Commander of Iran’s Army University of Command and Staff Brigadier General Hossein Valivand Zamani on Sun. revealed the successful organizing of a joint military exercise on the map to counter terrorist and Takfiri groups as well as airborne operations.
This military exercise was held for a period of five days with the aim of scientific training of a joint ground, defense, air, and maritime operation to the students at AJA University of Command and Staff [DAFOOS], he said.
Promoting skills of
Senior Iranian and Syrian officials discussed on Saturday the bilateral ties, especially the cooperation in the fight against terrorism.
Iranian Foreign Minister's Senior Assistant for Special Political Affairs Ali-Asghar Khaji met and held talks with Syrian Ambassador to Tehran Adnan Hassan Mahmoud to explore the ways of boosting cooperation between the two countries.
Khaji noted that “the cooperation between Iran, Russia and Syria in the fight against terrorism will continue in a bid to find a
In a tweet on Thursday, Spokesperson of Iranian Foreign Ministry Seyyed Abbas Mousavi reacted to the US accusation of Iran about non-cooperation in fighting against terrorism, naming the US as the founder and funder of terrorist groups.
"With a history of founding, funding & arming different terrorist groups, a record of state terrorism, and its outright support for another terrorist regime, US is not a good yardstick for measuring anti-terrorism efforts," he tweeted.
Intelligence Ministry announced on Wednesday that its forces have eliminated two terrorist cells in western borders of the country.
In a statement, the ministry said that its forces in West Azarbaijan and Kordestan provinces have managed to monitor and eliminate two terrorist groups, affiliated with separatist groups, that had entered the country from neighboring countries to carry out acts of terrorism.
During the effective intelligence operation, 16 terrorist elements were arrested along with
A number of terrorists have been killed as forces with Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) carried out a security operation in the western province of Kordestan, which borders Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
A statement by the IRGC’s Hamzeh Seyed al-Shohada Base said several “counter-revolutionary’ terrorists were killed during clashes in Divandarreh County on Tuesday, without providing a specified number.
Three IRGC staff members, including senior commander Colonel Shakiba
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi strongly condemned the criminal and cowardly actions of the ISIL terrorist group that resulted in the martyrdom of a number of Hashd al-Sha’abi forces during the holy month of Ramadan.
He offered condolence for the martyrdom of a number of Hashd al-Sha’abi forces, expressing hope that the great country of Iraq will be released as soon as possible from the few remaining remnants of this vicious terrorist group that have been formed with the help
Ardeshir Zahedi, a former Iranian foreign minister and ambassador to the United States from the Pahlavi regime era, said Washington’s breach of the international law and assassination of the top Iranian anti-terror commander Major General Qassem Soleimani showed who is the real terrorist.
“I have always been and will always be proud of Qassem Soleimani; he was the one who sacrificed his life for his country unlike those who sell themselves for money,” Zahedi told BBC on Sunday.
Lauding the
Former Duma member and head of Russia's center for the Middle East studies Shamil Sultanov says persisting with the economic sanctions against Iran, while the countries are grappling with the coronavirus pandemic, only shows Washington’s “state terrorism”.
“By keeping the anti-Iran sanctions amid the pandemic crisis, which has claimed thousands of lives worldwide, the US has committed a crime against humanity,” Sultanov said in a talk with IRNA published on Tuesday.
“While all countries in the
Iran's Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali said the United States policies are hampering the world countries’ efforts to overcome the new coronavirus crisis.
In a phone conversation with Japanese Ambassador to Moscow Tyohisa Kozuki on Monday, Jalali said the US has been causing many challenges for Iran in the process of receiving medical and humanitarian supplies, describing Washington’s measures as “medical terrorism”.
Over the past weeks, the international community has been making calls on the
Fateme Hosseini, a member of the Iranian Parliament, pointed to the barriers posed by the US against Iran’s efforts to contain the COVID-19 outbreak.
“Thankful for your support & empathy & standings with us in hard times. My colleagues and I in Iran's Parliament do extensively work to mitigate various impacts of #COVID19 on Iranians, though US economic terrorism and unjust sanctions impede our efforts to cope with the struggle,” Hosseini tweeted on Friday night.
The remarks came in
In his op-ed for Russia's Kommersant newspaper, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called sanctions, imposed on Iran by the US amid the coronavirus pandemic, "medical terrorism."
According to the Iranian Minister, Iran has a strong healthcare system, but, thanks to the US’ illegal blocking of Iran’s sources of income, Tehran’s access to medicine and medical equipment becomes impossible, according to TASS.
"This leads to a humanitarian catastrophe. Although Iran is a country that has
Iranian ambassador to London, Hamid Baeidinejad, has censured the impact of the US sanctions on Iran amid the coronavirus outbreak as 'terrorism'.
"Iran, in facing the #Coronavirus challenges, needs to further reinforce its health infrastructure and finance additional expenditures across country," Iranian ambassador to London, Hamid Baeidinejad, wrote in a tweet on Friday.
He went on to add, however that, "US continues to deprive Iran of the right to procure medical needs. No better word than
Stressing that Iran does not need any American doctors to fight coronavirus, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said, “We have the best, most efficient and courageous medical staff in the world.”
In a Friday tweet, Mousavi wrote, “Iran has the best most efficient and courageous medical staff in the world and does not need any American doctors.”
“Instead of hypocritical compassion and disgusting boasting, stop economic and medical terrorism so that Iranian people and medical staff can
According to a local Intelligence Ministry official, the force has identified and dismantled a terrorist cell affiliated with the so-called ‘Jaish ul-Adl’ terrorist group in Sistan and Balouchestan province.
Head of Intelligence Ministry’s local office in the southeastern Iranian province broke out the news to reporters on Sunday, noting that the operation followed complicated intelligence activities.
He went on to say that Elyas Narouyee, the ringleader of the terrorist cell who operated under
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, on his official Twitter on Saturday, lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump for intensifying unilateral sanctions on Tehran amid COVID-19 outbreak across the country, noting that the move is nothing but “medical terrorism.
According to the Intercept's report released on Friday, despite a massive coronavirus-related public health crisis, an anti-Iran pressure group with close ties to the Trump administration is urging major pharmaceutical
A notable Persian diplomat denounces the media war launched against Iran by the terrorist group Mojahedin-e Jalq (MKO) regarding the new coronavirus.
The Iranian ambassador to the United Kingdom, Hamid Baidineyad, denounced on Tuesday the campaign of lies and misinformation launched by anti-revolutionary elements of the MKO against the Persian country after the outbreak of the new coronavirus, known as COVID-19, to raise discontent and panic among Iranian people
According to Baidinejad, at
Iranian Foreign Minister once again condemned the US act of terror is assassinating former Quds Force Commander Lieutenant General Soleimani, noting that the terror came while Soleimani was on a peace mission in Iraq.
“The US targeted Lt. Gen. Soleimani while he was traveling in a civilian vehicle on a mission to promote peace in Iraq,” the Iranian diplomat said in Munich Security Conference 2020 on Saturday.
“The US action was ‘definitely a terrorist act’,” he stressed.
He noted, “Iran's
Brian Hook, the United States’ point man on Iran, met with a representative of the anti-Iran Mujahidin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) group both before and after Washington’s assassination of senior Iranian Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, a report says.
Hook, the U.S. special representative for Iran and senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, held the meetings with Robert G. Joseph, who represents the so-called National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in September
Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif said the US’ “terroristic assassination” of commander of IRGC Quds Force Lt. Gen. Qasem Soleimani has opened the gates to an “ugly course of action” which might “sooner or later come to haunt itself across the globe.”
The 'Tehran Dialogue Forum; 23rd Persian Gulf International Conference' opened this morning in the Iranian capital by a speech delivered by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who was addressing notable regional figures including
Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi in a letter to the international body described the assassination of IRGC's Quds Force Commander Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani as a terrorist act.
"At the same time, it is incumbent upon the Security Council to uphold its responsibilities and condemn this unlawful criminal act, taking into account the dire implications of such military adventurism and dangerous provocations by the United States