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2026-02-27 15:12
DOE warns UN: U.S. military presence endangers Persian Gulf, Sea of Oman biodiversity
TEHRAN – The head of the Department of Environment (DOE), Shina Ansari, has written a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, warning that the U.S. military presence endangers biodiversity in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman.
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2026-02-11 19:32
Congratulations pour in as Iran celebrates the birth of the Islamic Revolution
TEHRAN — Messages of congratulations have poured in from across the globe on the 47th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
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2026-02-04 12:53
UN chief urges Gaza aid as Israel blocks most medical evacuees at Rafah
TEHRAN- United Nations chief Antonio Guterres again has called on Israel to immediately allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli authorities continue to block dozens of Palestinians from exiting the war-ravaged enclave to seek medical treatment.
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2025-11-28 19:05
UN chief condemns Guinea-Bissau coup, demands restoration of constitutional order
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “strongly condemns” the military coup in Guinea-Bissau and calls for the “immediate and unconditional restoration of constitutional order,” Anadolu reported Thursday.
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2025-09-30 21:48
Snapback of UN sanctions ‘an unprecedented blow to diplomacy’, Araghchi tells Guterres
TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has condemned efforts by the United States and three European nations to reactivate expired United Nations sanctions against Tehran, describing the move as “unjustified and illegal” and warning it delivers “an unprecedented blow to diplomacy.”
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2025-08-15 12:20
UN chief: Israeli settlement plan in the West Bank violates international law
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday strongly opposed Israel's plans to construct thousands of new settler units that would effectively split the occupied West Bank into two disconnected parts.
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2025-06-28 22:34
UN chief welcomes DRC-Rwanda peace deal
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday welcomed the signing of a peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, Xinhua reported.
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2025-05-03 22:15
Progress in indirect talks depends on U.S. resolve, says Iran FM
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the path to reviving diplomacy with the United States hinges on Washington demonstrating genuine intent and adopting a realistic stance, warning that continued threats and sanctions only deepen mistrust.
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2025-04-07 07:10
Civil society activists warn about US threats against Iran
TEHRAN – More than 400 Iranian university professors, lawyers, human rights defenders, and independent political activists have written a letter to UN Secretary General António Guterres warning about the U.S. threats of military aggression against Iran for its peaceful nuclear program.
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2025-02-06 16:33
UN chief warns against ‘ethnic cleansing’ following Trump’s Gaza takeover proposal
Donald Trump’s proposal for a US takeover of Gaza was met with anger and blunt rejection from regional allies, delight from Israel’s far right and a warning against “ethnic cleansing” from the head of the UN, the Guardian reported on Wednesday.
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2024-12-28 16:08
Health minister slams Israeli attack on Gaza hospital, urges Guterres to take action
TEHRAN –Health Minister Mohammad-Reza Zafarqandi in a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has condemned the renewed attacks by the Zionist regime on Kamal Adwan Hospital, the only active medical center in northern Gaza, calling for immediate action by the United Nations.
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2024-12-02 21:19
UN chief says situation in Gaza ‘appalling and apocalyptic’
Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary general, has waned that conditions faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip may amount to the “gravest international crimes”.
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2024-11-27 22:10
Araghchi briefs UN Secretary-General on regional efforts to halt Israeli aggression
TEHRAN – Continuing his series of high-level diplomatic meetings at the 10th Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) in Portugal, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi held talks with UN Secretary-General António Guterres to discuss the pressing humanitarian crises in Gaza and Lebanon.
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2024-10-16 20:02
Araqchi warns Israel's growing aggression risks unpredictable outcome
TEHRAN – Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held phone conversations with both his French counterpart, Jean-Noel Barrot, and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, expressing deep concern over Israel's ongoing aggression against Lebanon and Gaza.
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2024-10-13 21:03
Lebanon PM condemns Netanyahu’s call to move UN peacekeepers
Lebanon’s prime minister has condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call to UN chief Antonio Guterres to remove peacekeepers from the Lebanese side of the border.
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2024-10-02 22:05
Israel declares UN chief 'persona non grata'
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on October 2 declared UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “persona non grata” and barred him from entering Israel, claiming Guterres had not “unequivocally” condemned Iran's retaliatory attack, The Cradle reported.
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2024-09-24 21:57
Pezeshkian to Guterres: Iran ‘seriously concerned’ about expansion of regional tensions
Talking to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the 79th UN General Assembly, Iran’s president voiced his country’s deep concerns over the escalating tensions in West Asia, which are boiling due to Israeli actions.
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2024-09-24 21:00
UN chief: World cannot afford Lebanon to become another Gaza
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned member states Tuesday about Lebanon “becoming another Gaza” amid escalating tensions with Israel.
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2024-08-29 18:39
UN chief ‘deeply concerned’ by Israel’s assault on West Bank
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for “an immediate cessation” of Israel’s attacks on the occupied West Bank, including Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas governorates, according to a statement.
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2024-05-12 19:17
UN chief urges ‘immediate ceasefire’ as Gaza death toll tops 35,000
The UN Secretary-General has renewed his call for “an immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip as the death toll from Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged Palestinian territory surpasses 35,000.
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2024-04-14 21:47
By Ali Naqipour
Western approach toward Iran's legitimate defense is unbelievably hypocritical
TEHRAN- Iran’s drone and missile attacks on Israel, which were purely in response to Israel’s strike on an Iranian diplomatic premise in Syria, drew reactions from some Western countries.
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2024-04-10 12:19
UN chief says ‘heart is broken’ over Gaza in Eid greeting
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed his sorrow at the violence affecting Muslims in Gaza and elsewhere in his annual greeting for Eid al-Fitr.
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2024-03-23 23:22
UN chief says it is ‘moral outrage’ that aid to Gaza has been blocked
The line of blocked aid trucks stuck on Egypt’s side of the border with the Gaza Strip while Palestinians face starvation on the other side is a “moral outrage”, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on a visit to the Rafah crossing.
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2024-03-11 22:58
UN chief calls for lifesaving aid deliveries to Gaza
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for a truce in Israel’s war on Gaza.
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2024-01-16 21:57
Iran FM says U.S., UK strikes on Yemen 'illegitimate, strategic mistake'
TEHRAN- Iran’s foreign minister has sharply criticized the U.S. and UK recent assaults on Yemeni land, calling them “illegitimate, strategic mistake.”
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2023-12-21 21:33
More than 90% of Gaza facing ‘crisis levels’ of hunger: UN-backed report
A report published by the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) on Thursday says that the proportion of households facing crisis levels of hunger is the highest it has ever recorded globally.
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2023-12-19 23:06
U.S. should relax restrictions on Iranian oil to facilitate JCPOA renewal talks: UN chief
TEHRAN- UN Secretary-General António Guterres has pleaded with the U.S. to reopen the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the U.S.-abandoned Iran nuclear deal, by lifting or waiving its sanctions against Iran’s oil industry.
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2023-12-08 22:41
Demonstrators outside Blinken’s home accuse him of participating in ‘genocide’
Video verified by Al Jazeera shows dozens of protesters confronting the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken as his car leaves his house in Washington.
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2023-12-06 21:34
UN chief invokes rare Article 99 over Gaza war
In a rare move, UN Secretary-General Guterres has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter, forcing the Security Council to address the Gaza war, Al Jazeera reported.
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2023-11-15 23:01
Scholz standing on wrong side of history on Gaza war
TEHRAN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday he opposed an "immediate" ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.