TEHRAN, December 09 -Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says the United States is behind the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen by providing arms and financial support for the aggressor states, which have been wreaking havoc in the war-torn country.
TEHRAN, December 08 - A report in the Washington Post says the Israeli government was directly involved in the sale of sophisticated spyware to Saudi Arabia to help the kingdom purge and assassinate dissidents.
TEHRAN, December 08 - Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says the United States seeks to engage Asian countries in wars and acts of terror with the purpose of exhausting their resources and hindering their progress.
TEHRAN, December 08 -A former top European Union official has dismissed claims that Britain would leave the bloc without a deal if a current draft agreement is rejected in the parliament, saying the EU will have to renegotiate the deal because of huge problems that might arise of a no-deal Brexit.
TEHRAN, December 08 -US President Donald Trump has announced that he would nominate a battle-hardened commander who led American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, General Mark Milley, to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
TEHRAN, December 08 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the ongoing "yellow vests" protest movement reveals Europe’s failure in democracy, human rights and freedom, speaking at a rally in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
TEHRAN, December 08 - Iranian naval forces plan to stage a large-scale drill in the Indian Ocean to boost and put on display the country’s military prowess, a senior commander says.
TEHRAN, December 08 - Under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan Pakistan has stood up to the United States from its position as a sovereign nation, and is demonstrating a clean break from the past, according to Adam Garrie, an independent political analyst and writer based in London.
TEHRAN, December 07 -Twelve people – including six hostages – were killed in northeast Brazil on Friday after police foiled a gang of armed robbers staging simultaneous predawn assaults on two banks in the town of Milagres, officials said.
TEHRAN, December 07 -American foreign policy expert James Jatras believes the Ukraine crisis has created "a serious risk of a military confrontation between the United States and Russia and Ukraine and even the possibility of a nuclear war."
TEHRAN, December 07 - The top American military officer, Marine General Joseph Dunford, has criticized US internet giant Google for not wanting to work with the Pentagon even as the corporation seeks out business with China.
TEHRAN, December 07 -More than 30 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli fire during protests along the border between the besieged Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied territories.
TEHRAN, December 07 -Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the US threats to withdraw from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty (INF) pave the way for ruining the New START nuclear weapons pact.
TEHRAN, December 07 - Lebanese Ambassador to the United Nations Amal Mudallali has lodged a complaint with the United Nations against Israel’s hacking into the country’s telephone network in light of a recent operation that the Israeli military has undertaken to block what it claims are tunnels Hezbollah resistance movement has dug into occupied territories.
TEHRAN, December 07 - Donald Trump said in November that Washington had cut aids to Pakistan since the country, the US president claimed, had done "nothing" to fight terror. The blunt comment has not gone unnoticed and the latest Pakistani official to react was the federal minister for human rights, who censured the "nonsense."
TEHRAN, December 07 -White House chief of staff John Kelly is set to announce his resignation from the post in the coming days after reaching a “stalemate” in his relationship with President Donald Trump, according to a CNN report.
TEHRAN, December 07 -Amnesty International has denounced a rise in the use of the death sentence in South Sudan, urging the world’s youngest nation to “stop signing execution orders.”
TEHRAN, December 07 - Member states of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and 10 other oil producing nations have agreed to cut output by 1.2 million barrels a day despite opposition from US President Donald Trump's administration.
TEHRAN, December 05 - Iran is carefully monitoring the next steps by some OPEC members and their allies which have “arbitrarily” ramped up oil production, leading to a crash in prices.