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TEHRAN ( defapress )- Special counsel Robert Mueller stated in a new filing that he’s not taking a position on how much time Paul Manafort should spend in prison for charges in Washington, D.C., but told the judge presiding over his case that he doesn’t deserve leniency.
News ID: 75814 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
Kim to Pompeo:
TEHRAN ( defapress )- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo he did not want his children to live with the burden of nuclear weapons, a former CIA officer involved in high-level diplomacy over the North's weapons was quoted as saying on Saturday.
News ID: 75813 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif called on officials in charge of casting the final verdict on endorsement of the two remaining FATF-related bills to base their decisions on ‘facts’.
News ID: 75812 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
Lavrov:
TEHRAN ( defapress ) - The United States maintains contacts with Russia on the Afghan conflict settlement and itself initiates them, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
News ID: 75811 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Iranian Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian urged ministries to establish necessary cooperation and coordination in line with increasing capacity of new energies in the country.
News ID: 75810 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Israeli police arrested the head of the Islamic authority that oversees Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem (al-Quds), an official said.
News ID: 75808 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
IRGC General:
TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said the enemy has sought to hamper the progress of Iran’s missile program but its plots have been foiled.
News ID: 75809 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
UN:
TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Nine civilians were killed and at least 13 wounded earlier this week in attacks in the provinces of Hudaydah and Hajjah in war-torn Yemen, the UN said.
News ID: 75807 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
UN:
TEHRAN ( defapress ) - More civilians were killed in Afghanistan last year than in any of the previous 9 years of the increasingly bloody conflict, according to a UN report, which blamed the spike in deaths on increased suicide bombings by Daesh and stepped up aerial attacks by US-led coalition forces.
News ID: 75806 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
TEHRAN ( defapress ) - Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has accused US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of orchestrating the torching of trucks with Venezuela-bound humanitarian aid on the Colombian border and of "desperately" looking for a reason to start a war against Caracas.
News ID: 75805 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization warned of the rise of camouflaged threats resulting from the nature of modern technologies.
News ID: 75804 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Ghadir-class submarine successfully launched a cruise missile on the third day of ‘Velayat-97’ drills in the Sea of Oman.
News ID: 75803 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Iran and Georgia held on Saturday the fourth meeting of their joint consular committee in Tbilisi with a focus on facilitating travels of Iranian nationals to the Eurasian country.
News ID: 75802 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei highlighted that there are many ambiguities in FATF guidelines.
News ID: 75801 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Spokesman for the Independent Fraction at the Iranian Parliament quoted deputy FM Araghchi as saying that endorsement of the remaining FATF-related bills would help Iran to bypass the current US sanctions and pressure.
News ID: 75800 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said "significant progress" has been made in Turkey's ongoing talks with Iran and Russia to secure Syria's northwestern province of Idlib.
News ID: 75799 Publish Date : 2019/02/24
TEHRAN ( defapress )- Pakistan's Army Director General of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asif Ghafoor underlined that his country tries to prevent terrorist attacks similar to the February 13 suicide blast against the IRGC bus in Southeastern Iran.
News ID: 75798 Publish Date : 2019/02/23
TEHRAN ( defapress )- The Syrian Army discovered hundreds of dead bodies of the people who had been massacred by the ISIL terrorist group in a large mass grave in the Southern part of the city of Raqqa, media reports said Saturday.
News ID: 75797 Publish Date : 2019/02/23
Iraqi Sources:
TEHRAN ( defapress )- Iraqi sources revealed that the US wants to occupy the Western parts of the country with the help of the ISIL terrorists after transferring them from Eastern Syria to its bases in the region.
News ID: 75796 Publish Date : 2019/02/23
Shamkhani:
TEHRAN ( defapress ) - Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council said Iran is in Syria at the request of the Damascus government and will keep working with the Arab country in countering the Zionist regime of Israel.
News ID: 75795 Publish Date : 2019/02/23
