Immigration officers from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) deputed at Karachi airport on Wednesday and arrested two Iranian citizens traveling to Sharjah on Pakistani passports. According to Immigration Officer Ijaz Ahmad Khan, the passengers named Ahmad Baloch and Jaseem Baloch were about to board an Air Arabia flight when they encountered an FIA official named […]
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17 dies due to train derailment in Iran
A passenger train derailed in eastern Iran, killing 17 people and injuring over 50 others, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. Though initial facts of Wednesday’s accident involving a train apparently carrying 350 passengers were unclear, the number of fatalities could grow. According to Iranian state media, four of the train’s seven carriages derailed […]
Drones sign of strong Iran-Tajik relations as Tehran looks east
Iran has long been an influential power in its surrounding region, with a focus on the Arab states to its west, and support for allied governments and non-state actors in them. However, a visit by the President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon, to Tehran on May 30 and the opening of a new Iranian drone factory in the Tajik capital […]
Russian embassy denies false media allegations of receiving weapons from Iran
The Russian embassy in Tehran has dismissed “false” media allegations that Iranian weapons were being sent to Russia for use in the ongoing military campaign in Ukraine. The embassy claimed in a tweet on Sunday that “information that circulated in the media about the delivery of Iranian weaponry to Russia is bogus and does not […]
Iran’s IRGC seizes ship in Persian Gulf with 200K liters of smuggles fuel
In the third such occurrence this month, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) guarantees that the Persian Gulf will never be a safe haven for smugglers, seizing a foreign vessel in the northern part of the waterway for smuggling 200,000 gallons of fuel. Colonel Gholam Hossein Hosseini, the head of the IRGC’s second naval zone’s […]
Iran’s IRGC commander survives ambush, bodyguard dead
In the country’s southeast, gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carrying a general from Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), killing a bodyguard in the process. According to the IRNA state news agency, Brigadier-General Hossein Almassi, an IRGC commander in Sistan-Baluchistan region, was unharmed in the ambush on Saturday. According to the allegation, “criminals” […]
Iran not ready to stop efforts for avenging Sulemani’s assassination
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it will not halt efforts to revenge the death of its top commander in a US bombing as a condition for lifting sanctions – a significant sticking point in recovering a vital nuclear accord. In January 2020, General Qassem Soleimani, the chief of the elite Quds Force, the […]
Iran ready to confront Israeli regime harshly: IRGC
The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force has warned that the Islamic Republic will face the Israeli regime strongly wherever it deems necessary. “We will reply with seriousness if an act of aggression is carried out against the interests of the Islamic establishment anywhere in the globe,” Brigadier General Esmail Qa’ani […]