German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas told Mehr News correspondent that his country has provided Iraq with over 1.5 billion euro worth of financial aid to help with its reconstruction process. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas travelled to Baghdad on 17 December to hold talks with President Barham Salih, Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi and Foreign Minister Ali Al-Hakim, with […]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani congratulated Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on Qatar’s National Day and expressed hope for further expansion of relations between the two nations. In a letter to Emir of Qatar on Tuesday, Rouhani offered him and the people of the country congratulations on the National Day of Qatar and expressed hope […]

 The foreign ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey said on Tuesday that a new Syrian Constitutional Committee should convene early next year, kicking off a viable political peace process. In a joint statement read out by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after the trio met UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura in Geneva, they said […]

The scope of British interaction with the Southeast Asian region extends from security-military to economic-educational, and as predicted, this gets more intense post-Brexit, with the Five Power Defense Arrangements (FPDA) treaty, Asia’s only collective security arrangement. British presence in the southeastern Asia security treaty, the adherence to the deployment and maintenance of some British military […]

 Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said a wise person should never seek management posts. In 1985, I had definitely made my mind not to run for the second term at 1985 presidential elections. The first term was imposed on me, I decided not to run for the second term; but, Imam Khomeini told […]

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will set off for Turkey on Wednesday at the official invitation of his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to take part in the 5th high council meeting for strategic cooperation. Iranian president’s deputy chief of staff for communications and information, Parviz Esmaeili, made the announcement on Tuesday, adding that Rouhani will be accompanied by a […]

 Iranian Intelligence Minister Seyed Mahmoud Alavi said Tuesday that Israeli regime’s intelligence service is directly organizing terrorist groups on Iranian borders ‘with all its might’. He made the remarks at the open session of the Iranian Parliament where he was summoned to answer a question regarding intelligence ministry’s measures to prevent terrorist attacks in the […]

 The budget bill for the next fiscal year (starting March 21, 2019) has proposed policies regarding improvement of women’s condition in the country, Masoumeh Ebtekar, vice president for women’s and family affairs, has said. One of the duties assigned to the department for women and family affairs in the Sixth Five-Year Development Plan (2016-2021), is […]

Prof. Nasir uddin is a cultural anthropologist based in Bangladesh, and professor of anthropology at Chittagong University. He has been working with Rohingya people in the borderland of Bangladesh and Myanmar for more than two decades and has written on the Rohingya refugee situation extensively in the form of both academic and popular pieces. His […]

Farzaneh Sharafbafi, the managing director of Iran Air, Iran’s national flag carrier, said on Monday that Iran expects EU to get the U.S. approval for extending the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)’s license for importing the airplanes Iran bought from Airbus. Speaking in a press conference, the official mentioned the deals Iran Air […]