Новости за 17.01.2020

TEHRAN (FNA)- US Central Command revealed that 11 personnel stationed at an Iraqi airbase which incurred a retaliatory missile attack by Iran over the Pentagon's assassination of Tehran's top commander, Qassem Soleimani, had to be sent out of the country after displaying concussion symptoms.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, in a message on Friday, wished for the speedy recovery of leading Shia cleric of Iraq Grand Ayatollah Seyed Ali Sistani, who has been very recently hospitalized for an operation.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Indian entrepreneurs and businessmen, in a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, discussed different business opportunities in Iran in a move to widen state and private sector exchanges between the two nations.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Force Brigadier General Kioumars Heidari announced that two consignments of smuggled weapons have been discovered and seized in the country's border areas in the West.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran announced establishment of a special working group to promote relations and exchanges with the Eurasian member-states, adding that the needed grounds have been prepared to boost the country’s exports after concluding deals with the union.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A sum of 65 academic centers, including 22 medical sciences universities, are among the world’s top ones, a senior Iranian official announced.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said the US revealed its terrorist nature once again when it assassinated the hero of anti-terrorism campaign in the region, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, and reminded the world that the terror attack should receive a global condemnation by every standard.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Seyed Abbas Mousavi reminded the government of Canada that Tehran has been fully cooperative with all affected countries whose nationals have lost their lives during the plane incident of January 8, and called on Ottawa to avoid politicizing the incident.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Top Military Aide to the Supreme Leader Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi highlighted that last Wednesday’s ballistic strike against the US military bases in Iraq by Iran’s IRGC, which came in retaliation for Washington’s assassination of anti-terrorism hero Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, was unprecedented since the end of World War II.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, in a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Vadym Prystaiko, voiced his country’s readiness to hand over the bodies of the foreign nationals killed in the plane accident of January 8 in Southwestern Tehran.

TEHRAN (FNA)- President Hassan Rouhani, during a visit to the headquarters of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) in Northern Tehran, announced the upcoming launch of open market operation (OMO) policies in the country’s banking system, to improve CBI’s control over the capital flow in the country.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iraqi government denied claims that the country’s military is resuming joint operations with the US-led coalition after Washington’s assassination of top Iranian and Iraqi commanders.

TEHRAN (FNA)- China claimed that it kept a close eye on a US Navy vessel that sailed through the Taiwan Strait. The naval maneuver occurred shortly after Beijing and Washington agreed to ‘phase one’ of a trade deal.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The United States has received $500 million from Saudi Arabia to help cover the cost of American troops stationed in the kingdom, a US official told CNN.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei lauded the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps for taking revenge for the assassination of the IRGC Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad International Airport on January 3, and blasted the three European states of Germany, the UK and France (E3) for threatening Iran with sanctions.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The United States has reportedly dispatched dozens of truckloads of military and logistical equipment to oil-rich areas it has occupied in Syria’s Eastern province of Deir Ezzur and the Northeastern Province of Hasakah as Washington and some of its regional allies are vying with one another to seize oil reserves and plunder natural resources in the war-battered country.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Flood has struck parts of the Southeastern province Sistan and Baluchestan last week. All the facilities and capacities of the country have been mobilized to assist people in the flood-stricken. [PHOTOS]

TEHRAN (FNA)- Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force Commander Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh visited Martyr Fatemeh Mahmoodi's family, victim of the Ukrainian plane incident, and condolences over their bereavement. [PHOTOS]

TEHRAN (FNA)- Nearly 40,000 people have been evacuated from near a Philippine volcano that could erupt violently at any moment but thousands more are refusing to leave or have already drifted back. [PHOTOS]

TEHRAN (FNA)- The death toll of victims of extreme weather conditions in Afghanistan continued to rise as snowstorms, avalanches, and flooding left a trail of misery in their wake. Internally displaced families were among those hit the hardest by the deadly winter. [VIDEO]

TEHRAN (FNA)- The lingering cold weather conditions have turned out to be a recipe for disaster when the snowfall triggered avalanches. Over 200 houses either collapsed or damaged. Scores of people have died and injured during the past several days while many more are still unaccounted for. The worst-hit region is Pakistani administrated Kashmir. With rain and snowfall continuing in many parts of the country, officials fear a surge in the death tolls. [VIDEO]

TEHRAN (FNA)- Funeral ceremony for Sajedeh Saraei and Mohammad Javad Miyanji, victims of the Ukrainian plane incident, was held in Tehran, Ostad Moein neighborhood. [PHOTOS]

TEHRAN (FNA)- On January 12, 2010, a powerful earthquake struck Haiti, destroying much of the capital Port-au-Prince, killing more than 250,000 people and leaving more than one million homeless. Ten years later, the magnitude 7.0 earthquake continues to have consequences on the Western Hemisphere's poorest country. Amid endemic poverty, a string of natural disasters and an ongoing political crisis, the island and its people have struggled to recover and to rebuild. [PHOTOS]