Minister:
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said the households of about 95 percent of the country’s population would be supplied with natural gas by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2018), describing the achievement as “unprecedented in the world”.
News ID: 68532 Publish Date : 2018/02/07
Iran Envoy:
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations decried the US government’s employment of the UN Security Council as a tool to pursue its political objectives, saying the US attempts to spur the council to act against Iran have discredited the council.
News ID: 68531 Publish Date : 2018/02/07
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Bahram Qassemi slammed Israel’s threat of a new war on Gaza as part of a psychological warfare in harmony with Saudi Arabia, saying the Zionist regime will have to face a resounding defeat in case of a military action against Palestine.
News ID: 68530 Publish Date : 2018/02/07
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iranian Deputy Economy Minister Mohammad Khazaei started his visit to France to participate in the Euromoney Iran Conference 2018 due to be held on Thursday.
News ID: 68529 Publish Date : 2018/02/07
TEHRAN (defapress) - Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to plan a military parade that would see soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the streets of Washington, it was reported on Tuesday.
News ID: 68528 Publish Date : 2018/02/07
TEHRAN (defapress) - President Donald Trump threatened a shutdown of the US government Tuesday unless Democrats acquiesce to his proposed immigration overhauls.
News ID: 68527 Publish Date : 2018/02/07
TEHRAN (defapress) – Yemen’s army and Popular Committees fired a homegrown ballistic missile at a military base in Saudi Arabia’s Asir province in retaliation for continued massacre of civilians by the Saudi-led coalition in the Arabian Peninsula country.
News ID: 68526 Publish Date : 2018/02/07
TEHRAN (defapress) – Secretary General of International Conference in Support of the Palestinian Intifada Amir-Abdollahian pointed to the recent meeting held in Tehran in the presence of parliament speakers of Islamic countries entitled 'PUIC' and said, “all parliamentarians voiced their full support for al-Quds (Jerusalem).”
News ID: 68525 Publish Date : 2018/02/07
TEHRAN (defapress) – Syrian Arab Army units advanced in the pocket they had encircled on January 20th, which extends from southeast of Khanasser in Aleppo countryside to west of Sinjar in the countryside of Idleb and to al-Sa’an area in Hama countryside.
News ID: 68524 Publish Date : 2018/02/07
TEHRAN (defapress)- Norwegian Ambassador to Iran Lars Nordrum renewed his country's support for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) which was signed between Tehran and the six major world powers (the US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany) in Vienna on July 14, 2015.
News ID: 68521 Publish Date : 2018/02/06
Speaker's Advisor:
TEHRAN (defapress)- Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian in a meeting with Head of Egypt's Interest Section Yasser Othman called for broadening of mutual cooperation between the two countries, specially in parliamentary fields.
News ID: 68519 Publish Date : 2018/02/06
TEHRAN (defapress)- Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underlined that Iran's four-step plan should be implemented to resolve the ongoing crisis in Yemen and put an end to the Saudi-led aggressions.
News ID: 68518 Publish Date : 2018/02/06
DPRK Media:
TEHRAN (defapress)- The announcement came less than a week before the start of the Olympics in Pyeongchang and on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the Korean People's Army.
News ID: 68517 Publish Date : 2018/02/06
TEHRAN (defapress)- Several local residents were killed and several more were wounded as two aid distribution centers in central Damascus came under shelling, according to the Russian center for reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria.
News ID: 68516 Publish Date : 2018/02/06
TEHRAN (defapress)- UK Prime Minister Theresa May, Health Minister Jeremy Hunt and other Britons reacted fiercely to US President Donald Trump's tweet criticizing Britain's publicly funded healthcare system as "going broke and not working."
News ID: 68515 Publish Date : 2018/02/06
Russian Envoy to UN:
TEHRAN (defapress)- Russian Envoy to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia said during a UN Security Council meeting on Monday that the chemical weapons capacity of the Syrian military has been completely destroyed.
News ID: 68514 Publish Date : 2018/02/06
TEHRAN (defapress) – Snipers of the Yemeni army and Popular Committees, in a retaliatory attack against the Saudi-led coalition, shot to death three Saudi servicemen in the kingdom’s southwestern province of Jizan.
News ID: 68513 Publish Date : 2018/02/06
TEHRAN (defapress) –The Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel destroyed a Taliban control and command center in a mountainous province and defused 30 improvised bombs, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
News ID: 68511 Publish Date : 2018/02/06
TEHRAN(defapress) - India test-fired its surface-to-surface nuclear capable Agni-I (A) ballistic missile off Abdul Kalam Island in its eastern state of Odisha Tuesday, local media reported.
News ID: 68510 Publish Date : 2018/02/06
Kazakh FM:
TEHRAN (defapress) – The next round of the Astana process on settlement of the Syrian conflict is planned to be held later this month, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov said on Tuesday as Turkey started to construct the fourth observation point in the northern Syrian province of Idlib.
News ID: 68509 Publish Date : 2018/02/06
