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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 …

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the country’s Wednesday decision to suspend some of its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers is within the framework of the agreement, adding that European parties to the deal have “narrowing window” to reverse this. “On May 8 …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held presser with Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif in Moscow on Wednesday. The talks come as Iran announced its intention to suspend several commitments within the nuclear accord. Relatively, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned that after a 60-day period Iran will phase out more commitments …

Iran has informed the five remaining signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal of its decision to suspend the implementation of some of its commitments under the multinational agreement, exactly one year after the United States unilaterally abandoned the international document. The ambassadors of the countries remaining in the deal — France, …

This photo shows Iran’s most advanced homemade destroyer, Sahand, inducted into its naval fleet at the port of Bandar Abbas in December 2018. Parliament speaker Ali Larijani says Iran no longer holds value for Europe’s demands as European governments have let it down in fighting hostile US policies, pledging that …

It is technically impossible to replace the lost share of Iran in the global oil markets, an Iranian deputy minister said Monday. In comments at meeting of World Petroleum Council (WPC) experts in Tehran, deputy of Iran’s oil minister for international and mercantile affairs, Amir Hossein Zamaninia, dismissed the notion …

Qureshi on Saturday briefed the media on steps taken by the country to strengthen security along its porous border with Iran a day before the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is due to arrive in Iran for a long-awaited visit. He told journalists in a press conference in Islamabad that …