Iran warns of ‘US military adventurism’ in Persian Gulf in letter to UN Security Council

Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations (UN) in New York has warned against the United States’ “military adventurism” and recent provocative moves in the Persian Gulf region, at a time that the administration of lame duck US President Donald Trump nears its final days.

Senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi passes away

Prominent Iranian cleric Ayatollah Mohammad-Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, a member of the Assembly of Experts, has passed away at a hospital in Tehran. Mesbah Yazdi died on Friday evening at the age of 85 due to gastrointestinal disease, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency. He had been hospitalized since Saturday after his condition deteriorated. Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi played a major part in the uprising — led by late founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini — that overthrew the US-backed Pahlavi regime in 1979. Following the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi first founded Baqir-ul-Uloom Institute and then Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute in the city of Qom, which he headed for the rest of his life. The cleric, a philosopher and political theorist, was a member of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom. He also served as a member of the Assembly of Experts — the body responsible for electing and monitoring the performance of the Leader — and the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution. Iran Assembly of Experts appoints Yazdi as new chairman Iran Assembly of Experts appoints Yazdi as new chairman Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi has be

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Iran warns against any US adventurism aimed at militarizing the Persian Gulf

The Iranian administration has warned against any US adventurism aimed at militarizing the Persian Gulf, saying such moves would be in the interest of no country, whether in the region or elsewhere in the world.

Nasrallah says US, Israel, Saudi Arabia culprits in assassinating Iran’s General Soleimani

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, says Saudi Arabia is hand in gloves with the US regime of President Donald Trump and Israel in the assassination of Iran’s top commander, Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, deputy commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and their companions, noting that the trio seek to kill other commanders of the resistance front.

Iran to prosecute four dozen individuals for role in assassination of Lt. Gen. Soleimani: Official

A senior Iranian official says the Islamic Republic has drawn up a list of 48 individuals against whom legal action will be taken in relation to the assassination of the country’s top anti-terror commander, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

Iranian lawmakers denounce US blacklisting of Al-Mustafa University

President Rouhani says Iran government trying to render US sanctions ineffective

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has censured the US for blocking the import of almost everything to the country, including medicine and COVID-19 vaccine, saying, however, that his government is doing its best to make the illegal US sanctions ineffective.