Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said today that he is in “direct contact” with his Saudi counterpart in an effort to reschedule the football match between Iran’s Sepahan club and Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ittihad which was due to be held on Monday. The Asian Champions League (AFC) match was due to be held at the Naqsh e
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, expressed optimism about the strengthening of diplomatic ties with Egypt. He conveyed these sentiments during a meeting with foreign dignitaries attending the 37th International Conference on Islamic Unity held in Tehran yesterday. According to Tasnim News Agency, Amir-Abdollahian said the two countries are on the path to normalisation following diplomatic developments. “Those
Saudi Arabia’s football club, Al-Ittihad, issued a statement on Tuesday specifying the reason for cancelling its Asian Champion League (AFC) match with Iran’s Sepahan Club, Anadolu Agency reports. The match was scheduled to take place on Monday at the Naqsh-e-Jahan Stadium in central Iran’s Isfahan city. Unconfirmed reports said that the football match was cancelled
Al-Ittihad’s Asian Champions League match with Iran’s Sepahan was called off on Monday after the Saudi team refused to leave their dressing-room due to a statue of an assassinated Iranian General being placed at the entrance to the pitch, Reuters reports. The game was postponed by officials at the Naghsh-e Jahan Stadium in Isfahan, where
Al-Ittihad’s Asian Champions League match with Iran’s Sepahan was called off on Monday after the Saudi team refused to leave their dressing-room due to a statue of an assassinated Iranian General being placed at the entrance to the pitch, Reuters reports. The game was postponed by officials at the Naghsh-e Jahan Stadium in Isfahan, where
Iran, Syria and Venezuela are to construct an oil refinery in Syria’s Homs governorate, following the signing of a landmark agreement last week. In an interview with Iran’s Fars News Agency on 25 September, Deputy Oil Minister Jalil Salari revealed that the tripartite deal will see the construction of “a new 140,000-barrel refinery,” with oil-producing Iran and
Canada’s diplomatic blunder on 22 September, when parliament gave two standing ovations to a Ukrainian Nazi veteran — “who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians” — has not managed to eclipse the controversy just four days earlier. That’s when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told parliament that there were “credible allegations of a potential link”
Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi yesterday criticised “normalisation and surrender” to Israel, saying the only approach that must be adopted with Tel Aviv is “resistance”. Speaking at the opening of the International Conference for Islamic Unity in Tehran, Raisi said “normalising relations with the Zionist regime is a backward act for every government in the Islamic
A new trend is emerging in the Israeli hasbara discourse targeting Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims: women’s rights. The word ‘new’ is not exactly accurate. The misuse of the genuine struggle for women’s rights in the Arab and Muslim world is only new insofar as the increasing reliance on the tactic within the larger Israeli propaganda
A new trend is emerging in the Israeli hasbara discourse targeting Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims: women’s rights. The word ‘new’ is not exactly accurate. The misuse of the genuine struggle for women’s rights in the Arab and Muslim world is only new insofar as the increasing reliance on the tactic within the larger Israeli propaganda