ISNA The CEO of Qom Cemeteries Organization denied Washington Posts accusation, stressing that there is no special section for coronavirus victims in Behesht-e Masoumeh Cemetery in Qom. In an interview with ISNA, the CEO of Qom Cemeteries Organization Seyyed Seyfeddin Mousavi Niaraki reacted to the recent accusation made by the Washington Post ...

IFP- Irans Vice-President for Women and Family Affairs Massoumeh Ebtekar has denied having ever been to the United States since the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran, rejecting a claim raised by Washington Post. On her Twitter page, Ebtekar rejected claims that she has travelled to New York after the Revolution. Misinformation or deliberate distortion ...

The US reportedly plans to extend its military presence in Yemen by keeping a force of special operations advisers in the war-torn country. The forcedeployed at the request of the Emirati government around the port city of Mukalla back in April would remain in Yemen for the foreseeable future,The Washington Post reported. The force, which ...

Two anti-Iran Republican senators are attempting to tie the release of a jailed Washington Post reporter to the ongoing talks with Iran over its nuclear energy program. Marco Rubio and Mark Kirk said on Monday that US President Barack Obama should demand the release of Jason Rezaian, a 38-year-old Iranian-American, who along with his wife, Yeganeh ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A Washington Post journalist detained in Iran for over eight months is accused of "espionage" and "acting against national security," the semiofficial Fars news agency reported Sunday. The report did not elaborate on the source of the information, but the agency is regarded as close to Iran's hard-liners. Iranian officials have ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A senior official in Iran's judiciary says a court will hear the case of a detained Washington Post correspondent when it's his turn. Gholamhossein Esmaeili, the head of Tehran's justice administration, is quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying Wednesday: "Jason Rezaian's case will be heard on turn." Esmaeili did not ...

[caption id="attachment_108419" align="alignright" width="217"] A Nov. 6, 2013, photo shows Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter, at the newspaper in Washington. (Zoeann Murphy/AP)[/caption] DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- After more than seven months behind bars in an Iranian prison, detained Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian has ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Mehrdad Moarefian and Marie Donovan, with contributors Farzin Farzad and Diana Timmerman. To receive this daily newsletter, please subscribe online. Key takeaway:The IRGC conducted large-scale military exercises ...

[caption id="attachment_148401" align="alignright" width="192"] Irans new Ambassador to the United Nations, Gholam Ali Khoshroo[/caption] TEHRAN, Feb. 25 (MNA) The new permanent representative of Iran to the United Nations has dismissed the Washington Post report on Irans peaceful nuclear program as baseless and fictitious. Gholamali Khoshroo ...

[caption id="attachment_120016" align="alignright" width="203"] The Washington Posts Iranian-American journalist Jason Rezaian (R) and his Iranian wife Yeganeh Salehi, who works for the UAE newspaper National, during a press conference in Tehran on September 10, 2013.[/caption] An arch-conservative member of the Iranian parliament and outspoken critic ...

Washington (AFP) - The CIA and Israel's spy agency Mossad were behind an elaborate plot to kill Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh in a 2008 car bomb attack in Syria, the Washington Post reported. Citing former intelligence officials, the newspaper reported that US and Israeli spy agencies worked together to target Mughniyeh on February 12, 2008 as ...

[caption id="attachment_120016" align="alignright" width="163"] The Washington Posts Iranian-American journalist Jason Rezaian (R) and his Iranian wife Yeganeh Salehi, who works for the UAE newspaper National, during a press conference in Tehran on September 10, 2013.[/caption] Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post correspondent in Iran, has been officially ...

[caption id="attachment_108831" align="alignright" width="176"] The Washington Post's Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian[/caption] WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Washington Post reporter detained in Iran for more than four months was formally charged Saturday after a day-long proceeding in a Tehran courtroom, the newspaper reported. Jason Rezaian, the newspaper's ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian official close to the team of negotiators engaged in nuclear talks with world powers denied reports that Tehran and Washington have narrowed gaps on the number of the centrifuge machines Iran will be allowed to possess under the final comprehensive nuclear deal. The published story about a compromise on the number of centrifuges ...

[caption id="attachment_112919" align="alignright" width="155"] In this photo taken on April 11, 2013, Jason Rezaian, right, an Iranian-American correspondent for the Washington Post, and his wife Yeganeh Salehi, an Iranian correspondent for the Abu Dhabi-based daily newspaper The National, smile as they attend a presidential campaign of President ...

[caption id="attachment_112919" align="alignright" width="237"] In this photo taken on April 11, 2013, Jason Rezaian, right, an Iranian-American correspondent for the Washington Post, and his wife Yeganeh Salehi, an Iranian correspondent for the Abu Dhabi-based daily newspaper The National, smile as they attend a presidential campaign of President ...

[caption id="attachment_108831" align="alignright" width="234"] The Washington Post's Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian[/caption] A senior US official has called for the release of Washington Posts correspondent in Tehran, Jason Rezaian, after a top Iranian judicial official confirmed his apprehension. There is absolutely no reason for this to occur,...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- A US daily lashed out at Zionist regime's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his mistakes about wearing jeans in Iran. Washington Post daily in an article titled ' Why it matters that Netanyahu doesnt know that Iranians wear jeans', written by Max Fisher, has slammed Netanyahu for his wrong comments which define possible role of ...

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has called on Iran to help find a political solution to the crisis in Syria. We have to stop this; this is the main problem: find and reach a political solution. I hope Iran now with President [Hassan] Rouhani would help, Marzouki said on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting, Reuters ...

Iran's new president, Hasan Rouhani, is on acharmoffensivein advance of his visit to New York for the U.N. General Assembly next week. Most recently in anop-edpublished Friday in theWashington Post, he has signaled his willingness to enter new negotiations with the United States over Iran's nuclear program. And that comes as little surprise to former ...