Iran Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Wednesday that his country’s armed forces targeted an “Iranian terrorist group” in Pakistan the day before after Islamabad said the strike killed two children. “Iranian missiles and drones targeted none of the nationals of the friendly and brotherly country of Pakistan,” Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on the […]
The death toll was revised down from around 100 the day after what Iranian authorities labeled a “terrorist attack” that also left hundreds wounded near Soleimani’s tomb in the southern city of Kerman. No one claimed responsibility for the explosions in Iran, which has suffered deadly attacks in the past from jihadists and other militants […]
On Saturday, actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas was attacked for extending her support to the Iranian women protesting against the death of a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini. Amini was arrested by the ‘morality police’ in Tehran for not properly wearing a hijab as per mandatory hijab laws of the country and she was then killed by the […]
Onion and tomato, much in use in our cooking, witnessed a massive rise in prices in recent weeks as flash floods washed away entire crops, thereby compounding the food emergency situation in the country. To deal with this crisis, the government decided to issue permits for imports from neighbouring countries to minimise the transport time […]
Ebrahim Raisi, the hardline head of Iran’s judiciary, has been hailed the country’s new president after his three main rivals congratulated him on his victory and preliminary results showed he had secured 17.8m votes, a huge 14.5m more than his nearest rival. With 90% of the votes counted, Iranian officials said 28.6 million people had […]
According to the Pentagon, a US naval ship fires warning shots after 13 warships from the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) of Iran approached it and other American Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. After a relative lull in such encounters over the last year, a US naval ship fires warning shots […]
The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group on Friday expressed his support for Iran talks with Saudi Arabia and the US. In a televised address, Hassan Nasrallah said that Iran talks with Saudi Arabia and the US would benefit Tehran and its allies, while also calming regional tensions. Iran is a top backer of Hezbollah. The […]
Trump’s Policy: Iran slams out at the United States of America (USA); for sticking to the old and failed policies of former president Donald Trump said such a tactic would fail to save a nuclear deal. Moreover, Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter that; “ the US claims it favors diplomacy; […]
Tehran: Iran received 250,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine on Sunday that have been donated by the government of China. “This act and those similar to it by the government and nation of China are admirable and will of course remain in the historical memory of the Iranian nation,” Kianoush Jahanpour, spokesman of the Food […]
Iran began its vaccination campaign against Covid-19 on Tuesday to fight the Middle East’s deadliest outbreak of the illness. The first doses were given to doctors and nurses at Imam Khomeini hospital in the capital Tehran. The recipients handed a blue card marked with “Sputnik V” and the date of the injection. However, the son […]
