oil tankers were ...

TEHRAN (IQNA) – At least eight people were killed in Saudi Arabia when regime forces raided a village in the kingdom’s oil-rich and Shia-populated Eastern Province, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against pro-democracy campaigners, Muslim preachers and intellectuals continues unabated in the country.     ...

Rockets are fired towards Israel from Gaza city, May 5, 2019. (Photo by AFP) Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad resistance movement Ziad al-Nakhala has said that attempts to disarm Palestinian resistance factions will spark a war in the coming summer. “We, the resistance, will face any war against us with complete ...

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi said the Islamic Republic has put a “step-by-step” withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA], on the agenda. Commenting on Iran’s decision, he said the recent choice was neither violation of the JCPOA ...

Bahraini local sources reported that a huge number of detainees in notorious Jaw Prison were food-poisoned on Tuesday, May 7, 2019 because of rotten iftar [breakfast after fasting the whole day during the month of Ramadan] meals served by the prison’s administration. The sources further added that the detainees in ...