TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – Clashes erupted between Black Lives Matter activists and armed pro-Trump locals during a vigil on Monday night after Texas Rangers charged Wolfe City police officer Shaun Lucas with murder for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man. - World news - Jonathan Price, 31, was tasered and then shot to death on Saturday while trying to break up an altercation at a...
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – A black-clad militia group, called NFAC, assembled in Lafayette, Louisiana to protest police violence amid growing racial tensions in the United States. - World news - Several hundred black-clad NFAC members, many of them carrying assault rifles, paraded through Lafayette on Saturday. The column included people wearing body armor and other tactical gear, RT...
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – The Iranian Armed Forces General Staff said the experience of fighting an imposed war in the 1980s have strengthened the country’s defense power and would facilitate dissolution of the Zionist regime. - Politics news - In a statement released on Saturday to commemorate the Sacred Defense Week, which marks the anniversary of the onset of an Iraqi imposed war on...
TEHRAN (Press Shia) – The deputy head of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah said normalization with Israel has no benefit for the Palestinians and only serves the regime’s interests, describing armed resistance as the sole way to liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation. - World news - Sheikh Naim Qassem made the remarks in a virtual address to a summit held in the holy Iranian...
TEHRAN (Press Shia) – Hundreds of protesters from rival groups descended on Louisville, Kentucky, with armed pro-police activists facing off with anti-racism protesters. - World news - As Kentucky Derby Day finally arrived in Louisville, hundreds of armed militia members marched through the city’s downtown to confront Black Lives Matter supporters who have been demonstrating for 101...
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri said at least 20,000 people infected with the novel coronavirus have been admitted to military hospitals across the country so far. - Society/Culture news - Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, the top Iranian commander said hospitals run by the Armed Forces have accepted some 20,000...
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – Iran’s highest-ranking military commander voiced the Armed Forces’ readiness to help Lebanon handle the situation in the wake of a fatal blast that has displaced some 300,000 citizens in Beirut. - Politics news - Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri sent separate messages to Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces...
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – The spokesman for Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah movement, Mohammad Abdul-Salam, said all chances for ending war have been undermined by the UN and the Saudi-UAE coalition. - World news - Abdul-Salam further called on Yemeni people to continue armed resistance as the only way and chance for them to put an end to the Saudi-led aggression, Press TV reported. Since the...
TEHRAN (Press Shia) – Speaker of the new Iranian Parliament and the highest-ranking Iranian military commander weighed plans for close cooperation to meet the country’s defense demands. - Politics news - A group of top Iranian military commanders held a meeting with Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf on Monday. In the gathering, Qalibaf affirmed the Parliament’s...
TEHRAN (Press Shia) – A group of Israeli settlers attacked and injured two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, local Palestinian media reports said. - World news - Two Palestinian young men suffered bullet injuries on Monday when armed settlers opened fire on them near the village of al-Mughayyir in northern Ramallah, according to Palestine Information Center. An eye witness said the...