Author: Steven Sahiounie

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Oil Minister Javad Owji held talks with Secretary General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Haitham Al Ghais on the sidelines of the 7th meeting of heads of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) in Algeria.

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s trade exchanges with its 10 trader partners in the first 11 months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2023 to February 24, 2024) reached $88 billion.

The World Food Program (WFP) is working to resume aid deliveries to northern Gaza that were paused last month due to Israeli gunfire, its chief has said. “We stopped because it was not safe for the people that we serve,” Carl Skau, deputy executive director and chief operating officer of the World Food Program, told Anadolu on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, which concluded on Sunday. Skau said they feared there will be violence and shooting, and “exactly that is what happened” earlier this week. He was referring to the killing of more than hundred Palestinians in the…

Iraqi resistance forces have carried out a drone strike against the largest and busiest port in the Palestinian territories controlled by Israel since 1948 in a new show of solidarity with the Palestinians under Israeli attack in Gaza. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of anti-terror fighters, in a statement published on its Telegram channel on Sunday, claimed responsibility for an aerial attack targeting chemical storage facilities inside the port of Haifa that had taken place two days earlier. The statement noted that the attack had taken place “in rejection of US military presence in Iraq and elsewhere in the region, in support…

Iran’s ambassador to Islamabad congratulated Shehbaz Sharif on his election as the prime minister of Pakistan for a second term. In a post on his X account on Sunday, Reza Amiri Moqaddam warmly congratulated Sharif on his election as the 24th prime minister of Pakistan after the recent “successful elections” in the neighboring state. “The Islamic Republic of Iran expresses readiness for the expansion of relations in all fields and bilateral cooperation with Pakistan,” the ambassador said. The Iranian envoy also wished Pakistan peace, security and stability in the years to come. Pakistani legislators on Sunday elected Shehbaz Sharif as…

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi held meetings several heads of state on the sidelines of the 7th summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) in Algeria. In a meeting with his Iraqi counterpart Abdul Latif Rashid on Saturday evening, Raisi highlighted the importance that Iran attaches to security of Iraq, stressing the need for closer cooperation between the two neighbors in the fight against terrorist and secessionist groups along the common border. Denouncing the inaction of certain Arab and Islamic countries regarding the crisis in Palestine, the Iranian president called for the severance of economic and trade ties with the Zionist…

Chinese Special Representative on Eurasian Affairs Li Hui on Sunday said that China is prepared to pursue efforts and act as a mediator to seek a peace settlement to the Ukrainian crisis. “Historical experience shows that any conflict must ultimately be resolved through negotiation. The more acute the contradiction, the less we can give up on efforts to negotiate. The Chinese side is willing to continue to make efforts for peace and negotiations, to act as a mediator between Russia, Ukraine and other parties, and to build consensus and promote a final political solution to the Ukrainian crisis,” Li was…

Pope Francis on Sunday urged efforts to reach a cease-fire in Gaza, saying, “Enough, please.” “I carry in my heart with pain the suffering the people of Palestine and Israel,” the pontiff said in his weekly Angelus message. He called for an end to the conflict, saying the immense destruction causes pain and has terrible consequences for the small and defenseless. “Is this really how we plan to build a better world? Stop, Enough,” he added. source: WAFA

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas will visit Turkiye on Tuesday for talks about the Gaza war and reconciliation efforts between Palestinian factions, the Turkish foreign minister said.The visit comes as intensive diplomacy is underway to pause the fighting in the almost five-month-old war between Israel and Hamas sparked by the Oct. 7 attacks.Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said: “There is a serious desire and effort to reach a ceasefire before Ramadan,” in closing remarks to an annual diplomacy forum in the Mediterranean holiday resort of Antalya.Fidan confirmed that Abbas would visit Ankara on Tuesday at the invitation of President Recep Tayyip…

Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan congratulated on Sunday Shehbaz Sharif on his reelection as Pakistan’s prime minister, the Turkish Communications Directorate said in a statement. President Erdogan spoke to Premier Sharif over phone and “expressed his belief that relations between Türkiye and Pakistan will deepen and expand during the new period.” The call also addressed Türkiye-Pakistan relations, as well as regional and global issues. President Erdogan also voiced his condemnation of terrorist attacks in Pakistan, and extended his condolences to Pakistanis. Pakistan’s newly formed lower house elected Sharif as prime minister for a second term earlier in the day, three…