NEWS IN BRIEF
Illegal Afghan immigrants must leave: Minister
TASNIM – Undocumented Afghan immigrants should be expelled from Iran, Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said, criticizing the Taliban’s disregard for the problem that has been inflicted on Iran.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Vahidi emphasized the necessity of organizing the status and activities of Afghan immigrants in Iran.
While the community of Afghan immigrants would naturally include a number of criminals, and although thousands of illegal immigrants have been imprisoned in Iran on various charges, it is necessary to prevent a phobia about Afghanistan from developing, he stated.
Russia to forge strategic defense ties with Iran
MEHR – Russia plans to develop defense cooperation with Iran on a mutually advantageous basis while taking advantage of the lifting of certain restrictions on Tehran, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters.
“We will develop our [military-technical] cooperation on a mutually advantageous basis, as we did before, in full compliance with international commitments and existing regimes in this field,” the senior Russian diplomat said.
Tehran slams Israel’s killing of journalists
PRESS TV – Iran has strongly denounced the Israeli regime’s killing of journalists in the Gaza Strip, saying the murders cannot help conceal the crimes of the Zionist regime and its supporters
Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani made the remarks in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday after it was revealed that the Israeli regime’s ongoing war on Gaza had so far killed as many as 19 journalists.