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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi blasted the US forces’ presence in the regional waterways, and said that the recent joint naval drills were conducted for preparing to confront such potential threats. “All three countries of Iran, China, and Russia, which are major naval powers, have common …

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Hezbollah supports a new government capable of quickly carrying out essential reforms in the cash-strapped country of Lebanon as further economic deterioration, including the risk of sharp currency devaluation, would exacerbate social tensions, an official with the Lebanese resistance movement said.     Sheikh Mohammed Amro said …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Syrian Army troops engaged in fierce clashes with the terrorist groups in the surrounding areas of Hama military airport in Northern Hama on Saturday. The Arabic-language service of Russia Today quoted a military source as saying that the Syrian Army confronted and fended off attacks by the terrorist …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian security forces announced on Friday that they have managed to discover and impound an arms shipment in the Western province of Kermanshah and bust an armed terrorist group in the Southwestern province of Khuzestan. Speaking on Friday, Khuzestan police commander Heidar Abbaszadeh said two main members of a …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Top Military Aide to the Supreme Leader Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi stressed that the Iranian nation will thwart any conspiracy and plot hatched by the enemies. “They should know that the Iranian nation is ready to foil any conspiracy,” General Rahim Safavi said on Thursday. “Greater defeats …

 TEHRAN (FNA)- Reuters a globally known world news agency requires all its journalists to show full respect for its strict rules stated in its handbook on precise quotations from sources with known and verifiable identity when giving out reports on sensitive world developments, allowing quotations and news from unnamed sources …

The Syrian Army continued its advances in Southeastern Idlib province and is now only four kilometers away from the Aleppo-Hama international highway. The Syrian Army’s advances came after it managed to take control of Jorjnaz and al-Tah towns in Southeastern Idlib after pushing back the Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay’at (the Levant …

TEHRAN (FNA)- President Hassan Rouhani stressed inefficiency of Washington’s maximum-pressure policy, and further said the US sanctions against Iran fade away. “Certainly, the present circumstances will end and the US will sooner or later be forced to relinquish maximum pressure against Iran before or after the presidential election in the …

Tajikistan’s Minister of Economy and Trade Nematollah Hekmatzadeh underlined age-old and friendly ties between Tehran and Dushanbe, saying that his country endeavors to boost economic convergence with Iran. “We try to develop economic convergence with foreign states, including the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Hekmatzadeh said, addressing the inauguration ceremony of …

Senior Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian underlined that the impeachment of US President Donald Trump is not a quest for reality, but a power struggle between the Democrats and Republicans. “Trump’s impeachment was only about gaining power in the US politics,” Amir Abdollahian tweeted on Friday. …