Mumbai, March 20 (IANS) The Consul General of Iran in Mumbai, Saeid Reza Mosayeb Motlagh, said on Friday that Tehran’s decision to provide safe passage to Indian vessels through the Strait of Hormuz demonstrates its longstanding friendship with New Delhi. In an interview with IANS, Motlagh said that Iran has been India’s “friend and partner” for a long time and that the authorities in Tehran were concerned to see Indians facing shortage of gas due to the ongoing conflict.”The Islamic Republic of…
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Tehran, March 18 (IANS) People in large numbers attended a funeral ceremony in the Iranian capital Tehran Wednesday for the crew members of a frigate sunk by the United States as well as one the country’s top security officials and a high-ranking military commander killed in Israeli attacks. On March 4, the US Navy’s Los Angeles-class submarine USS Charlotte torpedoed and sunk Iran’s Dena frigate in the Indian Ocean, killing 104 crew members on board, and leaving another 32 wounded.Iran confirme…
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) Global oil prices traded in the negative zone on Wednesday, slipping over 3 per cent after a sharp surge in the previous session, as escalating geopolitical tensions in West Asia kept markets volatile.Brent crude futures were trading 2.50 per cent lower, hitting an intra-day low of $100.85 per barrel by 9:45 am, while the US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude fell 3.40 per cent to an intra-day low of $92.83.So far this week, WTI futures have declined as much…
Tehran, March 18 (IANS) Iran’s Supreme National Security Council confirmed that its secretary Ali Larijani has been killed in an attack, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported early Wednesday.In a statement, the council said Larijani died early Tuesday alongside his son Morteza Larijani, deputy for security affairs at the council’s secretariat Alireza Bayat, and several others, Tasnim reported.The council praised Larijani’s long service to Iran’s development and called for national unity in the face…
New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, on Monday said that US President Donald Trump has betrayed ‘America first’ to adopt ‘Israel first.’ This comes as tensions continue to escalate in the Middle East.Ali Larijani took to his social media ‘X’ and said, “Trump has betrayed ‘America first’ to adopt ‘Israel first’.”He also put up another post that said, “Trump’s wishful thinking has dragged the whole region into an unnecessary war and now he …
Terhran, Feb 9 (IANS) Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Monday urged Iranians to show unity and “disappoint the enemy” ahead of the 47th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, amid rising tensions with the United States. In a televised address, Khamenei said national power relies more on “determination and resistance” than on military hardware like missiles and aircraft. His remarks come as Iran prepares for nationwide rallies on Wednesday to mark the revolution’s victory.”Until the ene…
Tehran, Feb 9 (IANS) The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Ali Larijani, will lead a delegation to the Omani capital of Muscat on Tuesday, according to the SNSC-affiliated Nour News. Larijani is scheduled to meet with high-ranking Omani officials to discuss regional and international developments, as well as bilateral relations, the news outlet reported Monday.The visit comes after Oman hosted and mediated a round of indirect nuclear negotiations between Iran and the …
Washington, Feb 1 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that Iran is negotiating with the United States.”The plan is that (Iran is) talking to us, and we’ll see if we can do something. Otherwise, we’ll see what happens,” Trump told a Fox News correspondent.He added that “the last time they negotiated, we had to take out their nuclear. It didn’t work, you know. Then we took it out a different way, and we’ll see what happens.””We have a big fleet heading out there, bigger than we had — and still …
Tehran, Jan 11 (IANS) The Iranian military pledged to defend national interests, protect strategic infrastructure and public property amid ongoing protests, and urged Iranians to unite to “thwart the enemy’s plots,” according to state broadcaster IRIB.In a statement, the military accused Israel and “hostile terrorist organizations” of “attempting to undermine order and peace in cities and disrupt public security through another conspiracy,” and of “trying to incite another rebellion in the name …