Middle East

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi says Tehran, Moscow, and Ankara are on the brink of achieving a final deal on the political settlement of the Syria crisis as the three states’ leaders convene in Ankara.

An informed Saudi source says the damages inflicted on the Aramco oil facilities in the recent Yemeni drone attacks are so massive that it is not clear when the country's oil output can return to normal.

Iraq denied reports alleging that its country was the site from where Yemeni drones were launched to attack Saudi oil installations in retaliation for the kingdom’s deadly war.

The top negotiators of the three guarantor states of the Astana Process - Iran, Turkey, and Russia - have held a trilateral meeting on Sunday, September 15, 2019.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has urged that the war against the remaining terrorists in Syria’s Idlib should continue.

President of Iran Hassan Rouhani has left Tehran for Ankara on Sunday evening for a trilateral meeting with his Turkish and Russian counterparts about Syria.

Several drones flown by Yemen’s Ansarullah movement have set alight two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia in retaliation for the Riyadh-led attacks on Yemen.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will leave for the Turkish capital of Ankara on Sunday in order to attend a trilateral meeting with the leaders of Turkey and Russia on the resolution of Syria crisis, the president’s office announced.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi has rejected the anti-Iran allegations raised in the final declaration of a meeting of the Arab Quartet Committee in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has strongly condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “sinister plan” to annex the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi has expressed deep regret over the tragic incident in the holy city of Karbala on Ashura, which killed and wounded tens of Shiite mourners.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif responds derogatorily to Benjamin Netanyahu’s apparently trying to blow the whistle on what the Israeli prime minister has branded as off-limits Iranian nuclear experimentation.

The United States and Turkey have begun joint patrols as part of a plan to create a “safe zone” in the Arab country’s northeast aimed at decreasing Ankara’s tensions with Washington-backed Kurdish militants there.

The Khosravi border crossing between Iran and Iraq reopened on Friday, more than six years after a terrorist attack led to its closure.

A Saudi prince has been derided by social media users after claiming that Riyadh is capable of destroying Iran in a matter of hours.

United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen held a meeting with Senior Assistant to Iran's Foreign Minister in Special Political Affairs Ali-Asghar Khaji in Tehran.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has met with UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen in Tehran.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi has strongly condemned the Zionist regime’s Sunday aggression against southern Lebanon, describing it as a violation of international rules and regulations.

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council praised the Lebanese Hezbollah for the Sunday’s attack on Israeli targets, saying the retaliatory operation attested to the resistance front’ determination to combat threats and destabilizing forces.

Ibrahim Mohamed al-Dailami, the new ambassador of Yemen to Iran, has met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi has condemned the Saudi warplanes’ deadly air raids against a prison in Yemen’s Dhamar where prisoners of war were being kept.

The former president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, has told a court that he received $25 million from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Political commentator Fatemeh Sayyahi has weighed in on the consequences of attacks by the US and Israel on bases of the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has scrambled to make sure US President Trump wouldn’t meet Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif while he was making his way to France for a surprise visit at the G7 summit on Sunday, US and Israeli officials say.

A former commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has highlighted the intent behind the recent Israeli attacks on pro-Iranian targets in the region, saying the Zionist regime is hatching an opportunistic plot to wage a proxy war in the region, trigger instability, and mount pressure on Iran.