Tag Archives: Iran

ISLAMABAD: With the aim of increasing trade and energy cooperation, Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs and Diplomacy Mahdi Safari committed on Thursday to resolve the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline issues amicably. Sardar Ayaz Sadiq said that Pakistan and Iran enjoyed historically strong bilateral ties that were based on shared values, similar cultures, the same …

ANKARA: Turkiye and Iran on Wednesday called for a regional conference aimed at averting the spread of unrest into the Middle East. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian a day after Iran’s top diplomat met Hamas leaders in Qatar. Fidan said Turkiye was pushing for an immediate ceasefire because “it is not difficult to predict that this …

DUBAI: When $6 billion of unfrozen Iranian funds are wired to banks in Qatar as early as this week, it will trigger a carefully choreographed sequence that will see as many as five detained US dual nationals leave Iran and a similar number of Iranian prisoners held in the US fly home, according to eight Iranian and other sources familiar …

JOHANNESBURG: The BRICS bloc of developing nations agreed on Thursday to admit Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Argentina and the United Arab Emirates in a move aimed at accelerating its push to reshuffle a world order it sees as outdated. The group’s leaders left the door open to future enlargement, potentially paving the way for the admission of dozens more …

DUBAI: Iran agreed to release four American-Iranian dual nationals from Tehran’s Evin prison under a prisoner exchange deal between Tehran and Washington, its mission to the United Nations said on Thursday. “Under the deal mediated by a third country, five Iranians jailed in the United States will be released and Iran’s frozen funds in South Korea will be unblocked and …

SAO PAULO: The Brazilian agriculture ministry said on Thursday that Thailand, Iran and Jordan had temporarily suspended imports of beef from Brazil while authorities investigate a case of mad-cow disease in an animal from Para state, according to a statement. The ministry also confirmed that Russia had halted imports from Para state after the discovery of a mad cow disease …

TEHRAN: Iran and a human rights group have released conflicting figures of casualties during the protests over the death of Mahsa Amini since September, with a Revolutionary Guards general claiming the death toll was over 300 and the Oslo-based Iran Human Rights putting it at 416. This is for the first time Iran reported that over 300 people have died in …

DUBAI: Iran’s top nuclear negotiator and a senior US envoy will travel to Vienna this week for talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear pact, officials from both governments said on Wednesday, rekindling a process that stalled in June. Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said Tehran was ready to reach a deal that guarantees its rights, according to state media. …

Iran and the United States plan to resume indirect talks this week in Qatar, in a fresh bid to revive the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, both sides said Monday. The talks will be separate from broader EU-mediated negotiations in Vienna between Iran and major powers, the bloc’s top diplomat Josep Borrell said Saturday in Tehran. The nuclear deal has been …

RIYADH: The Saudi-led coalition on Sunday accused Iran and Hezbollah of helping Yemen’s Houthi rebels to launch missiles and drones at the kingdom, where two people were killed. Since the coalition intervened almost seven years ago to support Yemen’s government, Saudi Arabia has regularly accused Iran of supplying the Houthis with sophisticated weapons and Hezbollah of training the insurgents. Tehran …