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Russia:

US Blocking of Iran’s IMF Loan Request Politically-Motivated

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – The Russian deputy foreign minister said Washington’s attempts to block an Iranian request for an emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund are politically-motivated.
News ID: 81019    Publish Date : 2020/05/05

Lebanon summons German amb. over Hezbollah designation

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Lebanon’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants has summoned the German ambassador to the country over the designation of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization by the German government.
News ID: 81018    Publish Date : 2020/05/05

Venezuela’s Maduro:

Mercenaries Plotting Coup Captured

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday announced that 13 mercenaries who were plotting to stage a coup d’etat in the country had been apprehended.
News ID: 81017    Publish Date : 2020/05/05

Iran Sends Medical Aid to Lebanon amid COVID-19 Crisis

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Lebanon’s health minister said the Arab country has received the first shipment of medical aid from Iran to help Beirut in its fight against the coronavirus.
News ID: 81016    Publish Date : 2020/05/05

Nasrallah:

US, Israel behind Germany’s Blacklisting of Hezbollah

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – The secretary-general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement strongly condemned Germany’s banning of his group and its designation as a terrorist organization, saying the move was taken under pressure from Israel and the United States.
News ID: 81013    Publish Date : 2020/05/05

Syria’s Air Defense Units Repel Missile Attack over Aleppo

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Syria’s air defense units repelled a missile attack in the northern province of Aleppo.
News ID: 81012    Publish Date : 2020/05/05

Pres. Rouhani to take part in NAM summit today via videoconferencing

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said on Mon. that President Rouhani will participate in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit today, hosted by the Republic of Azerbaijan, via videoconferencing.
News ID: 81010    Publish Date : 2020/05/04

Spokesman Rejects Claim Afghan Migrants Died in Iran

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman affirmed that an incident involving the deaths of Afghan migrants trying to cross into Iran illegally has taken place on Afghan soil.
News ID: 81009    Publish Date : 2020/05/04

Friday Prayers to Be Held in 157 Iranian Cities

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – People in 157 cities across Iran can attend the Friday prayers this week after a two-month hiatus following the coronavirus outbreak, an official said.
News ID: 81008    Publish Date : 2020/05/04

Venezuela’s President Orders New Phase of Military Drills

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has ordered a new phase of military drills following an attempted armed incursion into the country, the Defense Ministry said.
News ID: 81007    Publish Date : 2020/05/04

Trump Says Up to 100,000 Americans May Die from Coronavirus

TEHRAN ( defapress ) - US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he now believes as many as 100,000 Americans could die in the coronavirus pandemic, after the death toll passed his earlier estimates, but said he was confident a vaccine would be developed by the year’s end.
News ID: 81006    Publish Date : 2020/05/04

Russian Military Blocks US Convoy in Northeast Syria

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – A Russian military police unit blocked a US convoy that was attempting to bypass a checkpoint in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah.
News ID: 81005    Publish Date : 2020/05/04

Syria Strongly Condemns Israel’s Plan to Annex West Bank

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Syria’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned an Israeli plan to annex much of the occupied West Bank.
News ID: 81003    Publish Date : 2020/05/04

Japan Set to Extend Virus Emergency to May 31

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Japan's government prepared Monday to extend its nationwide state of emergency to the end of May as it braces for a lengthy battle against the coronavirus pandemic.
News ID: 81002    Publish Date : 2020/05/04

Iranian Spokesman:

US Plan to Rejoin JCPOA to Get Nowhere

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Washington’s ploy to again become a participant of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal after its unilateral withdrawal from the agreement is a nonstarter that runs counter to the international law.
News ID: 81001    Publish Date : 2020/05/04

More than 100 People Dead after Flooding, Landslides in Kenya

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – More than 1,800 families were made homeless and over 100 were killed in western Kenya after severe flooding.
News ID: 81000    Publish Date : 2020/05/03

Saudi-led coalition continues violation of truce in Yemen

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – The US-Saudi aggression and its mercenaries are continuing their raids and bombardments on a number of Yemeni governorates, violating the ceasefire in the country.
News ID: 80996    Publish Date : 2020/05/03

US Bid to Rejoin JCPOA Has No Legal Basis, Says Iranian Envoy

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Iran’s ambassador to Vienna-based international organizations dismissed the US’ illegitimate plan to become a participant of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal again, noting that Washington formally scrapped the JCPOA in 2018.
News ID: 80991    Publish Date : 2020/05/03

Zarif to Pompeo:

US Is World’s Top War Instigator Not Iran

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reacted to US Secretary of State’s recent push to extend a UN arms ban on Iran, saying that while Mike Pompeo is so worried about Iran, it is Washington which is "pouring weapons all over the globe".
News ID: 80990    Publish Date : 2020/05/03

Shamkhani reacts to German ban against Lebanon’s Hezbollah

TEHRAN ( defapress ) – In reaction to German ban on Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Rear Admiral Shamkhani said that suppliers of chemical weapons to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein have become defenders of human rights and call Lebanon’s Hezbollah as ‘terrorist’ for fear of its child-killer friend.
News ID: 80989    Publish Date : 2020/05/02

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