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A poster for the play “The Sun Rises from Aleppo”.

2020-09-27 18:35

Iranian director Kurosh Zarei restages play on Imam Hussein (AS) in Aleppo

TEHRAN – Iranian director Kurosh Zarei restaged “The Sun Rises from Aleppo”, a play about Imam Hussein in the aftermath of the Ashura uprising, on Saturday evening in Aleppo, the second-largest city in Syria after the capital Damascus.

2020-09-26 20:51

Assistant holds talks with UN Syria envoy

TEHRAN – Ali-Asghar Khaji, a senior assistant to Iranian foreign minister in special political affairs, spoke by phone with UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen on Syria-related issues, including the activities of a committee that is tasked with drafting a new constitution for Syria.

2020/09/26

By Abir Bassam

American threats of assassinations: What follows?

It seems that American President Donald Trump is greatly enjoying the game of power. He must have lost his balance as a credible businessman to becoming a genuine cowboy, raising his pistol, and shooting all around. His ego is becoming more inflated every day. This was bluntly expressed on the 16th of September in his interview on Fox News, bragging his decision to assassinate another state's president.

2020-09-08 18:16

Iran’s presence in Syria only related to Damascus: Russia

TEHRAN - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that Iran’s presence in Syria is only related to the Damascus government.

2020-09-06 18:37

Iran: We will proudly continue helping Syria

TEHRAN – Iran’s mission to the United Nations has issued a statement saying Tehran will proudly continue helping the Syrian government.

2020-08-26 18:09

Iran, Russia, Turkey slam Israeli attacks on Syria

TEHRAN — Iran, Russia and Turkey, as the three guarantors of a Syrian peace initiative, have denounced the Israeli military’s strikes on Syria as a violation of international law, undermining the sovereignty of Syria and its neighboring countries.

2020-08-17 14:40

Zarif’s special assistant meets Syria’s Assad

TEHRAN — Ali-Asghar Khaji, the Iranian foreign minister's special assistant for political affairs, met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Monday.

2020-08-16 14:34

Iran, Syria friendly called off

TEHRAN - Syria national football team head coach Nabil Maaloul has called off the friendly match with Iran.

2020-08-02 21:13

By staff & agencies

U.S. signed deal with Kurdish-led rebels to steal Syria’s oil

Syria’s foreign ministry said on Sunday that an American oil company had signed an agreement with Kurdish-led rebels who control northeastern oilfields in what it described as an illegal deal aimed at “stealing” Syria’s crude.

2020-08-01 11:55

Iran, Syria friendly not yet finalized

TEHRAN – A friendly match between Iran national football team and Syria has not yet been finalized.

2020-07-31 15:14

By Diego Vida

Drop-zone by Sepah Navy Special Force

How many times do we have to listen to the American propaganda campaigns about their special forces claiming to be the saviors of the world while other military corps of other nations aren't mentioned at all.

2020-07-31 14:12

By Amir Mohammad Esmaeili

Corporate and government-controlled media in U.S. have lost credibility: African American author

“The armed opposition groups such as ISIS were created by U.S. intelligence agencies and the Pentagon”

TEHRAN - Abayomi Azikiwe, an African American author and journalist in Detroit, tells the Tehran Times that the owners of mainstream media in the U.S. have a vested interest in crushing the anti-racist movement and as a result, they “have lost credibility”.

2020-07-30 14:57

Iran football to start training camp on Aug. 27

TEHRAN – Iran national football team training camp will start on Aug. 27 as part of preparation for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification.

2020-07-29 19:10

Syria starts investigation into Tehran-Beirut flight incident

TEHRAN - Hassan Rezaeifar, the director of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Board, said on Wednesday that Syria has started investigation into an incident that occurred to a Tehran-Beirut flight on July 23.

2020-07-27 20:30

Chabahar airport project a ‘major stimulus’ to attract tourists, investors

TEHRAN - Chabahar Free Trade–Industrial Zone Organization is planning to build an international airport which would be a major stimulus to attract both tourists and investors to the region in the southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province.

2020-07-27 19:05

Why U.S. planned to deceive Syrian air defenses into targeting Iranian plane

TEHRAN - The U.S. army’s fighter jets intercepted a Mahan Air’s flight over Syria to deceive the Syrian air defense systems into shooting down the Iranian plane or to create conditions for the plane to crash itself, Iranian experts and officials say.

2020-07-25 13:54

U.S. must be held accountable for threatening Iranian passenger plane: Syria

TEHRAN — Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations has said that the United States must be held accountable for threatening the Iranian passenger plane.

2020-07-25 13:09

Takht-Ravanchi censures Washington’s sanctions on Syria as ‘shameful’

All forces present in Syria without permission must leave, Iran’s UN envoy says

TEHRAN – All foreign forces who have entered Syria with the permission of the Damascus government must leave the country, the Iranian ambassador to the UN said on Thursday.

Protesters outside the Supreme Court in April 2018. (Credit: Andrew Harnik/Associated Press)

2020-07-24 18:14

By Afshin Majlesi

Trump’s Muslim ban: For the sake of safer America or anti-Muslim bigots

House Democrats on Wednesday voted to pass a legislation that would revoke the U.S. President Donald Trump administration’s controversial order banning entry to immigrants from mostly Muslim-majority countries.

2020-07-22 20:37

Why Zarif left Tehran for Moscow while Iraqi PM was heading to Iran

TEHRAN - Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s two-day visit to Tehran made headlines inside and outside Iran. It was the first foreign trip by al-Kadhimi since taking office in May.

2020-07-21 15:54

By Mohammad Mazhari

American Caesar act cannot affect the Syrian economy: Syrian politician

TEHRAN - A member of the National Reconciliation Committee in Syria stresses that the American Caesar act cannot paralyze the Syrian economy, and Damascus's collaboration with its neighboring countries will continue.

2020-07-20 19:24

Tehran hails Syria's successful parliamentary elections

TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi has expressed Tehran’s happiness with the successful holding of parliamentary elections in Syria.

2020-07-17 10:26

Rouhani calls Putin, underscores need to confront U.S. unilateralism

TEHRAN – In a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, President Hassan Rouhani highlighted the need to counter the United States’ unilateralism and its illegal attempt to extend arms embargo on Iran.

2020-07-12 16:36

Western action against Syria ‘unacceptable’: ambassador

TEHRAN — Iranian Ambassador to the Netherlands Alireza Kazemi Abadi says the new action made by Western states against Syria in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is imbalanced and unacceptable.

2020-07-11 18:34

Arab analyst says Iran-Syria military agreement will change regional regulations

TEHRAN - Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of the Rai al-Youm website, has said the military agreement between Iran and Syria will change regulations in the West Asia region.

2020-07-11 16:55

Pentagon claims Iran-Syria defense deal won’t stop its efforts to fight ISIS

TEHRAN — The U.S. military has claimed that it will continue to fight Daesh (ISIS) terrorist group despite the new Iran-Syria defense deal which aims to counter increasing challenges and threats, including the threat of the terrorist groups which were initially supported by the U.S. and its allies at the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011 in order to oust Syrian President Bashar al Assad.

2020-07-11 12:14

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