NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India signed a 10-year contract with Iran on Monday to develop and operate the Iranian port of Chabahar, the Narendra Modi-led government said, strengthening relations with a strategic Middle Eastern nation. India has been developing the port in Chabahar on Iran’s south-eastern coast along the Gulf of Oman as a way to […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s hard-liners won most of the remaining seats in an election run-off to give them full control over the country’s parliament, authorities said Saturday, while not sharing any details on the turnout. The result, and that of the previous vote in March, gives hard-liners 233 of the 290 seats […]
Israel showed it can take out a key part of Iran’s air defenses with a single missile. The S-300 damaged is the most advanced air defense system Iran has acquired from Russia. Iran must field better air defenses like Russia’s S-400 to stand a chance against a barrage. In the early hours of April 19, […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said Israel must be brought to justice for “usurpation and oppression” of the Palestinian territories, if not there won’t be a guarantee that others would not do the same in other lands. Raisi was delivering a statement during his one-day visit to Sri Lanka on Wednesday. […]
Despite fierce protests from society, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi wants to maintain strict police checks on women for headscarf offences. “Respecting the headscarf is not only a religious, but also a political and legal obligation for Iranian women,” said Raisi on Sunday. There is therefore “no doubt whatsoever” that checks must continue to be carried […]
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has praised the Iranian armed forces in the highest terms following their attacks on Israel. “The armed forces have not only demonstrated their power, but also safeguarded the international reputation and national pride of the country and its people,” he said on Sunday. It was of secondary importance how […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday dismissed any discussion of whether Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel hit anything there, a tacit acknowledgment that despite launching a massive assault, few projectiles actually made through to their targets. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei‘s comments before senior military leaders didn’t not touch on the apparent Israeli retaliatory […]
Iran’s supreme leader has dismissed any discussion of whether Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel hit anything there, a tacit acknowledgment that, despite launching a massive assault, few projectiles actually made it to their targets. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s comments to senior military leaders on Sunday did not not touch on the apparent Israeli retaliatory strike […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel demonstrated its military dominance over adversary Iran in its apparent precision strikes that hit near military and nuclear targets deep in the heart of the country, meeting little significant challenge from Iran’s defenses and providing the world with new insights into both militaries’ capabilities. The international community, Israel and Iran all […]
Iran’s foreign minister dismissed the Friday morning strikes on his country, which hit near a major air base and nuclear site near the city of Isfahan, casting doubt on their origin and downplaying their impact. “What happened last night wasn’t a strike,” Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in translated comments during an interview on NBC News’s “Top […]
Israel’s presumed counterstrike against Iran has proved Joe Biden and David Cameron wrong in their insistence that Israel should just “take the win”. Instead, it fought back – and yesterday Iran was trying to pretend that nothing had happened. This was a profound humiliation for the ayatollahs who just days ago were saying they would […]
PARIS (AP) — Police found no weapons on a man detained Friday at the Iranian Consulate in Paris after responding to a report of a suspicious man seen carrying a grenade and explosives vest, an official said. Elite police forces and soldiers surrounded the building and barred traffic in the area during an hours-long security […]