TEHRAN (Iran News) – Japan and France have put forward a joint plan to give a credit line totaling around $18.5 billion. As a prerequisite for this, Iran needs to fully comply with a nuclear deal it signed with world powers in 2015, Japan’s leading newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported on Sunday. Earlier this year, France […]

The Indian government has decided to call off a proposed visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Turkey's capital, Ankara, in the wake of President Recip Tayyip Erdogan’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) last month where he criticized India's move to abrogate Article 370 of the constitution that provided special status to Jammu and Kashmir.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A senior Syrian Kurdish official said his forces would pull back from Turkey-Syria Border area in accordance with a US-brokered deal after Turkey allows the evacuation of its remaining fighters and civilians from a besieged town in northeast Syria. Redur Khalil said the plan for evacuation from the town of Ras […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – China’s economic growth dropped last quarter to its lowest level in nearly three decades, as the world’s second largest economy continues to feel the pain from the trade war with the United States. According to CNN, China’s gross domestic product grew by six percent in the three months to September 30, […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – South Korean police detained 19 students on Friday after several climbed over the wall into the grounds of the US ambassador’s residence in Seoul in protest against the US troop presence in the country. The group of South Korean students, which identifies itself as a coalition of progressive university students, posted […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Two months ago, Nigeria slapped restrictions on cross-border trade with its neighbors, but there are mixed signals as to whether the controversial move is benefiting the country. On August 19, President Muhammadu Buhari dramatically closed Nigeria’s land frontiers to goods traded with Benin, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, saying its economy needed […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A Lebanese Christian party announced it is quitting the government after a third day of protests across the country against tax increases and alleged official corruption. After tens of thousands took to the streets on Saturday, four ministers from the Lebanon Forces Party, a traditional ally of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Commenting on the UK parliament’s adoption of an amendment allowing to delay Brexit, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the delays in the process can be explained by London’s desire to weaken the positions of its European partners. She said that London’s inability to put into practice its people’s desire […]

The euro was hovering on Friday around the seven-week high it reached against the US dollar on Thursday as hopes that a Brexit deal between Britain and the European Union could prevent an economic recession in the euro zone.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned that his government will respond to Turkish aggression on any part of Syria with all legitimate means available.