Reuters - Iran on Saturday moved to open businesses, religious and cultural sites as it eases restrictions imposed to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Museums and historical sites are to reopen on Sunday to coincide with the Eid el-Fitr celebrations that end the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, President Hassan Rouhani said on state television....

IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif said on Monday that US President Donald Trump's threat to target Iran's cultural and civilization centers amounted to "Cultural Terrorism" and continuation of US disregard of International Law. Zarif made the remarks in a conference on safeguarding cultural assets and world heritage held in National Library ...

Al-Monitor | Sarbas Nazari: Iran ranks 10th globally on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) list of world heritage sites and tops all other countries in the Middle East. With 24 sites two of them natural the country is pushing to get more of its vast range of historically significant attractions recognized ...

The Washington Post | Hooman Majd: Since the United States killed Qasem Soleimani in Iraq last week, President Trump has only ramped up his threats against Iran. But in his utter lack of understanding of the country, its revolutionary government or Iranians themselves, he keeps making the same error again and again. The president failed to grasp ...

IRNA President Hassan Rouhani on Monday stressed that never threaten the great Iranian nation. The Iranian president tweeted late on Monday that those referring to the number 52 are better to think about the number 290 as well. Never threaten the great Iranian nation. President Rouhani by number 290 was referring to Iran Air flight 655, flight ...

The Guardian | Simon Jenkins: Donald Trumps threat to destroy the sites of ancient Persia should send a shiver down the spine of any civilised person. How can anything justify American bombing of Persepolis or the mosques of Isfahan? Only the demented can see them as threatening America. It is on the same ethical plane as the Islamic State vandalism ...

The Guardian | Sergio Beltrn-Garca: The US presidents Twitter warning to hit Iranian cultural sites very fast and very hard must not be taken lightly the world could lose these architectural treasures for ever President Donald Trumps new year message, posted on Twitter in the wake of the US killing of Qassem Suleimani, was unequivocal: Let this ...

Common Dreams |Jake Johnson: "Fastest way to unify Iranians of all walks of life against you is to threaten to destroy their cultural heritage." Ordinary Iranians on Saturday responded to U.S. President Donald Trump's monstrous threat to strike sites "important to Iran and the Iranian culture" with an outpouring of photos highlighting their favorite ...

The Guardian - Downing Street says such military action would break international treaties in implicit rebuke to Trump Britains foreign secretary has said that targeting cultural sites in Iran would breach international warfare conventions in an implicit rebuke to Donald Trump for threatening to bomb protected heritage sites. Dominic Raab did ...

MNA Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei has warned against the severe consequences of US retaliatory measure to Irans military response to the assassination of Lt. Gen. Qasem Soleimani. If the US retaliates to our military response, we will raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground, Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei warned in a tweet ...

Iran Front Page - The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the ambassador of Switzerland which represents US interests in Iran over the recent threats by American President Donald Trump. The top diplomat was summoned by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi and received a strong note of protest over Washingtons threatening ...

Press TV - US President Donald Trumps new threat to strike 52 important targets in Iran, including the cultural ones, has provoked a strong backlash, with many calling it a war crime. On Saturday, Trump said on Twitter that his military would hit very important targets related to Iran if the Iranians attempted to take retaliatory action against ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, in reaction to US President Donald Trumps threats of targeting 52 Iranian cultural sites, said such a move would be filed as a war crime and another breach of international law. Having committed grave breaches of int'l law in Friday's cowardly assassinations, @realdonaldtrump threatens to commit ...

RT - US President Donald Trump says the US military has identified 52 sites of importance to Iran and its culture, which its ready to strike if Tehran targets US citizens or assets to avenge the killing of its top general. Unleashing yet another dire warning to Iran, Trump appears to have responded to a recent statement by a senior commander within ...