Press TV - Iraqs Foreign Ministry has dismissed accusations by the United States that Iran is to blame for recent violence including through alleged militant groups in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, where Washington recently closed its consulate. There are no forces or military groups in Iraqthat receive orders from abroad, whether from ...

MNA Irans foreign ministry has condemned and dismissed allegations made by Washington for shutting down the US consulate in the Iraqi city of Basra, saying that the Americans remarks are unjustified, unnecessary and clearly part of a blame game. ForeignMinistry SpokesmanBahramGhasemisaid on Saturday thatthe Islamic Republic of Irancensuresany ...

Press TV - The US State Department has announced its decision to close and evacuate its consulate in Basra insouthern Iraqover what it has called security risks after violent incidents near the facility. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on Friday US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had placed the US consulate in Basra on ordered departure,...

Sputnik - Protests in Iraqs second largest city, caused by a shortage in water supplies, started during the summer and resumed in September, resulting in several deaths and a curfew being imposed. The Iraqi law enforcement officers have arrested over 30 people suspected of torching the Iranian consulate in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Sky News ...

IRNA Users of social media in Iraq in a meeting with Iranian ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi expressed sympathy over recent attack on Iran consulate in Basra. They described the attack as a measure taken by a group who were deceived and had no link with Basra residents. Condemning the attack on Iranian diplomatic mission, they said the using social ...

Press TV - Iraqis from different walks of life have staged a march in the southern city of Basra to condemn a recent attack on Irans consulate in the city. Trampling on US and Israeli flags, the Iraqi demonstrators chanted slogans in support of Iran and praised the countrys help to the Iraqi military and volunteer forces in the fight against ...

Press TV - An Iraqi lawmaker says the US is to be held responsible for the recent unrest in Basra, warning that the presence of the American consulate in the oil-rich city endangers Iraq's security and sovereignty. Intisar Hassan al-Musawi said that "the US consulate and some civil society organizations" were behind the Basra violence, which ...

IRNA Najaf Friday prayers leader Sadruddin al-Qubanchi has said that the recent attack on Iranian consulate in Basra was clear hostility with Iraq and aimed to please the United States and Daesh terrorist group. Al-Qubanchi made the remarks on Friday addressing a large crowd of worshippers in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf. The cleric said that ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry condemned as provocative and irresponsible a White House statement that has blamed Iran for the recent unrest in the Iraqi city of Basra, saying such attempts to shift the blame onto others would not erase the US destructive role in Iraq. In a statement on Wednesday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi strongly ...

Press TV - The United States has threatened Iran with a response over the unrest in the Iraqi city of Basra, saying Tehran will be held accountable for any possible harm to the American citizens stationed there. The White House issued the warning on Tuesday, days after protests over alleged corruption and government neglect escalated into deadly ...

Press TV - Iranian diplomatic staff have been resettled in a new building in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra after Tehrans previous Consulate building was torched during a broadly-condemned attack. Following the bitter incident, which was condemned by many of Iraqs political and non-political figures, Iranian diplomats were immediately ...

IRNA - The new Iranian consulate building in Basra was inaugurated with participation of Iran's ambassador in Baghdad Iraj Masjedi, Iraqi local officials and a number of domestic and foreign reporters. By hoisting the Iranian flag over the building, the Iranian ambassador officially opened the new diplomatic center in the southern Iraqi port city....

IRNA Iraqi Foreign Minister Ebrahim al-Jafari said on Monday that attack on Irans consulate in Basra by a group of mercenaries was not an attack on Iran but on Iraq as well. In a televised speech on Monday, he added that the Iraqi nation and government should not be blamed for wrong moves by a few people. Attackers were a few mercenaries who tried ...

IRNA - Iran's head of the judiciary said that it will deal with media that sow the seed of discord between the people of Iran and Iraq. Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani emphasized on the necessity of neutralizing enemy media plots to the extent possible at a meeting of the Supreme Judicial Council officials on Monday, stating that the enemy was seeking ...

IRNA Members of Iraqi Kata'ib Hezbollah, an Iraqi Shia paramilitary group, attended Iran embassy in Baghdad and condemned recent attack on the Iranian consulate in Basra. Head of Kata'ib Hezbollah political bureau Abu Ahmad Sudani in a meeting with Iran's envoy to Iraq Iraj Masjedi expressed regrets over September 7 attacks on Popular Mobilization ...

IRNA- Iraqi Alahad TV channel broadcasted several audio files, revealing the involvement of Saudi intelligence agency in the recent unrest in the Iraqi city of Basra and its relation with some mercenaries in the city's security organization. The media has received some audio files from its sources which indicate the Saudi intelligence agency has been ...

MNA Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Iranian Parliament Speaker's Special Aide in International Affairs, said there are traces of outside agents and warmongers in the region behind the attack on Irans mission in Basra. There are clear traces of the complicty of foreign agents of the regions warmongers in the incident of arson attack on the consulate ...

IFP - A former US army psychological warfare officer said a recent attack on Irans consulate in the city of Basra in Iraq is an attempt to cause a rift between Iran and Iraq, adding that it was most likely carried out by provocateurs paid by mercenary agents from Riyadh and Tel Aviv. This (attack on Irans consulate) is also an attempt to create ...

Tasnim A senior member of Hashd al-Shaabi, one of the countrys official branches of armed forces, pointed the finger at the US consulate in Basra for the recent violent unrest in the city during which rioters torched several buildings, including the Iranian consulate. In comments on Saturday, Deputy Commander of Hashd al-Shaabi (aka Popular Mobilization ...

MNA Deputy head of Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) Hadi Haghshenas said that the closure of Khorramshahr-Basra passenger shipping line is not related to the recent conflicts that have erupted in the Iraqi city. He added that theKhorramshahr-Basra shipping line has shut down due to a drop in the number of passengers and is not related ...