Beirut, Nov 6, IRNA Iranian Embassy in Beirut issued a statement on Thursday expressing condolences over the death of Lebanon's veteran writer and well-known scholar George Jardaq. As like as Lebanon, Iran lost a scholar who contributed to the richness of humanity with his innovative literature and thought, the statement said. The Christian writer,...

Beirut, June 21, IRNA Iran?s Embassy in Beirut has strongly condemned Friday?s terrorist bombing at a Lebanese security checkpoint in the eastern Bekaa Valley. Two people have been killed after a suicide bomber blew himself up at the checkpoint situated on the main highway joining Beirut and Damascus in Dahr Al-Baydar district. Releasing a statement,...

BEIRUT (AP) -- A militant group issued a rare apology Saturday for a twin suicide bombing in Beirut that killed eight people and wounded dozens, including children from a nearby orphanage. The al-Qaida-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades issued a statement on militant websites apologizing for civilian deaths. It said a "technical fault" affected the ...

Beirut, Feb 26, IRNA Lebanese Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi says he has proposed the case of bomb blasts outside Iran Embassy in Beirut, Tripoli and other places be referred to Lebanon?s High Judicial Council. Rifi, quoted by Lebanese al-Nashra news site, said he will soon submit to Lebanese cabinet a scroll, signed by about 70,000 people, suggesting ...

Beirut, Feb 22, IRNA Lebanese Armed Forces Commander Jean Kahwagi vowed to follow up terrorist acts in Lebanon, especially blasts against Irans embassy and cultural attach office in Beirut. In a meeting with Irans Ambassador to Beirut Ghazanfar Roknabadi on Saturday, General Kahwagi said that he ordered related officials in the armed forces to do ...

(Reuters) - Lebanese security forces said on Friday they had detained a Sunni Muslim militant suspected of recruiting suicide bombers and assembling car bombs for a radical group behind attacks on Iranian interests in Beirut. Hassan Abu Afleh, they said, was suspected of being a leading figure in the Abdullah Azzam Brigades - a movement that has carried ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Mohammad Khazayee condemned the twin bombings that hit the Lebanese capital near Irans cultural center on Wednesday, and asked the UN Security Council to act against the new wave of radicalism in the region. Addressing a meeting of the Security Council on Wednesday, Khazayee underlined ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The United Nations in a statement strongly deplored the twin explosions that hit the Lebanese capital near Irans Cultural Chancellery on Wednesday. UN Secretary Generals Special Envoy in Lebanon Derek Plumbly strongly condemned two blasts near Irans cultural center in Beirut, and called on the Lebanese people not to allow such terrorist ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a phone talk with his Lebanese counterpart Gebran Bassildiscussed the twin bombings that hit the Lebanese capital near Irans Cultural Chancellery on Wednesday. During the conversation on Wednesday, Zarif condemned the blasts outside several Iranian institutes and a charity institute ...

Daily look at Iran's late-breaking news and upcoming events:     Commander: IRGC pessimistic about Iran-powers talks, but keeps silent to see results Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari underlined IRGCs pessimistic view about the results of the talks underway between Iran and the Group ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian government condemned in the strongest terms the coward terrorist act which rocked Bir Hassan area in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Wednesday. Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said in a statement that the states supporting, fostering and funding terrorism are responsible for the two bombings in Bir Hassan area and other ...

Beirut, Feb 19, IRNA - Iran?s Ambassador to Beirut Ghazanfar Roknabadi here on Wednesday met with Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam after the terrorist bombing in front of IRNA Beirut office. During the meeting, the two officials condemned the terrorist incident in front of several Iranian organizations. According to reports, at least five people ...

Tehran, Feb 19, IRNA - Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham on Wednesday condemned this morning terrorist operations in the Lebanese capital city. According to reports, at least five people were killed and 80 more injured in strong bomb explosion in front of buildings of IRNA, Iran?s Cultural attach and the IRIB in Beirut. She also condoled ...

BEIRUT: The Al-Qaeda-linkedAbdullah Azzam Brigadesclaimed responsibility Wednesday for the twin suicide bombings that struck theBeirutneighborhood of Bir Hasan, killing five and wounding 80 others. On itstwitterfeed, the group said the Ali Hussein Bin Ali Brigades carried out the attack, describing it as "the raid of the Iranian Cultural Center." ...

(Reuters) - A twin suicide bombing targeting the Iranian cultural center in Beirut killed six people on Wednesday, in an attack claimed by an al Qaeda-linked group which said it was a response to the military intervention ofIranand Hezbollah in the Syrian war. The army said the rush hour attack in the Shi'ite southern suburbs of Beirut was carried ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian embassy in Beirut announced that none of its staff members or diplomats has been hurt in the twin explosions that hit the Lebanese capital near Tehrans Cultural Chancellery on Wednesday. Two explosions hit an area near the Kuwaiti embassy and the Iranian Cultural Chancellery in Beirut on Wednesday morning. Later in ...

[caption id="attachment_83478" align="alignright" width="180"] This snapshot taken from a YouTube video shows Mouin Abu Dahr, one of the two suicide bombers behind the attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut on Nov. 19, 2013.[/caption] BEIRUT: The Qaeda-linked Abdallah Azzam Brigades allegedly released a video Wednesday showing footage of the Nov....

The Iranian and Russian embassies in Beirut went on high alert after obtaining information that extremist groups are plotting to target them, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Wednesday. According to the daily, the two embassies started taking extra ordinary security measures and called for a back up from the Lebanese army. The newspaper reported ...

Tehran, Jan 22, IRNA Iran?s Ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi said fresh clues are to be disclosed soon about the terrorist blast in front of Iran?s Embassy building in Beirut. Talking to IRNA, he pointed to the ongoing investigations on the terrorist incident and said new evidence about the agents and elements behind it based on vivid ...

A senior Iranian lawmaker says Tehran still holds suspicions over the death of the Saudi mastermind behind last Novembers terrorist attack on Iran's embassy in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. We are still suspicious of Majed al-Majeds death. There were hidden hands [behind his death] because he was a treasure trove of information and knew about terrorist ...