An assailant who attacked a guard outside Iranian ambassador’s residence in Vienna on Sunday night has been shot dead, police said. The assailant was a 26-year-old Austrian who was shot dead “on the spot” after the guard who sustained a knife injury opened fire at him. The soldier, who was standing guard outside the building, […]

 Iranian foreign ministry has summoned the British Ambassador to Iran Nicholas Hopton on Saturday to lodge a formal compliant with the UK over how it handled a raid on Iran’s embassy in London. A few followers of a radical religious group based in the UK raided the Iranian embassy in London on Friday and took […]

TEHRAN – A collection of woodworks created on the theme of acid attacks is currently on display during an exhibition in Tehran. The exhibition entitled “Identity” opened at Ashiane-ye Mehr Gallery on Friday during a special ceremony, which was attended by the artists and several victims of acid attacks. “The exhibition is actually talking about […]

TEHRAN- Police have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of planning to use an automatic rifle for a mass shooting on New Year’s Eve in downtown Melbourne, Australia’s second largest city. Victoria state police said on Tuesday that the man was acting alone and had not been able to acquire a firearm before his arrest late […]

TEHRAN – President, prime minister, foreign minister and the information minister of the Sana’a-based ruling executive body dubbed as ‘Yemen’s Supreme Political Council’ strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula that killed over 300 people. In separate statements released by Yemen’s Saba News Agency, President Saleh al-Sammad, Prime Minister Abdulaziz bin Habtoor, Foreign […]

TEHRAN – The death toll in a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in northern Sinai has risen to 305, with 27 children among the dead, Egypt’s state prosecutor said Saturday. Another 128 people were injured, according to a statement from the public prosecutor read out on Egyptian state-run news channel Nile TV. Between […]

TEHRAN  – Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement strongly condemned Friday’s terrorist attack that rocked a mosque in Arish city in Egypt’s North Sinai region and killed or wounded hundreds of worshippers. In a statement released on Friday, Hezbollah offered deep condolences to the victims’ families as well as the Egyptian government and people and voiced hope […]

TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani condemned Friday’s deadly mosque attack in Egypt as “heinous terrorist crime”, offering condolences to the bereaved families of the victims. “Condemning the heinous terrorist crime during Friday Prayers in Egypt, I extend Iranian people’s and my sincere condolences to the Egyptian people and the bereaved families of the victims,” […]

TEHRAN– Speaker of Iran’s Parliament Ali Larijani called for accelerated efforts to attract foreign investment and new technologies in the country’s mining sector, saying such a lucrative industry should find export markets as well. Addressing a Sunday meeting of a parliamentary group in Tehran, Larijani stressed the need for “accelerated” efforts to attract foreign investment […]

TEHRAN  – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Russia would respond in kind to what he said were Washington’s measures to restrict the freedom of speech of Russian media organizations operating on US soil. Putin said however that possible plans to retaliate by declaring US media operating in Russia as foreign agents may […]