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Two US warplanes have conducted dangerous and aggressive maneuvering closed to an Iranian airliner, putting lives of tens of civilian passengers on board in danger. The incident took place on Thursday involving two warplanes and Mahan Air’s Flight 1152 that had taken off from Tehran and was en route to …

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said that Iran will never forget the martyrdom of General Qasem Soleimani and will definitely strike back at the US. The Prime Minister of Iraq, Mr. Mustafa al-Kadhimi, met with the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khamenei, this Tuesday …

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei received Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and his accompanying delegation on Tuesday evening. Heading a high-ranking delegation, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi arrived in the Iranian capital Tehran on Tuesday noon to hold talks with senior Iranian officials.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi arrived in the Iranian capital Tehran on Tuesday noon. Heading a high-ranking delegation, Al-Kadhimi is scheduled to hold talks with senior Iranian officials, including the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei during his visit to Tehran. This is Al-Kadhimi’s first international trip …

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in Iraqi capital on Sunday morning. Heading a political delegation, Zarif arraived in Baghdad to hold separate talks with senior Iraqi officials. Upon arrival in Baghdad, he is set to meet with his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein and will then attend a joint …

The Iranian Embassy in Baghdad announced that the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic, Mohammad Javad Zarif, will meet during his visit tomorrow, Sunday to Iraq, six dignitaries and officials in Iraq. A statement by the Iranian Embassy, according to the Islamic Republic of Iran News Agency (IRNA) said: “Zarif …

A political source announced the date of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi’s visit to Saudi Arabia and Iran. The source said in a press statement today that the Prime Minister will receive on Sunday tomorrow in Baghdad the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif. He added that Al-Kadhimi will visit Saudi …

Iran in the past weeks has suffered a series of unexplained incidents at sensitive sites linked to its military and nuclear programme. Some of them have been attributed to Israel, which would not publicly confirm or deny its role. There are concerns in Europe that Israel might be trying to …

Azerbaijan reported the deaths of one of its generals and five other officers on July 14, in the worst outbreak of fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in several years. The heating up of the usually frozen conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh follows the deaths of four …

Iran’s Judiciary Spokesman Gholam Hossein Esmaeili said that an individual, a Defense Ministry retiree, was executed last week due to his spying for the CIA. Speaking in his weekly presser on Tuesday, he said that Reza Asgari, a retiree of Defense Ministry’s aerospace has been executed after the ruling was …

 In a tweet, the Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, named Iran-China 25-year cooperation roadmap as a termination to what she called Iran’s global isolation. “The partnership … would vastly expand Chinese presence in banking, telecommunications, ports, railways, and dozens of other projects,” she claimed. In a meeting …

A fire broke out at a facility belonging to the Shahid Tondgooyan Petrochemical Company in southwest Iran but was quickly contained, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday, citing a local official. The fire was caused by an oil leak but did not lead to any casualties or financial …

Iranian Foreign Minister described the rumors over the sale of Kish Island to China due to the intentions of the enemies to prevent the development of Iran-China relations, said Iranian Parliament member. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was scheduled to go to the Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy …

A misaligned missile battery, miscommunication between troops and their commanders, and a decision to fire without authorization all led to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shooting down a Ukrainian jetliner in January, killing all 176 people on board, a new report says. The report released late Saturday by Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization …

In reaction to some rumors about the explosion in the west of Tehran, Governor of Shahr-e Qods rejected the rumors on the explosion in the city. Regarding the rumors about the widespread power outage and the explosion that took place last night in this city, Leila Vaseghi, the Governor of …

Iran will boost Syria’s air defenses, as part of a wider military security agreement between the two countries. Iran will consolidate military relations with Syria, including enforcing and developing the Syrian air defenses in the face of Israeli strikes, as part of a “comprehensive” military agreement signed Wednesday between Iran …

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran on Tuesday dismissed a report fabricated by the “anti-Revolutionary elements” about an explosion at a nuclear site in the country’s central province of Yazd. In a statement released on Tuesday, the AEOI categorically denied the false claim raised by the anti-Revolutionary elements in the …

Spokesman of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) said that the Soomar and Shalamcheh borders will be reopened to a limited extent. Seyyed Rouhollah Latifi made the announcement on Tuesday, saying that Iraq’s Prime Minister Mostafa al-Kadhimi has agreed to a limited reopening of the Mandali border in …

The US drone strike that killed Iran’s top general Qasem Soleimani was “unlawful”, the United Nations expert on extrajudicial killings concluded in a report released Tuesday. Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, concluded it was an “arbitrary killing” that violated the UN charter. The …

Two people were killed in an explosion in a factory in the south of Tehran, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday. “Human error was the cause of the blast in a factory … Two people were killed and three others were injured,” said a local official.