Foreign Policy

Iranian President Raisi to travel to Indonesia on Tuesday

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is due in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on an official invitation from President Joko Widodo.
Local

Iran’s security chief replaced after almost a decade

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Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has appointed the director of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ Strategic Center as the new secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), replacing Ali Shamkhani. Shamkhani was the second longest-serving security chief since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, behind only former President Hassan Rouhani who was SNSC secretary for nearly 16 years starting in 1989.
Nuclear

Iran rejects G7 claims over nuclear program, Ukraine war

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The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has strongly rejected a claim by the Group of Seven (G7) leaders regarding Iran’s nuclear program and provision of drones to Russia for use in the Ukraine war.
Foreign Policy

Iran-Taliban talks end; Taliban calls for good ties with Tehran

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The Taliban defense ministry says Iran and Afghanistan concluded the talks between their military delegations with an emphasis on the international and border obligations of both sides in line with the interests of the two countries.
Local

Iranian paper says supporters of interaction with Taliban should be held accountable over water row with group

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Iran’s Jomhouri Eslami newspaper, in an article, has slammed proponents of interaction with the Taliban in Afghanistan as a water dispute with the group escalates.
Local

Supreme National Security Council Media: Secretary Shamkhani’s resignation certain

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Iran’s Nour News website, which is affiliated with the Supreme National Security Council, says a piece of poetry posted by the council’s secretary Ali Shamkhani on his twitter accounts shows he is sure to step down from the position.
Local

Iranian president nominates new individual as education minister

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has nominated Reza-Morad Sahrayi as the new minister of education, more than a month after the previous minister resigned.
Nature and Wildlife

Hails as big as eggs hit region in western Iran

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Hails as big as eggs have fallen in Uramanat, a region in Iran’s Kermanshah Province.
Foreign Policy

Swiss envoy summoned to Iranian Foreign Ministry over “meddlesome move”

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Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned Swiss ambassador to Tehran to lodge a protest over "meddling in Iran’s domestic affairs and posting an image of Iran's fake flag on Social media."
Healthcare

COVID-19 figures in Iran decline even further: Official data

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Official data from Iran’s Health Ministry show that only 86 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the country over the past 24 hours.
Local

Iran military chief hails Navy’s ‘historic’ round-the-world mission

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Iran’s military chief praises the historic round-the-world mission of the country’s 86th Naval Fleet, saying the “unprecedented achievement” marks the “starting point of a new era in the history” of the Iranian military.
Foreign Policy

Iranian military official in Kabul amid dispute over water rights

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A senior Iranian military official has travelled to the Afghan capital, Kabul, for talks with caretaker Taliban authorities, amid tensions between the two sides over Tehran’s water rights from the Helmand River.
Security

Five border guards killed in terror attack in southeast Iran

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Five Iranian border guards are killed and several others injured in a terror attack on a checkpoint in the southeastern city of Saravan, near the Pakistani border, officials say.
Asia

Moscow, Beijing express ‘strong dissatisfaction’ with G7 communique

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Russia and China have expressed "strong dissatisfaction" with the final statement issued at the end of the Group of Seven (G7) summit in the Japanese city of Hiroshima over such issues as those related to the Ukraine war and the South China Sea.
Security

Taliban given 1-month ultimatum to allow Iran access to Helmand water share

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The Iranian president’s special envoy for Afghanistan says the interim Taliban rulers have one month to provide Iran access to its share of water from the Helmand River, and that they will be responsible for the consequences if they fail to do so.
Europe

Live Update: Russia’s “Special Operation” in Ukraine; Day 452

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Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine in February 2022 after the Western-leaning Kiev government turned a deaf ear to Moscow’s calls for its neighbor to maintain its neutrality. In the middle of the mayhem, Moscow and Kiev are trying to hammer out a peaceful solution to the conflict. Follow the latest about the Russia-Ukraine conflict here:
Foreign Policy

Enemies seeking to muddle Iran’s relations with friendly states: Ayatollah Khamenei

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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned of the enemies’ efforts to stoke tensions between Iran and its neighbors. He was addressing a group of Iranian Foreign Ministry officials and ambassadors to other countries in Tehran on Saturday.
Local

Leniency with Taliban does not work, Tehran should prove President Raisi warning serious: Iranian daily

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Even the Iranian apologists of the Taliban now know that putting up with the group doesn’t work, an Iranian daily says, amid the former group’s refusal to release Iran’s water shares from Helmand River into Iranian territory.
Security

Iranian commander: Attacks against terrorists in Iraq will continue if Baghdad doesn’t expel them

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The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Forces says Iran will continue to hit the positions of anti-Iran terrorists in Iraq if Baghdad doesn’t adhere to a commitment to expel them from Iraqi territory.
Local

Principlist daily: Raisi failed to ease economic pressure troubling people’s livelihoods

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An Iranian daily close to the Principlists criticizes the government of President Ebrahim Raisi for what he calls failing to contain the economic pressure and rising inflation that are taking a toll on the livelihoods of the Iranian people.
Foreign Policy

Top Iran official warns Taliban not to ‘misunderstand Tehran’s good-neighborliness policy’

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An Iranian vice president says Tehran will pursue its rights from the Helmand River under a “special” agenda in the wake of President Ebrahim Raisi’s warning to the interim Taliban rulers in Afghanistan.
Security

Iran showcases defense achievements at Belarus exhibition

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Iran puts on display a number of its achievements in the military sector at an international exhibition in Minsk, the capital city of Belarus.
Local

Iran executes man convicted of running intl. women trafficking network

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The Iranian Judiciary executes the death penalty of a man convicted of trafficking women for sexual exploitation and “corruption on earth.”
Europe

Erdogan criticizes Biden for calling him “dictator”

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dodged giving a direct response when pressed by CNN on whether he genuinely believed Washington was trying to unseat him. Instead, he criticized US President Joe Biden for viewing him as a “dictator".
Americas

US imposes fresh sanctions against Iran, Russia

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The United States has issued new sanctions targeting the “logistics network” between Iran and Russia as the two countries move to boost their relations.
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