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‘US agrees in principle to S Korea’s partial release of Iran’s assets’
The United States has reportedly agreed in principle to partial release of some $7 billion in Iranian assets that South Korean banks have frozen in line with Washington’s inhumane economic sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic. South Korea’s official KBS World Radio station cited 'a senior foreign ministry official' as making the remarks on Thursday. Iran used to serve as a major oil supplier to South Korea until May 2018, when the United ...
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Second phase of coronavirus vaccination campaign kicks off in Iran
Hooman Abedi Press TV, Kahrizak Iran has officially launched the second phase of the coronavirus vaccination campaign administering jabs to the elderly and those with acute diseases. At this phase, which is the second, the elderly and those with underlying diseases and the disabled will get the vaccine. The country’s Health Minister Saeed Namaki attended the retirement home in Kahrizak to launch the campaign. He told reporters that those people will ...
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Iran: French arms causing humanitarian disaster in Yemen
An Iranian diplomat has hit back at France for its meddlesome stance, saying a country deeply involved in Yemen’s carnage cannot preach about morality. Yemen has turned into the worst humanitarian disaster in the world as a result of the sales of deadly weapons by France and its partners to the Saudi-led coalition, Mohammad Sadati-Nejad, who is in charge of human rights issues at the Iranian mission to the UN in ...
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Iran renews stance on JCPOA
After the US departure from the nuclear agreement, Europe undertook 11 commitments to safeguard Iran's JCPOA interests in areas such as oil sales, insurance, aviation, shipping and industrial cooperation, none of which have been fulfilled so far. About three years ago Donald Trump pulled the US out of the JCPOA or Iran nuclear deal. He subsequently imposed escalating punitive sanctions on Iran. Even the coronavirus pandemic didn't change this. In response, Iran ...
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Chief banker optimistic Iran would accept FATF demands
Central Bank of Iran (CBI) governor Abdolnasser Hemmati has suggested for a first time that a top legislative body in the country would finally pass recommendations required for global money-laundering watchdog FATF to remove Iran from its blacklist. Hemmati said on Thursday that he had got a good impression from members of Iran’s The Expediency Discernment Council in a recent meeting held to discuss FATF conventions. 'There was no negative atmosphere in ...
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Lebanon Records 3469 Coronavirus Cases with 52 Related Deaths during Past 24 Hours
The Lebanese ministry of public health issued on Thursday its daily report in which it announced 3469 new coronavirus cases, 3467 of them for locals and 2 among the arrivals, raising total to 366302. The report added that 19681 PCR tests were conducted during the past 24 hours, adding that the number of cases of recovery from the coronavirus rose to 281194. According to the report, 52 new coronavirus-related death cases were ...
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'Loyalty to Resistance' Renews Call for Creation of Efficient and Productive Government
The 'Loyalty to the Resistance' parliamentary bloc on Thursday highlighted the necessity of reaching an agreement that leads to a speedy creation of a new 'efficient' and 'productive' government. In a statement issued following its weekly meeting, the bloc underlined that the new government 'should neither be held hostage nor threatened with unbalance.' On the World Bank's social protection loan, the bloc maintained that Lebanon's need of credit did not mean the ...
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TELECOM Show 2021 brings together ICT firms
Yusef Jalali Press TV, Tehran After several delays due to the coronavirus, Iran's major ICT event finally opened its doors to tech savvies. The 21st international exhibition of Telecommunications, Information Technology and Innovative CIT Solutions is now underway in Tehran. Some 200 Iranian and foreign companies have attended this year's show to showcase their services. A major difference in this year's expo is the strong presence of venture capital funds and accelerators, ...
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