TEHRAN (Tasnim) Bodies of nine victims of December 13 terrorist attack against Iranian gas pipeline technicians and workers in Iraq will be handed over to Iran in the near future, a senior Iranian foreign ministry official announced on Thursday. The announcement was made by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein ...

Tehran, Dec 20, IRNA All those who had planned and carried out the terrorist attack on Iranian gas pipeline workers have been arrested, said Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Danaeefar on Friday. He told IRNA that nine people have been arrested in this regard, all of whom have confessed to their crime. Fifteen Iranians and three Iraqis working ...

Iraqi security forces have apprehended the terrorists who attacked and killed a group of Iranian workers and engineers in Iraq last week, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says. Maliki made the remarks in meeting with Irans Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Baghdad on Tuesday. We will not allow the terrorists ...

Tehran, Dec 17, IRNA Head of Iran-Iraq Parliamentary Friendship Group Nasser Soudani said that Takfiris? attack on Iranian and Iraqi workers was to damage Tehran-Baghdad ties as they are unhappy with amicable relations between the two nations.   On December 13, Takfiri terrorists gunned down 17 Iranian and Iraqi workers working on a pipeline ...

Tehran, Dec 17, IRNA An Iranian expert said the recent terrorist attack in Iraq on Iranian and Iraqi gas workers and technicians had political motivations. An expert in the Middle East issues, Sabbah Zanganeh told IRNA on Tuesday that the attack was not motivated by religious sentiments but only had political reasons behind it. Pointing out ...

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[caption id="attachment_45622" align="alignright" width="180"] Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) A senior Iraqi politician said on Monday terrorist incidents, like the Friday one that killed 20 Iranians near Baghdad, would fail to derail bilateral ties as officials in both Iran and Iraq are determined to push relations ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian Parliaments National Security and Foreign Policy Commission on Monday asked the Iraqi government to ensure the security of Iranian engineers and technicians working on development projects in that country. The commission has asked Iraq to adopt the necessary measures aimed at safeguarding the lives of the Iranian experts who ...

[caption id="attachment_21012" align="alignright" width="180"] Iran"s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian[/caption] Iran is sending a top diplomat to Iraq to pursue a terrorist attack against a group of Iranian pipeline workers in the neighboring country. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdullahian ...

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Tehran, Dec 15, IRNA President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday demanded the Iraqi government to ensure safety of Iranians working or living in Iraq. In a telephone conversation with the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, President Rouhani stressed the need to provide the Iranians residing or working in Iraq as well as the pilgrims with full security ...

KERMANSHAH, Dec. 14 (MNA) The political advisor to Qasr Shirin governor has said 25 Iranians have been killed in Iraqs Diyala province. Nematollah Nazparwardeh told Mehr News correspondent that two people wounded during the attack had been transferred through Khosrawi border crossing to Iran and had been hospitalized in Abalfazl (as) Hospital of ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Malikiextended his condolences to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani over the Friday terrorist attack on the Iranian technicians working on the Iran-Iraq gas pipeline. Maliki in his letter (to President Rouhani) condemned the terrorist act and vowed to punish the criminals (behind the attack), Iraqi prime ...

[caption id="attachment_21012" align="alignright" width="180"] Iran"s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian condemned the Friday terrorist attack which killed 20 Iranian oil and gas experts in Iraq, and said the Takfiri extremists ...

Irans envoy to Baghdad has called for the identification and apprehension of the terrorists who attacked and killed a group of Iranian workers and engineers in Iraq. Masked gunmen on Friday shot dead 25 people, including 20 Iranians, working on a pipeline near the village of Balad Ruz, some 80 kilometers northeast of Baghdad. Hassan Danayifar said ...

Gunmen have shot dead 18 people and injured five others working on a gas pipeline from Iran to Iraq, northeast of Baghdad. The majority of those killed were said to be Iranians. Masked gunmen launched an attack near Baladruz, a small village in the Diyala province of Iraq. It was reported that the group of attackers were driving three vehicles. The ...

Baghdad, Dec 13, IRNA The Iraqi government established a fact finding committee on Friday night following the martyrdom of at least 16 Iranian gas engineers and workers on Naftshahr-Baghdad gas pipeline project earlier in the night by masked gunmen. Hassan Danaiefar, Irans ambassador to Iraq, told IRNA in early hours of Saturday morning that the ...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned a militant attack on a group of Iranian pipeline workers northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, which killed at least 15 Iranian nationals. In a statement issued late on Friday, the Foreign Ministry expressed condolences over the tragic incident and offered sympathy with the families of the victims....