An American academic and political analyst said the US is confronted with Russia’s military resurgence and China’s economic might and is seeking to contain the two superpowers’ rise via sanctions and trade war.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Iraq trade minister said that ongoing protests delayed discharge of several rice and food shipments at the country’s main port of Umm Qasr. Protests have delayed the discharge of several food shipments, Mohammed Hashim al-Aani, Iraq trade minister said on Sunday, Reuters reported. Protesters on Saturday blocked all roads leading […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Saturday that Republicans and Democrats need to work together for the good of the United States, while avoiding a direct reference to the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. Tillerson, whom Trump fired in a tweet in March 2018 amid friction […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Saturday that Turkey would send captured ISIS terrorists back to their home countries, and he complained about European inaction on the matter. “That is not acceptable to us. It’s also irresponsible,” he said of Europe leaving Turkey to deal with the prisoners alone. “We will […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman finally gave the go-ahead for the initial public offering of Aramco. The crown prince made the decision of Aramco IPO at a meeting he chaired on Friday and an official announcement is likely as soon as Sunday, according to people familiar with the matter, who […]

TEHRAN (Iran News)- Police in Vietnam and Ireland made three new arrests in the sprawling investigation into the deaths of 39 people found in a refrigerated truck container in Southeast England last week. Two people suspected of organising a people-smuggling operation in Vietnam were arrested in Ha Tinh province following reports from 10 families there […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – At least 11 wounded Afghans, including two security personnel, were the result of a blast rocked the capital of northern Baghlan province in Afghanistan on Saturday, provincial police spokesman Jawed Basharat said. “The blast occurred next to the provincial police chief department in Pul-e-Khumri city at 08:40 a.m. Local time, resulted […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Masked Hong Kong riot police stopped and searched people arriving on Saturday for a march billed as a global “emergency call” for autonomy for a city that was guaranteed its freedoms when it returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997. The crowd of more than 3,000 Hong Kong protesters, many […]

Joint patrols of Russia-Turkey started in northern Syria Friday to verify whether Kurdish forces have withdrawn from a key border zone in compliance with a deal reached between Ankara and Moscow. Iran News quotes AFP story. It follows an agreement they signed in the Black Sea resort of Sochi last week which gave Kurdish forces […]

Dressed in black, marching silently and raising one fist, around a thousand women on Friday demanded justice for those killed and injured during the last two weeks of social unrest in Chile. Iran News covers the story of protests in Chile to keep pressure in Chile government.. Santiago authorities said the protest in the city […]