Middle East

Athens considered the decision issued by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday to convert the Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque and open it to visitors to pray is “an open provocation to the civilized world.” “Today’s decision (about the Hagia Sophia museum) that came as a result of …

TEHRAN: Iranian Ambassador to Moscow met and held talks with Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Special Presidential Presentative on the Middle East on the latest regional developments. Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Kazem Jalali and Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Special Presidential Presentative on the Middle East …

TEHRAN: Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan Seyyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini announced Tehran’s strong readiness to cooperate with Islamabad to eliminate security threats on common borders. In reaction to some of the projections in the Pakistani media, which are mainly aimed at creating misunderstandings between the two countries, Hosseini said that certainly, the …

A UN special rapporteur says the US has put the world at unprecedented peril with its assassination of Iran’s top anti-terror commander, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, warning that it is high time the international community broke its silence on Washington’s drone-powered unlawful killings. The January 3 assassination set a “dangerous …

Britain is to resume selling arms to Saudi Arabia despite assessing that the country could be using them to commit war crimes, the UK government has announced. According to a British online publisher of news, The Independent, international trade secretary Liz Truss said on Tuesday that the government had completed …

The United States of America tried to cover up the weapons scandal  supplied by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for the Saudi-Emirati militia in Yemen; allegedly seized another Iranian arms ship off the coast of Yemen. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed on Wednesday that US …

The Minister of Oil and Minerals, Ahmed Abdullah Dares, said that the oil company’s tanks and fuel stations are  out of oil derivatives and that the situation still foreshadows a humanitarian catastrophe, in case the aggression continues to seize the oil ships. The Minister of Oil pointed out that the …

The US-Saudi aggression launched, on Thursday, a series of raids on a number of governorates.In Marib, the aggression launched 12 raids on Majzar and Sirwah districts during the past hours. The aggression launched 4 raids on Al-Abdiya district in the same governorate. In Al-Baidha, the aggression launched 4 raids on …

The Saudi regime, long claiming to be the custodian of Muslims’ holiest shrines, has sparked widespread controversy over granting permission for a “raunchy” photo shoot of international supermodels in the ultra-conservative kingdom. The Middle East Monitor press observatory organization revealed on Thursday that the kingdom in Riyadh, under Crown Prince …

Iran says it is still early to talk about the main cause of the recent explosion at Natanz nuclear facility, but there will be consequences if it is proven that foreign elements have been involved. “It is still too early to talk about and make any judgment regarding the main …