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UN Envoy Says Yemen Ports Deal Chance for Peace Talks 20 Feb 2019

UN Envoy Says Yemen Ports Deal Chance for Peace Talks

The expected pullout of forces from three key ports in Yemen provides an opportunity to move to the major goal of ending Saudi Arabia’s four-year aggression that has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, the UN envoy for the war-battered country said. Martin Griffiths told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah […]

Trump rushing to sell Saudi Arabia nuke technology: report 20 Feb 2019

Trump rushing to sell Saudi Arabia nuke technology: report

 A Democratic-led House panel has launched a probe of US nuclear plan in Saudi Arabia, raising concerns over the transfer of sensitive nuclear power technology to the kingdom. Key members of the Trump administration pushed a plan to sell nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia in the months after the inauguration despite objections from members […]

China says will uphold ‘legitimate cooperation’ with Iran 20 Feb 2019

China says will uphold ‘legitimate cooperation’ with Iran

China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says Beijing’s energy cooperation with Tehran and its oil imports from the Islamic Republic are conducted under the framework of the international law, and the two countries will continue their normal cooperation. Addressing a press conference in Beijing on Tuesday, Geng Shuang said, “as for China’s energy cooperation with Iran and […]

S Korea’s imports of Iranian crude exceed $100m in Jan. 19 Feb 2019

S Korea’s imports of Iranian crude exceed $100m in Jan.

 South Korean companies imported $101.2 million worth of Iranian crude last month, the first such move in five months, data showed Tuesday. The January figure represents less than one-fifth of $539 million, the average monthly Iranian crude oil imports for the first seven months of 2018, according to the data from the Korea Customs Service, […]

US’ Warsaw conf. after creating new dividing lines in ME: Russia 19 Feb 2019

US’ Warsaw conf. after creating new dividing lines in ME: Russia

 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that the Warsaw conference came as a “new demonstration of the US administration’s policy towards creating new dividing lines in the Middle East.” “We have to state with regret that the conference in Warsaw came as a new demonstration of the US administration’s policy towards creating new dividing […]

Int’l Conference on Central Asia Kicks off in Tashkent 19 Feb 2019

Int’l Conference on Central Asia Kicks off in Tashkent

TASHKENT – The International Conference “Central Asian Connectivity: Challenges and New Opportunities” opened yesterday in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan. The ceremony was inaugurated by a speech from Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov. Addressing the conference, Kamilov pointed to the current situation in the region especially after the previous meeting of leaders of the Central Asian […]

Iran offers sympathy to Zimbabwe over mine flooding accident 19 Feb 2019

Iran offers sympathy to Zimbabwe over mine flooding accident

 Iran has offered deepest sympathies and condolences to the government and nation of Zimbabwe over a mine flooding accident that left dozens of miners dead. In a statement on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi voiced his deepest regret over a tragic mine flooding accident in Zimbabwe, which has claimed the lives of tens […]

US, Israeli weapons left behind by terrorists found in Damascus 19 Feb 2019

US, Israeli weapons left behind by terrorists found in Damascus

In the process of continuing work to secure the liberated areas in Damascus Countryside, the authorities found large quantities of weapons and ammunition including US and Israeli-made rockets.  A source told SANA Monday that while the engineering units were combing areas liberated from terrorism in Damascus Countryside, the authorities found American and Israeli-made rockets, in […]

Ties with China ‘most strategic’ for Iran: Zarif 19 Feb 2019

Ties with China ‘most strategic’ for Iran: Zarif

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that ties with China is the most strategic for Iran among relations to other world countries. He made the remarks Tuesday in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing. China is an important country for Iran and its foreign policy, said Zarif, adding that the […]

Yemen Warring Sides Agree to Begin Pullback from Hudaydah 18 Feb 2019

Yemen Warring Sides Agree to Begin Pullback from Hudaydah

Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and forces loyal to fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi have agreed on the first phase of a pullback of forces from the key city of Hudaydah, in a deal the United Nations described Sunday as important progress. The redeployment from Hudaydah was a key provision of a ceasefire deal […]