TEHRAN(Basirat): Senior assistant to Iranian Foreign Minister on special political affairs, Ali-Asghar Khaji held a meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Iraqi Shia cleric Ayatollah Seyed Riyadh al-Hakeem met this week with president and members of the Spanish peace group in Madrid and discussed various issues.

TEHRAN(Basirat): The preparatory committee of the Sixth International Tarateel Sejjadeya Festival, held by the Imam Hussain Shrine, announced that figures from 14 countries are going to participate in this festival.

TEHRAN(Basirat): The office of Ayatollah Hakim declared its readiness for holding Arbaeen ceremony of this year.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Sept 22-Iran has exported some $3.9 billion worth of goods and services to neighboring Iraq in the first five months of the current Iranian year which started on March 21, which marks a 13% increase, an official said Sunday.

TEHRAN (Basirat): The secretary-general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah advised Saudi officials to, instead of trying to purchase advanced air defense missile systems, stop the deadly war on Yemen and hammer out an agreement with Iran.

TEHRAN(Basirat): the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs says Baghdad will not join a US-led mission in the Persian Gulf purportedly seeking to protect maritime navigation, warning that such a military force will “complicate the political and security situation” in the Middle East region.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Amnesty International slammed the fatal shooting of a Palestinian woman by the Israeli military, saying she “did not pose any immediate danger” to the regime’s forces and that her death underscores the need for international justice.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Attacks by 10 Yemeni drones on Saudi Arabia’s key oil facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais have shut down about 50 percent of the kingdom’s crude and gas production, cutting the state oil giant’s crude oil supply by around 5.7 million barrels per day.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Head of the Iranian Medical Center for Hajj and Pilgrimage said various types of medicines and medical equipment needed to provide medical services to Iranian pilgrims will be sent to Iraq for Arbaeen.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says he believes the foreign-sponsored terrorism in Syria has come to an end, and that the need to promote the long-lasting settlement of crisis both in the war-ravaged Arab country and the entire Middle East region is highly required.

TEHRAN(Basirat): Human rights organizations blow the lid off widespread torture and abuse against female political prisoners in Bahrain, implicating the US and the UK in the Manama regime’s human rights violations.