TEHRAN (IQNA) – Yemeni army troops, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, managed to seize several strategic Saudi military bases and outposts in the Arab kingdom’s southwestern Jizan region, inflicting casualties on Saudi forces.
News ID: 3463487 Publish Date : 2017/07/29
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The United Nations warned that the catastrophic situation in Yemen is turning into a combination of the world’s worst humanitarian crises amid almost daily Saudi bombardment of the impoverished Arab nation.
News ID: 3463479 Publish Date : 2017/07/27
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Amid the ongoing impasse in the Persian Gulf region, Saudi Arabia said it will allow access to Qatari pilgrims for Hajj (annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca) aboard all flights other than Qatar Airways, country’s national carrier.
News ID: 3463449 Publish Date : 2017/07/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Charity organizations called on the UN to blacklist the Saudi-led coalition over serious violations of children’s rights in Yemen as statistics reveal massive child fatalities caused by the ongoing war against the impoverished nation.
News ID: 3463416 Publish Date : 2017/07/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi Arabia, which is leading an atrocious military campaign against Yemen, prevented a United Nations charter flight carrying aid agency staff from travelling to its impoverished and crisis-stricken southern neighbor, where millions of people are in need of humanitarian or protection assistance.
News ID: 3463405 Publish Date : 2017/07/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the cholera outbreak in Yemen could spread during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in September.
News ID: 3463362 Publish Date : 2017/07/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi Arabia is using the death penalty as a means to silence Shia dissent, Amnesty International said.
News ID: 3463345 Publish Date : 2017/07/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said the country attaches great importance to the safety of its Hajj pilgrims.
News ID: 3463327 Publish Date : 2017/07/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi security forces said they have foiled a suicide attack on the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, cornering the alleged potential attacker before he blew himself up, the Interior Ministry said.
News ID: 3463194 Publish Date : 2017/06/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi Arabia plans to execute 14 Shia civilians following a "grossly unfair trial" over political protests, international rights groups said.
News ID: 3463045 Publish Date : 2017/06/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – United Nations experts slammed the Riyadh regime over razing an old part of a Shia Muslim-majority town in eastern Saudi Arabia, saying the move has erased cultural heritage and violated human rights.
News ID: 3462955 Publish Date : 2017/05/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A London-based human rights group said five civilians were among the victims of a recent US raid on Yemen, challenging the American version of the attack that says only militants were slain.
News ID: 3462937 Publish Date : 2017/05/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the United States’ largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, responded to US President Trump’s speech broadcast from Saudi Arabia ostensibly seeking to reset relations with the Muslim world.
News ID: 3462902 Publish Date : 2017/05/22
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The World Health Organization said 242 people have been killed due to an outbreak of cholera that has engulfed war-torn Yemen, with about 23,500 other confirmed cases of the disease reported across the country in the past three weeks alone.
News ID: 3462871 Publish Date : 2017/05/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Riyadh to halt its military aggression against Yemen, despite Berlin continuing its arms sales to the kingdom.
News ID: 3462716 Publish Date : 2017/05/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) –A United Nations rights expert called on Saudi Arabia to immediately lift its “paralyzing” aerial and naval blockade on Yemen that has been under attack by the kingdom for more than two years now.
News ID: 3462569 Publish Date : 2017/04/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi authorities started legal proceedings against a Shia woman for taking part in protests in the east of the country, where Shias have for long complained about discrimination.
News ID: 3462554 Publish Date : 2017/04/12
TEHRAN (IQNA) – UN rapporteurs urged Saudi Arabia to immediately halt a planned demolition of an entire 400-year-old neighborhood inhabited by the kingdom’s Shia Muslim minority.
News ID: 3462515 Publish Date : 2017/04/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Human Rights Watch said Saudi Arabia’s relentless airstrikes have pushed Yemen into a “deep humanitarian catastrophe.”
News ID: 3462404 Publish Date : 2017/03/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The British government’s extensive arms deals with Saudi Arabia are part of a Zionist plan to wage a major war against Muslim countries in the Middle East, said an academic in London.
News ID: 3462143 Publish Date : 2017/02/06
