The United States on Friday sanctioned companies in Iran, China and the United Arab Emirates for doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines and on three...
Iran and Turkey are to enhance border security in a coordinated effort according to the commander of Iran's border guards, Brigadier General Ahmed Ali Kuderzi. Kuderzi made the announcement...
South Korea's Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong Kun called on Qatar during his visit on Wednesday to help his country resolve the issue...
The Chief of Staff of the Israel Defence Forces has asked officers to draw up a new plan to attack Iran's nuclear programme, Israel Hayom reported on Thursday. General...
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January 14, 2021 |
Muhammad Hussein When supporters of the soon-to-be ex-President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol Building in Washington DC last week, many things were revealed that day. We saw the lengths that Trump...
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan on Thursday denounced Iran's "interventions" in the Middle East region, after a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, Reuters reports. Speaking at a...
An Israeli minister in the ruling Likud party has warned that if the United States is to return to the Iran nuclear deal under the new administration of President-elect...
Influential Shia Cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr has called for Iraq to find an alternative to Iranian gas used to operate electricity plants after imports were halted due to the debt...
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January 14, 2021 |
Dr Mustafa Fetouri On 20 January, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. This will end four years of Donald Trump's foreign policy that has...
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US The US' recent claims about Iran becoming a "safe haven" for Al-Qaeda are "baseless", Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zamir Kabulov asserted on Tuesday. On Tuesday, US State Secretary Mike...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani fiercely attacked outgoing US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, declaring that the end of Trump's term marks the end of his political approach. The Islamic Republic...
The European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, has called on Iran to abandon its efforts to enrich uranium at 20 per cent and...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday rejected as "warmongering lies" an assertion by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Iran has ties to the Islamist militant...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday, without providing hard evidence, that al Qaeda had established a new home base in Iran and the United States had...
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has condemned the US' decision to impose sanctions on Falih Al-Fayyadh, head of the Popular Mobilisation Forces in Iraq, saying the move is "doomed to...
A senior leader of Yemen's Houthi group, Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi, has rejected plans by the US to designate the group as a "foreign terrorist organisation" and accused Washington of...
Iranian police asked Interpol to issue a red notice against four suspects it believes are involved in the assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Earlier, head of the National Security...
The Iranian army yesterday announced its intention to carry out "major missile exercises" in the Gulf of Oman today. In an official statement, the army said that the maneuvers...
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January 12, 2021 |
Dr Adnan Abu Amer The Israelis have significantly increased talk about the emergence of a new threat front represented by Yemen, which did not exist before, whether in terms of the Houthis targeting Israeli naval...
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Yemen Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, the daughter of the late Iranian president has criticised her country's intervention in Syria, saying it left 500,000 Syrians dead. In an interview with the Iranian Ensaf...
Yemen's Houthis have threatened to attack "very sensitive" sites in Israel, Rai Al-Youm reported yesterday, after reports emerged that the occupation state was reenforcing its military in the south of the...
Iranian-backed forces are exerting pressure on Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi to stop him linking Baghdad's electricity grid with that of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) grid, a local...
Foreign companies will not be allowed to test COVID-19 vaccines on the Iranian people, President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday, a day after Iran's Supreme Leader banned vaccine imports...
Iran will expel United Nations nuclear watchdog inspectors unless US sanctions are lifted by a Feb. 21 deadline set by the hardline-dominated parliament, a lawmaker said on Saturday, Reuters...
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has asked Tehran to disclose all details related to its downed civilian plane last year. On the first anniversary of the downing of the plane,...
Iran's elite revolutionary guard corps on Friday unveiled an underground anti-ship missile base along the shores of the Persian Gulf to the country's south amid heightened tensions in the...
Ukraine urged Iran on Friday to deliver justice and pay full compensation to the families of those who died when a Ukrainian airliner was shot down by Iranian Revolutionary...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani yesterday said the storming of the US Capitol by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump exposes the weaknesses and failure of Western democracy. Trump, Rouhani added, is...
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh demanded that Saudi Arabia stop the war in Yemen, accusing Riyadh of dragging the region into danger as a result of its destructive...
Israel has deployed its Iron Dome and Patriot air defence batteries around the southern city of Eilat over concerns of an attack by Houthi forces from Yemen. According to...
Iran has prohibited the import of American and British Covid-19 vaccines
An Iraqi court yesterday issued an arrest warrant for outgoing US President Donald Trump on charges of assassinating the deputy head of Iraq's Hashd Al-Shaabi or Popular Mobilisation Forces...