Iran

13 October 2022; MEMO: Iran is holding high school students detained in protests over the death of an Iranian woman in police custody in psychological counselling centres, Minister of Education and Training, Yousef Nouri, said Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports.

"No students were jailed," Nouri said in statements cited by the local Sharq newspaper. "The detainees are admitted into correction and education centres where experts are tending to their needs," he added.

13 October 2022; MEMO: Iranian authorities have arrested an alleged spy working for the Israeli intelligence service, the Mossad, Israeli media reported.

The suspect was arrested in the city of Kerrman in central Iran by the intelligence arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The suspect planned to carry out "subversive" operations with the aim of destabilising the region and shaking its security, the report says.

TEHRAN, Oct 12 (NNN-XINHUA) – Syria has denounced the ongoing U.S. plunder of oil from its territory, as an “act of piracy and an attempt to return to the colonial era,” Iranian state-run Press TV, reported.

The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, tweeted Saturday that, the U.S. smuggling of oil and transferring them to neighbouring Iraq, were a violation of international law and the UN Charter, calling the United Nations Security Council to condemn such acts, Press TV cited Syria’s official news agency SANA, as saying.

12 October 2022; MEMO: The head of Iran's Civil Aviation Organisation (CAO) Mohammad Mohammadi-Bakhshd said yesterday that the first Iranian-made passenger plane will enter service within the next three years, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported.

The official's remarks came more than a month after President Ebrahim Raisi announced plans to build the first Iranian passenger plane.

TEHRAN, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Iranian government spokesman said 480 thalassemia patients have died in Iran over the past four years because of the U.S. sanctions which impede Iran's import of medicine for rare diseases.

Because of the sanctions, 70 thalassemia patients lost their lives in 2018, 90 in 2019, 140 in 2020, and 180 in 2021, Ali Bahadori Jahromi said in a late Saturday tweet.

Tehran, IRNA – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian underscored that certain rioters aided and abetted by foreign TV networks have destroyed public properties and have attacked people and police that are not acceptable anywhere in the globe.

Tehran, IRNA – The Islamic Republic of Iran is facing hybrid threats from the foes in different arenas, so the country is getting ready to stand against the menace, said the chief of staff for the Armed Forces of Iran on Saturday.

Chief of Staff for the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Major General Mohammad Bagheri made the remarks in the 13th edition of Malek Ashtar Festival in Tehran, referring to Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei’s emphasis on the need for upgrading the might of the armed forces.

Tehran, IRNA – Heads of the three branches of the Iranian government said on Saturday that the enemies of the Islamic Republic of Iran consider the unified and powerful Iran as a threat to their interests.

President Ebrahim Raisi, Judiciary Chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie, and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf held a meeting at the presidential palace on Saturday evening.

Tabriz, IRNA – Bolivia’s Ambassador to Tehran Romina Pérez said on Sunday that La Paz is willing to launch an Iranian tractor assembly line in the country.

Perez made the remarks during her visit to Iran Tractor Manufacturing Industrial Group in Tabriz, northwestern Iran.

Referring to 700 Iranian tractors being used in Bolivia’s agricultural farms, the ambassador said that a huge part of her country’s agriculture is dependent on those tractors.

She, then, appreciated Iran Tractor Manufacturing Industrial Group for its technology and achievements.

8 October 2022; MEMO: Iran has censured Danish police after a knife-yielding attacker allegedly barged into the Iranian Embassy in Copenhagen and threatened the ambassador and other staff, Anadolu News Agency reports.

Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, spoke to the Iranian Ambassador in Denmark, Afsaneh Nadipoor, following the incident on Friday, said a statement by the Foreign Ministry.