The first session of the fifth Iraqi parliament was held on Sunday. The meeting was attended by 325 lawmakers and was chaired by Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, the Sunni speaker of the parliament. The meeting was scheduled to take place at 11 am Baghdad local time, but as usual, factions demanded a postponement of several hours for consultation. […]
The sound of successive explosions and gunshots can also be heard in the area, according to Kabul Times. It is said that successive explosions and shootings have been heard from the fifth district of Kabul. Eyewitnesses also say there was an explosion at the police academy, TOLO News also reported. Taliban have not yet commented […]
The Iraqi Security Intelligence Unit in a statement said that Iraq was handed over 50 Iraqi citizens from Damascus who had previously been arrested on Syrian soil, Shafagh News reported. These terrorist elements were handed over to Iraq in coordination made with Iraqi-Syrian Joint Operations Command through “Rabieh” border crossing, the statement added. The Iraqi […]
During the meeting, Turkmen Vice President said that the two countries have high potentials and capacities for boosting cooperation in transportation, technical-engineering services and energy. The two sides exchanged their views regarding the joint cooperation in economic, trade, energy, transportation and transit fields. Considering the imminent visit of President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov to the […]
Heading a delegation of the Taliban, Amir Khan Muttaqi arrived in the Iranian capital of Tehran a few minutes ago. The delegation is scheduled to discuss with Iranian officials bilateral cooperation and economic issues. A spokesman for the Taliban government’s Foreign Ministry Abdul Qahar Balkhi in a tweet on Saturday wrote that Amir Khan Muttaqi will discuss political, economic, transit and […]
TEHRAN, Jan. 08 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister met and held talks with leaders of monotheistic religions as well as the religious monitories in the Iranian Parliament on Saturday. During the meeting which was held in the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian hailed the coexistence of monotheistic religions in Iran and the inclusive culture in […]
Speaking during this week’s Friday prayers’ sermon at Tehran Imam Khomeini (RA) Grand Mosalla (congregational prayers site), Hojjatoleslam Kazem Sedighi commemorated the name and memory of former Iran’s IRGC Quds Force Commander Martyr Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani at the second martyrdom anniversary of Iran’s anti-terror commander who played a leading role in the fight against […]
As the people of Afghanistan are suffering difficult live conditions under the US sanctions as well as the harsh weather, Iran continues its humanitarian assistance to this eastern neighbor. On the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Lt.General Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s embassy in Kaul distributed livelihood humanitarian packages, worth more than $50,000, among poor Afghan people in this country. Iran’s humanitarian aid […]
Earlier, Saudi Arabia’s Special Representative at Vienna-based International Organizations met and held talks with the head of the French negotiating team in Vienna talks on Thursday. In addition, bin Khalid met with Russia’s Permanent Representative to Vienna-based International Organizations Mikhail Ulyanov in the Austrian capital of Vienna. In a tweet on Thursday, Ulyanov wrote that he consulted […]
The undisclosed source told IRNA on Friday that the diplomats discussed issues of mutual interests, which have been unrelated to Iran. Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s permanent representative to Vienna-based International Organizations, wrote on his Twitter account on Thursday, “Met with the Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia and his colleagues from the capital.” He also tweeted, “We also exchanged […]
The talks are based on an agreement reached at the last meeting of JCPOA Joint Commission, in which, representatives of the participating countries emphasized the priority of the removal of illegal and oppressive sanctions imposed by the United States against Iran. Over the past days, these bilateral and multilateral meetings focused on setting frameworks, indicators […]
“I remain convinced we can reach a deal. Bits of progress have been made in the last few days,” Frnace’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told BFM TV and RMC Radio on Friday “We have been heading in a positive direction in the last few days, but time is of the essence, because if we […]
