MNA One person was killed and several people were injured on Monday in two separate explosions in the United Arab Emirates' capital Abu Dhabi and its tourism hub Dubai, the police and local media said.
The blast hit KFC and Hardees restaurants on the citys Rashid bin Saeed Street and other retail outlets were also damaged, Arab News reported.
Abu ...
Tehran Times - The organizers of the 37th Fajr Film Festival, Irans most film event, have come under fierce criticism from several Persian media over the import of its Crystal Simorgh awards from Dubai.
The criticism was sparked after the executive manager of the festival, Ezzatollah Alizadeh, announced on Sunday that the crystal trophies are being ...
Reuters | Tuqa Khalid,Andrew Torchia: With its Persian restaurants and shop signs in Farsi, Murshid Bazaar, a dense maze of alleys in Dubais old quarter, has for decades been a center for small-scale trade with Iran.
That is changing. One in every dozen or so shops in the once-bustling area is shuttered or carries a for rent sign. Indian and Pakistani ...
IRNA The deputy police chief of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has published picture of a 300-year old map which includes the name 'Persian Gulf' proving again Iran's historical sovereignty over it.
The map was revealed when Dhahi Khalfan published an evidence on his twitter account to support his claim that Qatar belonged to Bahrain in the past.
'I ...
Al-Monitor- Almost immediately after Yemeni fighterslaunched a missileat Riyadh's airport Nov. 4, Saudi officials and US President Donald Trump both pointed fingers at Iran, sayingTehran was behind the attack. In response, Iranian officials were quick to rebut the allegation.
On Nov. 5,Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commanderMohammad Ali ...
IRNA -- Iran's Consulate General in Dubai in a statement urged Iranians residing in UAE to vote with valid passports.
In its statement, the mission called on the Iranians to renew their passports which might expire soon.
Those whose passports are about to expire can take a renewed version within two hours.
The Iranian presidential election will ...
IRNA Iranian karate team, by receiving three gold and four bronze medals, stood on the first place in the third stage of Karate 1 Premier League Dubai 2017.
In Karate Individual Kata, Iran snatched 3 gold and 3 bronze medals.
In Karate Team Kata, Iranian athletes bagged 1 bronze medal.
Spain by receiving two gold and two silver medals ranked ...
IRNA - Irans Karateka Fatemeh Chalaki won a gold medal in the women's minus 50-kilogram class at third stage of Karate 1 Premier League held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Chalaki defeated Russia's Valeria Finashkina 2-0 and won the gold medal.
The Iranian athelete had already defeated representatives of Macau, Chinese Taipei, Turkey and Indonesia ...
Forbes|Elizabeth MacBride: Kamran Elahian has seen some of this before. The Iranian-American entrepreneur and global philanthropist is watching the chaos around the new presidents tougher stance toward Iran, including new sanctions and a temporary ban on travel by Iranians to the United States.
In 1979, Elahian, then a young computer expert living ...
The Journal. ie: Iranian investors are pouring money into Kish island in the Persian Gulf, hoping its white sand beaches, coral reefs and more relaxed Islamic rules, could make it a major tourism destination.
From the pristine beaches of Kish, it is only 200 kilometres across the water to Dubai and it is the booming city states tens of thousands ...
The 21st edition of Christies Auction is going to be held on Tuesday, October 18, in Hotel Emirate Towers in Dubai.
In this edition, 113 works by Iranian, Turk, and Arab artists will be put on display.
Standouts of the Modern and Contemporary Art sale include Iranian masterpieces from the Saqqakhaneh period, a key moment that shaped the future ...
Iran Aviation Organization has granted Mahan Air the license for establishing new flights from Shiraz to Dubai, said a report citing director general of Fars Province Airports.
Reza Badiei-Fard told IRNA on Friday that Mahan Air has been given necessary licenses to operate three two-way flights each week between the two cities.
The announcement ...
TEHRAN (Tasnim) Yellow Door Energy, a company with technical expertise in solar energy projects in the Middle East, has expressed willingness to finance two solar power plants in Iran.
Representatives of the company, which is headquartered in the Emirati city of Dubai and is mostly owned by Adenium Energy Capital, held a meeting at the Renewable ...
A large fire has broken out in the 63-story luxury Address Hotel in downtown Dubai.
It is unclear how the blaze began, but officials said it started on the exterior of the 20th floor, according to CNN. The incident occurs mere hours before the United Arab Emirates city was about to launch a New Years Eve fireworks display and engulfed at least 20 ...
Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:
Iranian FM raps US for theatrical acts in dealing with terrorism
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif lashed out at Washington for supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group which is threatening the entire region, saying the United States ...
[caption id="attachment_115296" align="alignright" width="254"] A Fly Dubai aircraft (file photo)[/caption]
Iran says a Fly Dubai airliner with about 100 Americans on board made an emergency landing in southern Iran due to the discrepancy between flight plan and pilot transmissions.
Iranian officials said the chartered plane, transporting Americans ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iran ordered a commercial aircraft chartered by the U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan to land in the Islamic Republic so it could pay expenses and complete paperwork, an official there said Saturday.
The comments by Mansour Haghighatpour, a member of the parliamentary committee on national security and ...
TEHRAN (Tasnim) An informed source at Irans Army dismissed media reports that a US-chartered plane en route to the Persian Gulf city of Dubai had been escorted by Iranian fighter jets before landing at the countrys southern port city of Bandar Abbas.
Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency on Saturday, the source said the commercial aircraft had neither ...
[caption id="attachment_115153" align="alignright" width="230"] The Aircraft was chartered from the private company Fly Dubai. Photo by Wikimedia Commons[/caption]
(Reuters) - A chartered aircraft carrying about 100 Americans from the U.S. airbase at Bagram, Afghanistan, has left for Dubai after it was diverted to Iran because of issues with its flight ...
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