Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reiterated on Friday that Iran’s four-point plan is still the only viable option to resolve the Yemeni crisis. “I said this on the crisis in Yemen in April 2015. Today, after untold human suffering & war crimes by the Saudi coalition & its U.S. accomplices, & efforts to whitewash […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a telephone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the situation in the Black Sea region in the wake of the Kerch Strait incident, the Kremlin’s press-service said. “In the context of the dangerous incident provoked by Kiev in the Kerch Strait area there was an exchange […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a draft agreement to establish a free trade zone between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries. The draft agreement was ratified by the State Duma and the Federation Council (two houses of the Russian parliament) on November 15 and 23, respectively. The agreement, signed in Astana […]

The US Senate delivered a strong bipartisan rebuke to President Donald Trump’s policy on Saudi Arabia by overwhelmingly voting to advance a resolution that would end all Washington’s involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The 63-to-37 vote came after a contentious administration briefing on the war, a discussion that also addressed Saudi involvement in […]

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi insisted that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should remain neutral and professional in its verification practices regarding Tehran’s nuclear activities. Salehi had a meeting with IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano in Vienna on Wednesday, on the sidelines of the IAEA Ministerial Conference on […]

 Iranian Army’s Air Force fighters successfully conducted a low-altitude air refueling mission over the Persian Gulf waters on Wednesday, during the 9th edition of Iran Air Show. On the third day of the exhibition, which is underway on Kish Island, air force fighters carried out an air refueling mission using two F-14 Tomcat fighters, three F-4 […]

 A senior official at Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement praised “the free people” of several Arab states who poured into the streets and voiced their outrage over visits by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman to their countries. Speaking to the Yemen News Agency, the source at Yemen’s Supreme Political Council expressed his gratitude to the […]

Georgians on Wednesday went to the polls in the second round of a knife-edge presidential election seen as a crucial test for the increasingly unpopular ruling party led by a billionaire oligarch. The new head of state will be a largely ceremonial figure, but the vote is seen as a trial run for the contest […]

Professor Paul Pillar, who was CIA intelligence analyst for 28 years, tells the Tehran Times that “A rationale for removing the MEK from the U.S. terrorism list was that in recent years the group has not been involved in killing Americans.” Pillar says terrorist group is still a terrorist group even if the blood it […]

At a joint press conference in the Russian city of ز, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to create a demilitarized zone in Idlib on Sep. 17, 2018. The Turkish defense minister and intelligence chief visited Russia’s coastal city of Sochi on Nov. 20 for high-level talks with officials […]