TEHRAN (defapress) - The Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) Istanbul mayoral candidate Binali Yildirım resigned Monday as Parliament speaker after officially filing his nomination papers.
News ID: 75709 Publish Date : 2019/02/19
Russia:
TEHRAN (defapress) – Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that the Warsaw conference came as a “new demonstration of the US administration’s policy towards creating new dividing lines in the Middle East.”
News ID: 75708 Publish Date : 2019/02/19
TEHRAN (defapress) – Senior Iranian cleric Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi called for a constant development of Iran’s defense power to deter enemies from taking military action against the country.
News ID: 75707 Publish Date : 2019/02/19
TEHRAN (defapress) - Pakistan's foreign minister has written a letter to the UN, asking it to help de-escalate and defuse tensions with India after a suicide bombing last week in India's sector of disputed Kashmir region killed at least 41 Indian troops.
News ID: 75706 Publish Date : 2019/02/19
TEHRAN (defapress) – The spokesman of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah voiced the movement’s readiness to carry out the first phase of a pullback of forces from the port city of Hudaydah, a key provision of a ceasefire deal reached in December 2018 in Sweden.
News ID: 75705 Publish Date : 2019/02/19
TEHRAN (defapress) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed weapons deals worth $1.3bn with local and international companies at the opening day of an arms fair in Abu Dhabi.
News ID: 75704 Publish Date : 2019/02/19
TEHRAN (defapress) – Israeli troops shelled two separate sites in the Gaza Strip, with the number of casualties unknown.
News ID: 75703 Publish Date : 2019/02/19
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson slammed the Saudi regime as “the true godfather of Takfiri terrorism” in the world after the kingdom’s former top diplomat accused Tehran of sponsoring terrorism.
News ID: 75702 Publish Date : 2019/02/19
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry expressed sympathy with Zimbabwe over death of at least two dozen gold miners in flooded tunnels in the wake of a dam wall collapse after heavy rain.
News ID: 75701 Publish Date : 2019/02/19
TEHRAN (defapress) - A group of seven foreigners among them 5 US individuals with military backgrounds and one local armed with semi-automatic weapons, were arrested by Haitian police amid violent unrest in the nation.
News ID: 75700 Publish Date : 2019/02/19
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran’s Ambassador to Britain Hamid Baeedinejad described the cancellation of a two-day summit of the Central European countries known as the Visegrad group (V4) in the occupied Palestinian territories as “a heavy blow” to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
News ID: 75699 Publish Date : 2019/02/19
TEHRAN (defapress)- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday that Syria's Kurds should start a dialogue with President Bashar al-Assad as their military allies, the United States, is preparing to withdraw from the Arab country.
News ID: 75698 Publish Date : 2019/02/18
TEHRAN (defapress)- The US Army troops have taken out a sum of 40 tons of gold ingots belonging to the ISIL in heliborn operations after agreeing with the terrorist group and as Washington is preparing to announce the end of ISIL in Eastern Euphrates.
News ID: 75697 Publish Date : 2019/02/18
TEHRAN (defapress) – Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said that its forces have identified and struck numerous hideabouts of perpetrators behind the Zahedan attack, arresting three terrorists.
News ID: 75696 Publish Date : 2019/02/18
TEHRAN (defapress)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Europe cannot stay inactive and at the same time express verbal opposition against US unilateral moves in the world, saying that it is now the Brussel’s turn to put its promises into practice.
News ID: 75695 Publish Date : 2019/02/18
TEHRAN (defapress)- White House senior adviser Stephen Miller on Sunday strongly signaled that President Donald Trump will issue a veto if lawmakers approve a measure to block his emergency declaration to secure funding for a wall along the Southern border.
News ID: 75694 Publish Date : 2019/02/18
Assad:
TEHRAN (defapress)- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has implicitly warned the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against reliance on the United States, saying Washington would not protect those who depend on it.
News ID: 75693 Publish Date : 2019/02/18
Iranian Spokesman:
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi criticized Pakistan for failing to prevent the recent terrorist attack on the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) forces along the common borders, describing it as unacceptable to Tehran.
News ID: 75692 Publish Date : 2019/02/18
TEHRAN (defapress) – The US is still supporting the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen, an American army general said, days after lawmakers voted to end involvement in Riyadh's war on the impoverished country.
News ID: 75691 Publish Date : 2019/02/18
TEHRAN (defapress) – Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei has warned Iranian officials not to be deceived by Europe and cause problems for the country.
News ID: 75690 Publish Date : 2019/02/18
