Thursday, 16 January , 2025
Pervez Musharraf Sentenced to Death For Treasory 17 Dec 2019

Pervez Musharraf Sentenced to Death For Treasory

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The special court formed to hear a high treason case against former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday sentenced him to death for suspending the Constitution on November 03, 2007. Besides Pervez Musharraf, the Islamabad government had sought to include former chief justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, former law minister Zahid Hamid […]

New Palestine Under Israel and Saudi Arabia Control 17 Dec 2019

New Palestine Under Israel and Saudi Arabia Control

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A Lebanese TV network has published what is reported to be a draft of US President Donald Trump’s controversial deal on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which envisages the establishment of a “New Palestine,” with occupied Jerusalem al-Quds remaining under mostly Israeli control and Saudi Arabia replacing Jordan as custodian of Al-Aqsa Mosque. […]

UAE Lobby Tries to Impose Sanctions on Turkey 17 Dec 2019

UAE Lobby Tries to Impose Sanctions on Turkey

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The United Arab Emirates lobby is pushing the US Congress to impose sanctions on Turkey, according to documents reviewed by Anadolu news agency on Monday. An email from Charles Johnson, a partner with the UAE-hired Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP lobby group, that was sent the week after the […]

Illegal Sanctions on Iran Won’t Last: Rouhani 17 Dec 2019

Illegal Sanctions on Iran Won’t Last: Rouhani

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The illegal American sanctions that have adversely affected Iran’s interaction with other countries would not last long, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday before embarking on a tour of East Asia. Speaking to reporters before leaving Tehran for Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday morning, Rouhani said pursuing the policy of “pivot to the East […]

Article 59 fails, then we go to amending constitution 17 Dec 2019

Article 59 fails, then we go to amending constitution

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The spokesman for the Guardian Council said on Sunday that reviewing and amending the constitution is possible provided that the constitution itself, including its Article 59 of the constitution, could not help the country get rid of a probable problem. Article 59 states: In considering vital economic, political, social, and cultural […]

Refinery projects can offset US oil sanctions 17 Dec 2019

Refinery projects can offset US oil sanctions

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Unilateral US sanctions imposed on Iran’s oil sector will fail to impact the domestic economy if the country completes the implementation of its major refinery projects and reduces its exports of crude oil through increasing production of petrochemicals, said an Iranian MP. Speaking to Iran Daily in an exclusive interview, Ali […]

India protests against ‘anti-Muslim’ law 17 Dec 2019

India protests against ‘anti-Muslim’ law

TEHRAN (Iran News) – India fresh protests raged on Monday as anger grew over new citizenship legislation slammed as anti-Muslim law after six people died in the northeast and up to 200 were injured in New Delhi. The law that raged India protests is fast-tracks citizenship for non-Muslims from three neighboring countries, which is essentially […]

Iran’s President to Attend Kuala Lumpur Summit 16 Dec 2019

Iran’s President to Attend Kuala Lumpur Summit

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will travel to Malaysia to attend the Kuala Lumpur Summit (KL Summit) 2019, due to open on Wednesday.

Oil Minister Impeachment Cancelled 16 Dec 2019

Oil Minister Impeachment Cancelled

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Iranian parliament has withdrawn a motion to impeach Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh a month after he was accused of ignoring the will of the lawmakers before announcing a controversial fuel price hike. “Given negotiations (held between) lawmakers and the current situation of the country, the impeachment of oil minister […]

Too Soon for Progressive Talks with Saudi; Qatari FM 16 Dec 2019

Too Soon for Progressive Talks with Saudi; Qatari FM

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Qatar’s foreign minister stated it was premature to talk about real progressive talks with Saudi Arabia over the blockade but opening channels of communication between Doha and Riyadh was a step forward. In an interview with Al-Jazeera, Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said it will take time to rebuild trust […]