AFP - Iran' Revolutionary Guards have seized a ship suspected of fuel-smuggling and arrested 16 Malaysian crew members, state media reported on Monday. The website of IRIB state television said the Guards confiscated 1.3 million litres of "smuggled fuel" from the unnamed vessel 15 nautical miles from Abu Musa island. The ship's 16 crew who are ...

Tasnim Irans President Hassan Rouhani plans to take a tour of Malaysia and Japan in December, his chief of staff announced. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a weekly cabinet session on Wednesday, Mahmoud Vaezi said Rouhani is scheduled to visit Malaysia and Japan later this month. The presidential visit to Kuala Lumpur will be made ...

Reuters - Malaysias prime minister told reporters the country was being forced to make it difficult for Iranians to live normal lives in the country. Banks in Malaysia are closing the accounts of Iranian individuals and companies, nearly a dozen affected people told Reuters, in a sign that U.S. sanctions are having far-reaching effects on citizens ...

MNA The president of the People's Justice Party of Malaysia met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in Putrajaya to discuss urgent matters concerning local and foreign issues. PKR president Anwar Ibrahim held a meeting with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in Putrajaya to discuss urgent matters concerning local and foreign issues, according to Malaysian ...

IRNA Representatives of the Malaysian Islamic Institutes arrived in Khuzestan province on Wednesday to see extent of the damages inflicted by floods on the provincial population. [Malaysian Islamic Institutes representatives visit Khuzestan] Managing director of Khuzestan Red Crescent Society Ali Khodadadi told IRNA that the five-member team ...

MNA Criticizing Australias decision to recognize West Jerusalem as the capital of Israeli regime, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Sunday that countries have no right to do so. Jerusalem [al-Quds] should remain as it is now and not the capital of Israel, Mahathir told Reuters on the sidelines of an event in Bangkok, adding, Jerusalem ...

Press TV - The Iran mens national handball team has started the 2018 Asian Games on a high note,thrashing the Malaysian outfit in its opening match. On Wednesday, the Iranian squad trounced the Southeast Asian side 55-11 in a Group A fixture staged at the POPKI Sport Hall in the Indonesian capital city of Jakarta. Iran handball players claimed ...

Press TV- Iranian fencers have delivered great displaysof physical skills and agility at the 2018 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) University Fencing Championship in Malaysia, and collected nine medals in the tournament. Amir Reza Kanani, Mohammad Ali Kayhani and Hossein Jafari made the Islamic Republic proud on Saturday after they ...

Tasnim Irans Minister of Communication and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi left the country for Malaysia to attend the World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF), due to open in the Southeast Asian country tomorrow. Heading a banking and trade delegation, Azari Jahromi left Tehran for Kuala Lumpur on Monday to participate in the ...

IRNA The 12th International Shari'ah Scholars Forum (ISSF12) has taken place in Malaysia with the attendance of Islamic Republic of Iran. The two day event, happened at a hotel near Kuala Lumpur, has been organized by the International Shari'ah Research Academy for Islamic Finance (ISRA). Hojatoleslam Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghaddam member of Shari'ah ...

FNA - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a meeting with his Malaysian counterpart Anifah Aman in New York underlined the need for upholding unity among Muslims countries. "There is a need for reinforcing Muslim unity in the Muslim world to resolve the current crises in the regional countries," Zarif said during the meeting in New York ...

MNA Commander of Irans Navy Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari will fly to Malaysia on Monday afternoon. At the head of a high-ranking military delegation, Sayyari will depart Tehran for Kuala Lumpur on Monday to attend the International Maritime Security Symposium 2017 (IMSS). He will be accompanied by some of hisdeputies. The event will be ...

IRNA | Mohammad Babaei: Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif received credentials of the newly-appointed ambassadors to Tehran on Monday including envoys from Benin, Thailand and Malaysia.    

MNA A group of Malaysian students visiting Iran sat down with Mehr News Agency to discuss their previously-held beliefs about the country and how their trip had been pivotal in dispelling their misconceptions about Iran. Politics and propaganda, as represented in media, dehumanize societies and reduce them into stereotypes. The situation is especially ...

Tasnim Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, who is currently in Kuala Lumpur attending a maritime exhibition, held talks with top military officials from several countries, including Australia and Canada on Tuesday. Rear Admiral Sayyari on Tuesday held separate meetings with top Navy commanders and military officials from ...

MNA Commander of Irans Navy Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari has landed in Malaysia to take part at 2017 Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA). The Iranian Navy Commander is visiting the Southeast Asian country at the invitation of his Malaysian counterpart Admiral Ahmad Kamarulzaman Ahmad Badaruddin. Upon arrival ...

IFP- Saudi Arabia has cast covetous eyes on Malaysia, Iranian MP Mohammad Javad Abtahi said, according to a Farsi report by ICANA. Riyadh is pursuing the Wahhabi economic and ideological goals there. He went on to say that Saudis intend to form an economic, ideological front among the Muslim people living in East Asia in order to recruit Takfiri ...

IRNA Iranian Oscare-winning The Salesman directed by well known Director Asghar Farhadi is to be screened in Malaysian cinemas, it was announced on Friday. Director Asghar Farhadi won his second Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film on Sunday at the 89th Academy Awards. Winning of the Oscar award by the Iranian director widely was covered by Malaysian ...

IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif left Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for Tehran on Friday morning after participation in the extraordinary session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers. The OIC session on Thursday investigated crisis hitting the Rakhine Muslim minority in Myanmar and latest developments in Palestine issue. Addressing the ...

IRNA -- Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif conferred with advisor to the prime minister of Pakistan on foreign affairs Sertaj Aziz in the Malaysian capital late on Thursday. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the OIC extraordinary session in the country which discussed crisis facing the Muslims minorities in Rohingya in Myanmar as well as ...