On December 28, 2018 the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev addressed the Oliy Majlis. The event, held at the Palace of Symposiums in Tashkent, was attended by members of the Senate and deputies of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis, heads of the Cabinet of Ministers, ministries and departments, representatives of […]

 Donald Trump, the US President, has recently announced that his Defense Secretary, Jim Mattis, would leave the Pentagon at the end of February. This announcement came amid the removal of US troops from Syria. Mattis signed this order in spite of his opposition to Trump’s decision, and then he wrote his resignation letter! Thus Mattis […]

As we get ready to bid adieu to 2018, an eventful year marked by trials, tribulations and triumphs, it is time to look back at some of the major developments that shaped the year. As yet another year goes by, it is time to reflect and see whether the world is getting better or worse. […]

 Iran exported $252 million of saffron during the first eight months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-Novemebr 21), showing 44 percent growth from the figure of the same period of time in the preceding year, according to the director general of Exports Development Department of Ministry of Agriculture. Shahrokh Shajari put the weight […]

Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps second-in-command, said on Saturday that the U.S. policies and strategies in the Middle East region have ended in failure. “The U.S. spent a lot and at the end left Syria. The U.S. signed the JCPOA [the 2015 nuclear deal] and then pulled out of it. The […]

 Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif said the US would have to resort to policies that would drag the world into a chaotic state if it tried to actually shut down Iran’s oil exports. In an interview with a Hong Kong-based television broadcaster Phoenix TV, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the United States cannot stop Iran […]

 Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the developments in Syria in a phone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The Kremlin said in a statement on Friday that Putin and Merkel reviewed in details issues related to the crisis in Syria, with emphasis on applying the decisions of the quadripartite summit between Russia, Turkey, Germany, and […]

 The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Friday lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump for his unannounced and secret trip Iraq, describing it as an undiplomatic move that demonstrated disrespect for Iraq’s national sovereignty. “As Mr. Trump himself said in his address to the U.S. military in Iraq’s Ein al-Asad … he is now forced to […]

Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, a leading Bahraini cleric, met with Iraq’s top religious leader Ayatollah Ali Sistani in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf on Friday, IRNA reported. The local Iraqi media published an image of the meeting, but failed to provide further details. Ayatollah Isa Qassim arrived in Najaf on Thursday. Sheikh Isa Qassim […]

Hossein Sheikholeslam, a former Iranian ambassador to Damascus, has said the U.S. military presence in Syria was a failure and called Washington’s move in removing forces from Syria a “wise” act. Talking to ISNA in interview published on Friday, the former ambassador said the U.S. has played no role in resolving the problems faced by […]