A night-time earthquake in northwestern Iran on Friday killed five people and injured 120, according to early reports on state television. The 5.9-magnitude quake struck about 120 kilometers southeast of the city of Tabriz, in East Azerbaijan Province, in the early hours of the morning, the Iranian Seismological Center said. ...
The United States must abandon its policy of unilateral sanctions and pressure on Iran, China’s special envoy for Middle East, Zhai Jun, said on Friday, commenting on new US sanctions. “China believes that the United States should abandon these methods, abandon unilateral sanctions and extreme pressure on Iran because this ...