TEHRAN (Iran News) – Millions of mourners have thronged the streets in Iran’s southeastern city of Kerman, the hometown of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, to attend a final funeral and burial rituals for the top defense strategist, who was assassinated by the US military during a visit to neighboring Iraq. The remains of General Soleimani […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Following the assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in a US air raid in Iraq on Friday and Iran’s threat to take revenge, the US Navy cancelled planned joint exercises with the Moroccan military to return the troops to the Middle-Eastern region. According to a US Navy statement, the assault ship […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Oil prices rose over 1% on Monday, pushing Brent above $70 a barrel, as rhetoric from the United States, Iran and Iraq increased tensions in the Middle East after a US airstrike killed a top Iranian military commander. Oil prices of Brent crude futures LCOc1 soared to a high of $70.74 […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – US President Donald Trump has doubled down on his threat to strike Iranian cultural heritage sites, asserting to a group of reporters that the United States has the right to bomb such targets. Talking to reporters on Sunday in the White House, Trump dismissed criticism from human rights organizations pointing out […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iraq parliament on Sunday voted to expel the US military forces from the country after a US airstrike killed Iranian top general and the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units on Friday. In an extraordinary parliamentary session, Iraq parliament members voted in favor of a resolution that calls for ending presence […]

TEHRAN (IranNews) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi lashed out at the European countries’ “unconstructive” response to the US assassination of IRGC Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, reminding the bloc that Europe today’s security is indebted to the ceaseless efforts of the late Gen. Soleimani. In his weekly presser on Sunday, […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Reza Rashidpour, a famous Iranian TV host, condemned the Instagram censorship for removing posts related to Lieutenant General Soleimani. In an Instagram post on Sunday, Rashidpour said that a video that he had posted on General Soleimani has been removed by the US-owned social media. Posting a photo of US President […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A US Senator described Donald Trump as an “unstable president” who is assassinating foreign leaders with the help of his “sycophantic” amateur advisers. “An unstable President in way over his head, panicking, with all his experienced advisers having quit, and only the sycophantic amateurs remaining. Assassinating foreign leaders, announcing plans to […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has called on Washington to leave “unlawful tactics”, pointing to the assassination of IRGC Quds Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani. Lavrov made the remarks during a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Russian Foreign Ministry reported on Friday. “They [Lavrov and Pompeo] have […]

More than 70 demonstrations were planned across the US on Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and decision to send about 3,000 more soldiers to the Middle East. The protest was being spearheaded by Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, a US-based anti-war coalition, in conjunction with […]