Новости за 15.01.2020

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President's Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi stressed that his country may not accept to replace the nuclear deal of 2015 with a new agreement, or what is called a “Trump Deal”.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Estonian counterpart Urmas Reinsalu exchanged views on various issues of bilateral interests, regional developments and the latest in regard to the nuclear deal of 2015.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday that the US has brought nothing but isecurity, tension, and destruction for the Middle East, urging for an end to the trans-regional military presence of Washington in Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf, Iraq and Syria.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Moscow thinks that there are no grounds for launching the dispute resolution mechanism within the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear deal by Germany, the UK and France, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement published on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- An international group of experts will start decoding black boxes of the Ukraine International Airlines passenger jet downed in Iran on January 20, head of the Kiev Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise Alexander Ruvin said after returning from Tehran.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian expatriates residing in China held a ceremony in Beijing to commemorate the victims of a passenger plane which was inadvertently downed in the Southwestern outskirts of Tehran last Wednesday, and to sympathize with the bereaved families of the accident.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Smoke from the bushfires ravaging Australia will encircle the globe, NASA announced on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Senior Member of Parliament Ali Motahhari said the UK should officially apologize for the ‘unconventional’ act of its Ambassador to Tehran Robert Macaire who was briefly arrested while trying to provoke anti-government protests in front of the Amir Kabir University in Central Tehran.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Scores of veterans from the 8-year war between Iran and the tyrannical regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussain gathered in front of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, to condemn the US criminal act of assassinating Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr demanded that Iraqis stage a “million-man march” against the continued US military presence in the country, days after the parliament voted to expel the American troops following an assassination operation by Washington on Iraqi soil.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Energy Ministry said the country’s electricity network has become one of the best in the world in terms of reliability by avoiding any blackout for the past 16 years.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that the only way the US can make up for the criminal act of assassinating the hero of anti-terrorism fight, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, is to withdraw its troops from the region.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Two rights groups that issued reports this week criticizing China’s treatment of minorities at home and its interference abroad are biased and distorting facts, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Geng Shuang stated on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian Army announced it has intercepted and shot down several Israeli missiles targeting T4 airbase in the country’s Central province of Homs.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A number of Turkish media reported Wednesday, citing the country's Minister of Defense Hulusi Akar that the S-400 systems, delivered by Russia to Turkey last year, will become fully operational in April or May this year.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s largest airline IranAir announced that it will resume a flight service between Tehran and Rome in early February after the Italian government banned flights by Iran’s second largest airline, Mahan, in December.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Spokesman of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif underlined that the IRGC’s recent attacks on the US military bases in Iraq were just prelude to taking full revenge from that regime for the assassination of anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani which is expulsion of the American troops from the regional countries.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif lauded IRGC Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani as the most effective force against ISIL terrorists, and said the late commander’s illegal assassination made the pro-terrorism parties happy.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser Hamdollah Moheb in a meeting in New Delhi exchanged views on the bilateral relations and recent developments taking place in the country.

TEHRAN (FNA)- South Korea announced there is no need to wait for the United States' denuclearization talks with North Korea to progress in order to proceed with inter-Korean cooperation.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Judiciary Spokesman Gholamhossein Esmayeeli announced that a number of arrests have been made in connection to the recent incident of a Ukrainian passengers plane near Tehran.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Gambia announced that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will announce its decision next week on a request to impose emergency measures on Myanmar over genocide against the Rohingya Muslims.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The United States will continue military exercises with Japan and South Korea as it sees the trilateral alliance vital for the stability in the Pacific challenged by North and China, US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told reporters.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the US has never been after defending or respecting the interests of the regional countries, adding that Washington is only seeking its own interests in the Middle East as the White House explicitly voiced its decision to steal oil from wells in Syria.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of Sudan's sovereign council, said on Wednesday that the country's airspace was open, and that all intelligence buildings were under the control of the army, following a revolt by former security agents linked to Sudan's toppled ruler Omar al-Bashir.