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  • baqaei 2025-01-08 21:44

    ‘Baseless and contradictory’: Iran rejects Macron’s remarks on regional role

    TEHRAN – Tehran has firmly dismissed recent allegations by French President Emmanuel Macron against Iran, labeling them as "baseless and contradictory."

  • Georges Abdallah 2024-12-30 22:55

    By Sondoss Al Asaad 

    Washington continues crusade against Lebanon’s Georges Abdallah

    BEIRUT - Despite the French Enforcement Court’s decision in mid-November to release the longest-held political prisoner Georges Abdallah next February, the “Office of External Litigation at the US Department of Justice” is pressing hard to appeal the decision, describing the ruling as “extremely dangerous” and “not in the interests of the United States, France or Lebanon.” 

  • French President Macron 2024-12-22 21:10

    How did France get to this point?

    After a shellacking for his centrist Ensemble (“Together”) Movement in the June 2024 European Parliament elections, French President Emmanuel Macron decided to call snap legislative elections to try to stabilize the domestic political situation. But Macron’s gamble that French citizens would reward him with a new majority and fresh mandate backfired, and he ended up with a “hung” National Assembly divided between three roughly equal and politically incompatible factions.

  • France murder 2024-12-20 23:40

    Iran demands investigation into murder of two nationals in France

    TEHRAN — The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on the French government to conduct a thorough investigation into the tragic murder of two Iranian nationals during a violent attack in northern France. 

  • Francois Bayrou 2024-12-13 22:32

    Macron ally François Bayrou appointed new French prime minister

    France’s embattled President Emmanuel Macron has appointed centrist ally Francois Bayrou as prime minister, he announced on Friday, as he seeks to calm a political crisis that has left his authority dwindling by the day.

  • Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baqaei 2024-12-06 22:34

    Iran defends missile program amidst Macron’s ‘concerns’

    TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baqaei has responded to French President Emmanuel Macron's supposed concerns over Iran's missile capabilities and nuclear activities, describing them as baseless.

  • French PM Barnier 2024-12-05 13:01

    French PM to resign as no-confidence vote sparks new political crisis

    French Prime Minister Michel Barnier is expected to resign on Thursday after far-right and leftist lawmakers voted to topple his government, plunging France into its second major political crisis in six months.

  • The Israeli PM 2024-12-02 22:51

    By Narges Pakdel

    Israel can’t heal wounds with repeated truce violations

    TEHRAN – France, an ally of Israel, announced on Monday that the Israeli army has violated the ceasefire with Lebanon’s Hezbollah 52 times since it went into effect on November 27.

  • In less than one week Israel has violated truce 52 times 2024-12-02 17:33

    France says Israel has violated ceasefire with Lebanon 52 times

    The Israeli military continues to strike Lebanon despite a ceasefire agreement with the Hezbollah resistance movement, striking residential buildings in the south.

  • Bibi Gallant 2024-11-23 21:55

    NGOs demand justice: France must arrest Netanyahu and Gallant

    Eleven nongovernmental organizations have called on France to enforce an International Criminal Court's (ICC) arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former war minister Yoav Gallant.

  • Iran's FM Araghchi 2024-11-20 11:37

    Iran warns France against ‘complicating' situation ahead of IAEA vote

    TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned his French counterpart that adopting a censure resolution against the Islamic Republic at the IAEA Board of Governors meeting will make the situation surrounding Iran's nuclear program “more complicated”.

  • The UN Security Council urgent meeting on Iran 2024-10-29 03:06

    UN Security Council members quarrel over Israel’s attack on Iran

    TEHRAN – In an emergency meeting on Monday the UN Security Council members quarreled over Israel’s Oct. 26 attacks on Iran’s military installations.

  • Qalibaf 2024-10-18 18:59

    Iranian parliament: French paper's report of speaker's remarks on Lebanon inaccurate

    TEHRAN – Iran’s parliament has issued a statement refuting a recent report in a French newspaper that claimed Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf had offered to negotiate a ceasefire in Lebanon. 

  • araqchi 2024-10-16 20:02

    Araqchi warns Israel's growing aggression risks unpredictable outcome

    TEHRAN – Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held phone conversations with both his French counterpart, Jean-Noel Barrot, and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, expressing deep concern over Israel's ongoing aggression against Lebanon and Gaza.

  • Macron 2024-10-13 21:15

    Iran, France hold urgent talks on Lebanon crisis

    TEHRAN – In a phone call on Sunday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the escalating crisis in southern Lebanon, focusing on efforts to halt the ongoing conflict.

  • Imam Khomeini 2024-10-04 22:04

    The day on which Imam Khomeini moved to France from Iraq

    On 4 November 1964, the founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini better known as Imam Khomeini was secretly taken to Ankara and then to Bursa, Turkey. Almost a year later on 5 September 1965, he moved to the holy Iraqi city of Najaf and stayed there until Saddam Hussein pressured him to leave the country on 6 October 1978. He was exiled again by the pressure of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to Neauphle-le-Château, Paris.

  • macron 2024-09-25 22:35

    France affirms Iran’s stance on Israeli attacks against Lebanon

    During a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the ongoing conflict in West Asia.

  • One of the archaeologists suggested that political or social issues might have led to Sialk’s abandonment, or that the region no longer had the capacity to sustain further habitation. 2024-09-13 18:07

    Archaeologists seek reasons behind Sialk’s abandonment, a question left unanswered for 2,500 years

    TEHRAN - The third phase of a reassessment project at Tepe Sialk, a treasured 8,000-year-old archaeological site near Kashan in Isfahan province, has commenced.

  • Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi 2024-09-11 19:59

    US, E3 acting on faulty intelligence, Iran says of claims of missile sale to Russia

    'Iran has not delivered ballistic missiles to Russia. Period.'

    TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqhchi on Wednesday insisted on Tehran’s previous announcements that the Islamic Republic has not sent ballistic missiles to Russia, saying the United States and the European trio of Britain, France and Germany are again acting on “faulty intelligence”.

  • Telegram 2024-08-27 19:07

    Arrest of Telegram CEO in France sparks global concerns over free speech

    In a stunning turn of events that has rattled the global tech industry, Europe turned out to be a perilous place for tech executives after the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France, prominent tech figures said.

  • West support for terror 2024-08-03 18:25

    By Wesam Bahrani

    Western terror and support for terror

    US, UK and France have a long history of backing terrorism

    TEHRAN - Some in the Western world have stepped up their accusations of terrorism against countries and resistance movements in West Asia while hiding themselves behind the mask of terrorism.

  • Pezeshkian - Macron 2024-07-29 22:12

    By Soheila Zarfam 

    Serious warning to ‘gang of criminals’

    Pezeshkian tells Macron war on Lebanon would be a colossal blunder with heavy consequences for Israel

    TEHRAN – An Israeli war against Lebanon would be a grave mistake with serious consequences, Iran’s President warned during a telephone conversation with his French counterpart Emanuel Macron.

  • Macron 2024-07-08 23:13

    France in political limbo after shock election result

    President Emmanuel Macron began efforts on Monday to extract France from political uncertainty after a left-wing coalition defeated the far-right in an election that left no group with an absolute majority, The National reported.

  • bash 2024-07-03 22:32

    Iranian national Bashir Biazar released from French detention

    TEHRAN – Iranian musician and filmmaker Bashir Biazar, who was detained and imprisoned in France under controversial circumstances, has been released and is en route back to Iran.

  • France 2024-07-01 19:29

    France's far right celebrates lead, seeks majority

    France’s far right is in pole position after the first round of parliamentary elections that confirmed their dominance in French politics and brought them to the gates of power.

  • Macron 2024-06-25 20:28

    Macron warns of ‘civil war’ if far left or far right wins

    French President Emmanuel Macron told a podcast episode shown Monday that both the far right National Rally (RN) party and the left-wing New Popular Front coalition — front runners in the parliamentary election — risked bringing “civil war” to France.

  • Iran volleyball 2024-06-21 13:42

    Iran fall to France in 2024 VNL

    TEHRAN – Iran lost to France 3-0 (25-21, 25-17, 25-20) in the 2024 Volleyball Nations League (VNL) Week 3 on Friday.

  • BIAZAR 2024-06-18 22:09

    Iran rebukes France's deportation of Iranian national over Palestine support

    TEHRAN - Iran's top human rights official has slammed as “illegal” a French court’s decision to deport an Iranian national over his public solidarity with Palestinians. 

  • MKO under growing pressure as headquarters raided again 2024-06-14 22:01

    MKO under growing pressure as headquarters raided again

    TEHRAN – The Mujahedin-e-Khalq terror organization is facing increasing scrutiny as police around the world are tightening their grip on the group, with French police raiding MKO’s headquarters earlier this week. 

  • bashir 2024-06-08 21:32

    Who is the Iranian journalist arrested in France?

    Bashir Biazar was a familiar face at anti-Israel protests rocking the European country

    TEHRAN – The French government arrested an Iranian journalist on Tuesday, under charges still unknown to his family and the public.