TEHRAN– Germany in support of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has contributed €1 million for food assistance to 30,000 most vulnerable Afghan and Iraqi refugees living in Iran. This follows Germany’s contribution of €1 million earlier this year within the country’s continued support for WFP’s efforts. The new contribution will enable WFP to meet […]

TEHRAN – The number of new asylum seekers in Germany has fallen for a second year in a row following the mass influx that peaked in 2015, the government said Sunday. For all of 2017, “I presume a total of fewer than 200,000 migrants,” Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere was quoted as saying by the […]

TEHRAN- The German Interior Ministry is offering rejected asylum seekers a hefty bonus to go to their country of origin voluntarily rather than face deportation. This is a new effort to turn back the refugee tide brought on by Angela Merkel’s “open door” policy. The offer is intended to supplement the existing program dubbed ‘StarthilfePlus,’ […]

Marathon talks on forming a coalition government in Germany have collapsed, plunging the eurozone’s largest economy into a political crisis and casting doubt on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s fourth term. Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats Party (FDP) unexpectedly called off more than four weeks of coalition talks with Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc and the left-leaning Greens as they […]

Iran defeated Germany 4-0 on Tuesday to book a place at the FIFA U-17 World Cup Round of 16. Younes Delfi scored twice for Iran in the first half while Allahyar Sayyadmanesh and Vahid Namdari rounded of the scoring for the Asian champions. Germany, who has one of the best strikers in the World Cup, just […]

TEHRAN  – Jair Marrufo has been chosen to officiate Iran and Germany in the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup. Iran started with a 3-1 win over Guinea in Group C on Saturday, while Germany earned a late 2-1 victory over Costa Rica. Iran will play Germany at the Fatorda Stadium in Margao, India on Tuesday. […]

Iran U-17 football coach Abbas Chamanian predicts the match with Germany in the FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017 will be interesting. Iran defeated Guinea 3-1 in Group C of the competition which got underway in India from Friday. “The most important thing that we saw was that the players were able to change the game […]

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has called on the United States to engage in dialogue with Iran over its nuclear program amid growing concerns about the future of the nuclear agreement Iran clinched with the P5+1 group of countries more than two years ago. In a statement on Sunday, Gabriel welcomed US Secretary of State Rex […]

TEHRAN  – German Chancellor Angela Merkel won a fourth term Sunday, but now faces the tricky prospect of forming a coalition with two disparate new partners after voters weakened her conservatives and a nationalist, anti-migrant party surged into parliament. Merkel’s center-left challenger, Martin Schulz, conceded his Social Democrats had suffered a “crushing election defeat,” with […]

TEHRAN – Germany is going to the polls on Sunday for the country’s federal elections, with long-serving Chancellor Angela Merkel looking all but certain to win a historic fourth term in office. The poll is also expected to see the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) entering parliament for the first time. Polls opened at 8am […]