President Bashar al-Assad received on Saturday a French delegation, including a number of parliamentarians, intellectuals, and media men, headed by member of the French National Assembly Thierry Mariani. President al-Assad affirmed that the terrorist attacks which targeted Paris couldnt be separated from those that took place in Beirut, and what ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) condemned recent terrorist attacks in France and Lebanon, which left scores of civilians dead, and said the IRSC is prepared to send any kind of humanitarian assistance to the two countries. In separate messages to his French and Lebanese counterparts on Monday, Amir Mohsen Ziaei ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli on Monday said Iran strongly denounces all types of terrorist attacks anywhere in the world. Iran condemns any act of terrorism that injures or kills any innocent human being anywhere in the world, Rahmani Fazli said in a press conference here in Tehran. It does not matter whether ...

Tehran, Nov 16, IRNA Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi in a message condoled Secretary General of Lebanon's Hizbullah Movement Seyed Hassan Nasrallah over terrorist blasts in south Beirut. In the message, Salehi said that inhuman terrorist acts in south Beirut, which is considered as capital of resistance, hurt ...

Tehran, Nov 14, IRNA President Hassan Rouhani, in a message, expressed condolences to Lebanese nation and government over the suicide bombings in Beirut that claimed lives of 43 people there. In his message, Rouhani said fight against terrorism is duty of everyone around the globe. The great Iranian nation stands by Lebanon in its fight with ...

More than 40 people have reportedly been killed and dozens ofotherswounded after two large explosions claimed by the Daesh Takfiri militants rockeda security post in the Borj al-Barajaneh area in a southern suburb of Lebanons capital, Beirut. According to the Lebanese al-Manar television, the explosions were carried out by two bombers near the General ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A US federal appeal court on Wednesday ruled to distribute $1.75 billion of Irans assets among the victims of attacks including the relatives of Americans killed in 1983 Beirut bombing. According to Associated Press, the New York three-judge panel rejected arguments by attorneys for Bank Markazi, the central bank of Iran, which had ...

Beirut, June 21, IRNA Iran?s Embassy in Beirut has strongly condemned Friday?s terrorist bombing at a Lebanese security checkpoint in the eastern Bekaa Valley. Two people have been killed after a suicide bomber blew himself up at the checkpoint situated on the main highway joining Beirut and Damascus in Dahr Al-Baydar district. Releasing a statement,...

  TEHRAN (Tasnim) Secretary General of Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement Seyed Hassan Nasrallah emphasized that the risk of terrorist bombings in Lebanon has dropped considerably, praising the security measures from both the Syrian and the Lebanese sides. In an interview published on Monday, Nasrallah said the danger of the Syrian ...

BEIRUT (AP) -- A militant group issued a rare apology Saturday for a twin suicide bombing in Beirut that killed eight people and wounded dozens, including children from a nearby orphanage. The al-Qaida-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades issued a statement on militant websites apologizing for civilian deaths. It said a "technical fault" affected the ...

Beirut, Feb 22, IRNA Lebanese Armed Forces Commander Jean Kahwagi vowed to follow up terrorist acts in Lebanon, especially blasts against Irans embassy and cultural attach office in Beirut. In a meeting with Irans Ambassador to Beirut Ghazanfar Roknabadi on Saturday, General Kahwagi said that he ordered related officials in the armed forces to do ...

TEHRAN, Feb. 22 (MNA) Iranian ambassador to Lebanon has said that Takfiris are threats not only to the whole world but to the Lebanon which requires all Lebanese groups and parties united together. Iran's Ambassador to Lebanon Qazanfar Roknabadi met former Lebanese president Amin Jamil and discussed the latest developments in Lebanon, region ...

(Reuters) - Lebanese security forces said on Friday they had detained a Sunni Muslim militant suspected of recruiting suicide bombers and assembling car bombs for a radical group behind attacks on Iranian interests in Beirut. Hassan Abu Afleh, they said, was suspected of being a leading figure in the Abdullah Azzam Brigades - a movement that has carried ...

An Iranian lawmaker says leads to the recent terrorist attacks against Iran should be sought in the United States and the Israeli regime. Pointing to the two recent bomb attacks targeting the Iranian cultural center in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, the spokesman for the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Irans ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Mohammad Khazayee condemned the twin bombings that hit the Lebanese capital near Irans cultural center on Wednesday, and asked the UN Security Council to act against the new wave of radicalism in the region. Addressing a meeting of the Security Council on Wednesday, Khazayee underlined ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The United Nations in a statement strongly deplored the twin explosions that hit the Lebanese capital near Irans Cultural Chancellery on Wednesday. UN Secretary Generals Special Envoy in Lebanon Derek Plumbly strongly condemned two blasts near Irans cultural center in Beirut, and called on the Lebanese people not to allow such terrorist ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a phone talk with his Lebanese counterpart Gebran Bassildiscussed the twin bombings that hit the Lebanese capital near Irans Cultural Chancellery on Wednesday. During the conversation on Wednesday, Zarif condemned the blasts outside several Iranian institutes and a charity institute ...

BEIRUT (AP) -- Two visiting U.S. senators condemned a double suicide bombing that ripped through a Shiite stronghold of the Lebanese capital Wednesday, saying they were concerned about the spillover effects of Syria's civil war. Two bombers blew up their cars near an Iranian cultural center in Beirut, killing at least four people and wounding more ...

New York, Feb 20, IRNA Special envoy of the UN Secretary General in Lebanon strongly condemned two blasts near Irans cultural center in Beirut and called Lebanese people not to allow such terrorist acts to endanger their national unity. Two bomb explosions in the populated area of Bir Hassan in southern part of Beirut left four dead and more than ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by the AEI Critical Threats Project's Iran research team. (E) = Article in English Excerpts of these translations may only be used with the expressed consent of the authors. Military and Security Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander ...