Jan 20, 2022 · Iranian planes landing in Myanmar have raised speculation of secretive military-to-military cooperation, including possible sensitive Iranian weapons sales amid rising international calls to impose an arms embargo on the rights-abusing junta.

May 26, 2023 · One of the flights delivered a consignment of 21 boxes thought to contain military drones and engines. The sight of Iranian cargo planes landing in Myanmar’s capital has also sparked speculation they are supplying the junta with …

Apr 4, 2024 · The U.N.'s leading human rights body agreed Thursday, April 4, 2024, to measures aimed at putting pressure on Myanmar and Iran, whose governments have been accused of using violence against their own people.

Historically strained, Myanmar's foreign relations, particularly with Western nations, have improved since 2012. Relations became strained once more in 2017 with the Rohingya genocide and due to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.

Jun 26, 2024 · As the Myanmar military regime expands ties with Middle Eastern countries, junta Foreign Minister Than Swe joined the 19th Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) ministerial meeting on Monday in the Iranian capital Tehran, holding separate talks with his Iranian counterpart Dr. Ali Bagheri Kani on promoting bilateral ties.

Nov 20, 2024 · The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) approved five draft resolutions addressing the human rights situations in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Myanmar, Iran, Syria...

Jan 8, 2025 · The purported leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate has pleaded guilty to charges alleging that he conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in the belief that Iran would use it for nuclear weapons.

Dec 24, 2024 · During his visit, he held talks with his Iranian and Qatar counterparts to justify the regime’s actions and boost bilateral ties. The junta’s pleas for support from abroad came amid an increasingly bleak backdrop at home.

May 26, 2023 · Tehran (AsiaNews) - Since the military coup in Myanmar in February 2021, which led to the overthrow of the democratic government led by Aung San Suu Kyi, now under arrest, relations between...

Nov 18, 2020 · It would call on Iran to ensure that no one is subjected to torture — or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment — and to end the widespread and systematic use of arbitrary arrests and...