The Russian government is warning Ukraine that Kyiv’s new fleet of F-16 fighter jets will be treated as a “nuclear-capable” threat. Ukraine’s military said last week that it would begin operating the US-made jets as soon as Monday. Ukrainian Air Force spokesperson Ilya Yevlash said that the planes would be ready for …
Read More »Russian ambassador to MNA: Israel new unlawful act should be analyzed from intl. law POV
Russian Ambassador to Tehran Alexey Dedov says that the new Israeli unlawful act of attacking Iran’s consulate in Syria should be analyzed from the perspective of international law. The Israeli regime attacked Iran’s consulate in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Monday evening. The Israeli aggression led to the destruction …
Read More »Russia Shares Views with Iran on Gaza War: Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country’s stance on the Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip is identical with that of Iran, expressing Moscow’s readiness for cooperation with Tehran to settle that crisis. Russia and Iran have common views about the Israeli attacks on Gaza, the Russian leader said in …
Read More »Ukraine says it sank Russian landing warship in Black Sea
Ukraine destroyed a Russian landing warship off the coast of Crimea in an operation with naval drones that breached the vessel’s port side on Wednesday and caused it to sink, Kyiv’s military said. There was no immediate comment from Russia, which said earlier that it had destroyed six drones in …
Read More »Russia urges Hamas to release captives: report
Russia has called on the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas to speed up releasing civilians seized during the attacks on October 7, 2023, media outlets have reported. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation issued a statement on Friday, informing that Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Mikhail Bogdanov had …
Read More »Iran, Russia can conduct payments in national currencies
Russian and Iranian exporters can handle transactions in national currencies after the two countries integrated their financial message transfer systems, allowing banks to make direct payments without using the SWIFT system. “We have connected the two countries’ message transfer systems to each other. This means that the banks of the …
Read More »Iranian, Russian officials hold talks on BRICS
Senior Iranian and Russian diplomats held talks in Tehran to discuss the BRICS group and its fields of activities. Mahdi Safari, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy hosted the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the country’s special envoy for BRICS affairs Sergey Ryabkov at the Iranian foreign ministry compound in …
Read More »“Language of threat does not work with Iran”: Ulyanov
Language of threat doesn’t work with the authorities of Iran, Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna said in reaction to EU’s Borrell’s anti-Iran remarks. “Sounds like an ultimatum. This is called the #EU diplomacy nowadays. #Brussels doesn’t understand that such language doesn’t work with the authorities of #Iran,” Mikhail …
Read More »West ‘real source’ of Ukraine crisis: Russian envoy
The collective West is the real source behind the crisis in Ukraine and its narrative blaming Russia for creating threats to international peace is hypocritical, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzia said. “International law was repeatedly floated and harmed, well before that, and not by Russia,” Nebenzia said …
Read More »Moscow says US trying to derail JCPOA revival talks
In reaction to the baseless statements of US Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley, a Russian diplomat said that it is high time for the United States to stop attempts to derail the talk on the JCPOA revival. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Russian diplomat told Ria Novosti news …
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