A second whistleblower, with first-hand knowledge of President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, has spoken with the intelligence community’s internal watchdog, the lawyer representing the official said on Sunday. Mark Zaid confirmed in an interview with ABC’s “This Week” that the second official, also from the US intelligence community, has been interviewed by the inspector […]

Tehran (Iran News) – At least 60 shops were gutted in a fire that broke out in a district bazaar in Afghanistan’s northern province of Takhar overnight, local police said Monday. “A fire that raged in Rustaq district bazaar in northern Afghanistan on Sunday night was extinguished early Monday but the fire turned to ashes […]

Tehran (Iran News) – The Russian embassy in the United States sent a note of protest to the US State Department over FBI questioning of a Russian lawmaker in a New York airport overnight. Russian deputy Inga Yumasheva was questioned for an hour by the FBI upon arrival in New York, the Russian embassy said […]

Tehran (Iran News) –Hundreds of  Paris climate activists barricaded themselves into a Paris shopping center for hours ahead of a planned series of protests around the world by the Extinction Rebellion movement. Campaigners faced off against police and some inconvenienced shoppers as they occupied part of the Italie 2 mall in southeast Paris all day […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that the Europeans are not legally in a position to quit the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. “From the legal point of view, they have no right to do so,” he told ICANA in an interview published on […]

Tehran (Iran News) – The five-year Saudi war on Yemen has killed more than 70,000 people and pushed millions to the brink of famine in what the United Nations calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Last month, a local non-government organization said even the water supply in Yemen had been “weaponized”, and Yemenis have no […]

A spate of fruitful Yemeni operations against Saudi Arabia has underscored transformation of anti-Saudi forces into an obstinate actor gaining in military sophistication, increasing pressure on Riyadh to acknowledge what described as a democracy-promotion campaign has only diminished its influence in Yemen and sullied its reputation globally. Iran News reports how Saudi Arabia is stuck […]

Tehran (Iran News) –Azerbaijani Economy Minister Shahin Mustafayev said on Saturday that Baku, Moscow and Tehran are preparing to create a North-South energy corridor. “A feasibility study is currently being prepared on the creation of the Azerbaijan-Russia-Iran ‘North-South’ energy corridor. All of these works expand our cooperation in the energy sector,” Sputnik news agency reported. […]

Tehran (Iran News) – Chinese President Xi Jinping promised to promote a “long-term, sound and stable” relationship with North Korea as the two countries mark 70 years of diplomatic relations. North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, also sent a message to the Chinese president, saying their China-North Korea “invincible friendship will be immortal on the road […]

WEST SIBERIA/ TYUMEN – Since the appointment of Yahya Sinwar as head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, there has been an expected shift in the Palestinian organization towards the Axis of Resistance. Whereas with Iran and Hezbollah the main points of the contradictions over Syria were successfully overcome (it is worth pointing out that […]