Iran News

Iran Front Page offers a handpicked set of the latest news and views from Iran and the Middle East

Europe

US hints it will lift restrictions on Ukraine using long-range arms in Russia

IFP Media Wire -
The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, gave his strongest hint yet that Washington is about to lift its restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weapons supplied by the west on key military targets inside Russia, with a decision understood to have already been made in private.
Foreign Policy

UK, Netherlands summon Iranian envoys over “missiles given to Russia” 

IFP Editorial Staff -
The Netherlands and Britain have summoned the Iranian envoys to the two European countries in protest at what they describe as Iran’s move to give missiles to Russia for use against Ukraine.
Middle East

Israeli raid kills 5 Palestinians in West Bank

IFP Media Wire -
The Israeli military on Wednesday killed five Palestinians in an airstrike in the city of Tubas in the occupied West Bank, as the army started an incursion into the city.
Europe

Top US, UK diplomats arrive in Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian leaders

IFP Media Wire -
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday for talks with top Ukrainian officials.
Security

Iran president urges Iraq to fully implement security pact

IFP Media Wire -
Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian has called on Iraq to fully implement the March 2023 security agreement between the two neighboring countries to combat the terrorists and enemies "who have previously targeted regional stability and security".
Security

Iran’s president calls for creation of Islamic coalition to root out Israeli terrorism

IFP Media Wire -
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has urged the formation of a joint union among the world’s Muslim states, describing their unity as crucial to confronting “Zionist terrorism".
Americas

Rights groups, ex-diplomats urge US court to review lawsuit accusing Biden of genocide

IFP Media Wire -
More than half a dozen groups representing human rights organizations, former diplomats, and activists have filed briefs urging a US federal court to rehear a case alleging the administration of US President Joe Biden is complicit in genocide in Gaza.
Local

Video of Iranians sympathizing with 9/11 victims goes viral after 23 years

IFP Editorial Staff -
A video footage has resurfaced on the internet after over two decades showing Iranians in a protest rally on a street in the Iranian capital Tehran in a display of sympathy with the victims of the 2001 terror attacks on the Twin Towers in New York.
Security

Iran urges formation of ‘BRICS-specific security mechanism’

IFP Media Wire -
A senior Iranian security official has called for the creation of a "BRICS Security Commission" as a dedicated security structure for the grouping of world economies in order to combat terrorism and extremism within its domain.
Middle East

Israel proposes ‘safe passage’ for Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, Gaza handover: Report

IFP Media Wire -
Tel Aviv has proposed giving safe passage out of the Gaza Strip to Hamas’s leader Yahya Sinwar in exchange for freeing hostages it kidnapped during the Oct. 7 attack and giving up control of the enclave, a senior Israeli official told Bloomberg News.
Americas

Canada halts arms sales to Israel, Gaza death toll surges 41k

IFP Media Wire -
Canada has suspended some 30 permits for weapons shipments to Israel, including a rare move against a US company’s Canadian subsidiary’s deal with the US government, the foreign minister has said. The death toll among Palestinians in Gaza has surpassed the 41,000 mark.
Europe

Russia conducts biggest strategic naval drills in decades

IFP Media Wire -
Russia has launched the biggest naval drills in its modern history, President Vladimir Putin has announced. The ‘Ocean-2024’ exercise is expected to be held simultaneously in the Pacific and Arctic Oceans as well as the Mediterranean, Caspian and Baltic Seas.
Middle East

Iran’s President Pezeshkian pays homage to resistance commanders in Baghdad

IFP Editorial Staff -
Iran’s President Massoud Pezeshkian, who is on a visit to neighboring Iraq as his first foreign trip, paid tribute on Wednesday to the commanders of the resistance movements Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the anti-terror commander of the IRGC’s Quds Forces, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), who were assassinated in a US strike at Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020.
Americas

Partner of activist killed by Israel in West Bank pushes back on Biden calling it ‘an accident’

IFP Media Wire -
The partner of an American activist killed by Israel in the West Bank last week pushed back on US President Joe Biden calling the shooting “an accident” in remarks to reporters Tuesday.
Theatre

Legendary Iranian theater director Pari Saberi passes away

IFP Editorial Staff -
One of the most iconic figures in the Iranian drama and theater, Pari Saberi, died on Wednesday at the age of 92 after a period of illness.
Middle East

Probe finds Israeli military used US-made bombs in Gaza’s al-Mawasi strike

IFP Media Wire -
A new investigation by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency reveals that the recent Israeli air raid targeting civilians in Gaza’s humanitarian zone was carried out using US-made MK-84 bombs, which weigh 2,000 pounds.
Middle East

Without international action, ‘West Bank will become a new Gaza’: EU

IFP Media Wire -
The European Union foreign policy chief has warned that a new front was being opened with a clear objective of turning the West Bank into a new Gaza Strip.
Foreign Policy

Iran says to take reciprocal measures in response to West’s Ukraine-related sanctions

IFP Editorial Staff -
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani has warned that Tehran will take reciprocal measures after the US and the three European states imposed sanctions against Iran over the alleged missile delivery to Russia.
Energy

OPEC data show Iran’s oil production keeps rising despite US sanctions

IFP Media Wire -
Tehran continued to raise its oil production in August despite the pervasive pressure of Washington's sanctions that restrict Iran’s ability to sell oil in international markets, according to the latest data by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Europe

Ukraine says it may severe ties with Iran over missile supply to Russia

IFP Media Wire -
Kiev has announced it will review its options and could even cut relations with Tehran if Russia used ballistic missiles supplied by Iran to attack targets in Ukraine.
Foreign Policy

Iran President Pezeshkian scheduled to visit Iraq Wednesday

IFP Editorial Staff -
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is scheduled to visit Iraq in Wednesday, September 11 at the official invitation of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al-Sudani.
Americas

US says to target Iran with new sanctions over “missile transfer to Russia”

IFP Media Wire -
The United States has formally accused Iran of supplying short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for its war in Ukraine, saying Washington will take measures to punish Tehran. The Islamic Republic has denied providing Moscow with weapons for the conflict.
Middle East

Gaza death toll surges past 41,000

IFP Media Wire -
At least 32 Palestinians were killed in fresh Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, pushing up the overall death toll since last Oct. 7, to 41,020, the Health Ministry in the battered territory announced on Tuesday.
Cinema

Iran House of Cinema: Hundreds of cinema artists held back by legal cases

IFP Editorial Staff -
About 300 of filmmakers and cinema insiders in Iran are ‘unfairly’ out of business for grappling with legal cases due to the ‘political, social, and security situation in country,’ the spokesman for Iran’s House of Cinema says.
Americas

US calls on Israel to conclude probe into killing of American activist in West Bank

IFP Media Wire -
The United States has urged Israel to complete a full inquiry into the killing of an American Turkish woman last week in the occupied West Bank, saying it believes Tel Aviv has begun such a probe.
1...464748...1,804Page 47 of 1,804

© All Content by IFP News ( Iran Front Page ) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

About Us

Popular Articles

Editor Picks