PayvandNews – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the developments in Syria and the US defeat in the Arab country show that Washington can be contained. The Leader made the remarks in a Friday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin
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Iran Resorts To Ill-Defined Packages, Rationing To Tackle Impact of Sanctions
RFL/RE -The head of Iran’s Planning and Budget Organization, Vice-President Mohammad Baqer Nobakht says his organization will introduce five economic packages to tackle the impact of renewed US sanctions and to control drastic fluctuations of the exchange rate.
Read More »Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Confirm Deadly Missile Strikes On Kurdish Rebels In Iraq
RFL/RE – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says it was behind a rocket assault on an Iranian Kurdish rebel group in Iraq that killed at least 11 people. In a September 9 statement carried by Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency, the IRGC said it fired seven missiles in the attack a day earlier on the armed opposition group in …
Read More »Protesters storm Iranian consulate in Iraq’s Basra
Al-Arabia – Protesters stormed the Iranian consulate in Iraq’s southern oil hub Basra on Friday, local security sources said.
Read More »Iran Left With Less Than A Handful Of Friends, Says Ultraconservative Cleric
Radiofarda – Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, an ultraconservative cleric and the spiritual father of the hard-line Paydari (Steadfastness) Party in Iran, says, “Iran has only less than a handful of real friends in the world.”
Read More »Erdogan Warns Russia, Iran Against Offensive In Syria’s Idlib Province
RFE/RL – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Russia and Iran that an attack by Syrian government forces and their allies on Idlib province, the last rebel stronghold in the war-ravaged Middle Eastern country, would result in a “massacre.”
Read More »Khamenie Could Approve FATF Legislation According To MP
Radiofarda – Tehran’s representative to the Iranian Parliament says that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenie has approved ratification of the bills related to money laundering.
Read More »Iran-U.S. Trade Jumps Sixfold In July
Radiofarda – The trade turnover between Iran and the United States rose 600 percent year-on-year in July, a month before the implementation of the first round of Washington’s sanctions on Tehran, targeting mostly the industrial and financial sectors.
Read More »Iran’s politics of greed and non-compliance to international norms of behavior
Al-Arabia – The politics of greed has devastated the Iranian economy.It has caused the collapse of the country’s currency the rial and through the illicit process, where the regime’s leadership and all of its cronies have taken over full control of Iran’s vital industries, creaming off the profits for every cent they can muster.
Read More »WATCH: Protesters chant anti-Iran slogans in front of consulate in Basra
Al-Arabia – After protesters in Basra stormed and set fire to a provincial government building and several Iran-backed political parties’ headquarters, many moved to the Iranian consulate on Thursday night where they chanted slogans against “Iranian interference” in their country.
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