Новости за 21.07.2019

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – Petty and small-minded is the sole way to describe the restrictions on Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s movements to a six-block area around the United Nations complex while he is in New York to address a UN group. This kind of action and mentality is the stuff of petty tyrants, not befitting the alleged leader or government of an “empire” that has any serious, responsible sense of itself or of others overseas or internally who don’t happen to be “Caucasian”. Or “Western” or whatever.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh has once again refuted US claim on downing an Iranian drone.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – Jack Straw, the former British foreign secretary, has written an article saying that Iranians have “good cause” to be “resentful” against Britain and call Britons the “cunning, colonial fox”.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – Panama has begun the process of withdrawing the registration of an oil tanker called MT Riah, which was reported to have disappeared when passing through the Strait of Hormuz on July 14, the country's maritime authority said on Saturday.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – The Iranian national men's indoor hockey team won the Asian title for the 8th time.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – With the slogan of ‘Better Future’, the 25th edition of Iran International Exhibition of Electronics, Computer & E-commerce (ELECOMP 2019) is currently underway at Tehran Permanent International Fairground.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Sunday (July 21) he had not yet decided on how to respond to an expected US request to send its navy to join a military coalition to safeguard strategic waters off Iran and Yemen.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – Press TV’s reporter, Qanbar Naderi, has boarded the UK-flagged tanker recently seized by Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) forces after ignoring international laws and distress calls. The tanker was transferred to the port of Iran’s southern city of Bandar Abbas for maritime casualty investigation.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that the US has “shot itself in the foot” by withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the JCPOA.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs Gholamreza Ansari put country’s current exports value to eastern neighboring countries at over $5 to $6 billion.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – The three countries of Britain, Germany and France are not in good shape: Berlin faces a crisis of leadership and there is no prospect of the end of the Angela Merkel Chancellery.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi said that the construction of the second phase of Bushehr nuclear power plant will start next month in cooperation with Russia.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi has given details on the return of an Iranian oil tanker that broke down off Jeddah port early in May by Saudi Arabia.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – Gholamreza Miri, deputy head of the national council of saffron told Mehr news agency that during the first three months of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21, 2019), exports of saffron witnessed a drop of 15 percent.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – The committee to coordinate foreign economic relations held a Sunday meeting at the place of the Iranian foreign ministry, with participation of Iranian deputy for economic diplomacy, Iranian ambassadors to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and some of Iranian governors.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – Iranian karatekas added two gold medals to their tally on Sunday at the 16th edition of Asian Karate Federation Seniors Championship in Tashkent.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – Head of Iran’s Foreign Policy Strategic Council Kamal Kharrazi has said a visit by Hamas delegation to Tehran today suggests that Palestinian cause is continuing to strengthen with the support of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – Deputy President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) Jamal Arounaghi said on Sunday that any license has not been issued for importing ‘miner’ into the country.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – Managing Director of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (RAI) Saeed Rasouli announced on Sunday that by March 2021, construction of some 800 kilometers of railway will be completed.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – Iran’s Shahr International Film Festival and Netherlands’ Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR) have signed an MoU on cultural cooperation.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – A senior reformist lawmaker asked the UK to immediately free the Iranian oil tanker which was illegally seized in Gibraltar on July 4.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – The US policy of economic terror towards Venezuela cannot be justified from the point of view of the international law, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said during his visit to Venezuela on Saturday.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – The police forces of Yazd Province of Iran have seized 212 kg of illicit drugs in this province.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – In a tweet on Sunday, Iranian foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on UK to exercise prudence and have foresight to be able to thwart US ploys seeking to pull the European country into a quagmire.

TEHRAN, Jul. 21 (MNA) – Iranian Minister of Petroleum, Bijan Zanganeh, stressed that neither Saudi Arabia nor the UAE nor any other country can ever replace Iran’s oil in the global market.