Iran
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The Iranian foreign minister has said Israel and the US will never be able to completely wipe out Hamas. Iran is a backer of Hamas, along with a number of other extremist militant groups in the region – including Lebanon-based Hezbollah and the Yemeni Houthis. “Israel and the United States will never be able to…
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Iran has vowed to “respond” after Israel attacked its interests in Syria last month, according to a foreign ministry spokesperson. Two Iranian revolutionary guards members, who served as military advisers in Syria, were killed in an Israeli attack – Iranian state media reported at the beginning on November. The strike marked the first Iranian casualties…
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We’re now hearing from armed forces minister James Heappey, who is discussing the massive pro-Palestinian rally and counter-protests that took place across London over the weekend. He says there may need to be a change in the law to give police more power to deal with protests. “I think it’s entirely right that the government…
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Iran’s president will travel to Saudi Arabia next Sunday, according to reports. Ebrahim Raisi will take part in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation summit, Iranian website Etemad reported. The OIC is an organisation with 57 member states that refers to itself as the “collective voice of the Muslim world”. Over the past year, Iran and…
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Airstrikes by the United States on Iranian-linked targets in Syria are the most vivid example yet of the potential for Israel’s war with Hamas to ignite a much wider regional conflict. Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, stressed that the attacks in the early hours of this morning by American warplanes against two sites holding…
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The UK Foreign Office has advised against all travel to Lebanon. UK citizens currently in the country are being urged to leave while commercial flights are available. It follows violent demonstrations in Beirut today after the blast which reportedly left hundreds dead at al Ahli hospital in Gaza. There has also been an escalation in…
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We’ve not seen President Biden since Saturday which is perhaps unusual given the gravity of what’s unfolded, and continues to, in the Middle East. But Sky news has just spoken to Admiral John Kirby, who speaks for the White House National Security Council, which has convened, with the president, several times over the past three…
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We reported earlier that the US was preparing to announce it will send seized Iranian small arms and ammunition to Ukraine. This has now been confirmed by the country’s Central Command, which said in an official statement that around 1.1 million rounds of Iranian ammunition, held since last year, were transferred to Ukrainian armed forces…
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Iran is a “thugocracy” that the United States has validated by awarding it with $6 billion in a hostage agreement that will be spent however it wishes, retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt said on Newsmax Sunday. “The regime is holding a great people, the Iranian people, captive,” Holt said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.” “They foment terrorism…
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Iran will release a British national and four Americans held in the country in exchange for $6bn (£4.8bn) and a prisoner swap. The funds, once frozen in South Korea, are now in Qatar after the Biden administration issued a waiver for international banks to transfer frozen Iranian money without the repercussions of US sanctions, an Iranian official…
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A Russian-made YAK-130 combat trainer aircraft has joined Iran’s Air Force, an Iranian news agency is reporting. The report by ISNA said the advanced combat trainer aircraft is able to meet the training needs of pilots to learn to fly fourth generation fighters. For context: Iran and Russia have a close relationship, especially in military…
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Thursday strongly condemned the desecration of the holy Quran by a right-wing man in Sweden’s capital. In a Twitter post, Iran’s top diplomat said the entire Islamic world “strongly condemns the insult to the holy books and the Holy Quran.” Rebuking the Swedish authorities, Amir-Abdollahian said allowing the desecration…
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Fears are growing that Iran is preparing to execute more protesters after authorities hanged a 23-year-old man from a crane, in a public killing less than a month after he was arrested and following a secretive trial. Iran executed a second prisoner on Monday convicted over crimes committed during the nationwide protests challenging the country’s theocracy, publicly hanging him from…
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Iran said Thursday it executed a prisoner convicted for a crime allegedly committed during the country’s ongoing nationwide protests, the first such death penalty carried out by Tehran. The execution comes as other detainees also face the possibility of the death penalty for their involvement in the protests, which began in mid-September, first as an…
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^Covert testimonies reveal sexual assaults on male and female activists as a women-led uprising spreads ^They’d choose the women who were pretty and suited their appetite … ^Then the officer would take one of them from the cell to a smaller, private room.” ^“They would sexually assault them there.” A trickle of people passes through…
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Iranian fans and footballers took protests against the country’s clerical regime to the World Cup as they kicked off their campaign against England on Monday. Pre-kick off, Iranian players did not sing the national anthem as fans booed and jeered it. What appeared to be a sign of solidarity against their government’s crackdown on demonstrators, in…
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