Press TV - Iran says a Ukrainian plane which crashed outside Tehran this week had flown close to a sensitive military site and been brought down due to human error "at a time of crisis caused by US adventurism." In a statement Saturday, the general staff of the armed forces touched on the tense situation in the hours after Iran's missile attack ...

Press TV - Ukraine has joined Irans oil customers, making its first purchase in June, media reports cited the countrys State Fiscal Service as saying. According to the report, Ukraine bought $236,000 worth of crude oil from Iran in June but the purchase rose to $5.4 million in July which saw the east European country importing 152,655 tonnes ...

Press TV- A senior Iranian lawmaker says military intervention by foreign powers in the internal affairs of the Middle Easterncountries has intensified regional tensions. Military intervention byforeign countries and the deliveryof arms to terrorist groups have led to the escalationof tensions in the region, Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's ...

After Moscows surprising show of force in Ukraine and Crimea, Russians have now taken their northern and Baltic fleets into the Mediterranean in order to defend their interests in Syria. Russias aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, which they had already said would remain in Murmansk for overhauls until 2017, along with Peter the Great battlecruiser,...

Mehr Khaneh is a project located at Ostrovskovo Street in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Solmaz Fooladi, Nima Keivani and Sina Keivani are three Iranian architects in charge of the project. In an interview with Mehr News Agency, as translated by IFP, Nima Keivani said, In this quote modern project, we have adopted a different approach towards Iranian ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 10 (MNA) Irans Mojtaba Abedini defeated his Ukrainian opponent in Mens Individual Sabre Fencing at Rio Olympics 2016, while Ali Pakdaman was eliminated from the competitions after defeat by German athlete. The Olympics sabrefencing games which began on Saturday were followed up on Wednesday in the individual category. Irans ...

Iranian men's national deaf soccer team has ended on level terms withUkraine at the 3rd edition of World Deaf Football Championships in Italy. On Friday, the Iranian sportsmen exhibited acceptable skills throughout the game, which was played in the southern Italian town of Eboli, and earned a 2-2 draw against the Eastern European opponents. Mohsen ...

TEHRAN, May 29 (MNA) Pavlo Klimkin, Foreign Minister of Ukraine, will arrive in Tehran Sunday for a two-day visit packed with various meetings with Iranian officials on boosting bilateral relations and discussing regional issues. The Ukrainian senior diplomat is making the visit to Tehran at the official invitation of Foreign Minister Moahmmad ...

TheChernobyl disasterwas acatastrophic nuclear disasterthat occurred on April 26th, 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which was then part of the Soviet Union. An explosion in one of the reactors led to the release of large quantities of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the Western USSR and ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has held discussions with his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko about a Ukrainian pilot currently being held in Russia and two Russians detained in Ukraine. TheKremlin said the two leadersdiscussed thefate of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko,sentenced to 22 years in a Russian prison inMarch and the two ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 30 (MNA) The national Iranian mens handball team has overthrown Ukraine at the International Mens Handball Christmas Cup. The Christmas Cup was staged in the Polish city of Wroclaw and the Iranian squad attended the event as a warm-up match for the 2016 Asian Mens Volleyball Championship in Bahrain. Iranian players had previously ...

[caption id="attachment_141806" align="alignright" width="204"] Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham welcomed the recent agreement reached between the warring factions of Ukraine, and expressed the hope that implementation of the peace accord will result in ...

[caption id="attachment_149296" align="alignright" width="126"] AP Photo/ Evgeniy Maloletka[/caption] The longer and bigger the war in Ukraine becomes, the more lucrative it becomes for US politicians and big business, says Alexandr Khrolenko, a columnist for the Rossiya Segodnya information agency. MOSCOW, February 2 (Sputnik) The pro-independence ...

1.The year 2014 was one of the most hectic years for international politics. Although every year is characterized with a host of important and determining developments in international arena, there were two major developments in 2014, which were not only important, but also surprising. One of those developments was rapid and surprising rise of a new ...

TEHRAN Oct 27 (Shana)--The winter cold and rising Washington-Moscow disputes over Ukraine should lead to the upward trend of oil prices, said an energy expert. Hassan Moradi, a senior energy expert, believes that fluctuation of prices is inherent in oil markets of the world and the prices have never been stable in years. The recent decline in oil ...

The decision was made after the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 with 298 people on board over eastern Ukraine followed by airstrike on ISIL strongholds in Iraq and Syria by the US and its allies. Irans civil aviation systems are expanding. The aim is to further handle soaring air traffic on the Islamic Republics airspace. More than ...

[caption id="attachment_116956" align="alignright" width="284"] A member of a Ukrainian police task force sits during a drill at Slaviansk, Monday. Photo by Reuters[/caption] Kiev was eyeing equipment that it could use against the Moscow-backed separatists, according to Channel 2. The Foreign Ministry has halted a drone sale to Ukraine out of fears ...

[caption id="attachment_116482" align="alignright" width="236"] Smoke rises from Donetsk international airport during battles between pro-Russia forces and the Ukrainian army. Photograph: Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images[/caption] Russian rocket launchers seen moving through eastern city as Ukraine's PM says his country is in 'stage of war' with ...

[caption id="attachment_116088" align="alignright" width="260"] A Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry member walks at a site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region, July 17, 2014.[/caption] A senior Russian diplomat has seriously questioned the newly released Dutch investigation report on the ...

[caption id="attachment_115441" align="alignright" width="227"] Representatives of Russia, pro-Moscow forces in Ukraine and the Kiev government read a statement after inking a truce deal in Minsk, Belarus, on September 5, 2014.[/caption] Iran has welcomed a Russian-backed ceasefire deal recently reached between the Ukrainian government and pro-Moscow ...