The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has said the growth in the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) in the second quarter of 2021 indicates that the Iranian economy is going on the right path and is moving toward recovery.

On Friday, October 15, more than thirty people were killed in a terrorist bombing of the Bibi Fatima Mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan. A week earlier, on October 8, a terrorist bomb devastated the Sayed Abad Mosque in Kunduz, killing dozens of people and wounding more than 150. The previous Monday, at least seven people died in the bombing of the Eidgah Mosque in Kabul during the funeral service for the mother of Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid. All three attacks were claimed by Daesh.

These days Muslims in different parts of the world have been celebrating the birthday anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) who has been a savior for the humanity but through the history he has been under attacks by the enemies of Islam either through distorting his words or causing rift among his followers.

Some 10 percent of schools constructed by benefactors across the country have been funded by Iranians living outside the country, Nasser Ghofli, the director of the School-Building Donors Association, has stated.

The United Nations Middle East envoy has censured Israel’s unlawful demolitions and settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories as well as the crippling siege the regime has imposed on Gaza, complaining of a lack of progress in efforts to achieve a so-called two‑state solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

On Monday, upon an initiative of the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Tehran the Institute of World Economics and Politics of the Republic of Kazakhstan under the Nursultan Nazarbayev’s Foundation (IWEP) and the Institute of Political and International Studies (IPIS) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran together with Kazakh and Iranian Embassies in Tehran and Nur-Sultan held a webinar on development of Kazakh-Iranian relations in 30 years of Kazakhstan’s independence.

In his first appearance after the deadly shootings in Beirut last week, Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayed Hassan Nasrallah appeared calmer than ever. He placidly advised a troublesome political party to refrain from endangering co-existence in Lebanon.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Monday that Daesh attacks in Afghanistan are aimed at sowing religious discord in the crisis-hit country, urging the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to condemn such attacks, Press TV reported.

Iran’s former ambassador to Venezuela says Iran has no limitation in legal cooperation with Venezuela and both countries benefit it and Iran is determined to expand its co-operations with this Latin American state.

American political analyst Martin Love says that the U.S. has been locked in the post 9/11 foreign policy. In contrast, Love says, China has preferred to focus on its economy and be away from wars.