Saudis answer UN call with $274m Yemen aid pledge
Kingdom’s announcement follows appeal to provide emergency assistance to millions affected by ongoing conflict. Saudi Arabia, which is leading a three-week-old air…
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UN, Red Cross alarmed over Yemen casualties in airstrikes
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The U.N. human rights office and the international Red Cross say they are alarmed by the high civilian…
UN’s inexcusable silence on Saudi-led invasion of Yemen
The sustained aerial bombardment of a country’s capital city and other cities by other countries, as has been the case with Yemen…
Amano: Iran has good cooperation on implementation of Geneva deal
Tehran, March 24, IRNA – Director General of the UN nuclear agency Yukiya Amano confirmed on Monday that Iran’s cooperation to implement…
Senator: Obama risks backlash if Iran deal goes to UN first
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Republican senator warned Monday that the White House faces a “violent backlash” in Congress if it takes…
ISIL may have committed genocide: UN
The ISIL Takfiri militants may have committed all types of international crimes against humanity, including genocide in its brutal acts of violence…
New York Times gives Op-Ed space to anti-Israel Iranian ambassador
While congress was still standing to applaud and shake hands with Benjamin Netanyahu, the media was making a beeline towards anyone that…
UN envoy: W-Post’s report on Iran’s N-program ‘fictitious’
TEHRAN, Feb. 25 (MNA) – The new permanent representative of Iran to the United Nations has dismissed the Washington Post report on…
Iran’s UN Envoy: Development, progress depends on global interaction
New York, Feb 18, IRNA – Iran’s Permanent Representative to the UN Gholamali Khoshrou stressed that progress of world nations depends on…
New envoy vows to use UN capacities to remove sanctions against Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s new Ambassador to the United Nations in New York Gholam Ali Khoshrou stressed that he will use all the…
Demolitions, displacements in West Bank ‘must stop immediately,’ urges UN envoy
The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory expressed concern today over the Israeli authorities’ recent spate of…
Iran supports UN efforts to resolve Syria crisis: FM
Tehran, Jan 15, IRNA – Iran supports UN efforts to resolve Syria crisis in political ways, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif…
Iran asks UN to send independent Human Rights rapporteurs to US
TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the International Human Rights Center in Iran Ahmad Esfandiari said his center has sent a letter to the…
Iran urges world to take firm action against terrorism
Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Hossein Dehqani has called on the international community to adopt firm and urgent measures to…
UN must officially decry arming Syrian opposition: Deputy-FM
TEHRAN, Dec. 14 (MNA) – Ramzi Ezzedine Ramzi, deputy to the UN Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura met with Iranian…
UN must play real role in Syria crisis: Iran diplomat
A senior Iranian diplomat has stressed the importance of adopting a realistic approach to the developments in Syria, saying the United Nations…
Syria calls for U.N. sanctions on Israel over air strikes
(Reuters) – Syria asked the United Nations Security Council on Monday to impose sanctions on neighboring Israel, a day after accusing the Jewish state of…
Possible sanctions breach as Iran Quds chief spotted in Iraq: U.N.
(Reuters) – United Nations sanctions monitors have said photographs taken inside Iraq appear to confirm that the head of Iran’s elite military Quds Force,…
UN must identify ISIL terrorists’ supporters in region: Velayati
A senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the United Nations must identify countries that support…
UN to launch reconstruction efforts in Gaza next week
TEHRAN, Nov. 22 (MNA) – UN special envoy in the region has announced that the next phase of reconstruction of war-stricken Gaza…
The UN in Iran key development achievements and results: Environment
Dangers and threats, arising from a drier, warmer Iran – and the need to both mitigate and adapt to this future reality…
UN lacks resources needed to fight Ebola
Chief of the United Nations’ Ebola mission Anthony Banbury says the task force does not have the resources necessary to defeat the…
Overview of UN work in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Iran is a founder member of the United Nations (UN) and joined in 1945. Only 51 of the current 193 countries in…
The UN in Iran key development achievements and results: Poverty reduction
Iran’s Human Development Index (HDI) value for the year 2013 was 0.749, placing Iran 75th out of 187 countries in terms of…
The UN in Iran key development achievements and results: Health
Iran is facing a number of major public health problems, which are directly endangering the health and survival of Iranian citizens and…
UN: Death toll in eastern Ukraine conflict exceeds 4,000
TEHRAN (FNA)- More than 4,000 people have died in the conflict in Eastern Ukraine since its beginning, the United Nations Office for…
UN condemns Israeli settlement expansion
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A UN official warned that Israel’s plans for further settlements in East Jerusalem could ignite more violence and threaten…
Iran raps UN inaction on sovereignty violation
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) has slammed the UN’s inaction over the violation of the national sovereignty of…
Fighting spread of particles in the air, a UN priority, UN official
Tehran, Oct 27, IRNA – The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Iran Gary Lewis said on Monday fighting particles spread in the…
Iran ready to cooperate with UN to fight terrorism: Shamkhani
Tehran, Oct 20, IRNA – Leader’s representative and Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani said on Monday that Iran…
WHO warns 10,000 new cases of Ebola a week are possible
UN agency says fatality rate at 70% and that ‘a lot more people will die’ unless world steps up its response to…
UN to hold Intl. Symposium on Sustainable Tourism in Iran
TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) – Iran’s Cultural Heritage Organization deputy-head for tourism has said the UN will hold International Symposium on Sustainable…
UN urges action to protect Kobani civilians against ISIL
The UN chief has called for an immediate action to protect the civilian population in Syria’s border town of Ain al-Arab, known…
ISIL herds hundreds of women for sale as sex slaves: UN
The ISIL Takfiri militants are selling as sex slaves hundreds of Izadi and Christian women they have captured in a bid to…
Teaching students how to find out about the UN
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) together with the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), held a workshop entitled “Finding…
Photos: Iran’s President Rouhani in New York
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UNSC demands release of abducted peacekeepers
The United Nations (UN) Security Council has once again demanded the immediate and unconditional release of 45 abducted UN peacekeepers by anti-Damascus…
Number of Syrian refugees passes three millions: UN
The UN says the number of Syrian refugees fleeing violence in the country has surpassed three million as the crisis is only…
UN says over 600,000 Iraqis displaced
TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) – Amidst an expanding displacement crisis in Iraq, several United Nations humanitarian organizations are scaling up efforts to…
Ebola kills 84 in three days: UN
The Ebola virus killed 84 people in just three days, bringing the global death toll to 1,229, the World Health Organization said…