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President Raisi: Enemies unable to block Iran’s progress

IFP Media Wire - October 30, 2022

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has said the enemies have tried hard to stop scientific, industrial, and service-based activities of Iran, but their plots were doomed to failure.

Middle East

Many killed, wounded in Baghdad’s blasts

IFP Media Wire - October 30, 2022

At least 10 people have reportedly been killed and more than 20 others injured in back-to-back explosions in the eastern part of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

Asia

Officials: Iranians among the dead in Seoul Halloween festivities

IFP Media Wire - October 30, 2022

South Korea’s first big Halloween celebration since the end of Covid restrictions turned to tragedy on Saturday night, when at least 151 people, mostly teenagers and young adults, died as partygoers surged through a narrow alley in a popular nightlife district in Seoul, officials confirmed. The dead included several foreign nationals, including those from Iran.

Middle East

Hezbollah chief says Iran enemies in despair

IFP Media Wire - October 30, 2022

The head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has said the huge processions that came in the aftermath of the Shiraz terror attack amounted to a "decisive message" to Iran's enemies that all their hostile efforts against the Islamic Republic would end in failure.

Europe

Russia’s “Special Operation” in Ukraine; Day 249: Ukraine says negotiations with Russia “waste of time”

IFP Media Wire - October 30, 2022

Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine on February 24 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:

Middle East

Qatar evicts thousands of Doha–based workers ahead of World Cup

IFP Media Wire - October 29, 2022

Qatar has emptied apartment blocks housing thousands of foreign workers in the same areas in downtown the capital Doha where visiting soccer fans will stay during the World Cup, workers who were evicted from their homes told Reuters.

Healthcare

6 more patients die of Covid in Iran

IFP Media Wire - October 29, 2022

The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Iran increased to 144,571 with six more people killed by the deadly disease over the past 24 hours, Iran's health ministry announced on Saturday.

Europe

Moscow urges Washington to return nuclear weapons back to US territory

IFP Media Wire - October 29, 2022

Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov has called on Washington to return the nuclear weapons it deployed to other countries back to the US.

Foreign Policy

Iran FM congratulates Iraqi counterpart on re-election

IFP Media Wire - October 29, 2022

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, in a phone call with his Iraqi opposite number Fuad Hussain, congratulated him on his re-election to the post.

Europe

Live Update: Russia’s “Special Operation” in Ukraine; Day 248

IFP Media Wire - October 29, 2022

Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine on February 24 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:

Middle East