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♦️ Iran ready to expand military and defense cooperation with South Africa: Top general
📌 Tehran, IRNA – The Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, has announced the country’s readiness to enhance military and defense cooperation with South Africa.
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📌 President Pezeshkian paid respects at the memorial site dedicated to the martyred scientists of Shahid Beheshti University's Nuclear Engineering College on Tuesday morning.
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♦️ Army chief hails South Africa's courageous stance on Israeli-US aggression against Iran
📌 Tehran, IRNA – Major General Amir Hatami, the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army, says South Africa's firm stance on condemning the recent US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran is “courageous and commendable.”
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🔷 Iran willing to accept nuclear limits if sanctions lifted: Deputy foreign minister
📌 Tehran, IRNA – Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-e-Ravanchi says Iran is open to negotiating a win-win deal in which it accepts certain limited restrictions on its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of sanctions.
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📌Shia, Sunni, Christians, and others—all come together during Arba'een, for Imam Hossein (PBUH) is a figure for all mankind.
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Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani attends Arbaeen pilgrimage route in Iraq.
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🔷 No corridor should cut off Iran’s access to other transit routes, says Araghchi
📌 Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says transit corridors should not alter regional geopolitics or cut off Iran's link to other communication routes, emphasizing that all decisions and actions must respect the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries.
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🔶Top cleric urges Islamic scholars, world bodies to halt Israeli occupation of Gaza
📌 Qom, IRNA – The head of Iran’s seminaries has called on Islamic scholars and international organizations to take urgent action to halt the full occupation of Gaza by the Israeli regime.
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♦️ US designates Baloch separatist group in Pakistan as foreign terrorist organization
📌 Islamabad, IRNA – The United States has designated a Baloch separatist group, based in Pakistan, as a foreign terrorist organization over deadly terrorist attacks in Balochistan province.
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🔷 Lebanese social media users hail Iran security chief’s visit with positive reactions
📌 “Iran is our supporter” hashtag is trending on social media in Lebanon as Ali Larijani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, is set to visit Beirut to hold talks with top officials there.
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🔶Iran’s Bushehr and China’s Fuzhou to expand ties
📌 Bushehr, IRNA – The head of Iran-China Friendship Association branch in Bushehr, Mehrdad Ebrahimi, has said that “Bushehr Cultural Week” will be held in Fuzhou, the capital of China’s Fujian Province, aiming to strengthen cultural, economic, and tourism ties.
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🔷 Iran’s secretary chief on official visit to Iraq
📌 Baghdad, IRNA – Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, arrived in Baghdad on Monday for his first official visit since taking office on August 5, 2025.
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♦️ Iran reaffirms support for Lebanon's sovereignty and territorial integrity
📌 Tehran, IRNA – Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei says Iran has always emphasized the necessity of preserving the independence and territorial integrity of Lebanon in the face of repeated Israeli aggression against the Arab country.
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🔷 Top security chief: Iran to ink security agreement with Iraq soon
📌 Tehran, IRNA — Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, says that a security agreement between Iran and Iraq is currently being drafted and will be signed soon.
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♦️ Over two million Arbaeen pilgrims entered Iraq through Mehran Border: Ilam governor
📌 Ilam, IRNA – Governor of Ilam Ahmad Karami says a total of 2,056,215 Arbaeen pilgrims have crossed the Mehran international border into neighboring Iraq.
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♦️ Wounds of war heal over time but narratives remain forever: Deputy FM
📌 Tehran, IRNA – Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi says the narratives about the recent war of aggression by the Israeli regime and the United States against Iran does not reflect the actual devastation incurred to the country.
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🔷 President Pezeshkian: Scientists assassinated for their commitment to advancing Iran
📌 Tehran, IRNA – In a strong condemnation of the inaction by self-proclaimed advocates of human rights and peace concerning the crimes of the Israeli regime, President Masoud Pezeshkian emphasized that Iran’s scientists have dedicated themselves solely to serving their people, yet they have been assassinated by the Israeli regime.
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🔶Interior minister: Over 3.4 million Arbaeen pilgrims cross borders
📌 Qasr-e Shirin, IRNA – Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni has said more than 3.4 million Arbaeen pilgrims have crossed six official borders.
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♦️ IRGC: Israel’s killing of journalists ‘direct attack’ on human principles
📌 Tehran, IRNA – Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has condemned Israel for killing journalists, saying that targeting journalists is a direct assault on humanitarian principles and freedom of expression.
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📌Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, in a meeting with the Commander of the South African National Defense Forces:
"Today, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) , as the world's largest counterterrorism force, possesses valuable experiences that can be shared with South Africa."
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🔶Jordan condemns Israeli attack on Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza
📌 Tehran, IRNA - Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an urgent statement has strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s systematic attacks on Al Jazeera journalists and cameramen in Gaza.
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♦️ Protests against Israeli crimes erupt across US, Europe, and Africa
📌 In response to the recent attacks by the Israeli regime on Gaza and the assassination of five Al Jazeera staff members, protests have erupted in the United States, various European states, Tunisia, and Morocco.
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🔷 ‘Israel moves to occupy Gaza City to destroy evidence of war crimes’
📌 The Israeli regime has approved a plan to occupy Gaza City, located in the northern Gaza Strip, to cover up war crimes and pave the way for the expulsion of Palestinians. That’s according to Ahmad Ibsais, a Palestinian-American law student expressing his views in an article published by Qatar’s Al Jazeera website on Monday.
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🔶Iranian expatriates in US pay tribute to prominent painter Farshchian
📌 New Jersey, IRNA – Iranians Residing in the United States have paid tribute to Mahmoud Farshchian, the internationally acclaimed master of Persian painting and miniature art, during a memorial and mourning ceremony.
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♦️ Larijani: Iran-Iraq security deal aims to ensure stability in bilateral ties
📌 Tehran, IRNA – Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, says the core objective of the security agreement between Tehran and Baghdad is to ensure stability in bilateral relations and prevent any individual or country from undermining security in either nation.
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📌The Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan in a phone call briefed President Pezeshkian on the outcomes of the recent Armenia-Azerbaijan negotiations in Washington.
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📌Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani, after being officially welcomed by Qasim al-Araji, his Iraqi counterpart, at Baghdad Airport, paid tribute to Major General Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at the place of their assassination by the US army.
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🔶Iran's iron and steel export volume up 13% in four months
📌 Tehran, IRNA – The Iranian Steel Producers Association has announced that iron and steel exports increased by 13% in volume during the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year (starting on March 21) compared to the same period last year.
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📌Shocking footage captures Palestinian journalist and rights activist Odeh Hadalin filming the moment he was fatally shot by an Israeli settler in the West Bank.
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🔶Ilkhanid-era royal cemetery discovered near Soltanieh Dome
📌 Zanjan, IRNA – An Ilkhanid-era royal cemetery has been discovered in the vicinity of the Soltanieh Dome, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the northwestern Iranian city of Zanjan.
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