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For the first time, an Iranian destroyer has been equipped with an indigenously-produced version of Phalanx, a close-in weapon system (CIWS), which is used to engage targets at close range. The announcement was made by Commander of the Iranian Navy Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi in an interview with Tasnim news ...

Sectary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, giving a speech on August 14, 2018 Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, says the US and Israel are too weak to a wage new war like their previous wars. Nasrallah made the remarks ...

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says it has disbanded a team of terrorists on the country’s border with Iraq, killing 11 of its members. The IRGC announced in a statement that servicemen from its Hamzah Seyyed al-Shuhada’s base had performed the operation on Friday. The terrorists were ambushed as they ...

President Rouhani appeared in a live televised interview to speak to people and expressed the government’s programmes in economic, social, political and cultural fields, as well as Iran’s stances on the most recent regional and international issues. AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): President Rouhani appeared in a live televised interview to speak ...

On the sidelines of his meeting with EP’s Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee David McAllister, Mr. Velayati dismissed any compromise over Iran’s missile program. (MNA) — “To defend our country, based on our national interests, we move on the evolutionary path of missile program and it is totally irrelevant to ...

Julian Borger The US is making history not just by violating a United Nations Security Council resolution it voted for three years ago, but also by penalizing countries who stick to the same unanimous resolution, the Iranian ambassador to the UN has claimed. Gholamali Khoshroo argues in a commentary published ...

TEHRAN, Aug. 04 (MNA) – Touching upon his Friday meetings in Singapore, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted that there is “clear global consensus on need to take concerted action to preserve JCPOA.” “Met with President and FM of Singapore and FMs of China, New Zealand, Australia and Indonesia. ...

A former US under secretary of state for political affairs has taken President Donald Trump to task for his rash policies and uncalculated measures towards Iran after taking Washington out of a nuclear deal with Tehran, saying Trump does not understand Iran’s culture of resistance. In an interview with Yahoo ...

The spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has dismissed the recent belligerent remarks by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Mohammed Gargash, saying the Abu Dhabi regime is too feeble to fight in a battle against the residents of a single village in Yemen let alone the ...

Iran says it is impossible to engage in talks with the US under the current administration which has adopted a fiercely hostile policy toward the Islamic Republic. “With current America and these policies, there will definitely not be the possibility of dialogue and engagement, and the United States has shown ...