Tag: Politics
IRGC shoots down advanced MQ-1 drone over Strait of Hormuz
TEHRAN – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced on Monday that its aerospace units successfully tracked and brought down another sophisticated MQ-1 unmanned aerial vehicle over the strategic waters of the Strait of Hormuz.
Transformations in Yemen: An earthquake in regional calculations
Ettelaat, in an analytical piece, examined the recent developments in Yemen. It wrote: What has been unfolding in Yemen in recent days goes far beyond a simple military shift between Ansarullah and Saudi‑backed forces.
Grossi’s toxic legacy: Greenlighting aggression, smearing Iran
TEHRAN — The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has once again seized the international stage to smear Iran and advance a hostile agenda dictated by the US, turning an ostensibly technical body into a political instrument of Western coercion.
Super oil tanker hits mine in Hormuz, explodes: IRGC
TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) – The Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Monday evening that the supertanker “Algaya” hit a mine in south of Hormuz Strait. and exploded.
US barring of Eslami from IAEA meeting destructive, childish
TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) – A senior nuclear official in Iran has lambasted the US move in banning the AEOI chief Mohammad Eslami from participitating in an IAEA meeting as a destructive and childish action.
Barring Iran nuclear chief violates sovereign rights
TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) –Iranian envoy to the International Organizations in Vienna has strongly condemned the decision to prevent Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), from attending the IAEA General Conference.
70th regular session of IAEA GC kicks off in Vienna
TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) – The 70th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) kicked off its work in Austrian capital of Vienna on Monday with the speech of the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
PGSA warns against insurers, P&I clubs over violating rules
TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) –Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Affairs Authority (PSGA) has updated list of non-compliant vessels, warning insurers, Protection and Indemnity Insurance (P&I) clubs against providing services to the vessels violating its regulation.
Attack on Iran’s Lamerd “clear example of US war crimes”
TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) – A spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry has said the attack on the city of Lamerd was a clear example of a US war crime, noting that Americans detonated 2,000 kilos of explosives over the city of Lamerd within 35 seconds.
IRCS chief urges Doha to clarify fate of missing pilots
TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) – Iranian Red Crescent chief Pirhossein Kolivand called on the Qatari Red Crescent to follow up on the status of three Iranian pilots in Qatar.