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Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani said there is a link between the Zionist entity’s stepped-up threats against Tehran and the defeat of Takfiri terrorists in Iraq and Syria, which has made Tel Aviv angry.  Shamkhani told Shargh daily in interview published Saturday that the emergence of …

“The ceremony of Jerusalem International Day this year will be different of previous years, in the light of recent events in the region and occupied Palestine,” Iranian Revolutionary Guards spokesman- Brigadier General Ramadan Sharif, Brigadier General Sharif said during a speech before the Friday sermon in Tehran that naming the …

In a televised speech Sayyed Abdulmalik took the opportunity to reflect and address some important developments and issues in facing the US-Saudi aggression. He presented a thoughtful and insightful reflection on the effects of observing Ramadan to increase people’s sense of responsibility. Faith is a major factor in raising self-worth …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Terrorists’ strongholds in Eastern Dara’a came under heavy fire by the Syrian Army troops on Friday. The army’s artillery and missile units shelled the defenses of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Tahrir al-Sham Hay’at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) in the Al-Lijat region for …

The European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says the bloc and China share commitment to preserve a nuclear agreement signed between Iran and major world powers in 2015 and to work for its continuation. Mogherini was speaking at a joint press point with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in …

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners currently being held in Israeli jails and detention facilities are expected to launch a hunger strike next week in protest against their detention without charge or trial. Head of the Palestinian Authority’s Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs, Issa Qaraqe, said in a statement that some 500 Palestinian inmates …

China has expressed surprise at a new statement from the United States indicating that Washington will go on with imposing trade restrictions on China despite a general consensus reached between the two countries earlier this month. China’s Commerce Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that the general expectation in …

The military chiefs of Pakistan and India have agreed to “fully implement” a ceasefire deal struck in 2003 and stop the recent cross-border exchanges of fire in the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir. The agreement between the two rival countries’ director generals of military operations (DGMOs) came after the two military commanders …

Afghan security forces are engaged in a gun battle with militants, who have attacked the Interior Ministry building in the capital, Kabul. A bomb went off  at a checkpoint leading to the building on Wednesday, and then four assailants started shooting, a security source was cited by AFP as saying. …

North, South Korean Leaders Hold Second Meeting in Demilitarized Zone – Reports South Korea’s presidential office said Saturday that the country’s president Moon Jae-in held a meeting with his North Korea’s counterpart Kim Jong-un at the demilitarized zone. “The two leaders exchanged their opinions candidly to implement the April 27 Panmunjom …