TEHRAN(Basirat): The Civil Aviation Organization of Iran said it will not hand over flight recorders from the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane that crashed near Tehran on Wednesday, either to the aircraft’s manufacturer or US aviation authorities.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Iran’s Defense Minister Amir Hatami has vowed a “proportional response” to any action the United States might take against the Islamic Republic.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) in a statement underlined that the terror attack on Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani was the most stupid mistake made by the US in West Asia, with repercussions that would cost Washington direly.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Hundreds of Iranian MPS (Mucopolysaccharidosis) patients are facing acute shortage of vital drugs due to the US banking sanctions against the country, Head of the Health Ministry's management center for transplantation and special diseases Mehdi Shadnoush said.

TEHRAN(Basirat): President Hassan Rouhani submitted the administration’s draft of the national budget bill for the next Iranian calendar year 1399 to the Majlis.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Iran's female swimmer Elham Asqari got into the Guinness Book World Records after she broke the record of swimming with one hand in the Sea of Oman.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Iranians are gearing up to celebrate one of the most ancient Persian celebrations called Yalda Night, the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

TEHRAN(Basirat):Head of the Iranian Health Ministry's Transplantation Management Center Mehdi Shadnoush said that the sanctions imposed by the US, which claims to support human rights, against Iran have imposed grave conditions for patients that are suffering from special diseases.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi said Russia has stopped cooperating with the country at the Fordow nuclear site due to a technical problem.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Massoud Soleimani, a renowned Iranian scientist who had been detained by the FBI for 13 months and was released early December, was hospitalized for heart problems in Tehran on Sunday.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Iranian experts have the know-how to manufacture 12,000 components and complicated equipment of the petroleum industry inside the country, CEO of a major state-run oil corporation said, unveiling plans for the domestic production of 7,500 new industrial parts.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Iranian Government Spokesman Ali Rabiyee blasted the US officials' lies about the number of people killed in the recent riots in Iran, and warned that Washington's confession to its engagement in the recent unrests in Iran substantiates a case of war crime.