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House Fails to Override Trump Veto on Border Wall

TEHRAN ( defapress )- The House failed Tuesday to override the first veto of President Donald Trump's tenure, a vote led by Democrats seeking to uphold a measure unwinding the president's national emergency declaration at the Southern border.
News ID: 76443    Publish Date : 2019/03/27

Dems to Pentagon:

No Extra Money If Trump Uses Defense Funds to Build Wall

TEHRAN ( defapress )- Democratic appropriators on Tuesday stressed that they will not give the Pentagon money to cover any shortfalls that stem from US President Donald Trump using military funds to pay for a border wall.
News ID: 76442    Publish Date : 2019/03/27

Turkey Says US Has No Right to Give Golan to Israel

TEHRAN ( defapress )- The United States has no jurisdiction or right to "give" the Golan Heights to Israel, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed late Tuesday.
News ID: 76441    Publish Date : 2019/03/27

Iran, Iraq Pledge to Speed up Implementing Signed Deals

TEHRAN ( defapress )- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi, in a telephone conversation, underlined that Tehran and Baghdad will expedite efforts to operationalize the sealed agreements between the two countries.
News ID: 76440    Publish Date : 2019/03/27

Iraqi gov’t passes bill on gratis visa for Iranians

TEHRAN ( defapress )- The Iraqi Council of Ministers on Tuesday passed a bill to lift visa charges for Iranians.
News ID: 76439    Publish Date : 2019/03/27

Rights Group:

7 Killed in Saudi Airstrike on Yemeni Hospital

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – A hospital in a rural area of northwest Yemen was hit by a recent Saudi-led airstrike, killing seven people and wounding eight others, Save the Children said.
News ID: 76438    Publish Date : 2019/03/27

EC chief urges govt. officials to mobilize all facilities for helping flood-hit people

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani called on government and military officials to mobilize all facilities available for aiding flood-stricken people broke out in two provinces of Golestan and Mazandaran.
News ID: 76437    Publish Date : 2019/03/27

Tehran, Jakarta emphasize on developing coop. on religious dialogs

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Islamic Republic of Iran and Indonesia stressed for broadening and developing cooperation in the field of inter-religious dialogs.
News ID: 76436    Publish Date : 2019/03/27

Armenia voices readiness to aid flood-stricken people

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan on Wed. expressed readiness of his respective country for offering necessary relief services to the people severely hit by torrential flash floods in some Iranian provinces.
News ID: 76435    Publish Date : 2019/03/27

Tensions remain high in Gaza despite ceasefire

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Israeli regime has deployed infantry and armored brigades to the so-called buffer zone bordering the Gaza Strip.
News ID: 76434    Publish Date : 2019/03/27

Russia:

Presence of 'Russian Specialists' in Venezuela Based on Accord

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – The presence of “Russian specialists” in Venezuela is governed by a military-technical cooperation agreement between the two countries, Russia’s foreign ministry said.
News ID: 76433    Publish Date : 2019/03/27

Syria Requests UN Security Council Meeting on Golan

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Syria has asked the United Nations Security Council to hold an urgent meeting on the US decision to recognize the Golan Heights as Israeli territory, a report said.
News ID: 76432    Publish Date : 2019/03/27

Iran President Slams Trump’s Golan Recognition

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani strongly condemned US President Donald Trump’s “unilateral” decision to officially recognize Syria’s occupied Golan Heights as Israeli territory.
News ID: 76431    Publish Date : 2019/03/27

Zarif Urges Riyadh to End ‘Shameful’ War on Yemen

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – On the fourth anniversary of Saudi Arabia’s devastating aggression against Yemen, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the Saudi regime and its allies to put an end to their “shameful” war on the impoverished Arab country.
News ID: 76430    Publish Date : 2019/03/27

US to Recognize West Bank as Israeli Territory after Golan, Nasrallah Warns

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – The secretary general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah warned that the United States could next choose to recognize Israel’s “sovereignty” over the Tel Aviv-occupied West Bank unless the Arab world springs to action.
News ID: 76429    Publish Date : 2019/03/27

Rouhani Calls for Closer Regional Cooperation to Counter US, Israel

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned about the dangers posed by Washington and Tel Aviv to the region, urging regional states to forge closer ties to counter them.
News ID: 76428    Publish Date : 2019/03/27

Kremlin on Mueller Report: ‘Hard to Find A Black Cat in A Dark Room, If It Isn't There’

TEHRAN ( defapress )- Russia doesn’t interfere in the affairs of other countries and has no intention of doing so, the Kremlin said, dismissing accusations of meddling in US elections, contained in the Special Counsel Robert Mueller report, as groundless.
News ID: 76427    Publish Date : 2019/03/26

Three Russian Servicemen Killed by Terrorists in Syria

TEHRAN ( defapress )- Three Russian servicemen went missing in Syria in late February after being attacked by terrorists, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Monday, adding that the deaths of all three servicemen had been confirmed.
News ID: 76426    Publish Date : 2019/03/26

Trump Signs Declaration Recognizing Israel's Sovereignty over Golan Heights

TEHRAN ( defapress )- US President Donald Trump signed a declaration recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, seized from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War.
News ID: 76425    Publish Date : 2019/03/26

Russia, China Tell UN They Sent Home over Half North Korean Workers in 2018

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Russia sent home nearly two-thirds of some 30,000 North Koreans working there during 2018 and China repatriated more than half, but did not specify a figure, according to unpublished reports by Moscow and Beijing to the United Nations Security Council.
News ID: 76424    Publish Date : 2019/03/26

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