Новости за 20.01.2020

TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods Force Brigadier General Esmayeel Qa'ani vowed to take revenge for the US assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, saying that Iran will stand strong against bullying.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The number of billionaires has doubled in the past decade and the world's 22 richest men now have more wealth than all the women in Africa, Oxfam announced Monday in an appeal to the Davos elite to get serious about inequality.

TEHRAN (FNA)- French prosecutors opened an investigation into an instance of “intentional violence” after a video went viral of a riot police officer brutally punching an already-wounded protester detained at a rally in Paris.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei underlined that Washington is angered and the world is fascinated by the Iranian nation's resistance and independence.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Hundreds of Indian Muslims in the mountainous city of Kargil held a symbolic funeral procession for anti-terror Commanders Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis who were assassinated by the terrorist army of the US in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad nearly two weeks ago.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Major General Hossein Salami appointed Brigadier General Seyed Mohammad Hejazi as the new deputy commander of the IRGC Qods Force.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Thunderstorms and giant hail battered parts of Australia's East coast on Monday after "apocalyptic" dust storms swept across drought-stricken areas, as extreme weather patterns collided in the bushfire-fatigued country.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned that his country will leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if the Europeans take Iran's nuclear case to the UN Security Council.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mojtaba Zonnouri said on Monday that specialists at the General Staff of the Armed Forces have concluded that human error has been the cause of the Ukrainian plane incident.

TEHRAN (FNA)- At least two people are dead and 15 people have been injured in a shooting in Kansas City, according to the Kansas City Police

TEHRAN (FNA)- The administration of President Donald Trump is working on measures to end “birth tourism”, or the practice of visiting the United States to give birth to a child who automatically receives US citizenship, and is planning on rolling out new rules on the matter as soon as later this week, three unnamed administration officials told Axios.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi said that British Ambassador Robert Macaire's presence in anti-government protest rallies in Tehran was "suspicious".

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi declared Tehran's opposition to the deployment of the South Korean naval fleet in the Persian Gulf.

TEHRAN (FNA)- India tested its K-4 submarine-launched ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead off its Southeastern coast, as the launch reportedly went smoothly, and saw the missile being fired off a submerged platform.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran on Monday warned to punish any country or regime that has collaborated with the US in the assassination of IRGC Quds Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Jordan's parliament voted in favor of a motion to ban natural gas imports from the Occupied Palestinian Territories in the wake of mass protests against the government’s multi-billion-dollar agreement with the Tel Aviv regime.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Senior Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian blasted the US for assassinating commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, and said that the country’s diplomatic apparatus provided a suitable situation for IRGC’s missile attack on the American troops’ military bases in Iraq.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A direct flight has been launched between Iran’s Persian Gulf Island of Kish and the Iraqi Kurdistan region’s Sulaymanieh city.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in reaction to a ruling of the Asian Football Confederation to ban Iran’s football clubs from hosting the upcoming championship league’s matches said that certain countries, including Saudi Arabia, are misusing present circumstances to politicize sports.

TEHRAN (FNA)- China's Foreign Ministry urged the Canadian authorities to 'correct their mistake' and release Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, Reuters reported citing Spokesperson Geng Shuang.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A legal chambers in the UK filed a criminal complaint with London police requesting an investigation be opened into allegations of torture and murder over the death of former Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi, and that an arrest warrant be issued against Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Tens of thousands of Italians have rallied in the Northern city of Bologna to protest a far-right surge and, more specifically, the populism of far-right leader Matteo Salvini ahead of a crucial regional vote that could shake up the country’s entire political stage.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to the UK Hamid Baeedinejad declared that the country’s arms contract with Britain over the sales of Chieftain tanks to the former regime of Iran is very close to settlement.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi cautioned the European states of Tehran's strong response to any move by the European states to activate the trigger mechanism.

TEHRAN (FNA)- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "expressed outrage" to Egypt's president on Sunday at the death of an American citizen who insisted he had been wrongfully held in an Egyptian prison, according to a state department spokeswoman.