EghtesadOnline: The Iranian economy experienced a 7% contraction in the fiscal 2019-20, the Statistical Center of Iran said in its latest report. According to the report, the GDP shrank by -0.6% without taking oil production into account. The sectors of “industries and mines” and “services” saw respective contractions of 14.7% and 0.3%. The World Bank […]
TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) – Iranian President’s Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi says slapping sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) personnel by US President Donald Trump shows the US administration’s anti-human rights spirit. Addressing Trump in a tweet on Saturday, Vaezi said, “The intimidation of judges and staff of the International Court of Justice in […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi decried the US officials’ expression of satisfaction with the results of “economic terrorism” against Iran, saying the US government will soon have to kneel in front of the Iranian nation. “A government whose policy is relying on ‘knee on neck’ of either its own people […]
TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi has lambasted Washington for its economic terrorism and pressure on the public, saying that the US government will kneel before the Iranian nation soon. Mousavi posted a screenshot of Al Arabiya’s interview the US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook, during which he had […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran called on the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to help the Islamic Republic arrest the criminals who have fled the country and return the money they have embezzled. The Islamic Republic’s Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Kazem Gharibabadi said on Thursday that he has asked the […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said ‘kneeling on necks’ of others is an inherent policy of the US, adding that the Iranian nation’s unity has broken that knee. In remarks at a cabinet session on Wednesday, Rouhani took a swipe at the US for exerting pressures on others, saying that ‘kneeling on neck’ […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami said Iran has exhibited its power by sending oil tankers to Venezuela. In comments at a military gathering in Tehran on Wednesday, Major General Salami said the greatest exhibition of Iran’s power took place recently when the country “imposed its […]
TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA) – The chief commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) referred to the ongoing developments in the United States, saying that the symbols reflecting Washington’s fake image of being a superpower are collapsing one after another. “By the grace of God, we are witnessing the rapid decline of our enemies, […]
TEHRAN, Jun. 09 (MNA) – Referring to the recent war of words between Iran and US embassies in Beijing, Ambassador in Beijing China Mohammad Keshavarz-Zadeh said that hit-and-run era is over and US has been knocked out in social media too. In a Tuesday tweet, Keshavarz-zadeh wrote that era of hit-and-run in cyberspace is also over, […]
TEHRAN, Jun. 09 (MNA) – President Hassan Rouhani in a phone talk with his Kyrgyz counterpart, Sooronbay Jeenbekov, on Tuesday stressed the need for developing cooperation between Iran and Kyrgyzstan amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. “We should not wait for the end of the coronavirus for economic cooperation, and we can increase our mutual trade […]