News in Brief
Indian NSC adviser due in Tehran
Ajit Doval, national security adviser to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will visit Tehran on Monday at the invitation of Iran’s top security official Admiral Ali Shamkhani.
During this one-day visit, Doval will meet with Shamkhani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) of Iran, as well as other senior Iranian officials to discuss regional and international issues of mutual interest.
The expansion of relations with India, as a major member of both the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the BRICS group of emerging economies, could help advance the Islamic Republic’s strategy of forging closer economic cooperation with member states of those organizations.
India’s investment in Chabahar port will also be discussed in Doval’s meetings.
Local police chief shot dead by unknown gunmen
Local police chief of Saravan, a city in southeastern Iran in the Sistan and Baluchestan Province was shot dead by anonymous individuals driving a car, a provincial official announced.
Governor of Saravan Saeed Tajlili told IRNA on Sunday that Lieutenant Colonel Alireza Shahraki had been assassinated earlier in the day when he was inside his own car at an intersection in Saravan. Shahraki’s wife was seriously injured in the attack, said the governor, adding that an investigation was launched to identify the perpetrators.
Later it was announced that the police chief’s wife had also passed away due to suffering serious injuries.
U.S. attitude toward Israel has made “tangible shift”
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani on Sunday highlighted the drastic shift in public opinion in the United States towards the Israeli regime, saying Americans are entitled to question their country’s support for the occupying regime, which comes at the expense of their own interests.