Category: 7. Politics

TEHRAN – Iranians took to the streets across the country on Friday to praise Tehran’s retaliation against Israel which took place after the regime struck the West Asian nation’s embassy in Damascus.  People held placards and chanted slogans in Tehran, Esfahan, Tabriz, Ardabil, Hamedan, Qom, and several other cities, thanking the Iranian armed forces for…

TEHRAN – French authorities have apprehended a man who reportedly threatened to detonate explosives at Iran’s consulate in Paris. However, upon inspection, no explosives were found in his possession. According to reports from Western media, a Paris police official stated that the individual was observed entering the consulate around 11 a.m. local time (0900 GMT).…

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the shooting down of three Israeli quadcopters by the country’s air defense over the central city of Isfahan caused no damage or injuries. “In a desperate attempt, the media supporters of the Zionist regime (Israel) tried to make a victory out of their repeated defeat,” Amir-Abdollahian said in a…

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held a phone conversation with his Jordanian counterpart who was in New York to attend the UN Security Council meeting on Gaza on Friday. Safadi stressed that, “Today, the region needs peace more than ever, while the Israeli regime seeks to deflect people’s attention from the main issue of Gaza…

TEHRAN – A Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University says “strategic patience” by Iran in the past was perceived as weakness by Israel. Writing in Middle East Policy Council on April 16, Seyyed Hossein Mousavian also notes that the “double standard” from the United Nations Security Council concerning Israel’s deadly attack…

The spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the “irresponsible and unconstructive” US veto of a Palestinian request to the United Nations Security Council for full UN membership, blocking the world body’s recognition of a Palestinian state. “Washington’s move disclosed the hypocritical nature of the US foreign policy and the isolation of this country’s…

TEHRAN – Kayhan devoted its editorial to Iran’s rights and legal response to the insolent attacks by the usurping regime. It wrote: Iran showed restraint with its strategic patience in the face of Israel’s insolent attacks on its advisors and forces for more than six months and showed the main policy of the Islamic Republic…

“The Organization of Islamic Cooperation expressed its deep regret at the failure of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to shoulder its responsibilities for granting the State of Palestine full membership in the UN, while the Palestinian nation are subjected to the harshest level of aggression, persecution and genocide,” the OIC said in a statement…

In a statement on Friday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said the veto has further laid bare the hypocritical nature of Washington’s foreign policy and the isolation of the US’ stances in the international community. The US regime’s unilateral and unrestricted political, economic, military, and judicial supports for the Zionist regime that have been…

President Ebrahim Raeisi made the remarks in the city of Damaghan, in Semnan Province on the second day of his visit to the northern province on Friday. He called the reprisal attack on Israeli regime in the occupied lands dubbed the True Promise Operation as a unifying factor that was supported by all political currents inside the…