TEHRAN – Mikhail Bogdanov, the Special Representative of the Russian President for West Asia and Africa, held a high-level meeting with Ali Asghar Khaji, Senior Advisor to Iran’s Foreign Minister on Special Political Affairs, to address the growing tensions and challenges in the region.
TEHRAN – In a meeting held in Tehran on Wednesday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian engaged in discussions with Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani, the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar.
BEIRUT - US presidential envoy Amos Hochstein held intensive negotiations with Lebanese officials on a ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel before he headed to the occupied Palestinian territories on Tuesday night.
TEHRAN- Hezbollah has announced its fighters have killed over 110 Israeli troops and injured more than 1,050 others on the Lebanese border with occupied Palestine since October 1.
TEHRAN - The latest trip of US envoy Amos Hochstein to the region bears the hallmark of Washington’s political maneuvering in the wake of the Israeli military’s predicaments.
TEHRAN – The already strained relationship between Iran and Europe seemed destined for a further deterioration Wednesday, as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director-general held a press conference in Vienna following his return from Iran, and in advance of a critical IAEA Board of Governors vote scheduled for Thursday.
Ukraine has fired UK-made Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for the first time since the beginning of the conflict, the Guardian understands according to multiple sources.
The current war in Gaza is not an isolated conflict that began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas militants launched an attack inside Israel. Framing the war this way, as John Spencer does in a recent article in Foreign Affairs (“Israel Is Winning,” August 21, 2024), invites many dubious assertions about Israel’s purported progress toward its war aims and its supposed efforts to protect civilians. And it accepts without question the Israeli government’s official position that “Israel is fighting Hamas terrorists, not the Palestinian population,” as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in a speech in January. To simplify the conflict to a fight between Israel and Hamas is to ignore the on-the-ground realities that indicate Israel is waging an indiscriminate war on all Palestinians.
Story of Mrs. Kokab (Kokab Khanum), one of the most popular Persian stories, was included in the second students' Persian literature book of elementary school which was written by Mohammad Reza Entezariyan from Bojnord city before the 1979 revolution in Iran, it was included in the textbook. The story of Mrs. Kokab is one of the minimal Persian stories that many students remember from the late 1970s to 1990s.
TEHRAN- “A State of Passion”, co-directed by Lebanese documentarians Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi, will go on screen at the he 18th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival of Iran, known as Cinema Verite, in Tehran.
