Category: politics
Oil prices rise for fourth straight day
TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) – Oil prices are extending their gains for a fourth consecutive session, with Brent crude futures rising 26 cents or 0.29 percent to $91.28 a barrel as of 00:04 GMT.
UN calls for end to Israeli air strikes on Syria
TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) – The spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres criticized the Israeli regime’s air strikes on the Abu al-Duhur military airport in Syria.
Strait of Hormuz transit slows again on Tuesday
TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) – Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz slowed on Tuesday, preliminary shipping data showed on Wednesday.
Ghalibaf heads to Baghdad for high-level talks
TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) – Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf left Tehran for Baghdad on Wednesday at the head of a senior parliamentary delegation for talks on regional developments.
Iran-Iraq ties built on brotherhood: Ghalibaf
TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) – Iran and Iraq will work to consolidate “endogenous and shared security” and prosperity, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf said in a message ahead of his visit to Baghdad.
Iran-Iraq ties key to new regional order
TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) – Iran’s parliament speaker said Wednesday that relations between Iran and Iraq are “fundamental” to regional developments.
Gharibabadi recalls 1953 coup as US-UK meddling
TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) – Iran’s deputy foreign minister marked the anniversary of the 1953 coup, calling it “direct U.S. and British interference in the Iranian nation’s right to self-determination.”
Iran rejects UAE attack claim as baseless
TEHRAN, Aug. 18 (MNA) – Iran rejected as “completely baseless” a UAE claim that missiles were fired from Iranian territory toward the Emirates, saying the accusation ran counter to good neighbourliness policy and efforts to build regional trust.
Welcome to a post-American order in the Persian Gulf: Rezaei
TEHRAN, Aug. 18 (MNA) – Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), says that a “post-American order” is emerging in the Persian Gulf.
US won’t able to force Iran make concessions under pressure
TEHRAN, Aug. 18 (MNA) – Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says United Statescannot secure concessions from Tehran by simply increasing pressure, especially concessions that were never part of the Islamabad MoU.