Tasnim Palestinian officials said an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire agreement was reached with Israel on Monday to end a recent surge of violence in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel. The ceasefire understanding will begin Monday 04:30 (01:30 GMT) a Palestinian official familiar with the agreement told Reuters. A second Palestinian official confirmed ...

Tehran, Sept 4, IRNA Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting with members of the Assembly of Experts on Thursday said that the Zionist regime was defeated in its recent war against the Palestinian in Gaza Strip. ?The recent war in Gaza was an example of miracle; a small region with limited capabilities ...

[caption id="attachment_107999" align="alignright" width="262"] Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan pointed to the recent "humiliating" defeat of Israel in the war against the Palestinians, and said the Zionist regime will never again taste victory ...

President Rouhanihas responded defiantlytoday to the expanded US blacklist, We are not afraid of sanctions. The government has handled the affairs despite sanctions. Sanction is oppression and aggression against the rights of the Iranian nation. It is our duty to put the aggressors in their place. The USunveiled a new set of sanctionsagainst ...

Tehran, Aug 29, IRNA - Tehran?s Interim Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Kazem Sediqi congratulated Gaza victory to Palestinian people as well as the resistance movements. Addressing worshippers in his second sermon, Hojjatoleslam Sediqi noted that Zionists? raid on Gaza brought them nothing but defeat and people?s hatred. Sediqi voiced hope for libration ...

[caption id="attachment_109458" align="alignright" width="260"] Commander of Irans Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari stressed the need for enhancing the defense capability of the Palestinian resistance ...

[caption id="attachment_113955" align="alignright" width="263"] This file photo shows Israeli soldiers resting in an area near central Gaza during the recent war on the besieged Palestinian territory.[/caption] A recent survey shows that a majority of Israelis believe the Tel Aviv regime did not manage to achieve victory in its latest military aggression ...

Tehran, Aug 28, IRNA - Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani on Thursday felicitated Palestinian resistance leaders on victory of the Gazans over the Zionist regime. Speaking with Leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shalah and Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Mashal in separate telephone ...

[caption id="attachment_111524" align="alignright" width="253"] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif[/caption] Tehran, Aug 28, IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urged Palestinian resistance leaders to take the case of Zionist regime?s atrocities against Gazans to international courts. Zarif made the remarks Wednesday night while ...

A United Nations (UN) humanitarian aid convoy carrying food for about 150,000 people has arrived at the Gaza Strip, a first such arrival since Israel imposed its blockade on the Palestinian enclave in 2007. On Wednesday, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) convoy entered the Rafah crossing through Alexandria, Egypt. The opening of the Rafah crossing ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under severe criticism by members of his coalition government, among others, after reaching a ceasefire deal with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Members of Netanyahus governing coalition and the Israeli media expressed deep disappointment over his leadership after the ceasefire deal with the ...

[caption id="attachment_113785" align="alignright" width="282"] Palestinians in Gaza celebrate a permanent ceasefire between Palestinian resistance groups and Israel, August 26, 2014.[/caption] The Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement has praised Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khameneis support for the Palestinian resistance. We ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:     Iran modifies Arak reactor over nuclear concerns Iran said Wednesday it has started to modify its Arak heavy water reactor and limit plutonium output, a cause of Western concerns over the countrys nuclear programme.     Irans Army Ground Force furnished ...

Mashhad, Aug 27, IRNA Gaza victory proved the Israeli fragile nature, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Brigadier General Hossein Salami said on Wednesday. Speaking in a conference of Basiji university lecturers, he noted that despite US support, the Zionist regime has undergone degradation. The Zionist regime?s defeat from the Lebanese ...

[caption id="attachment_113727" align="alignright" width="207"] During a brief 12 hour cessation of hostilities, families returned to Shujaiya on July 27 in eastern Gaza, scene of some of the heaviest Israeli bombing. Credit: Iyad al Baba/Oxfam[/caption] Israel and Hamas have agreed to another ceasefire, and there seems to be some sense that this ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's President Hassan Rouhani Wednesday voiced his administration's assertive diplomacy in support of oppressed nations in the region, saying his government has made use of every capacity to back up crisis-hit people in Iraq and Syria as well as the resistance of the Palestinian nation against Tel Aviv's atrocities in the occupied lands....

[caption id="attachment_109171" align="alignright" width="236"] A view of Iran's Majlis[/caption] Iranian lawmakers have congratulated Palestinians on their victory against Israel in the seven-week war on the Gaza Strip, stressing that the Palestinian resistance will make the Tel Aviv regime history. In a Wednesday statement, 183 Iranian lawmakers ...

[caption id="attachment_109967" align="alignright" width="242"] A Palestinian boy stands next to the remains of a mosque in Khuzaa town, which witnesses said was heavily hit by Israeli shelling and air strikes during Israeli offensive, in the east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip August 6, 2014.CREDIT: REUTERS/IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA[/caption] (Reuters) ...

[caption id="attachment_107548" align="alignright" width="264"] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks following a meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini at the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 16, 2014. Photo by AFP[/caption] Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahusaid Hamas is violating its own cease-fire plan as it continues to ...

[caption id="attachment_108546" align="alignright" width="244"] U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, third from left, stands with from left, Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier ...