FNA- Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani in a message condemned the Monday suicide blast in a train carriage in St. Petersburg's metro system. In a message to his Russian counterpart NikolayPatrushev on Wednesday, Shamkhani extended his condolences to him and the people and government of Russia. "The savage ...

Al Monitor| Rohollah Faghihi: On April 3, a major blast on a subway train in St.Petersburg killed at least 14 people and injured more than 40. As Russia and Iran have been cooperating in the fight against the ISIS in Syria, reports about Russia and President Vladimir Putin have becomeimportant for many Iranians. The April 3 suicide bombing received ...

IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a telephone conversation late Tuesday condoled his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov over the terrorist incident in St. Petersburg metro in which scores of people were killed or injured. Zarif expressed solidarity with the bereaved families of the victims. In their conversation, both sides also voiced ...

President.ir- President Hassan Rouhani sent a message to the President of the Russian Federation over St. Petersburg metro bombing and strongly condemned the terrorist attack, expressing Iran's readiness to cooperate with the Russian government in this regard. President's message is as follows: In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the ...

IRNA Irans Ambassador to Moscow Mahdi Sanaei denounced the terrorist explosion in St. Petersburg and said the horrible incident has shocked the whole Russia. Killing innocent people with any purpose is condemned and denounced, he said in an exclusive note commenting on yesterday's terrorist attack. The Monday tragic event indicates that terrorist ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Tuesday and picked headlines from 13 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Newspapers today mostly covered the speculations about the countrys May presidential election and the possible competition between the incumbent ...

BBC - The man suspected of killing 11 people by bombing a St Petersburg train is a native of Kyrgyzstan who obtained Russian citizenship, the Central Asian country's security service says. Forty-nine people were injured in the explosion between two underground stations on Monday afternoon. The Kyrgyz security service named the bomber as Akbarzhon ...

IRNA Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi denounced terrorist attack on St. Petersburg metro on Monday in Russia, saying that creating insecurity and massacre of innocent people is the most contemptuous act to achieve political goals. According to the ministrys General Diplomacy and Media Center, Qasemi also expressed solidarity with the Russian ...

TASS - According to preliminary reports, ten people were killed by an explosion inside a metro train at the Sennaya Square station in St. Petersburg, emergency services told TASS. "According to information available at this point ten people died. O??thers were injured," a source said adding that the number of casualties was still to be specified....