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TEHRAN – A spokesman for the Customs Administration of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRICA) announced on Monday that Iran’s three more border points with Pakistan were reopened Today, IRNA reported on Monday. “Exports and imports across the three trade borders (in the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan) with Pakistan …

WASHINGTON – Tehran continued to allow an Al-Qaeda facilitation network to operate in Iran, sending money and fighters to conflict zones in Afghanistan and Syria, and still allowed Al-Qaeda members to reside in the country, the United States said on Wednesday. In its annual terrorism report, the US State Department …

TEHRAN – The Iranian Navy tested new homegrown cruise missiles on Thursday in a military exercise in the northern parts of the Indian Ocean to hit targets at a distance of 280 kilometers. The Iranian Navy launched a naval combat war game in the Oman Sea and the northern parts …

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi announced on Monday that Tehran, Moscow and Ankara are likely to hold a summit of the presidents via video conference. The timing of the meeting will be set during the upcoming visits by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to Turkey and …

TEHRAN – Iran dismissed new US sanctions against several Iranian officials, saying they were a sign of the complete inefficiency of Washington’s earlier sanctions against the Islamic Republic, Iranian state television reported Thursday. “Washington’s fruitless and frequent sanctions against Iranian officials are a sign of the US administration’s weakness, frustration …

In a warning that emerged against Iran, the US navy on Tuesday issued an alert to Gulf mariners that they should keep 100 meters away from US warships or risk being “interpreted as a threat and subject to legal defensive action.” “Armed vessels approaching within 100 meters of a U.S. …

TEHRAN – Iran has sent fuel shipments to Venezuela in symbolic defiance of U.S. sanctions in a move that seems to be fraught with risk. Five Iranian super-tankers carrying petrol and other related goods, valued at $45.5 million, have sailed toward Venezuela, a Tehran ally and Washington’s adversary. The tankers …

TEHRAN – The number of people diagnosed with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Iran has risen by 2,102 according to the latest reports, taking the total number of cases to 116,635, the Armenian Embassy in Iran recorded on Friday. In the past day, 48 more deaths were recorded. The death …

TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, on Thursday dismissed U.S. threats as “foolish claims” to trigger a return of all U.N. sanctions if the U.N. Security Council is not extending an arms embargo on Tehran. The U.S. special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, on Wednesday publicly confirmed the …

TEHRAN – Nineteen sailors have been killed and 15 others wounded in a collision in the Gulf of Oman involving Iranian naval boats, Iran’s navy reported Monday. Iranian media reported that a new anti-ship missile, which was tested by frigate Jamaran during an exercise on Sunday, hit the support ship …