Middle East

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has urged Muslim countries to remain united against the United States and the Israeli regime and counter their conspiracies.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Swedish counterpart Margot Wallström had a phone conversation on Friday.

Senior Advisor to Iran’s Foreign Minister in Political Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari has held separate talks with the UN’s Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura and some Syrian opposition figures in Switzerland.

Yemen’s Ansarullah movement says it is ready for truce if the Saudi-led coalition would be after a real ceasefire after waging a devastating war on the innocent people of Yemen for 3.5 years.

Senior Advisor to Iran’s Foreign Minister in Political Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari and the UN’s Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Partnerships in the Middle East and Central Asia Rashid Khalikov have discussed the Yemen Crisis in Tehran.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has expressed sympathy over a deadly attack in the Iraqi city of Tikrit which killed and injured over 20 people.

Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called on all Iraqi groups and ethnic groups to preserve their national unity in a bid to foil the plots of ill-wishers.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Tehran and Baghdad are determined to raise the value of their bilateral trade to $20 billion per year, from the current $12 billion.

Iraqi President Barham Salih has arrived in Iran on his first official visit to the country since assuming office last month.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has finally concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month, contradicting the Saudi government’s claims that he was not involved in the killing.

A military advisor to Iran’s Leader says the recent wave of clashes between Gazans and Israeli forces, which ended with the two sides agreeing to an Egypt-brokered ceasefire, is a signal that the Palestinians have managed to tilt the balance of power to their favour.

The Saudi regime is very angry with the moves of the Islamic Republic in the region as they have led to the awakening of the regional people, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said Thursday, speaking to reporters in the city of Qazvin.

A Qatari official says some of the teams participating in the FIFA World Cup 2022 may be accommodated in Iran’s Kish Island as the Arab country lacks enough accommodation facilities to host all the guests.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has strongly denounced the recent Israeli airstrikes on the headquarters of Al-Aqsa TV station in central Gaza.

The headquarters of Al-Aqsa TV station run by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas was razed to the ground on Monday in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza amid a fresh round of violence in the besieged enclave, which the world blames on the Israeli forces.

Iran knew about Saudi Arabia’s plans to assassinate senior Iranian officials, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tells London-based al-Araby al-Jadeed.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has censured the latest attacks launched by Israelis on Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, saying such crimes prove that the Israeli regime is the epitome of state terrorism in the region.

Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a special assistant to Iran’s foreign minister, has held talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during his visit to Damascus on Monday.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has lashed out at the Saudi-led coalition for intensifying its attacks on the Yemeni civilians, particularly in the port city of Hudaydah, saying the attacks are aimed at blocking the Yemeni-Yemeni talks.

The city of Shiraz in southern Iran is hosting the annual meeting of the Islamic, Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO), where the secretaries of member states’ national commissions discuss broader cooperation in science and technology.

Saudi Major General Ahmed al-Assiri, who has allegedly been fired over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, took part at a meeting in Riyadh in 2017 that involved plans to assassinate the kingdom’s “determined enemy,” Iran’s Major General Qassem Soleimani, as well as sabotaging Iran’s economy, The New York Times reports, citing three sources familiar with the matter.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has condemned the recent deadly car bombing in the Iraqi city of Mosul.

A senior political analyst says the hostile policies adopted by US President Donald Trump against Iran are all dictated by Riyadh and Tel Aviv.

Iran says it is in contact with UK authorities over possible risks threatening the life of The Guardian’s Iranian correspondent who revealed on Friday his secret phone call with Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and information he received might have led to the dissident’s murder in Istanbul.

Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed on October 2 in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, might have lost his life for disclosing Riyadh’s funding of an anti-Iran6 UK-based TV channel, the British daily Guardian suggests.