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Trump, Xi to Meet at Virtual Asia Pacific Forum as Trade Spat Endures

TEHRAN (defapress) - US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will attend a virtual summit of Asia Pacific leaders on Friday to discuss the coronavirus and global economic recovery, with lingering trade differences likely to cloud the meeting.
News ID: 82582    Publish Date : 2020/11/20

Amir-Abdollahian:

Alliance of regional countries will lead to US defeat in West Asia

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iranian Parliament Speaker’s Special Aide for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian emphasized that unity and alliance of regional countries will lead to the defeat of the United States in the West Asian region.
News ID: 81238    Publish Date : 2020/06/02

Iran’s Zarif:

End of ‘Malign US Presence’ in West Asia in Offing

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the assassination of anti-Daesh heroes, including senior Iranian commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani, is the beginning of the end of “malign US presence in West Asia”.
News ID: 79817    Publish Date : 2020/01/07

US Says to Soon Put Intermediate Range Missile in Asia

TEHRAN (defapress) – US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said he wants to deploy an intermediate-range conventional missile in the Pacific region within months, now that the Trump administration has formally pulled out of a Cold War-era arms control treaty with Russia.
News ID: 78264    Publish Date : 2019/08/03

Iranian DM:

Danger of Terrorism Threatening South, West Asia

TEHRAN (defapress)- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami warned of the threat of terrorism and extremism in South and West Asia.
News ID: 77028    Publish Date : 2019/04/25

Mattis leaving Pentagon, disappointed of fulfilling his hopes in West Asia

TEHRAN (defapress) – Donald Trump, the US President, has recently announced that his Defense Secretary, Jim Mattis, would leave the Pentagon at the end of February. This announcement came amid the removal of US troops from Syria.
News ID: 74645    Publish Date : 2018/12/30

Human Rights Official:

Iran Greatest Democracy in West Asia

TEHRAN (defapress)- Iran is the most important democracy in West Asia and the most developed country of the Middle East in terms of science and technology, Secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani said, adding that these features of the country are the main reasons of animosities towards Tehran.
News ID: 74264    Publish Date : 2018/12/11

Russia Says Unable to Boost Oil Flows to Asia as Iran Sanctions Loom

TEHRAN (defapress) – Russia is unable to materially increase crude supplies to Asian markets who are faced with the loss of Iranian imports due to existing transportation constraints, Russia's deputy energy minister Pavel Sorokin said.
News ID: 72804    Publish Date : 2018/10/02

Iran's Tanker Fleet Gives Oil-Export Lifeline as Sanctions Loom

Iran’s own fleet of tankers may provide a lifeline for its crude and condensate exports that’ll be slashed as US sanctions against the Persian Gulf nation take hold.
News ID: 71980    Publish Date : 2018/08/25

Iran Extending Range of Helicopter-Mounted Weapons

The Iranian Army Ground Force’s Airborne Division has enhanced the range of weapons mounted on its helicopters, enabling them to hit targets at a distance of 12 kilometers, a top commander said.
News ID: 71835    Publish Date : 2018/08/18

5 littoral states must reach consensus over all legal regimes of Sea: Rouhani

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Convention on Caspian Sea's Legal Status will urge all legal regimes of the sea to be implemented through unanimous decisions made by its 5 littoral states.
News ID: 71715    Publish Date : 2018/08/12

Tajik Islamic Party Says Late Leader’s Bonds with Iran Were ‘Spiritual, Religious’

Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) dismissed reports that IRPT’s late leader Abdullah Nuri had been biased in favor of Iran, saying he had solely spiritual and religious bonds with Iran and always cared about national reconciliation in Tajikistan.
News ID: 71701    Publish Date : 2018/08/11

More Senior Terrorist Commanders Killed by Unknown Attackers in Northwestern Syria

Two notorious commanders of Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) and Jund al-Aqsa terrorist groups were killed by unidentified raiders in Idlib province on Saturday.
News ID: 71445    Publish Date : 2018/07/28

South Korea Summons Russian Officials over Air Zone Incursion

South Korea summoned a Russian embassy official on Saturday to express "regrets" about the incursion of two Russian military aircraft into South Korea's air defense identification zone and to urge that it not be repeated.
News ID: 71199    Publish Date : 2018/07/14

S Korea Suspends Iran Oil Loading under US Pressure: Sources

South Korea will not lift any Iranian crude and condensate in July, halting all shipments for the first time in six years amid US pressure to cut all imports of Iranian oil from November, three sources familiar with the matter said.
News ID: 71111    Publish Date : 2018/07/07

Monsoon Season Poses Huge Threat to Rohingya

For the 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Southeast Bangladesh in the past nine months, the approaching monsoon season poses the most serious threat since they were violently expelled from Myanmar, according to reports.
News ID: 70405    Publish Date : 2018/05/28

Iran Has Proof US Moving Daesh to Afghanistan: Top General

Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, a top military aide to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, said Iran has evidence that shows the US government is relocating members of the Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group to Afghanistan.
News ID: 70039    Publish Date : 2018/05/06

US, China, Saudi Arabia Biggest Military Spenders in 2017: SIPRI

According to a freshly released report on global military expenditure from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), China made “the largest absolute increase in spending in 2017, while Russia made the largest decrease.”
News ID: 69976    Publish Date : 2018/05/02

Navy cmdr. Reveals:

Tehran to host Indian Ocean Naval Symposium this week

Navy Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi said that Iranian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) will be held on Monday April 23 in Tehran.
News ID: 69788    Publish Date : 2018/04/21

Commander:

Only Regional Countries Responsible for West Asia's Security

TEHRAN (defapress)- Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi called on the transregional countries to leave the region, and underlined that security in West Asia should be provided by the regional countries alone.
News ID: 68571    Publish Date : 2018/02/09