TEHRAN (defapress) – South African elections officials counted ballot papers early on Thursday, a day after a vote seen as the toughest test yet for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party 25 years after it swept to power at the end of white minority rule.
News ID: 77310 Publish Date : 2019/05/09
TEHRAN (defapress) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) as a major diplomatic achievement, expressing hope that the international document could be saved following the US’s withdrawal.
News ID: 77309 Publish Date : 2019/05/09
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran’s Representative Seyed Mohammad Ali Robatjazi underscored in an NPT meeting in New York that Tehran regards nuclear weapons the biggest threat to the world.
News ID: 77308 Publish Date : 2019/05/09
TEHRAN (defapress) - North Korea on Thursday described its firing of rocket artillery and an apparent short-range ballistic missile over the weekend as a regular and defensive military exercise and ridiculed South Korea for criticizing the launches.
News ID: 77307 Publish Date : 2019/05/09
TEHRAN (defapress) - The Yemeni army and popular military forces fired a ballistic missile at a Saudi military position in the kingdom’s southern region of Najran.
News ID: 77306 Publish Date : 2019/05/09
TEHRAN (defapress) – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said the growing public interest in elevated and prominent religious concepts has made it a heavier responsibility for seminary schools to address public demands.
News ID: 77305 Publish Date : 2019/05/09
Iran UN amb.:
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran’s ambassador to the UN Majid Takht-Ravanchi told PBS that lack of action from the remaining signatories to the nuclear deal in the next two months would mean there is no political will and Iran would act based on its national interests.
News ID: 77304 Publish Date : 2019/05/09
Trump:
TEHRAN (defapress) - US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that China "broke the deal" in the ongoing US-China trade talks.
News ID: 77303 Publish Date : 2019/05/09
Diplomat:
TEHRAN (defapress) – An Iranian deputy foreign minister said although the country’s move to roll back some of its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal is not tantamount to withdrawal from the agreement, Tehran has put a piecemeal pullout from the JCPOA on its agenda.
News ID: 77302 Publish Date : 2019/05/09
TEHRAN (defapress) – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said the growing public interest in elevated and prominent religious concepts has made it a heavier responsibility for seminary schools to address public demands.
News ID: 77299 Publish Date : 2019/05/09
TEHRAN (defapress)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, in a Wednesday meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, exchanged views on the recent developments related to the nuclear deal and Tehran’s very new decision to undertake reciprocal measures in the face of other parties’ lack of commitment.
News ID: 77298 Publish Date : 2019/05/08
Kremlin:
TEHRAN (defapress)- Tehran's decision to modify undertakings under the nuclear agreement came as a result of external pressure, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said after Iran halted compliance with two of its nuclear stockpiling obligations under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
News ID: 77297 Publish Date : 2019/05/08
IRGC Chief:
TEHRAN (defapress) – Having exhausted all of their possibilities against Tehran, the enemies of Iran have no more options to use, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami said.
News ID: 77296 Publish Date : 2019/05/08
Lavrov’:
TEHRAN (defapress) – The irresponsible policies of the US government have led to an ‘unacceptable situation’ in which the multilateral pact on Iran’s nuclear program may fail, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday.
News ID: 77295 Publish Date : 2019/05/08
Homs:
TEHRAN (defapress)- The Syrian Army and Air Force have started their military operations to purge ISIL terrorists from Eastern Badiyeh (destert) in Palmyra in Eastern Homs, media reports said.
News ID: 77294 Publish Date : 2019/05/08
TEHRAN (defapress)- A notorious ISIL commander close to the terrorist group's ringleader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed along with his 14 aides in Iraqi Army operations in Al-Anbar province in Western Iraq, Iraqi sources said.
News ID: 77293 Publish Date : 2019/05/08
Syrian UN Envoy:
TEHRAN (defapress)- Syria’s UN Ambassador Bashar al-Ja’afari slammed the United States for flagrantly violating the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and turning a blind eye to the Israeli regime’s breaches of the international accord.
News ID: 77292 Publish Date : 2019/05/08
AEOI Chief:
TEHRAN (defapress)- Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi underlined that based on the new decision made by Tehran after the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal and the Europeans' lagging in implementation of their undertakings, the country does no more confine its enriched uranium stockpile less than 300kg in weight.
News ID: 77291 Publish Date : 2019/05/08
TEHRAN (defapress) – “This will not be in favor of Europeans if they do not pay attention to the set 60-day deadline by Iran,” Senior Iranian Lawmaker and a member of Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Alaeddin Boroujerdi said on Wednesday.
News ID: 77290 Publish Date : 2019/05/08
Russian Senator:
TEHRAN (defapress) – Tehran’s decision to row back on some of its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers is a diplomatic demarche, a senior Russian lawmaker said.
News ID: 77289 Publish Date : 2019/05/08
