DUBAI (UAE) – President Hassan Rouhani of Iran on Wednesday urged the new administration of the US to return to a 2015 nuclear pact and lift curbs on Tehran. He also hailed the end of “tyrant” President Donald Trump’s era. President-elect Joe Biden, who assumes office on
PARIS (FRANCE) – The French foreign minister said on Saturday that Iran is building up its nuclear weapons capacity and it is the need of the hour for Tehran and Washington to return to the 2015 nuclear deal. Iran has been expediting its breaches of the nuclear pact and earlier this month, it started forging […]
DUBAI (UAE) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Saturday fired long-range ballistic missiles into the Indian Ocean on the second day of a military exercise, state media reported. The drill, which comes in the waning days of high tensions with US President Donald Trump’s administration, was conducted in the country’s central desert region. It followed
WASHINGTON (US) – The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on companies in Iran, China and the United Arab Emirates for doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines and on three Iranian entities over conventional arms proliferation. They are the latest in a series of measures aimed at stepping up pressure on […]
DUBAI (UAE) – The Revolutionary Guard of Iran unveiled an underground missile base at a secret location on Friday, said Iranian state media. This comes amid heightened tension between Washington and Tehran. “The base is one of several bases housing the Guards’ Navy’s strategic missiles,” state media said in a report quoting the head of […]
DUBAI (UAE) – Iran launched exercises featuring a wide array of domestically produced drones on Tuesday, Iranian media reported, days after the anniversary of the US killing of a top Iranian general by a drone strike in Iraq. Iran and the regional forces it backs have increasingly relied in recent years on drones in Yemen, […]
SEOUL (SOUTH KOREA) -Iran refuted on Tuesday it was using a South Korean ship and its crew as hostages, a day after it seized the tanker in the Gulf while pressing a demand for Seoul to release $7 billion in funds frozen under US sanctions. The seizure of the MT Hankuk Chemi and its 20-member […]
DUBAI (UAE) – An Iranian government spokesman told the Mehr news agency on Monday that the country has restarted 20% uranium enrichment at its underground Fordow nuclear facility. This level of purity is not permitted as per Tehran’s 2015 nuclear accord with six major powers. The move is the latest of several recent Iranian breaches […]
DUBAI (UAE) -Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urged US President Donald Trump on Saturday not to fall for the “trap” from an alleged Israeli plan to provoke a war through attacks on US forces in Iraq. He issued the warning on the anniversary of the US killing of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani by […]
DUBAI (UAE) – The US killing of top general Qassem Soleimani will not deter Iranian resistance, a senior commander said on Friday as tensions mounted in the build-up to the first anniversary of the drone strike. The United States killed Soleimani, leader of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, in Iraq on Jan. 3, 2020. Washington […]