Security

A top Iranian security official says the ruling by a court in Athens about the seized Iranian oil tanker shows responding in kind is the only way to fight back against arrogance and to defend the rights of the nation.

Iran’s ambassador to Athens has visited an Iranian-flagged ship that was seized several days ago by Greek authorities upon an order from the US. The ship has docked in Greece’s Baristos Port.

Iraqi Interior Minister Othman al-Qanemi says Baghdad has agreed to let 2 thousand Iranian pilgrims enter Iraq visa-free through ground border crossings. Qanemi was speaking in Tehran on Tuesday where he met with his Iranian counterpart Ahmad Vahidi.

An Iranian official has rejected reports of a cyber attack at the Imam Khomeini International Airport, south of Tehran, saying a technical glitch in the passport control system briefly left passengers stranded there earlier on Saturday.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri has dismissed the Zionist regime’s threats to attack Iran.

Iran’s security chief offers sympathy with families of the victims of a tower block collapse in Abadan, saying the iconic city will eventually rise from the rubble of the Metropol Building and overcome the psychological warfare being waged by enemies against the country in the aftermath of the tragedy.

The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps has said the country will exact revenge on the Zionist regime for the assassination of IRGC’s Quds Force member Colonel Hassan Khodaei.

Iran’s leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said one of the areas of cooperation between Iran and Tajikistan is regional issues, especially the Afghanistan situation.

The Iranian Army’s Spokesman has said Iran’s Heydar 1 and Heydar 2 missiles that are capable of being carried by drones are completely homegrown and have been built by Iranian knowledge-based companies.

Police in the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan and Balouchestan say they have seized over 1.15 tons of narcotics in the north and south of the province.

Iran’s Interior Ministry has extended the census of illegal Afghan migrants, who hold no residency permit, for two weeks, saying 1.5 million of them have so far participated in the process.

The chief of the judicial organization of the Iranian armed forces has vowed that Iran will exact revenge on the Zionist regime for Colonel Hassan Khodaei’s assassination, a member of the IRGC who was recently assassinated in Tehran.

Iran has unveiled a new cruise missile as part of efforts to beef up its military might amid continued threats against the country.

A gunman has shot and wounded four policemen in the Iranian capital Tehran. The shooting happened outside the building of the Martyrs’ Foundation on Tehran’s Taleqani Street.

Iran’s Army has let out rare footage from the inside of a top secret underground base where a range of advanced drones are housed and operated for potential combat and other missions.

Three people including two police officers have been wounded after they were attacked by armed assailants in the capital, Tehran.

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps has announced the seizure of two Greek oil tankers in the Persian Gulf.

Iran’s top security official says Tehran is in possession of “worrying” evidence that some regional and extra-regional countries have been transferring Takfiri terrorists to Afghanistan, calling for joint neighborly action to protect the region against destabilizing factors.

Top Iranian and Russian security officials have slammed attempts by Western states to impose their own will on independent states through economic pressure, calling for the two countries to vastly broaden their economic cooperation against the Western sanctions targeting the two nations.

The Indian prime minister’s national security advisor has warned the huge quantities of US arms that have fallen into the hands of terrorists following the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, pose a threat to neighbors.

Israeli officials have admitted that the regime was behind the recent assassination of an Iranian Islamic Revolution Guards Corps colonel, who was shot dead outside his home in downtown Tehran on Sunday, the New York Times reported.

Iran has written to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres over the recent assassination of a member of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in Tehran, calling on the world body to shoulder its responsibility and condemn the terrorist crime.

The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council will visit Tajikistan to take part in the fourth security dialog meeting scheduled to be held in the country’s capital city of Dushanbe on Friday.

The commander of Iran’s Quds Force has rejected the US claim that any country being on good terms with Washington will see their problems resolved.

UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric has reacted to the assassination of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Colonel Hassan Sayyad-Khodaie, saying the body has always been opposed to the extra-judiciary murders.