Leading News Source For Middle East
Iranian authorities have arrested 10 people allegedly in connection with Thursday suicide bomb attack on police headquarters in the port city of Chabahar in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan. In addition to four people arrested on the week-end, the number Read more
The new sanctions imposed on Iran are not meant to incite regime change, US President Donald Trump’s Security Adviser said Tuesday amid rising tensions between the two countries. “The policy is not regime change but we definitely want to put Read more
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has cancelled a trip to Teheran because of mounting pressure from US President Donald Trump on allies around the world. Official sources, on condition of anonymity, told Japan Times that Abe’s scheduled meeting with Read more
Six people were wounded late Wednesday after a refinery in Abadan, south-west of the country, caught fire. The fire-fighters tackled the damage in which six people were wounded, one in critical conditions, sources told semi-state media Tasnim news agency. Causes Read more
Syria, Russia, and Iran have blamed Israel for conducting air strikes on a Syrian air base in an act that reportedly killed 14 people including 4 Iranians and operatives of Lebanon-based Shia movement Hezbollah. Syria backtracked Monday after it accused Read more
Iranian-British woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe already severing a five year prison term in Iran is likely to face additional five years in jail after British foreign secretary Boris Johnson said she was a journalist at the time of her arrest. Zaghari-Ratcliffe Read more
Head of French energy group Total has indicated that instructions from Paris and Washington will not deter him to do business with Teheran in reference to US sanctions against foreign companies dealing with Iran. President Trump who has threatened to Read more
Five security forces were wounded Monday in a bomb blast when protecting a ceremony in the west of capital Manama, the interior ministry says. The wounded security forces were securing Ashoora procession on Budaiya Highway in the village of Daih, Read more
The Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Sunday sent warnings to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over US demand for the agency to inspect Iran’s nuclear program facilities including military installations. “We will continue to cooperate with the agency in Read more
The powerful Iranian Revolutionary Guard has announced the killing of two fighters of a militant group in West Azarbaijan province, northwest of the country. The regular forces also wounded four other militants and seized some military equipment, local media reported Read more