TEHRAN – BRICS Leaders’ Meetings have officially kicked off in the coastal Chinese city of Xiamen.  Meetings of the BRICS nations’ leaders have officially started in China’s southeastern city of Xiamen, a Sputnik correspondent reported Monday. Leaders of the five bloc’s nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — have exchanged welcoming handshakes. […]

The United States warns North Korea of a “massive military response” to any threats. US Defense Secretary James Mattis made the comments ina statement he read out among reporters outside of the White House on Sunday. “Any threat to the United States or its territories including Guam or our allies will be met with a […]

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has one again called on North Korea to cease it illegal actions after Pyongyang announced the testing of a hydrogen bomb. On Sunday, Guterres condemned the act as “yet another serious breach of the country’s international obligations.” “The secretary general reiterates his call on the DPRK leadership to cease such […]

MOSCOW – In the light of Washington’s decision to shut down three Russian missions, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says that diplomatic properties are inviolable within international law. Russian diplomatic properties in the United States are inviolable under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, signed by Washington, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Saturday, following Washington’s decision to close down three Russian properties and […]

TEHRAN  – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday rejigged his Cabinet of Ministers, inducting nine new faces and reshuffling some others. However, there has been no change in the top two ministries — home ministry and finance ministry. All the nine new ministers were administered the oath of office by Indian President Ram Nath […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s Air Defense detected a US Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk drone last week and gave it a warning to stay away from the country’s airspace, a top commander said. Speaking at a televised program on Saturday night, Iran’s Air Defense Commander Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili said the American RQ-4 drone was given […]

Japan says it has concluded that two tremors detected in North Korea on Sunday were the result of a nuclear test. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) on Sunday detected a first tremor, saying in an updated reading that the quake measured 6.3 on the Richter scale at a depth of 10 kilometers, 24 kilometers […]

TEHRAN – A peace activist and journalist based in Virginia said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s panic about recent advances of Iran and its allied forces against terrorists in Syria signals that the Tel Aviv regime is “losing its stranglehold” over Washington. “Netanyahu’s panic and his incessant warnings regarding ‘Iranian expansion’ may be the most […]

TEHRAN – An American author and the technology editor at Executive Intelligence Review in Washington, DC, described the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers as a “strategic policy commitment”, noting that walking out of the deal would have “many strategic consequences”. “I think that unlike the Paris climate accord, there are people who […]

TEHRAN– A senior member of the Syrian parliament praised the Arab country’s recent victories over foreign-backed terrorist groups and said the alliance of “warmongers” against the Damascus government has failed to reach its strategic goals. Khaled al-Aboud pointed to the silence of certain Western and Arab states, the US in particular, over the recent victories […]