Tehran: Within only a few days of the anti-government demonstrations in Iran, news of hijab protests by women have surfaced from different cities in Iran. The women protesters were demanding the withdrawal of the compulsory hijab law for the Iranian women. 29 women participating in the protests were arrested by the security agencies. While this […]
Beijing/Tehran/Berlin : ‘China has acquired nuclear weapons for self-defence. There is a very limited stock of nuclear weapons and there is no threat to the US security because of these’, China has clarified. At the same time, China has criticised US President Donald Trump’s policy of increasing the nuclear capability. The US had announced, in […]
Ankara/Tehran/Baghdad : If the Kurdish forces in Iraq remain firm on the role of independent country, Turkey will impose strong restrictions on Iraqi Kurds. If this happens, the crisis of hunger may strike the Iraqi Kurds. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned the Kurds that along with these restrictions, Turkey has left open the […]
Kabul: In spite of spending over 100 billion dollars in the last 15 years on the Afghanistan war, the US military, NATO and the Afghan army have not as yet attained success in reducing the influence of Taliban, claims a recently published US report. The report also claims that in the year 2016, Taliban’s influence […]
India and Iran have signed 12 MoUs, which also includes the development project of port Chabahar. Besides the bilateral MoU to develop the Chabahar port, a trilateral agreement has also been signed by India, Iran and Afghanistan to develop a transport and transit corridor between the three countries. This corridor will pass through Chabahar. The […]
Tehran: Inflation in Iran has gone up by a whopping 37%, and the Iranian people have to pay ten times the price for purchases. It is said that the Iranian people have to shell out 130,000 Rials per US dollar. At the same time, unemployment has moved up to 12%, rendering more than 3 million […]
Tehran: After the imposition of new sanctions by the US, infuriated Iran labelled the entire US military as “terrorists”. The bill was overwhelmingly approved in the Iranian parliament, and it also declared that the assistance given to the US military from the Middle East countries would also be considered to be supporting terrorism. Along with […]
Tehran: Angry reactions have been received regarding the United States’ decision to declare the Revolutionary Guards, a division of the Iranian military, as a terrorist outfit. The Iranian Supreme Religious Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, warned ‘This is a very dangerous decision by the United States and it will have to face serious consequences because of this.’ […]
Beirut: ‘The Hezbollah military units may not be stronger than the Gulf countries. But as compared to the Israeli army the Hezbollah is definitely stronger. The Hezbollah strength has increased manifold as compared to the past and the Hezbollah military is prepared to face any war,’ announced Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. He issued this warning […]
Tehran: Iran, terrified with the threat of new sanctions by the United States, has indicated that it will accept Gold for Oil deals with the African countries, in an effort to save the Iranian economy. As per the information given by Hassan Khosrojerdi, who is associated with the Rouhani government, Iran is preparing to make […]