Middle East

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had a phone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday.

The review of an interview with former president of the Kurdistan Region five years after being published in a Turkish daily sheds light on how Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani literally saved Erbil after the Kurdish calls for help from the US, UK, France, Turkey and Saudis went unheeded when bloodthirsty ISIS forces were on the city’s doorstep.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has held separate meetings with his Omani counterpart Yusuf bin Alawi and former Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Tehran.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the country still calls on regional states to join hands and promote peace, despite its promise to take revenge from the US for assassinating senior commander General Qassem Soleimani.

IRGC Aerospace Commander Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh says revenge for General Qassem Soleimani's assassination will not be completed unless all US forces leave the region.

The top diplomats of India, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Kazakhstan have, in separate phone calls with Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, discussed the latest developments following the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani.

A senior advisor to Iran’s Leader, Ali Akbar Velayati, has warned that the United States’ refusal to leave the region will cause another Vietnam war to come.

Iraq's top cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has extended condolences to Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on the martyrdom of top Iranian commander General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in an American drone strike in Iraq.

President of Iran Hassan Rouhani has hailed the “significant” resolution passed by Iraq's parliament which calls on the Baghdad government to expel American troops from the Arab country.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has held separate phone conversations with a number of officials and top diplomats from across the world on the recent developments following the US assassination of General Qassem Soleimani.

IRGC Chief Commander Major General Hossein Salami says vengeance for the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani will put an end to the US presence in the Middle East region.

The foreign ministers of Iraq and Iran have in a telephone conversation talked about the latest developments in the region and in Iraq.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called for concerted action against the American assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, saying silence on such heinous crime would embolden the US and result in greater threats to the region.

President of Iran Hassan Rouhani has called on the regional and neighbouring states to explicitly condemn the US criminal attack that took the life of top Iranian commander Major General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq.

Top diplomats and government officials from regional countries have expressed condolences over the passing away of IRGC Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in an American drone strike in Iraq.

A massive mourning procession is being held in Iraq for two top military figures assassinated in a US strike in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has denounced the assassination of IRGC Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani as the biggest strategic mistake that Washington has made in West Asia.

The spokesperson for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps has reminded the Americans that their pleasure after assassinating IRGC Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani will be short-lived, warning that their jubilation will soon turn into lamentation.

Iranian ambassador to Baghdad, Iraj Masjedi, has given details of the US attack that killed IRGC Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani early Friday.

Iran’s Army Commander Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi has cautioned the US that the brutal assassination of IRGC Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani will not remain unanswered.

The Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known in Iraq as Hashd al-Sha’abi, has called upon Iraqi protesters to leave the US embassy compound and Green Zone out of respect for the Iraqi government’s decision.

Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has strongly denounced the US’ recent airstrikes against Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known as Hashd al-Sha’abi.

Iranian Foreign Minister’s Senior Assistant in Special Political Affairs Ali-Asghar Khaji held a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Tuesday.

The Houthi Ansarullah Movement’s political office has condemned the US air raid on the Popular Mobilization Units’ positions, stressing Iraq’s right to respond to and unite against what threatens their security, sovereignty, and independence.

Iraqi protesters, outraged by Washington’s recent airstrikes against the positions of Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), have set fire to parts of the United States’ embassy in the Green Zone of Baghdad.