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By: Mehdi Azizi
Who benefiting from blast in Beirut?
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – The massive explosion in Beirut is feared to create a similar situation to the aftermath of Rafic Hariri’s assassination in 2005, which led to foreign intervention in Lebanon, even to a larger and more dangerous scale.
Other News
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Global COVID-19 deaths pass 700,000
TEHRAN, Aug. 04 (MNA) – Coronavirus worldwide cases have exceeded 18.2 million with the deaths passing 692,000 in total, according to Worldometer figures.
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Survey suggests 10m infected with COVID-19 in Afghanistan
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – A survey conducted by Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health suggests that some 10 million people may have contracted the novel coronavirus disease in the country.
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Iran, Afghanistan ink MoU in transit field: official
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – The Director General of Sistan and Baluchestan Ports and Maritime Department General revealed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Afghanistan’s private sector in the field of transit via Chabahar Port.
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VIDEO: Moment of destruction of church in Beirut explosion
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – The video shows the moment when a church in Beirut have been destroyed after a massive explosion rocked this city.
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Pentagon officials contradict Trump on Beirut explosion
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – There has not been any indication that the massive explosion that rocked Beirut on Tuesday was an "attack," three US Defense Department officials said.
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VIDEO: Buildings destroyed in Beirut by massive explosion
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – The new footage shows the scale of destruction, hundreds of meters away from the massive explosion in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.
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Lebanon hails IRCS for its humanitarian aids to Beirut
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – The head of the Lebanese Red Cross appreciated the Iranian Red Crescent Society for its immediate readiness to provide humanitarian assistance to the victims of the horrific explosion in the port of Beirut.
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Iran envoy to Paris express sympathy with Lebanese
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – Expressing his sympathy with Lebanon and the Lebanese living in France over the Beirut explosion, Bahram Ghasemi said, "In these difficult moments, the whole world will stand by the Lebanese people."
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Mahan Air resumes Tehran-Moscow flights amid outbreak
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – Mahan Air revealed the resumption of Tehran-Moscow flights for holders of valid residence or Russian passport by fully observing health guidelines amid pandemic.
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Following Beirut explosion:
Iran Parl. Health Commission ready to dispatch aid to Lebanon
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – Iranian Parliament’s Health and Treatment Commission has expressed readiness to dispatch medical aid to Lebanon after a deadly explosion rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut.
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Iran not to let politicization of Flight 752 tragedy
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – The Deputy Foreign Minister for International and Legal Affairs said that the process of talks with Ukraine over Flight 752 has gone well, adding no country will be allowed to politicize the issue.
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Iran ready to send medical aid to Lebanon: Rouhani
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed solidarity with the people and government of Lebanon over the Tuesday’s explosion in Beirut, expressing readiness to offer medical aid.
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Huge explosion rocks Lebanon’s Beirut
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – Following the widespread fire in one of incendiary depots, a massive explosion ripped through central Beirut on Tuesday evening, injuring thousands of people.
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Ghalibaf urges IRCS to rush help injured in Beirut blast
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – Iranian Parliament Speaker on Wed. called on the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) to immediately offer quality relief services to the injured in yesterday’s blast in Beirut, Lebanon.
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White House not to change hostile approach against Iran
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – A US resource claims to have obtained a copy of the new draft resolution on the extension of the arms embargo on Iran by Washington, which shows that the White House is unwilling to change its hostile approach towards Iran.
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Headlines of Iran's Persian dailies on August 5
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – Mehr News takes a look at the headlines of Iran’s Persian-language dailies on Wednesday, August 5.
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Briefing on Iran's daily developments
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – The following are the latest developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran in the last 24 hours.
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Sattari visits knowledge-based companies in Yazd
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – The Vice President for Science and Technology, Sorena Sattari visited production units and knowledge-based companies of Yazd Province on Tuesday.
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Despite West sabotages, Iran produces 97% of its medicine
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) –The spokesman for the Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said, "Despite western countries' sabotages in supplying Iran's needed medicine, today 97% of the medicine produced domestically."
