April 3, 2017 TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said his country will not give the Trump administration any pretext that can be used against it. “The establishment in its entirety has reached the conclusion that we shouldn’t give them (the Americans) any excuse,” Zarif said […]
Source: Dawn Iran has expressed its reservations regarding the appointment of the former army chief, retired Gen Raheel Sharif, as head of the Saudi-led 39-nation Islamic military alliance, saying it is not ‘satisfied’ with the coalition. “We are concerned about this issue… that it may impact the unity of Islamic countries,” […]
Source: BBC Saudi Arabia says Iranian citizens will attend this year’s annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, after missing last year’s event following a bitter rift between Riyadh and Tehran. Relations […]
Source: Independent UK By Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden Ayatollah Khamenei claims West makes women an ‘object of gratification’ Iran’s Supreme Leader has claimed gender equality is a “Zionist plot” aiming to corrupt […]
February 28, 2017 TEHRAN – The Iranian studio Rose has recently released an Android version of a game named Moda Dress Up, which promotes women’s Islamic fashion, the Video Game Magazine, an online Persian journal, announced on Sunday. The target audience of the game is girls and it is similar […]
Source: BBC Iranian director Asghar Farhadi has condemned President Donald Trump’s “inhumane” travel ban on immigrants, as his movie, The Salesman, won the best foreign language film Oscar. Farhadi boycotted […]
Reuters International FEB 22, 2017 An aerial view of the Grand Mosque is seen on the second day of Eid al-Adha, during the annual haj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca September 25, 2015. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (reuters_tickers) DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran has sent a delegation to Saudi Arabia […]
Source: The Daily Beast A commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard threatened Wednesday to give the U.S. a “strong slap in the face” if it underestimates Iran’s military. After taking office, President Trump warned Iran that he would be tougher than his predecessor on the Islamic Republic and that the […]
Source: Asia Times: The Israeli-Palestinian issues – settlements, ‘two-state solution’ and the American embassy’s relocation to Jerusalem, etc. – hogged the attention during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump in the White House on Wednesday. The Iran question became a sub-text. This was rather odd, but not […]
Source: Time By Kay Armin Serjoie / Kermanshah The applause began as Team USA walked into the crowded stadium here at the Freestyle World Cup Wrestling championships in Kermanshah, Iran. The […]
Seyyed Mohammad Eslami February 18, 2017 “Painful to be an American right now.” This is a sentence by Francis Fukuyama, author of the famous book “The End of History and the Last Man”. He tweeted this sentence after a war of words between President Donald Trump and the Australian prime minister. […]
Reuters International FEB 15, 2017 – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani takes part in a news conference near the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., September 22, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo (reuters_tickers) BEIRUT (Reuters) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his country sought good […]
From the sectionMiddle East US President Donald Trump has said he will work very hard to deliver “really a great peace deal” between Israel and the Palestinians. After his first meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Trump told his visitor both sides would have to make compromises. […]
Source: BBC The Swedish government has defended its decision to have its officials wear headscarves during a trip to Iran, saying that failing to do so would have broken the […]
By Reuters – Feb 11,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi is seen on a screen as he speaks via a videoconference during a ministerial summit to hold discussion on the future of Mosul city, post-Daesh terror group, in Paris on October 20, 2016 (Reuters photo) […]
A confrontation will probably come in a year or two, when previous policies conceived under Obama have run their course. Trump may feel that he has to show how much tougher he is than his predecessor Patrick Cockburn @indyworld President Trump made great play when he came into office with […]
They might get the US embassy moved to Jerusalem – but they might also be very worried that Steve Bannon is going to provoke a war with Iran. What did the US government mean, when it said Iran was ‘on notice’ after its recent missile test? Was that a warning […]
Feb 08,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen During his presidential election campaign, Donald Trump proclaimed long and loudly that he sees Iran as Washington’s regional enemy. He pledged to “tear up” the agreement providing for the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, reached in […]
Talk of a ‘two-state solution’ remains nothing more than a convenient fig leaf for Israeli authorities Patrick Cockburn @indyworld Tuesday 7 February 2017 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave Theresa May a frightening account during their meeting of the threat posed by Iranian aggression to Israel and everybody else. In […]
Reuters International FEB 5, 2017 – (Reuters) – Iran will issue visas for a U.S. wrestling team to attend the Freestyle World Cup competition, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported Sunday, reversing a decision announced Friday to ban visas for the team in retaliation for an executive order […]