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A Bangladeshi resident and a member of Saudi Arabia’s security forces have been killed in an attack on a security checkpoint in the town of Buraydah in the Qassim province. “A security checkpoint on the Buraydah-Tarfiyah road in Qassim region came under fire from three terrorists riding in a vehicle ...

Iran’s Petroleum Minister Bijan Zanganeh says there has been no major change in the country’s production and export of crude oil despite recent threats by US President Donald Trump to halt the oil trade activities of the Islamic Republic.   Zanganeh added that Iran had already devised a plan to ...

TEHRAN, Jul. 08 (MNA) – Chairman of Iran’s Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said “President Rouhani’s recent remarks about Iranian and regional oil exports are a new strategy against Trump’s bullying.” President Rouhani’s stance helped achieve greater unity and solidarity, and given that the revolutionary spirit ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Tehran will continue cooperation with Europe in their multilateral nuclear deal if the remaining parties to the landmark accord can meet Tehran’s expectations during their upcoming ministerial meeting. Foreign ministers of Iran and the five remaining parties to the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint ...

Iran’s IRGC Al-Quds Force Commander, Major General Qasem Soleimani praised his country’s president’s stance on the country’s oil exports and described his remarks as wise, valuable and powerful. In a letter to President Hassan Rouhani, Soleimnai called Rouhani a ‘dear brother’, and  addressed him by saying: “What you said about ...

The missile force of the army and the popular committees said , on Tuesday , that the warplanes of aggression can only target civilians and will not be able to target ballistic missile platforms. This came after the missile force unveiling , for the first time , about the platforms ...

TEHRAN, Jul. 03 (MNA) – At a joint presser with his Swiss counterpart, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed as ‘nonsense’ the threats made by US officials to reduce Iranian oil exports to zero. “They will never be able to carry out this threat,” said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at a press ...

The Iranian commander of Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters, Major General Gholam Ali Rashid, warned that any threat against the Islamic Republic at any level will not be left unanswered. In a  meeting with commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps [IRGC] Ground Force in Tehran on Monday, the senior Iranian official  ...

Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement says the United Arab Emirates (UAE) continues with its weeks-long offensive against the port city of Hudaydah, stressing that its recent claim of a halt in the offensive has only been made in an attempt to “deceive public opinion.” Mohammed Abdul-Salam, the movement’s spokesman, made the ...

At least 50 Palestinians were injured in clashes that broke out after hundreds of settlers stormed the settlement of Joseph’s Tomb, east of Nablus.   Palestine Today cited security and medical sources as saying hundreds of Zionist settlers stormed the Tomb at 2:00 a.m. under tight protection of several groups ...