Saudi Arabia's minister of Hajj and Umrah has faced a deluge of criticism after he stated "political slogans" would have no place during the Hajj, in an apparent reference to acts of solidarity with Palestinians amid Israel's ongoing war on the Gaza Strip.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened for a second time to send arms to Western adversaries, in response to the Western military support for Ukraine, while declining to name any countries or groups.
Bahrain has sent a direct message to Iran seeking normalization of relations with Tehran after eight years of diplomatic cut, an Iranian official says.
Some 40 percent of Germans said Berlin should recognize Palestine as an independent state, while 27% said they were against such a move, a new survey revealed on Friday. About 33% indicated that they were not sure.
Unemployment in the Gaza Strip has reached nearly 80% since the Israeli war erupted last October, the United Nations labour agency has reported, bringing the average unemployment rate across Palestinian territories to more than 50%.
US President Joe Biden has blocked a proposal by his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to dispatch Western instructors to train Kiev’s forces in Ukraine, Politico has reported.
“Chamim" is a village in Hamidiyeh, in the southwestern Iranian Khuzestan Province, where visitors find desert sands, river water and forest trees together.
American munitions were used by Israel in an airstrike on a school doubling as a shelter for displaced Palestinians in central Gaza, according to a CNN analysis.
The director of Iran’s Space Agency says the country is going to put new satellites into the orbit this year. Hossein Salarieh said Irsnian-made Tolou 3 and Nahid 2 satelites are ready to be launched.
Tehran, Moscow and Beijing have issued a statement demanding the West refrain from creating tensions amid a longstanding standoff and make bold steps to revive a 2015 nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which is in terminal decline.
Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it has prepared the facilities for Iranian citizens in other countries to take part in the upcoming presidential elections set for June 28.
In a recent letter to the UN Security Council, the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations in New York vehemently rejected the accusations leveled by France, Germany, and the United Kingdom (E3) regarding Iran's nuclear program.
A final farewell ceremony for Saeed Abyar, a military advisor of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Syria, was held on Thursday as his body was laid to rest.
Paris has no plans to dispatch troops to Ukraine, however, the deployment of French instructors to Ukraine is not a taboo subject, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has stated.
Minister of Communications and Information Technology (ICT) Issa Zarepoor has stated Iran is constructing the biggest space center of the Middle East in its southeastern port city of Chabahar.
The secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights and deputy head of the Iranian Judiciary says Iran has received over eight million refugees from neighboring Afghanistan, contrasting the number with the seven to eight million people the US has killed since its establishment.
The United Nations has reported that in addition to the carnage in the Gaza Strip, more than 500 Palestinians, most of them children, have been killed since Oct. 7 last year in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli army has targeted a United Nations-linked school in central Gaza, killing at least 40 displaced Palestinians and injuring dozens more, according to officials and local media.
Russian President Vladimir Putin suggests that all parties to a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran abide by the requirements of the agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) without adding any extra burden to the deal.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are losing at least 50,000 service personnel a month, five times more than the Russian military, President Vladimir Putin has claimed.
