[caption id="attachment_112472" align="alignright" width="193"] Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian announced on Monday that Nour-Ahmad Nikbakht, the Iranian diplomat who was abducted ...

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Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Tuesday criticized the Yemeni governments inaction on Nour Ahmad Nikbakhts arrest, adding the kidnapped Iranian diplomat is now being held in a security prison of the Yemeni government. He, however, said that received updates from Sanaa are in contradiction with ...

[caption id="attachment_44689" align="alignright" width="252"] A Yemeni soldier stands guard in front of the Iranian Embassy in Sanaa. (file photo)[/caption] The Iranian diplomat abducted in Yemen last year is in good health, says the Iranian deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs. Reports received from Yemeni officials confirm that ...

TEHRAN, July 21 (MNA) Iranian deputy FM in Arab and African Affairs says more serious measures by Sanaa needed to free Iranian diplomat. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian stressed that procedure to release abducted Iranian diplomat had prolonged and was unacceptable. Tehran expects Yemeni officials take necessary measures for immediate release of Noor ...

The UN envoy to Yemen says he has no information on the fate of the Iranian diplomat abducted in the Arab country last year. Jamal Benomar made the remark about Nour Ahmad Nikbakht in a recent interview following a meeting of UN Security Council on the developments in Yemen. Earlier on Wednesday, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African ...

Tehran, Feb 4, IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tuesday that the kidnapped Iranian diplomat in Yemen, Nour Ahmad Nikbakht, is alive and in good health. Zarif said the Foreign Ministry is seriously pursuing the case, adding the latest information shows the kidnapped diplomat is in good health and Iran is making every effort ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- An Iranian embassy official in Sana'a rejected reports that the body of the kidnapped Iranian diplomat in Yemen has been found beheaded. "Yemeni security officials have rejected reports that the body of the Iranian diplomat has been founded beheaded," he told ISNA. the Yemeni officials have said that they are pursuing release of ...

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the Iranian diplomat abducted in Yemen earlier this year is in good health. Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks on Monday, adding that a diplomatic delegation has been dispatched to Yemen to investigate the fate of Nour Ahmad Nikbakht -- the kidnapped administrative ...

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Irans Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the Iranian diplomat abducted in Yemen is in good health. In a Sunday interview, Amir-Abdollahian expressed confidence about the health conditions of the diplomat, adding, Efforts are ongoing by the Yemeni government to liberate Nour Ahmad Nikbakht. Amir-Abdollahian ...

A high-ranking Iranian official has called on Yemen to utilize all the means at its disposal to secure the release of an Iranian diplomat abducted in the Arab country. During a meeting with a visiting Yemeni parliamentary delegation in Tehran on Monday, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian hailed the ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian foreign minister reiterated that the onus is on the Yemeni government to release Nour Ahmad Nikbakht, an Iranian embassy staffer abducted in Sana'a some months ago. In a meeting with his Yemeni counterpart Abu Bakr Abdallah al-Qirbi in New York on Saturday evening, Mohammad Javad Zarif urged the Arab country to step ...

[caption id="attachment_21012" align="alignright" width="180"] Iran"s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian Foreign Ministry official has called on Yemeni officials to step up efforts to ensure the release of Nour Ahmad Nikbakht, the country's embassy staffer in Yemen, who was taken hostage in Sana'a ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr Al-Qirbi underlined that Sana'a will do its best to pursue the fate and release of the Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Yemen late in July, and said proofs and evidence indicate that Al-Qaeda terrorists have abducted Nour-Ahmad Nikbakhat. All proofs and evidence show that the abducted diplomat is in ...

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TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian delegation visiting Yemen has asked for the establishment of a special committee to pursue the fate of the kidnapped Iranian diplomat in that country, the foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Tuesday. The foreign ministry has paid special attention to this, and is seriously pursuing the issue ... and the dispatched ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The Foreign Ministry delegation dispatched to Yemen on Monday is in Sanaa and in contact with concerned officials over the fate of the abducted Iranian diplomat there, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. The delegation, headed by Mr. Sajjadi, started its mission today morning and began its contacts on the (fate ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran will send a diplomatic delegation to Yemen later today to pursue the fate of its kidnapped embassy staffer Nour-Ahmad Nikbakht, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Araqchi announced on Monday. A three-member legal-consular delegation, headed by Foreign Ministrys Director-General for Iranian Expatriates Affairs (Seyed Kazzem ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Yemeni counterpart Abu Bakr al-Qirbi vowed to pursue seriously the fate of Nour-Ahmad Nikbakht, an Iranian embassy staffer abducted in Sana'a in July. The Yemeni foreign minister, in a phone conversation with his Iranian counterpart, facilitated him on his appointment as the new ...