Reuters - Qatars health ministry reported on Saturday the first case of coronavirus infection in the country. The patient is a 36 year-old Qatari who returned recently from Iran, the ministry said in a statement, adding that he is a stable condition. With Qatar reporting its first infection, Saudi Arabia becomes the only Gulf country no to have ...

Reuters - Qatars ruler Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani on Wednesday ordered the evacuation of Qatari and Kuwaiti citizens from Iran due to the spreading of the coronavirus COVID-19, state news agency reported on twitter. On Wednesday, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said that Iran had no plans to quarantine any cities and districts in response ...

Reuters - Qatar will ask passengers arriving from Iran and South Korea to remain in home isolation or a quarantine facility for 14 days over fears of new coronavirus outbreak, Qatar Airways said in a statement on Monday. (Reporting by Nayera Abdallah; Writing by Aziz El Yaakoubi; Editing by Edmund Blair)

Tasnim Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said the countrys daily extraction of natural gas from the South Pars gas field has overtaken Qatars daily output from the joint field. Speaking to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting on Tuesday night, Zanganeh highlighted the rise in gas extraction from joint fields with neighboring countries ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is to leave Tehran for Doha on Monday to attend Munich Security Conference Core Group Meeting. Speaking to IRNA, Mousavi said Zarif is to participate in some panels related to the conference. In his speeches, Iranian foreign minister is to elaborate ...

Press TV - Qatar says Iran and some Arab countries can solve their existing tensions through "constructive dialog and diplomacy." "The tension is not sectarian, as it appears to some; rather it is a power and influence struggle in the region between two different poles," the Qatari spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lolwah al-khater,...

Financial Tribune - Followed by Qatar, Israel and Lebanon, Iran is ranked 4th on the list of countries with extremely high water risk. The Tehran-based Persian-language economic newspaper Donya-e-Eqtesad, a sister publication of Financial Tribune, quoted Friday a report issued by Washington DC-based World Resources Institutes Aqueduct Water Risk ...

MNA Arabic Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Qabas, reported that Emir Tamin bin Hamad al-Thani of Qatar has offered to mediate between the United States and Iran. The Qatari Emir is to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday in a bid to reduce Iran-US tensions. Qatar is at a position that allows it to mediate and carry out this mission....

Press TV - Saudi and UAE policies are creating more terrorism, conflict and chaos in the Middle East and Africa, Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani has said in London. The two countries' plan to impose stability by supporting authoritarian governments and military councils in Africa, Egypt, Libya and throughout the ...

RT - Qatar says that it has received an invitation from Saudi Arabia to attend emergency regional talks to discuss mounting tensions between Tehran and Washington. Riyadh had called two gatherings one for Arab League members, the other for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) regional bloc nations after a spate of attacks. Several tankers in Gulf ...

MNA Qatari State Minister for Foreign Affairs Soltan bin Saad al-Muraikhi said that his country is making efforts to ease the tension between Iran and the United States. In a press statement on Monday, he highlighted that Qatar supports peace and every effort which leads to the establishment of stability in the region, RT reported. Al-Muraikhi ...

MNA Qatar has not been invited to two regional summits called to discuss attacks on Saudi oil assets. Saudi King Salman on Saturday proposed holding the two meetings in Mecca on May 30 to discuss implications of last weeks drone strikes on oil installations in the kingdom and attacks on four vessels, including two Saudi oil tankers, off the coast ...

IRNA - Relations between Iran and Qatar have always been politically widespread and important, and as an expert on Middle East affairs says the visit of Iran's foreign minister to Doha is very important and timely in the current juncture. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif traveled to Doha on Tuesday to participate in the Asia Cooperation Dialogue ...

IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on his way to Qatar on Tuesday released a photo over Persian Gulf, congratulating National Day of Persian Gulf. On Tuesday, Zarif left Tehran for Doha to attend the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD). The Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) is an inter-governmental organization created in Thailand on June ...

MNA The participation of 180 parliamentary delegations in Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) shows that the anti-Qatari Arab coalition has suffered defeat, said Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani. He made the remarks Sunday in a meeting with Qatari Prime Minister Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani on the sidelines of 140th Ordinary General ...

Press TV - Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says the ruthless policies adopted by US President Donald Trump during his term in office have created a tense situation in the world, undermining the global order and international peace. The top lawmaker made the remarks in a Sunday address to the General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ...

FNA - A senior Iranian official announced that the country is now extracting more gas from the South Pars field than Qatar despite the US sanctions on Iran's energy sector and following cooperation among different relevant bodies in the country. Iranian Vice-President for Communications and Information Parviz Esmayeeli made the remarks on Monday,...

Press TV - Iran on Sunday will launch four new development phases of the worlds largest gas field at South Pars with a capacity to produce 112 million cubic meters per day, the Ministry of Petroleum says. President Hassan Rouhani will travel to Bushehr in the Persian Gulf to inaugurate two refineries built with $10 billion of investment. With their ...

IRNA Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh says Iran's gas production has increased by 35 percent, well exceeding Qatar in that respect. Addressing a group of his ministry personnel, Zangeneh said that in South Pars, Iran could bring equal to 14 phases into the cycle and the national gas output now stands at 610 million cubic meters per day. 'We ...

Press TV - A US special envoy tasked with resolving the diplomatic crisis between Qatar and the Riyadh regime and a number of its allies has quit his post, citing "unwillingness" of regional leaders to engage in dialogue. The US-based CBS News television network reported on Tuesday that Anthony Zinni, a retired US Marine General, resigned after ...