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Iran test-fires ballistic missiles
Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 09:30pm on January 16, 2021
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards test-fired ballistic missiles against targets in the Indian Ocean as they wrapped up a two-day exercise, their official website reported Saturday. The...
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Twitter removes Khamenei vaccine tweet
Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 10:18pm on January 10, 2021
Twitter has removed a tweet by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggesting coronavirus vaccines made in the United States and Britain are ‘untrustworthy’, saying...
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Iran leader bans import of US, UK-made vaccines
Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 12:17am on January 09, 2021
Iran’s supreme leader on Friday banned the import of American and British-produced vaccines against COVID-19, saying they were ‘completely untrustworthy’. ‘Importing vaccines made in the...
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Iran in no rush to see US return to nuclear deal
Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 11:00pm on January 08, 2021
Iran is in no hurry to see the US return to a 2015 nuclear deal with major powers after Joe Biden takes office this month,...
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Iran steps up uranium enrichment amid US tensions
Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 11:26pm on January 05, 2021
Iran confirmed Tuesday it is now enriching uranium to 20 per cent purity, well beyond the threshold set by its 2015 nuclear deal with major...
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Uranium enrichment process started in Iran
Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 11:05pm on January 04, 2021
Iran has started the process to enrich uranium to 20 per cent purity at its Fordow facility, state media reported Monday, going well beyond the...
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Iran Guards vow response to ‘any action’ amid US tensions
Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 10:33pm on January 02, 2021
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami vowed Saturday to respond to any ‘action the enemy takes,’ in a visit to a strategic Gulf island, amid...
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Iran’s influential religious leader cleric Mesbah-Yazdi dies
Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 10:35am on January 02, 2021
Influential Iranian cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, an ultraconservative figure close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, died in Tehran on Friday, state news agency...
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Soleimani killers not safe on Earth: Iran
Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 04:57pm on January 01, 2021
Iran’s judiciary chief warned Friday that Qasem Soleimani’s killers will ‘not be safe on Earth’, as the Islamic republic began marking the first anniversary of...
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Iran’s FM says Trump aims to fabricate ‘pretext for war’
Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 02:01am on January 01, 2021
Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday accused outgoing US president Donald Trump of aiming to fabricate a ‘pretext for war’ as tensions mount...