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 […]

President Emmanuel Macron’s government has begun its drive to overhaul France’s rigid labour laws, vowing to “free up the energy of the workforce”. The reforms aim to make it easier for bosses to hire and fire. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said they were ambitious, balanced and fair but it was natural that not everyone would […]

TEHRAN  – Iranian feature ‘Melancholia’ directed by Morteza Atashzamzam has won the Union of Bulgarian Film Makers award at the 25th International Film Festival “Love is Folly” in Bulgarian city of Varna. ‘Melancholia’ was vying for Gold Aphrodite award the with 12 other titles in the main competition section of the festival, and managed to […]

TEHRAN  – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Myanmar of “genocide” against the Rohingya Muslim minority, who have fled in the tens of thousands across the border into Bangladesh to escape ethnic violence. “There is a genocide there,” Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul during the Islamic Eid al-Adha feast, which commemorates Abraham’s […]

TEHRAN – The decision to close three Russian diplomatic facilities on the territory of the United States was made by US President Donald Trump, White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders said. “This was a decision made by the President, yes,” she said in response to a reporter’s question on Thursday. On Thursday, the US issued a […]