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First flight from Iran’s Qeshm Island arrives in Muscat 06 Feb 2019

First flight from Iran’s Qeshm Island arrives in Muscat

 Iran’s Qeshm Air has launched its Muscat route with first flight landing at Muscat International Airport on Tuesday. The airline, Qesham Air, will be operating twice a week to Muscat International Airport twice a week from the Iranian island. The launch ceremony was inaugurated by Qeshm Air, Ambassador of Iran in Muscat, Hojjatoleslam Mohammad-Reza Sheikh […]

Trade with Iran part of SPV payment mechanism 06 Feb 2019

Trade with Iran part of SPV payment mechanism

Expressing regret over the unilateral withdrawal of US administration from nuclear deal, European Union’s ambassador to the United States David O’Sullivan said trade and commerce with Iran is part and parcel of INSTEX. David O’Sullivan, the European Union’s ambassador to the United States, wraps up his time in Washington at the end of February. The […]

Danish pharmaceutical company ‘Novo Nordisk’ ready to resume coop. with Iran 06 Feb 2019

Danish pharmaceutical company ‘Novo Nordisk’ ready to resume coop. with Iran

 Danish multinational pharmaceutical company ‘Novo Nordisk’ has voiced readiness to resume its cooperation with Iran following the creation of EU’s trade mechanism to facilitate trade with Tehran in the face of US sanctions. The Iranian Ambassador to London, Hamid Baeidinejad, made the remark in a tweet on Tuesday, while referring to a report published by a […]

Zarif says US backs ‘dictators, butchers’ in ME 06 Feb 2019

Zarif says US backs ‘dictators, butchers’ in ME

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the United States is supporting dictators and extremists in the Middle East. In a Wednesday tweet in response to Trump’s accusation against Iran, Zarif wrote, “Iranians—including our Jewish compatriots—are commemorating 40 yrs of progress despite US pressure, just as @realDonaldTrump again makes accusations against us @ #SOTU2019.” […]

Saudi’s new project is to portray Damascus is insecure 06 Feb 2019

Saudi’s new project is to portray Damascus is insecure

After the Saudis series of defeat in Syria in the past few years, the regime is trying hard to portray Syria as an insecure country through some Western-Arab media outlets.  The Syrian Ministry of Interior issued a statement in which it dismisses any news about unsafety in Damascus calling it “baseless” and “untrue”. The ministry […]

Rouhani, Putin to meet in Sochi 06 Feb 2019

Rouhani, Putin to meet in Sochi

President Hassan Rouhani and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will soon hold a meeting in Sochi, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. The meeting between the Iranian and Russian leaders will be held on the sidelines of the upcoming talks on the Syria crisis on February 14 which also includes the Turkish leader, Peskov said, […]

Israel main opponent of peace in Syria: FM Zarif 05 Feb 2019

Israel main opponent of peace in Syria: FM Zarif

Iranian Foreign Minister on Tuesday censured the Israeli regime’s warmongering in the region and its support of terrorism, saying the Zionists are putting all-out efforts to disturb the peace in Syria. Noting that the Israeli regime is backing the terrorist elements in the war-torn Arab country, Zarif said “they are against the peace and tranquility in […]

Fire in wealthy Paris district kills seven, 30 injured 05 Feb 2019

Fire in wealthy Paris district kills seven, 30 injured

A fire in a Paris apartment building killed at least seven people and injured around 30 in the early hours of Tuesday, authorities said. The blaze at an eight-storey building in the city’s fashionable 16th district was brought under control by firefighters, Reuters reported. French television showed video of flames emerging from windows of the […]

Iraqi president takes aim at Trump over using country to watch Iran 05 Feb 2019

Iraqi president takes aim at Trump over using country to watch Iran

Iraqi President Barham Salih said on Monday that Donald Trump did not ask permission to station U.S. troops in Iraq to “watch Iran”. It follows an interview in which the U.S. president said America had “spent a fortune” on building a military base in Iraq and “one of the reasons I want to keep it […]

Govt, politicians in Afghanistan on the warpath over talks with Taliban 05 Feb 2019

Govt, politicians in Afghanistan on the warpath over talks with Taliban

 Afghanistan’s politicians are on the warpath with government over peace talks with the Taliban, a situation that threatens to disrupt the fragile political environment in the run up to general elections in July. After refusing to hold talks with Afghan officials for very long, the insurgent group has finally agreed to talk to Afghan politicians, […]