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Trump as a role model for kids? GOP senator doubts 30 Dec 2019

Trump as a role model for kids? GOP senator doubts

US President Donald Trump is not a role model for kids, says a GOP senator. “I don’t think that President Trump as a person is a role model for a lot of young people and the kids,” said Oklahoma Republican Senator James Lankford on CBS’ “Face The Nation” that aired on Sunday. Iran News quotes […]

Arab states to sign peace pacts with Israel; Netanyahu says 30 Dec 2019

Arab states to sign peace pacts with Israel; Netanyahu says

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says some Arab states will soon have normal ties and formal peace agreements with Israel. “Israel intends in the coming years to conclude normalization and peace agreements with a number of Arab states,” he said Sunday night, recalling, in particular, his trip to Oman, a country with […]

More than 1,000 Gather for Rain-Soaked Hong Kong Rally 29 Dec 2019

More than 1,000 Gather for Rain-Soaked Hong Kong Rally

More than 1,000 people rallied in the rain in a park in Hong Kong's financial district on Sunday, chanting slogans for democracy as they huddled under a sea of umbrellas.

Tourists Stay Away from Taj Mahal 29 Dec 2019

Tourists Stay Away from Taj Mahal

India’s tourism industry has been hit by a wave of violent anti-government protests against a new citizenship law that have rocked several cities this month, with several countries issuing travel warnings.

Iraq under US Pressure to Shut Borders with Iran 29 Dec 2019

Iraq under US Pressure to Shut Borders with Iran

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iraq is under US pressure to keep important borders corridors with Iran shut, sources in Diyali revealed on Saturday. Jabbar al-Ma’amouri, the head of the Muslim Clerics Union in Iraq, told the Arabic-language al-Ma’aloumeh news website on Sunday that “the US has exerted much pressure on the government to keep blocked […]

Protests Impacted on India Tourism 29 Dec 2019

Protests Impacted on India Tourism

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Wave of violent anti-government protests against a new citizenship law that have rocked several cities this month impacted India tourism industry, with several countries issuing travel warnings. At least 25 people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters, and protests against the law continue so that India tourism industry […]

Libya on brink of chaos, Turkey minister says 29 Dec 2019

Libya on brink of chaos, Turkey minister says

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, whose country is preparing for troop deployment to Libya, says the prolongation of the Libyan conflict might throw the North African country into “chaos” and turn it into another Syria. “If today Libya becomes like Syria, then the turn will come for the other countries in […]

New Iraqi election law; changes and improvements 29 Dec 2019

New Iraqi election law; changes and improvements

After lots of arguments, the Iraqi parliament finally approved the new election law. Iraqi parliamentarians approved all the articles of the new election law by holding a meeting. The law consists of 50 articles that were passed and agreed upon by all the members of the parliament. Iran News quotes the report of Tehran Times. […]

Saudi-led coalition still impeding 10 Yemeni ships 29 Dec 2019

Saudi-led coalition still impeding 10 Yemeni ships

TEHRAN (Iran News) – An official in the Yemeni oil company said on Saturday that the Saudi-led coalition still is holding 10 Yemeni ships laden with fuel and flour. Nine ships carry some 240,000 tons of fuel and one of them is carrying flour, he told the Arabic language al-Masirah television network, adding that the […]

Joint drills show strengthened multi-polar world 28 Dec 2019

Joint drills show strengthened multi-polar world

The ongoing naval drills between Iran, Russia and China in the Indian Ocean once and the Sea of Oman once again proved the formation of a multi-polar world, said the president of the Talysh Diaspora of Russia, a member of Russian Council on inter-ethnic relations Ismail Shabanov.