“We are systematically beefing up our defense capabilities. I can say that over the past few years, the IRGC has built a third missile plant,” Hajiaadeh said in the city of Dezful, which had been the scene of violent clashes during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988, TASS reports.
From the opposite side of the Line of Contact, the monitoring was conducted by Field Assistant to the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Ofce Ghenadie Petrica (Moldova) and staff member of the Ofce of the OSCE CiO Personal Representative Martin Schuster (Germany).
Senior Islamic State militants including the group’s “minister of war” have been killed in Syrian army operations to the east of Aleppo, Syrian state media cited a military source as saying on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
“There are excellent opportunities for economic cooperation between the two states. I hope in the future we will witness growth in trade turnover and the two peoples will feel the great achievements in those spheres,” Mahmoud Hojjati said.
“Through such provocative activities they intend to disorientate the international community and direct the arrow toward Armenia. It’s already a new strategy and shelling their own borders, territories under their control and filming they haven’t thought that we and international organizations have the opportunity to film.”
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan didn’t participate in the luncheon on the sidelines of the BSEC 25th anniversary summit. The luncheon was served in honor of the heads of states participating in the summit, in the Dolmabahce palace in Isanbul.
“You know our country and Iran negotiate around trilateral Armenia-Iran-Turkmenistan gas agreement, we again negotiate with Georgia and here some progress has been recorded. These formats allow increasing Armenia’s role in the whole region.”
The Iraqi authorities made a decision to stop import of tomatoes from Turkey starting from May 21, Hurriyet reports. Iraq’s agriculture ministry said in a statement that they want to assist the local producers by making this decision.
Islamic State militants, who have been cooperating with an Azerbaijani national, plotted a terror attack at the extraordinary congress of Turkey’s ruling party, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was re-elected chairman of the AK party, Hurriyet reported citing Ankara’s Governor Ercan Topaca.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been re-elected as chairman of the ruling AK party (Justice and Development) on May 21 during an extraordinary congress. 1414 votes were cast in his favor, Turkish media reported.
