Middle East

The Iranian president says Iran knows the real perpetrators of the Saturday terrorist attack on the south-western city of Ahvaz, and will not condone the criminal act.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says the sponsors of terror cannot cover up their direct role in supporting anti-Iran terrorists through false rhetoric, unfounded double-talk and childish doubts about the terrorist nature of a Saturday terror attack in Iran’s Ahvaz.

Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the US puppet states in the region were behind the deadly terrorist attack on a military parade in Iran’s Ahvaz, which killed and wounded dozens of people on Saturday.

Tehran has written to the United Nations, calling on the world body to condemn Israel for threatening Iran with a nuclear attack and bring the regime’s atomic weapons program under its supervision.

Iranian and Turkish foreign ministers have, in a telephone conversation, discussed the recent agreement reached over Syria’s Idlib.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says Tehran welcomes the Idlib agreement between Turkey and Russia reached in a meeting in the Russian city of Sochi, which was made following the trilateral meeting among presidents of the three countries in Tehran.

The Russian Federation does not have any information that confirms Israel has handed over some documents on Iran’s nuclear program to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said Russia's permanent representative to the agency, Mikhail Ulyanov.

The newly-elected speaker of the Iraqi legislature says he won’t tolerate efforts by anti-Iran groups to use Iraq’s soil to attack the Islamic Republic.

A former Iranian diplomat says Riyadh is intensifying its crackdown on Shiite Muslims both in Saudi Arabia and in Bahrain as they have started mourning the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein, a grandson of Prophet Muhammad.

A Turkish business official says Iran and Turkey could move to create a joint bank to facilitate economic cooperation, saying it would help the two countries achieve a $30 billion target for bilateral trade.