TEHRAN — Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iran’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations, insisted on Tuesday that the occupation of Syria by foreign forces must come to an end. Ravanchi made the remarks while addressing a UN Security Council meeting on the most recent political and security developments in Syria. The following is the text of […]

A report from Yahoo News published Sunday says that the Trump administration and CIA considered kidnapping WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2017 and even raised the prospect of assassinating him amid concerns he may be planning an escape of his own, according to the Hill. Citing conversations with more than 30 former U.S. intelligence and security officials, Yahoo reported that […]

TEHRAN — In yet another unconstructive move, the International Atomic Energy Agency on Sunday said Iran had prevented access to the Tesa Complex in Karaj, a facility producing centrifuges machines. The demand is against the “joint statement” issued between Iran and the IAEA on September 12, when the Agency’s Director General Rafael Grossi visited Tehran. […]

TEHRAN – An Australian academic says that Canberra is bankrolling U.S. ambitions with the fancy of undermining China “They are taking advantage of Australia’s limited democracy to subsidize Washington’s failing global ambitions, in a quixotic attempt to subjugate China, a country which was, until recently, Australia’s main trading partner,” Professor Tim Anderson tells the Zardis […]

TEHRAN – Pointing to the rise of hatred against Asian-Americans in the U.S., an American anti-racist activist says Asians are sick of racism. “I think that Asians are sick of the existing anti-Asian hate crimes over the years and have finally started to speak out,” Leanna Louie tells the Zardis News. As a former Army […]

TEHRAN- After 20 years of the American occupation of Afghanistan under the pretext of fighting terrorism and Al-Qaeda, it had to withdraw its forces in a humiliating manner, and left everything behind, including military vehicles still in use. American forces even abandoned the trained dogs they used in the incursions and equated them with those […]

TEHRAN- On January 2, 2020, the U.S. committed an atrocity, one of countless it has committed, but this specific atrocity was different.  On January 2, 2020, the U.S. Empire signed its death certificate with the murder of the Commander of the Hearts, Hajj Qassem Soleimani. Following this unforgivable crime, all the free people of the […]

TEHRAN- It’s always gratifying to see the bully being beaten, getting his comeuppance, or stood up to by those he has been harassing, humiliating, hurting, intimidating for so long. Sometimes that’s all it takes. The most aggressive bully in West Asia and much of the world is the United States. It goes where it wants […]

TEHRAN – A total of 80 historical buildings and aging structures, scattered across the northwestern province of West Azarbaijan has undergone some rehabilitation works, the provincial tourism chief has announced. As a part of the project, the historical monuments of the 22nd Bahman School and Dizaj Siavosh mansion are being restored in collaboration with the […]

TEHRAN- The 26th meeting of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (TCCIMA) Board of Representatives was held on Tuesday in which major economic issues were discussed. As reported by the TCCIMA portal, barriers to the activity of startups, the benefits of joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, review of macroeconomic indicators of the […]

TEHRAN- As France furiously protests Australia’s scrapping of a major arms deal in favor of American nuclear submarines, Washington is struggling to contain the fallout from Paris. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who had prioritized building ties with Europe, said he considered France “a vital partner” and saw no “regional divide” between Atlantic and […]

TEHRAN – Pastu Covac and Sinopharm are the safest COVID-19 vaccines that will soon be injected into children aged under 18, Mohammad Reza Shanehsaz, head of the Iranian Food and Drug Administration, has said. Pastu Covac, developed jointly by the Pasteur Institute of Iran and Cuba’s Finlay Vaccine Institute, is the only homegrown vaccine available […]