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Tehran, IRNA- Reports say that the Yemeni armed forces have launched several drones toward Israel simultaneously with the firing of a barrage of missiles and drones by Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps against the Zionist regime. Three Yemeni drones arrived in the skies of the occupied Palestinian territories at the time Iran launched a massive missile and drone attack on Israeli positions in response to the regime’s attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria, English maritime security company "Ambri" was cited by the media. Ambri claimed that the "drones were launched with the coordination of Iran." However, the Yemeni army...

In apparent retaliation for the execution of the reportedly innocent Iranian champion wrestler Navid Afkari, assailants on Sunday fire bombed the entrance of the revolutionary court in the city of Shiraz that sentenced him to death. Video footage of the reported explosion was posted on social media on Sunday. The Iranian regime-controlled news outlet IRNA confirmed the attack on Sunday. “According to a report received by IRNA on Monday, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Tribunal of Shiraz announced the firing of incendiary materials in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Tribunal of Shiraz. The complex is in good health and...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia would not have murdered prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi without American protection, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday Saudi authorities staged the "worst cover-up ever" in the killing of Khashoggi in Turkey this month, as Washington vowed to revoke the visas of some of those believed to be responsible. "No one would imagine that in today's world and a new century that we would witness such an organised murder and a system would plan out such a heinous murder," Rouhani said, according...

UK Sailors-Iran Arrests Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray Monday supported Iran's decision to arrest 15 UK marines in the Persian Gulf last week. "In international law the Iranian government were not out of order in detaining foreign military personnel in waters to which they have a legitimate claim," Murray said, who was also a previous head of Foreign Office's maritime section, carrying out negotiations on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. "For the Royal Navy, to be interdicting shipping within the twelve mile limit of territorial seas in a region they know full well is...

Iran has launched its Kavoshgar-4 rocket carrying a test capsule into space, the official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday, quoting the president's office. The capsule is designed to carry a monkey but there were no living creatures on board, the report said,

Iran blinks, will not send "aid ship" to Gaza SNIPPET: "IRNA said that Sheikholeslam told reporters in the northern city of Rasht that the ship had originally been scheduled to depart for Gaza on Thursday, but that its departure was postponed until Sunday because of restrictions imposed by Israel. He added that officials then decided instead to cancel the trip altogether, shipping to Gaza the goods by other means, IRNA said."

"Ahmadinejad: Flotilla raid step towards Israel's annihilation" SNIPPET: "Iranian president tells worshippers at Istanbul mosque, 'Turkey, Iran are brother nations' says Israel 'creating crimes that have been unprecedented in history of mankind'" SNIPPET: "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke before worshippers at the end of a prayer service at an Istanbul mosque on Monday, and said the "Zionist regime's'" recent raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla is a major step towards its total annihilation, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported. The IRNA report demonstrates a more extreme tone than the one expressed earlier by Ahmadinejad in an interview to a French television...

Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon have expressed support for Iran's nuclear program and stated that Israel should be forced to dismantle its nuclear weapons. Speaking at the nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran on Saturday, the foreign ministers of the three countries insisted that Iran has the right to develop nuclear technology meant for peaceful purposes, just like every other country. They also called for a diplomatic solution to the dispute over Iran's nuclear program. "We support Iran's pursuit of peaceful nuclear technology," the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) quoted Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem as saying. Lebanese Foreign Minister Ali al-Shami...

It was called the "Twitter Revolution" -- the mass street protests following Iran's questionable June elections that were beamed to the world via social media and other online tools despite the government's media blackout. This week, a loose, multi-national network of protesters, bloggers, Web developers and everyday Internet users has ramped up again in the wake of renewed anti-government street demonstrations that turned deadly Sunday on Ashura, a Shiite Muslim holy day commemorating the death of 7th Century cleric Imam Hussein. This time, Internet analysists and online activists involved in the movement have told CNN that a government initially caught...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday congratulated Barak Obama on his election win - the first time an Iranian leader has offered such wishes to a US president-elect since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. 'Post' Editor in Chief David Horovitz: Obama robust on Iran Ahmadinejad sent a message to Obama in which he congratulated the Democrat on "attracting the majority of voters in the election." The text of the note was carried by the official IRNA news agency. In the message, Ahmadinejad also said he hopes Obama will "use the opportunity to serve the (American)

IRNA managing director regrets dissemination of fabricated news on Iran Managing Director of the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) Jalal Fayyazi on Thursday expressed regret over dissemination of fabricated and unreal news on Iran. Speaking to Spanish news agency, EFE, on the sidelines of the second world congress of news agencies in the city of Estepona, he said many of the news disseminated by international mass media on Iran are fabricated and unreal. "The Iranian people want other nations to have access to authentic and true information on their country," he said. According to EFE, a number of world mass...

TEHRAN - Iran said Saturday it has uncovered spy rings organized by the United States and its Western allies, claming on state-run television that the espionage networks were made up of "infiltrating elements from the Iraqi occupiers." The Intelligence Ministry has "succeeded in indentifying and striking blows at several spy networks comprised of infiltrating elements from the Iraqi occupiers in western, southwestern and central Iran," said the statement. The state IRNA news agency said the uncovered networks "enjoyed guidance from intelligence services of the occupying powers in Iraq" and also that "Iraqi groups" were "involved in the case"...

IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said that Iran is not considered as a nuclear threat to the world, IRNA reported. In an interview with Al-Arabia television network, he said the country poses no nuclear threats to any country around the globe.

The rhetoric from the leaders of Iran, Sudan and Venezuela at the U.N. shared a theme of outrage at the U.S., despite their differences. The outpouring of anti-American rhetoric at the United Nations this week is demonstrating how anger at the United States is uniting the developing world in a way not seen since the 1980s, U.S. officials and analysts say. Leaders such as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Sudan's Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are divided by background and political philosophies, but they spoke as one at the General Assembly regarding perceived U.S. bullying and misdeeds. Anti-Americanism was...

Iran's top national security official Ali Larijani has met with Palestinian terrorist groups to voice the Islamic republic's "decisive support" for their battle against Israel, state media said Thursday. A report by the official news agency IRNA said Larijani, during a flying visit to close ally Syria on Wednesday, declared "the Islamic republic's decisive support for the Palestinian and the Lebanese resistance against Israel." The report said Larijani had met with "Palestinian movement leaders who are against the peace process", including arab-muslim terrorist groups Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC). The...

Iran-Cave MP from Jiroft, Ali Zadsar here Wednesday said that a village whose residents are cavemen has been discovered at the heights of the city of Jiroft near Anbarabad in the southeastern province of Kerman. Speaking on the sidelines of Majlis open session, he said that a village was discovered 120 kms from the town of Anbarabad in the winter of 2005. He added that the residents of the newly-discovered village put on no clothes and feed on leaves. Zadsar said, "The village, called Pid-Nekoupieh, is situated in the mountain and the 200 people who live there have never left...

LONDON, December 26 (IranMania) - A morning daily commented on recent reports of the US media on cases of Washington's domestic espionage calling the US government a serial abuser of human rights, said IRNA. Referring to New York Times latest report concerning spying on American citizens by a number of US intelligence and security bodies, 'Iran News' said they conducted extensive domestic surveillance of all forms of telecommunication wiretapping on US citizens "without court-approved warrants." Referring to the American National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI as two bodies involved in the "spying scandal," it put the action under question...

Iran bringing “many divers, sophisticated technology” to Gulf of Mexico by Laura Mansfield Earlier this year, a top Iranian General made the following boast: “Iran is the biggest military power in the region (with) 10 million volunteers for martyrdom operations ... to turn Iran into a terrible nightmare for the United States,” General Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, deputy commander of Iran’s hardline Revolutionary Guards, told the Kayhan newspaper. This summer, the BBC reported an ad in an Iranian publication has calling for volunteers for "martyrdom operations" against the enemies of Islam. The ad was published by an institute managed by one...

A high ranking Kremlin official emphasized Wednesday, "Iran's right to take advantage of nuclear power for peaceful purposes must be internationally recognized," the official Iranian news agency reported today. Speaking to his country's official Itar-Tass news agency, the Russian official who spoke on condition of anonymity added, "Russia believes it is appropriate for the international community to recognize Iran's right to continue its nuclear programs, since that would solve the current crisis and save unnecessary problems." Meantime, IRNA reported that: senior Iranian officials warned the European Union Wednesday to stop pressuring the Islamic republic to limit its nuclear activities and...

TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - A number of Iranian journalists have been kidnapped in Iraq, Iran's state television reported Wednesday. "A number of news staff of the Islamic Republic of Iran's News Agency (IRNA) were kidnapped in Iraq," it said.