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TEHRAN, April 9 (Xinhua) -- A top Iranian security official said on Sunday that reducing the U.S. dollar's influence on regional and international trade will minimize the West's domination over the global economy.

Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani made the remarks in a meeting with the Russian president's aide Igor Levitin in Iranian capital Tehran, according to SNSC-affiliated Nour News.

09 Apr 2023; MEMO: Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) plan to hold large-scale maneuvers this week in the country's northern and southern waters in a show of support to the Palestinians, Anadolu reports.

The maritime parade will be held on Thursday in collaboration with several ports around the world, IRGC Navy commander Brig. Gen. Alireza Tangsiri said on Sunday.

TEHRAN, April 9 (Xinhua) -- An Iranian official said Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has successfully tested a homemade long-range, high-precision kamikaze drone equipped with a 50-kilogram warhead.

Ali Kouhestani, the head of the Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organization of the IRGC's Ground Force, made the remarks in an interview with the semi-official Tasnim news agency, which was published on Sunday.

06 Apr 2023; MEMO: Iran has called for an emergency session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the situation in Palestine in the wake of incursions and raids by Israeli forces, Anadolu News Agency reports.

In a telephone conversation with his Indonesian counterpart, Joko Widodo, on Thursday, Iran's President, Ebrahim Raisi, denounced Israeli actions at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied East Jerusalem.

06 Apr 2023; MEMO: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Israel will not survive the next 25 years.

"We have said that they will not see the next 25 years, but it seems that they are in a hurry and want to leave quickly," Khamenei said on Tuesday during a reception of senior state officials, commenting on the internal crisis in Israel over the judicial overhaul proposal.

TEHRAN, Apr 6 (NNN-IRNA) – Supreme Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has criticised Western states for their disrespect for human rights, describing them as “enemies of humankind.”

The leader made the comment in a meeting with a group of Iranian poets and Persian literature academics, in Tehran yesterday.

TEHRAN, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Iran appointed its envoy to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after eight years of having no ambassador in the country, the official news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday.

The diplomat is identified as Reza Ameri, who was serving as the director general of the Iranian expatriates office at the Foreign Ministry prior to his appointment.

Ameri had also served as Iran's ambassador to Algeria, Sudan and Eritrea.

In 2016, the UAE downgraded its relations with Iran after Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with Iran.

04 Apr 2023; MEMO: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has accepted Saudi monarch King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud's invitation to visit the kingdom, Iran's Mehr news agency reported yesterday, quoting a top official.

"Saudi Arabia's King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has invited President Ebrahim Raisi to visit Riyadh and his invitation was accepted" Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber said yesterday.

03 Apr 2023; MEMO: Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson has said that his country retains the right to respond to Israel's "state terrorism" at the appropriate "time and place", Anadolu has reported, quoting the official Iranian News Agency.

"The blood of Iranian military advisors will not go in vain," said Nasser Kanaani on Sunday after the killing of two Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps members in an Israeli air strike in Syria on Friday.

April 1 (Reuters) - President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that the hijab was the law in Iran after a viral video showed a man throwing yoghurt at two unveiled women in a shop near a holy Shi'ite Muslim city.

Growing numbers of women have defied authorities by discarding their veils after nationwide protests that followed the death in September of a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of the morality police for allegedly violating hijab rules. Security forces violently put down the revolt.