IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that crisis in the region may bring about an increase in arms purchase by certain regional states. In a meeting with Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed on the sidelines of Oslo Forum, he called for Kenyan efforts in line with initiating dialogue between Qatar and Saudi Arabia to resolve the current ...

Press TV- An imprisoned Kenyan student has eventually been granted a trial against two US immigration officers, after newly released footageshows the officers violently attacking him for refusing to be fingerprinted at a Kansas jail three years ago. International college student Justine Mochama filed a lawsuit back in 2014, accusing two agents ...

Press TV- An Iranian deputy foreign minister says two Iranian lawmakers arrested in Kenya last month have been released. Hassan Qashqavi, the Iranian deputy foreign minister for consular, parliamentary and expatriates' affairs, said on Wednesday that Abdolhossein Safaei and Nasrollah Ebrahimi were released following a ruling by a court in the ...

Iran has started exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa, an official announced. Esmaeel Hasham Firouz, the export-import director of the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company (NIOPDC), said the Islamic Republic has begun to ship excess natural gas supplies as LNG to the three African countries. He ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- The latest developments on an Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris that was diverted to Kenya after a suspected bomb was found on it. -- 3:15 p.m. A Kenyan police official says six passengers are being questioned over a suspected bomb found on an Air France plane that forced the jet flying to Paris from Mauritius ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iranian lawmakers approved six bills and Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation with Kuwait, Turkey, Kenya, Vietnam and Uganda. The parliamentarians approved a bill for bilateral cultural, scientific and training cooperation between Iran and Uganda. They also passed a bill for cooperation between Iran and Kenya to prevent ...

[caption id="attachment_110259" align="alignright" width="208"] Irans Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) The Iranian deputy foreign minister said Tehran is making efforts to help release the two nationals imprisoned in Kenya in 2012, expressing the hope that the efforts would ...

TEHRAN, Feb. 02 (MNA) Iranian Foreign Minister met with Iranian tradesmen of Kenya. Javad Zarif, on his tour to Africa, met with Iranian businessmen of Kenya to discuss the problems and the possible means of cooperation. Givzad, Iran ambassador to Kenya said Kenyas economy is the gate to enter the economic arena of Central and Southern Africa and ...

Tehran, Feb 2, IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Monday morning for an African tour which will take him to Uganda, Burundi and Tanzania. Heading a political and diplomatic delegation, Zarif left Tehran for Nairobi on Sunday evening. On his visit to Nairobi, Zarif is scheduled to hold talks with ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi in a meeting with his Kenyan counterpart Mohammad Youssef Haji in Tehran said the whole world is threatened by terrorism now. "Unlike the US and its allies who are the main sponsors of the spread of terrorism in the world, the ...

TEHRAN, Sep. 20 (MNA) Iran's speaker on International Affairs said three parliamentary delegations from Kenya, Nigerai and Hungray were scheduled to visit Tehran in the near future. Speaker on International Affairs Hossein Sheikholeslam said, a parliamentary delegation from Kenya is due to visit Iran today (Saturday); a parliamentary delegation ...

Young man and woman used real passports and replaced the photos with their own, in attempt to enter Israel. Two Iranians in their early 20s, a man and a woman, were arrested in the Kenyan capital Nairobi earlier this week when they were discovered using fake Israeli passports and going by the names Adi and Avshalom. This is not the first time Iranian ...

[caption id="attachment_112680" align="alignright" width="252"] Kenyas Cabinet Secretary of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Amina Mohamed (L) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in the Iranian capital Tehran on August 20, 2014.[/caption] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has underscored the need to forge closer ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed reiterated his country's full support for Iran's nuclear rights. "Kenya supports Iran's inalienable right in the international community to have access to the peaceful nuclear energy," Mohamed said, addressing the closing ceremony of the Joint Economic Cooperation Commission in Tehran on Tuesday ...

Tehran, August 18, IRNA 6th Iran-Kenya Joint Economic Commission meeting kicked off in Tehran Monday. The joint commission opened at expert level. The commission is to officially begin in presence of Minister of Agriculture Jihad and head of Iranian delegation Mahmoud Hojjati with Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed on Tuesday. On the second ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Vice-President and Head of the Department of Environment Masoumeh Ebtekar and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in a meeting in Nairobi on Sunday underlined the need for the further expansion of mutual cooperation, specially in ecotourism, wild life management and protected zones. During the meeting in the Kenyan capital today, ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Acting Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi is scheduled to leave Tehran for Kenya tomorrow to take part in the African country's National Day ceremonies and discuss expansion of bilateral trade, economic and political ties. Sarmadi, who will head a high-ranking delegation in the visit, has been invited to Kenya by the ...

Somali pirates holding Iranian sailor Shahryar Ali Abadi hostage since 2010 have threatened to kill him today, 10 December, unless they receive $100,000 for his release. In September 2010 Shahryar boarded the Malaysian-flagged cargo shipAlbedo, rented by an Iranian, bound for a two-week voyage to Kenya. The rest of the crew included Pakistani, ...

The African Union (AU) has given the International Criminal Court (ICC) ultimatum to halt the case of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who is charged with crimes against humanity. Following a special summit in Addis Ababa on Saturday, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the African leaders had decided that Kenyatta should not ...

Kenyan officials say the government has launched an investigation into a four-day siege at a partly Israeli-owned shopping mall in Nairobi that killed at least 72 people and destroyed part of the complex. The officials said on Wednesday that US, British and Israeli agencies are helping the eastern African country in the probe. A day earlier, Kenyan ...