Iranian FM to visit Turkey on Tuesday
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahain will travel to Turkey on Tuesday. Amirabdollahain will visit Turkey at the invitation of the country’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
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Judges allow partial appeal against Rwanda asylum seeker ruling
The two judges previously found the Home Office’s plan to be lawful and rejected some grounds for appealTwo judges who ruled that the Home Office’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda to have their cases processed was lawful have granted permission f…
UK commits to further talks with EU to break Northern Ireland Brexit impasse
Both sides agree to keep working to find solutions in a ‘constructive and collaborative spirit’The UK foreign secretary, James Cleverly, and the European Commission’s vice-president, Maroš Šefčovič, have committed to further talks to resolve the disput…
MP: Saudi Arabia, Egypt to open embassies in Iran soon
An Iranian lawmaker says Saudi Arabia and Egypt are set to open their embassies in Iran in the near future, and that both countries are willing to have diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Iran FM to Syrian president: Tehran to continue support for Syria
The Iranian foreign minister, in a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, reaffirmed Tehran’s support for Syria, stressing that the Islamic Republic of Iran considers Syria’s security and progress as its own.
UK set to brand Iran’s revolutionary guards as terrorists after Akbari execution
Britain and EU expected to coordinate response to hanging of British-Iranian accused of spyingThe UK and the European Union are expected to coordinate moves to brand the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation after the ex…
UK looks clumsy and powerless in wake of Iran’s execution of Alireza Akbari
Culturally insulting language used by Rishi Sunak and James Cleverly will increase tension between the two countriesBritain’s relationship with Iran has a fraught, unedifying history, dating back to the 18th-century imperial tussle between England, Nap…
Whitehall spending ‘tens of millions’ on Rees-Mogg’s bill to scrap EU laws
Opposition MPs call for government rethink on ‘reckless’ plans to rewrite almost 4,000 European regulations Civil servants are estimated to be spending tens of millions of pounds establishing which laws and regulations could be scrapped under the gover…
British ambassador to Tehran summoned to Iran Foreign Ministry
Simon Shercliff, the British ambassador to Tehran has been summoned to the
Iranian ministry of foreign affairs over “the unreasonable interferences of Britain in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s national security.”
London condemns Tehran’s execution of British-Iranian national convicted of spying
UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly says that Iran’s execution of a British-Iranian national would not go unchallenged, while UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called the hanging of the spy a “cowardly act.” Alireza Akbari, a former Iranian official, …