The demonstrations seemingly began with a single spark. In Chile it was a hike in metro fares. In Lebanon it was a tax on WhatsApp calls. In Hong Kong it was a proposed extradition bill. Iran News qoutes the story about global protests told by CNN. Now those flickers have ignited wider protest movements, lifting the lid on deeper inequalities, […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Veteran Turkish politician says President Recep Tayyab Erdogan should hold direct talks with the Syrian government if he wants to resolve Turkey’s security concerns permanently. “We must ask ourselves that why Turkey is talking with the US and Russia [over the north Syria developments], but not with the Syrian government?” Dr. […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Republican and Democratic US senators asked the State Department Wednesday to quickly provide a visa so that the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces could visit the United States to discuss the situation in the Arab country. Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and Marsha Blackburn and Democrats Chris Van Hollen, Jeanne […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warns that the sanctions imposed by the United States against member states of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) have put hundreds of millions of people at risk and hampered global trade. Zarif made the remarks in an address to the preparatory ministerial meeting of the 18th NAM states Summit in […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the member states of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to join hands in support of Palestine and not allow Israel to relegate the Palestinian question to the margin. In an address to the Meeting of the NAM Ministerial Committee on Palestine, held in […]

The Iraqi government is taking legal action against the US troops that entered the country after their pullout from Syria without permission.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera announced new measures aimed at resolving one of the country’s worst political crisis in years following weeks of protests and looting. In a televised speech on Tuesday, Pinera promised an immediate 20 percent increase in government-subsidized pensions, a guaranteed wage of $480, reduction in prices of medicines […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Russia said Wednesday it had completed the deliveries of S-400 missiles defense systems to Turkey, and the two sides are in talks for a new deal. Alexander Mikheyev, the head of state-controlled arms trader Rosoboronexport, said the defense systems contract was completed ahead of schedule. “[We] successfully handled the logistics and […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Food insecurity in North Korea “is at an alarming level,” with nearly half the population — 11 million — undernourished North Koreans, the UN independent investigator on human rights in the country said Tuesday. Tomas Ojea Quintana told the General Assembly’s human rights committee that 140,000 children are estimated to be […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Fifteen million Yemenis at Risk of Deadly Diseases such as cholera as their water supplies have been severely cut amid the Saudi regime’s aggression against the Arab country, Oxfam warned. A fuel crisis has seen prices soar, meaning piped water systems and water trucking routes have not been able to run […]