The stakes are high: not only for the nations directly involved in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, but for the entire global geoeconomic balance. And if the "Mare Nostrum" counted less, the first to lose would be us Italians by Paolo Giordani - President of the International Diplomatic Institute Six months after the start of the conflict in Gaza, [...]
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by Editorial Staff A "soft" attack that occurred yesterday in Iran in the Isfahan area, limited damage and no deaths. After the previous bombing ordered by Ali Khamenei in Israel using missiles and drones, the Israeli government chooses a fluid strategy, avoiding official confirmations and leaving room for interpretations. The information regarding the operation mainly comes [...]
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In Paris, a man threatens to blow himself up in the Iranian consulate located in rue de Fresnel, in the residential 16th arrondissement, not far from the Eiffel Tower. The police are on site. As a security measure, and by order of the police headquarters, metro line 6 was interrupted and the area was cordoned off. Around 11 on Friday morning, […]
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Strong “strong explosions” near Esfahan, according to Tehran media. The Iranian capital has closed its airspace. The US confirms the attack and says it did not authorize Tel Aviv. A military source reported that the Israeli attack conducted in Iran was "limited". Iranian officials confirmed that an attack hit an air base [...]
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In response to last Saturday's attack, Israel is ready to retaliate while Iran threatens to use "weapons never used before". Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani has warned that the Iranian response to a possible Israeli attack will not be calculable in hours or days, it will be given in a few seconds by Editorial Team Tehran amplifies the [...]
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A sort of tacit agreement between the parties. We launch the offensive, you get "a little angry", promising "revenge" but then everything goes back to how it was before, that is, we continue to fight each other by proxy. A solution that resets the clock of pride. by Andrea Pinto Yesterday a new war council in Tel Aviv, at the end of [...]
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by Editorial Staff After the announcements of recent days, Iran has moved on to facts. Around 300 missiles and drones were launched towards Israel from the ayatollahs' territory, Yemen and Lebanon. Thus the Pasdaran in the media: <
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Israel could suffer a direct attack from Iran within the next 24-48 hours, as reported by the Wall Street Journal citing reliable sources by Editorial Staff United States Central Command (CENTCOM) forces have successfully neutralized an anti-ship ballistic missile coming from Yemen, fired in the direction of the Red Sea by affiliated groups [...]
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The Houthis in Yemen also recently announced the possession of hypersonic missiles (probably transferred from Iran) to conduct their maritime interdiction actions in the Red Sea. The range of the Fatah hypersonic missile is compatible with the distances separating Israel from Iran. by Pasquale Preziosa Iran is successfully engaging in […]
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Iranian Chief of Staff Mohammed Bagheri: "It will leave at the right time, with the precision necessary to inflict maximum damage on the enemy." by Massimiliano D'Elia Now the die has been cast, with the killing in Syria, at the hands of Israel, of General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, we are only waiting for the start of the military operations announced by Tehran, as [...]
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Tehran has promised revenge. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said: “We are certain that this feeling from the heart will lead to the destruction of the Zionist regime.” by Editorial Staff About thirty embassies closed their doors without incident during Quds Day, the international day for Jerusalem proclaimed by Iran. Israel has taken precautions by closing 28 locations [...]
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by Editorial Staff In Italy there is "maximum anti-terrorism alert" even if there is no information on "hostile initiatives in preparation" by jihadist groups. This is what emerges from the Interior Ministry, after the tragedy in Moscow and in view of the meeting of the National Committee for Public Order and Security, which will be held tomorrow [...]
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The Houthis test our defenses with swarms of flying drones, underwater drones, small boats and mines
The Houthis are intensifying their attacks by testing different tactical options to discover the limits of their enemies' defenses. They therefore experimented with a "swarm" attack by launching flying drones, small boats, underwater drones and mines against the targets by Andrea Pinto The attacks in the Red Sea by the Houthi rebels against ships in transit do not stop, the [...]
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by Andrea Pinto The situation in the Middle East continues to heat up. The attack on the American base in Jordan which cost the lives of three soldiers forced President Joe Biden to raise the level of tension, announcing a prompt response towards the perpetrators and, above all, the instigators. Iran, according to intelligence reports, is the [...]
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by Francesco Matera Yemen's Houthi rebels continue to threaten the Red Sea through their attacks against foreign cargo ships, winking at Russian and Chinese companies. Last Friday, a US destroyer, the USS Carney, shot down a ballistic missile fired from an area of Yemen controlled by the Houthis, the Pentagon said, [...]
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by Editorial Staff Last night, a drone attack hit the US military in Jordan, killing three soldiers and wounding 25 others, CNN reported. It is the first time that casualties have been recorded among US forces in the Middle East since the start of the war in Gaza. The […]
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by Editorial Staff Chinese officials have asked their Iranian counterparts to intervene to stop attacks on ships in the Red Sea by the Houthis. Otherwise, trade relations with Beijing could deteriorate. The news was reported exclusively by the Reuters agency according to some indiscretions revealed, on condition of anonymity, by Iranian and Chinese diplomats. […]
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by Editorial Staff The entire Middle East region is becoming highly unstable following the war in Gaza, the expansion of military operations in Lebanon and the turbulence in the Red Sea due to drone and missile attacks on passing shipping by rebels Yemeni Houthis. Last but not least, the Iranian intervention in Syria, Iraq and [...]
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by Editorial Staff During the air strikes conducted by Iran, explosions in the province of Baluchistan in Pakistan have raised concerns and tensions, as the two countries share a border of almost a thousand kilometers in this region. Although Islamabad's official statement does not specify the precise location of the attack, unofficial reports from social media [...]
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by Editorial Staff The United States recently conducted new attacks against Houthi targets in Yemen, CNN reported. The operation, as stated by the New York Times, would have targeted a radar facility in the country, aiming to limit the Houthis' ability to attack ships transiting the Red Sea. The USS Carney […]
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LISTEN to “Iran all-out against the axis of evil: a new warship with 100 missile launchers launched” on Spreaker. After the attacks in the city of Kerman, Raisi thundered against Israel and the United States for "creating the Caliphate", promising that the "Al Aqsa Flood" operation will necessarily lead to the destruction of the Zionist state. Iran, […]
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by Editorial Staff ISIS, via telegram, claimed responsibility for the attack in Kerman in Iran. It would have been two suicide bombers who blew themselves up among the people gathered to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the death of General Soleimani, causing 84 deaths and 284 injuries. The surprise and disbelief of the Iranians concerns the infiltration of the suicide bombers, while the ayatollahs try to maintain [...]
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by Editorial Staff Yesterday, the city of Kerman, in central Iran, was the scene of the worst terrorist attack in the 40-year history of the Islamic Republic. During a visit to the tomb of General Qassem Soleimani on the fourth anniversary of his death (at American hands), the crowd of pilgrims was shocked by two explosions. The followers […]
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by Francesco Matera Last Sunday, three American military helicopters effectively neutralized three Houthi boats that had attempted to attack a cargo ship. The White House thus wants to guarantee security on a strategic trade route, prevent escalation and resist criticism from Congress regarding the too soft line adopted by President Joe Biden. The […]
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by Editorial Staff Iran conducted a drone attack against a merchant ship in the Arabian Sea, off the coast of India, as announced by the US Department of Defense. The chemical tanker MV Chem Pluto, flying the Liberian flag, was targeted by an attack drone from Iran, around 10:00 local [...]
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by Editorial Staff Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, of Iranian origins and French citizen, was arrested for the attack that took place on 2 December in Paris, during which he attacked and killed a German tourist with a knife and hammer under the Eiffel Tower, shouting “Allah Akbar”. He swore allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) in a video in which [...]
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by Editorial Staff The highest Iranian diplomat, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, revealed to the FT that Tehran had warned the United States that it did not want a regional expansion of the war between Israel and Hamas, however he also warned Washington that the regional conflict could be inevitable, where Israel continues with indiscriminate attacks [...]
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Biden-Xi agree for a responsible global confrontation. Reactivated line of communication between military leaders. Coldness over Taiwan
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by Massimiliano D'Elia Yesterday was a difficult day in a Middle East, increasingly in flames, where with each passing hour the situation seems to fall inexorably towards a global conflict between the West and the Muslim world. The voltage indicators are diverse and dramatic. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's mission to Jordan, where he met [...]
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by Editorial Staff The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv, in Jordan to meet his counterparts from the Arab countries and then in Turkey to speak with Erdogan. Not only in Tel Aviv, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken was also in Amman where he met his colleagues from Qatar, [...]
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by Giuseppe Paccione From the day the Hamas group entered Israeli territory carrying out all kinds of illicit acts against innocent people, the first thing Israel exclaimed was the expression "we are at war!", with the implication that a declaration of war would mean for the Tel Aviv government the […]
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Death to America, death to Israel, the two main slogans of the Iranian regime should lead us to reconsider the Western approach to Tehran's politics. by Massimiliano D'Elia The Hamas attack on 7 October near the Gaza Strip is closely linked to Iran's role in the entire Middle East. Iran interfered in politics […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Asymmetric war carried out with rudimentary means but which executed a strategy studied down to the smallest detail, perhaps even with the external help of well-trained state elements. There are many hypotheses about the success of Hamas' military initiative on Israeli territory but almost all of them lead to alleged help from Tehran and perhaps also [...]
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The expansion of the BRICS bloc, under discussion at this week's summit in Johannesburg, has attracted a diverse group of potential candidates – from Iran to Argentina – intent on starting a new inclusive process to compete with the western block. There are many issues that emerging countries complain about: According to officials of the [...]
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In order to avoid isolation from the West, Iran joined the SCO – Shanghai Cooperation Organization – on 4 July last in India, thus becoming the ninth effective member on a par with India, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan. Until last July 4, Iran was invited to the various meetings of the SCO only as [...]
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At the end of last year, Iran envoy Robert Malley met with UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani, and White House Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk, who went to Oman to discuss with nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani. According to the WP the day before yesterday the supreme leader Khamenei partially confirmed the contacts, saying [...]
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The US Navy announced a few hours ago that Iran yesterday seized an oil tanker flying the Marshall Islands flag in the Gulf of Oman in international waters. The Iranian armed forces confirmed the seizure following an incident with an Iranian boat. The clash, according to Tehran, would have caused several injuries [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) A multipolar world, this is how Xi Jinping's China understands it, which wants to have an ever greater impact on international disputes to protect its strategic and economic interests. Xi recently proposed 12 points for peace between Russia and Ukraine and concretely favored the once unthinkable rapprochement between Iran [...]
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BBC Persian has reported that the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit China today, at the official invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. The visit will last three days. Iran and China have strong economic ties, especially in the fields of energy, transport, agriculture, trade and […]
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The Wall Street Journal has revealed that Israel was behind a drone attack on Iran's defense complex. This was reported to the newspaper, on condition of anonymity, by senior executives of the Biden administration. The blitz hit a munitions factory in the city of Isfahan, right next to a site belonging to Iran Space Research [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Tehran has sent its consultants from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to Crimea and Belarus to train Russians to fly Iranian-made drones. Russia has already deployed Iranian suicide drones, the Shahed-136, Shahed-129 and Mohajer-6, against energy installations and civilian buildings in Kiev. To date, attacks with missiles and drones have [...]
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Protests against the Iranian government regained vigor after the funeral commemorating the people killed by the security forces. The police initiated a further round of arrests and repression. Dozens of cities in Iran were shaken by protests on Wednesday evening, on the day when the crowd - young boys - remembered [...]
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Hundreds of Iranian drones will be given to Moscow in exchange for Russian Su-35 fighter aircraft. (by Massimiliano D'Elia) Military cooperation between Russia and Iran is increasingly evident. After the launch of the Iranian satellite via a Russian rocket, Iran has begun to train Russian pilots in the use of its drones which will then be sold to the army [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Yesterday a Russian rocket launched an Iranian surveillance satellite into orbit which, according to Western analysts, will improve Iran's intelligence gathering. Therefore, the announced ever closer collaboration between Russia and Iran is growing. After the invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of Western sanctions, Russia tried to forge agreements and collaborations [...]
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The dossier on Ukrainian wheat could be resolved shortly, as confirmed by the Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar: "a matter of days and there will be a new meeting, an opportunity to define the details and review the points on which an agreement has already been reached. reached up". It is important that the agreement is reached as soon as possible for [...]
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Iran announced last Friday that its military ships have loaded armed drones, thus posing a new threat to American and allied ships transiting the Persian Gulf. The news while US President Joe Biden was visiting the Middle East to reinvigorate some anti-Tehran alliances. The TV of [...]
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Diplomatic relations are fervent between the countries, everyone is looking for a way out for the issue of energy and wheat but also to re-establish a balance in the world order which has become more and more precarious every day and in function of the Ukrainian war. Almost all the states that are facing economic problems are affected by this new course [...]
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The United States called a secret meeting of senior military officials from Israel and Arab countries last March to explore how they could coordinate against Iran's missile growth and possible drone capabilities in the region. The news was reported by the Washington Post. The interviews, never disclosed before, were [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The effects of the war in Ukraine are being felt globally. If in Africa we are close to collapse, with unpredictable developments of instability, due to the lack of wheat and cereals from Ukraine and Russia, for many other countries the effects of the sanctions imposed on Russia are unleashing a sort [...]
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Saudi Arabia is building its own ballistic missiles, with the help of China. This was supported by the US broadcaster CNN, which in an exclusive report states that US intelligence agencies have been informed about a series of clues collected, including satellite photos, classified. If confirmed, the hypothesis would complicate the situation in the Middle East, also modifying the strategic balance, [...]
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A senior US State Department official said Iran left the negotiating table in Vienna last Friday, leaving a seemingly unbridgeable void. Indirect meetings have been taking place in Vienna for months between the parties for the return to the 2015 nuclear agreement (JCPOA) - signed by Great Britain, China, France, Germany, [...]
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Tehran returns to Vienna today at the negotiating table with a group of officials from the ultra-conservative wing loyal to the newly elected president Ebrahim Raisi, notoriously opposed to the pact. On the other side of the table are the representatives of the Americans who with the Biden Administration want to resume the terms of the agreement without immediately giving up the sanctions [...]
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Efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are at a "critical stage" and Tehran's reasons for avoiding talks are running out. The United States special envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, told the press, adding: “Washington is increasingly worried that Tehran will continue to delay the return [...]
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Israel accused Iran of hatching a plot to kill Israeli citizens in the Republic of Cyprus. The heavy accusation, following the arrest of a man, of Azerbaijani origin and with a Russian passport, found in possession of a pistol with a silencer. Cypriot police reportedly followed the suspected killer as he entered [...]
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Azerbaijan is deepening relations with Israel, Iran, in response, launched last Friday, military exercises near the border at the border crossings of Poldasht and Jolfa. Iranian media reported that the exercises involved armored and artillery units, as well as drones and helicopters. Iran strongly disagrees with the recent [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) All over the world there are large-scale hacker attacks, in some cases, targeting critical infrastructures causing serious problems that are difficult to solve immediately. A phenomenon that has shown, in a disarming way, the extreme vulnerability of States in the face of the virtual threat whose principal (often of state origin) is [...]
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Antony Blinken, the head of American diplomacy, arrived in Italy as the last stop on his European tour. Today, for the first time in Italy, the plenary ministerial meeting on the anti-Daesh Coalition is scheduled, it will be co-chaired by Di Maio and Blinken. We will also talk about Syria and humanitarian aid to be allocated to the country for [...]
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Outgoing President Rouhani announced to the Iranians the new president of the Islamic Republic, Ebrahim Raïssi, who won in the first round with 62% of the votes, in a consultation where abstention played a fundamental role. Ebrahim Raïssi, ultraconservative, received congratulatory messages from all opponents, including the moderate candidate and [...]
read more(by Andrea Pinto) In Gaza there is no drinking water, in many areas there is no longer electricity and the sewers, the few existing ones and built with modern criteria, have been skipped. The Palestinian civilian population is exhausted as the workers of the Israeli electricity company refuse to work to help restore utilities. [...]
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Ebrahim Raïssi, the powerful head of the judicial authority of Tehran officially ran for the next presidential elections in Iran, scheduled for June 18. Thus in a recent speech: "I place myself as an opponent of corruption, incompetence and the luxurious lifestyle of some leaders." Raïssi, 60, defines himself as "independent", the Unity Council [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Olimpio Guido su Corsera speaks outspokenly about the never completed operations of the Israeli Mossad against Hamas militants and against the various supporters of the terrorist group around the world. The so-called Hamas bomb squads, those who supply Hamas with low-cost weapons or study new [...]
read more(by Andrea Pinto) Joe Biden reassured Israel: "Washington has" a long way to go "before re-entering the 2015 agreement to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions". Skipping all protocol rules, Biden met Mossad director Yossi Cohen last Friday. Cohen together with a delegation from Tel Aviv was in America to discuss [...]
read moreJoe Biden's US takes another step forward, yesterday on the third day of negotiations in Vienna with Iran, aiming to return to the nuclear agreement, JCPOA. A turning point that Israel does not like, which has always been threatened by Iran with being razed to the ground with an atomic bomb. On Friday the head of Mossad Yossi Cohen, [...]
read more"They have made progress of about 60-70%" and "if the Americans act honestly, we will get results in a short time." This was stated by the Iranian president, Hassan Rohani, quoted by the Iranian media, commenting on the meeting of the Joint Commission on the Joint Comprehensive Pian of Action (JCPOA) which was held two days ago. The Commission, composed of [...]
read moreIn the midst of the alleged Israeli cyber attack against the Natanz plant, there is the resumption, albeit feeble, of talks to resume the nuclear deal between the US and Iran. In Vienna in recent days there are "indirect" talks between the US and Iran to consider a possible approach on the issue. The Iranian Atomic Agency reported that [...]
read moreIran arrested an "Israeli spy" and a number of other people who were in contact with foreign intelligence, without giving the nationality of those arrested, according to what Iranian state media reported on Monday, and reported by Reuters. "An Israeli spy was arrested in the Iranian province of Eastern Azerbaijan ... also other spies who [...]
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Two rockets landed yesterday in a rural area near an Iraqi military airbase that housed some US contractors. Fortunately, no casualties or injuries were recorded. Iraqi security forces reported that the rockets landed on the base's outer fence. Preliminary investigations showed that the attack was direct [...]
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week remotely participated in the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union, during which he was able to underline the commitment of the United States to "repair, revitalize and raise the level of ambition in US-EU relations ". Blinken highlighted the importance of close cooperation with the EU and [...]
read moreQatar will not change its relations with Iran and Turkey after signing an agreement with Saudi Arabia and its allies to break the isolation that had lasted since 2017. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, Qatar's foreign minister, has said that "Doha has agreed to cooperate with the other Gulf countries [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the other Gulf countries (United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain) have signed a historic agreement to end the embargo that lasted three years. The summit was held in AI Ula, a town north of Medina. The Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al Thani was present, received [...]
read moreUS and Iraqi authorities have warned Iran and Iranian-backed militias that any attack on American diplomats or military forces would be read as an attack by Iran on American interests. The warning close to the anniversary of the killing of the Iranian general Soleimani following an American attack using drones. TO […]
read more(by Andrea Pinto) With the election of Joe Biden, a window has opened to restart talks with Iran and revive the 2015 international nuclear agreement known as JCPOA - Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. A new course that probably has not yet convinced Iran, so much so that it is continuing its [...]
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According to a report by American intelligence agencies, Iran is trying to avenge the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani in January of this year. Soleimani, head of the elite military corps, "the Guardians of the Revolution" was killed by a US drone attack during a visit to the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The "Politico" website reported the news [...]
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Shabtai Shavit, one of the longest serving directors of the Israeli security agency known as Mossad, said Israel and the world cannot prevent Iran from developing its own nuclear arsenal. The super agent recommends focusing on deterrent systems instead. Shavit, now 80, has a long career in one of [...]
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There was mounting tension in Iraq over the weekend as the Baghdad government reported arresting over a dozen members of a powerful Iranian-backed Shiite militia. It is the first time that the Shia-led Iraqi government has taken steps to reduce the growing power of these [...]
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Iran has a "very strong air force" despite the limitations imposed on the country by the United States by the Islamic revolution of 1979. This was stated two days ago by the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a meeting of commanders and Air Force personnel. "Since the revolution of 1979, the United States' objective has been to [...]
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Iran has launched a satellite into orbit, the announcement was made by an Iranian minister, as part of a new civilian program. However, the launch failed, like those already attempted in recent years. The United States believes that behind the launch of the satellite there is a correlation with the development of new [...]
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NBC News reported that the Pentagon spokesman revealed that as many as thirty-four US military personnel suffered concussions and brain injuries following the Iranian missile attacks on Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq earlier this month. Iran has launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against two Iraqi airbases [...]
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The internal demonstrations do not seem to soften the position of Rohani who declared: "The daily enrichment" of uranium by Iran is now "superior" to what happened before the signing of the 2015 nuclear agreement, then abandoned unilaterally by the US and now also questioned by Europe. Today we no longer have any restrictions in the field of nuclear energy ”. [...]
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According to reports from La Stampa, the truce will be signed today in Moscow between Fayez al Sarraj, president of the Government of national agreement, General Khalifa Haftar, the president of the Tobruk parliament Agila Saleh, and the head of the Tripoli State Council, Khalid al -Mishri. It sounds strange that this important passage in the "dossier" [...]
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Donald Trump: "Someone on the other side may have made a mistake", Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: "The plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile". These are the two statements, supported by clues provided by American intelligence that thanks to satellite surveys they would have identified the firing of a Russian-made surface-to-air missile that would have hit a part [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The air distance between the capitals of Iran and Italy is about 3750 km, but the distance between the two borders could be reached by Iranian missiles. Indeed, Iranian missiles can hit targets within a range of 300 to 2.500 kilometers from their launch point. [...]
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Following the escalation of the situation in Libya with the involvement of Turkey and Russia in support of the two rival factions of the Government of National Accord (GNA) chaired by Fayez Mustafa al-Sarraj and the Libyan National Army (LNA) commanded by General Khalifa Haftar, the president of FederPetroli Italia intervenes - Michele Marsiglia "It is a war for the [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Iran is wounded and according to many analysts there is a high probability that revenge is around the corner. Too much the American affront in killing General Soleimani, he was a first-level strategist, who became a national symbol in the fight against the West. What kind of war could it be? Surely it will never be possible to reach a [...]
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Taylor Adam on the WP explains in detail what is happening in Iraq between the US and Iran and why Iraq is important to the whole region. Tensions between the United States and Iran have increased throughout 2019, but on New Year's Eve, they took on a surge that saw the US embassy [...]
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Foreign embassies in Tehran open their wi-fi networks and let the Iranian people use them: the appeal to the international community, almost a cry for help, comes from Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian lawyer who was a Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2003, contacted by the Agi by telephone. Ebadi is in Italy for an event dedicated to the University of Verona [...]
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US Air Force Chief David Goldfein said he hoped the tensions between the Gulf states could end as soon as possible by urging them to join military capabilities against Iran's growing threat. Washington reads the continuing political rift between Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt towards Qatar, a contradiction to respect [...]
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The Iranian government may have used a female intelligence officer to lure a leading Iranian dissident from his home in France in Iraq, where he was then kidnapped by Iranian security forces and secretly transported to Iran. The Iranian authorities gave the news of the arrest of Ruhollah Zam last October 15, news also confirmed [...]
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Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio on the escalation of Turkey in Syria said: “I hope that the European Union can take measures. Italy will ask for international law to be respected, not to put the lives of civilians at risk and an end to all military action ”. Di Maio also hinted that he wanted to [...]
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In a surprising move last week, Iranian authorities arrested a Russian journalist in the Caucasus region, accused of spying on behalf of Israel. They later agreed to release her after diplomatic pressure from Russia. But the move surprised observers, because Iran rarely takes actions unwelcome to Moscow. The [...]
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One question among all after the drone and missile attacks on oil wells in Saudi Arabia on 14 September. Will there be an escalation between the Saudi kingdom and Iran? Riyadh directly accused the Islamic Republic of ordering the attacks. But speculation about a possible war is disconcerting, says Nesrine #Malik in [...]
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Jean-Yves le Drian, French Foreign Minister, speaking to the microphones of Europa 1 said that France considers Iran's decision to further reduce its 2015 nuclear commitments "not final" and will therefore do everything to find a deal. “The actions they have taken are negative but not definitive. Can […]
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Abbas Araghchi, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister, will arrive in France today at the helm of an Iranian economic delegation to discuss the measures to be taken in an attempt to save the nuclear deal signed in 2015 and to ensure naval safety in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. This confirms once again the important role that [...]
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A tweet from US President Donald #Trump may have compromised the secrets of America's satellite reconnaissance capabilities. According to experts who analyzed the tweet over the weekend. The US president posted a message about the Iranian space program on his personal Twitter account on Saturday, August 30. The message read: "The States [...]
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According to official Iranian sources, the Iranian army has announced the sending of its frigate to the Gulf of Aden "to protect maritime navigation" on the outlet of the Red Sea. Admiral Habiballah Siari, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Army quoted by the Irna agency, said “The Sanhad frigate has actually arrived in the Gulf of Aden [...]
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Iran has tested a new missile. This was reported today by the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, General Hossein Salami, quoted by the “Tasnim” news agency. “Our country is always at the forefront of testing a variety of defense and strategic systems. And yesterday was one of the successful days for this [...]
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The new long-range anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense system, called Bavar 373, was presented in Tehran. A local manufacturing system, inspired by the Russian S-300, whose purchase from Moscow was blocked in 2010, due to international sanctions. The system can locate targets over 300 kilometers away and destroy them at [...]
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A senior Iranian intelligence official confirmed widespread rumors that an unprecedented anti-corruption campaign is taking place at the top of Iran's judiciary, with some senior figures already in prison. The Iranian judiciary is one of the most powerful and secretive institutions in the Islamic Republic. She is nominally nominated by the Iranian Ministry of Justice, [...]
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Iran's state-owned energy sector, one of the most profitable in the world, has become a major target of international espionage. It was therefore subjected to new sanctions by the United States this year. The purpose of the Washington sanctions is to limit the Islamic Republic's ability to export energy and, thereby, put an end to [...]
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergej #Lavrov yesterday at the meeting of the foreign ministers of the countries that make up the #Brics bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), who met in Rio de Janeiro, commented on the American policy in the field of defense and security, the interview was taken up by the #Tass news agency: "The development of plans [...]
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About 1.000 Islamic State fighters have returned to Iraq in recent months and are waging a low-level uprising that threatens to destabilize rural areas and could be the harbinger of a new war, an expert warned. Thousands of fighters belonging to the Islamic State - also known as the Islamic State of Iraq [...]
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According to the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence, the Islamic Republic has discovered an alleged "CIA network" operating in some sensitive private sector companies and government agencies that deal with defense, aerospace and energy. 17 alleged spies were reportedly arrested and sentenced to death. Tehran officials also said that all [...]
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The United States will send troops, assets and military systems to Saudi Arabia for the first time since 2003. The deployment of military units will be a "deterrent" to Iran. The announcement, therefore, fits fully into the Hybrid War between Washington and Tehran and preceded by a few hours the news of the kidnapping by the Pasdaran [...]
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The Guardians of the Islamic Revolution of Iran are responsible for the seizure of an oil tanker in the Gulf waters. This was read in a statement issued today and taken up by Iranian state television. The Pasdarans say that "a foreign tanker loaded with one million liters of smuggled fuel" was seized in the south of the island [...]
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Today the declaration on behalf of the EU by the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign and Security Policy, Federica #Mogherini, on the situation of the Intermediate Interval Nuclear Forces Treaty (Inf). "The European Union calls on all states to uphold the integrity of the rules-based international system with effective multilateralism as a key principle, indispensable for maintaining [...]
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Tensions between the US and Iran in the Strait of Hormuz have subsided but on the "web" it appears that Iranians are continuing their activity against US targets in the US and elsewhere. On Wednesday morning, the US Cyber Command tweeted that it had discovered "active malicious use" of a known bug in Microsoft [...]
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The tones between Washington and Tehran continue to remain high. Hassan Rohani, during the telephone conversation he had with Emmanuel Macron late yesterday evening, stated that "If the Americans intend to violate the airspace of Iran again, they should know that the Iranian Armed Forces are ready for an incisive response". Referring to the drone that flew over [...]
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Iranian state media today announced the arrest of 16 officials in the country's oil ministry, allegedly accused of sabotaging Iran's energy policy. It is unclear whether these arrests are in any way connected with Tehran's announcement last week when it broke the news that it had dismantled "one of [...]
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Javad Azari-Jahromi, Iranian telecommunications minister, said the "cyber attacks" launched by the United States against missile defense systems "have not succeeded". The statement came through a message posted on Twitter by the minister himself “The media are wondering about the effectiveness of the alleged cyber-attacks against Iran. None of their attacks succeeded despite [...]
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“These people want to push us into a war, and it's so disgusting. We don't need any more wars ”. These are Trump's private considerations, exchanged on Friday with a confidant and published yesterday by the «Wall Street Journal. Also yesterday, the US president confirmed that he will announce new sanctions against the Islamic Republic, while the Pentagon has launched [...]
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Trump in a long speech explains what happened last night, when he stopped the attack on Iran, minutes before it began. “I asked how many people would die. '150, sir', I was answered by a general. So, I stopped everything ten minutes from the attack, which would not have been proportionate to the shooting down of a drone ”. The contents […]
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Last night at around 20 pm, Washington time, Donald Trump ordered an attack on specific Iranian targets, in retaliation for the shooting down of the US spy drone in the Gulf. The entire military device had already been started and were in position to launch the attack. But before launching the operation, Trump canceled the operation, [...]
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In the early hours of the day, a US drone flying over the Strait of Hormuz was intercepted and hit by Syrian forces. According to the Guardians of the Revolution, the spy drone had violated Iranian airspace and had the identification equipment deactivated: it departed from an American air base in the southern Gulf, flew over the southern province [...]
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A senior Iranian security official said today that Tehran dismantled "one of the most complex espionage operations ever done" by the US Central Intelligence Agency, leading to "arrests in different countries and confessions" of an unknown number of suspects. The announcement was made by Ali Shamkhani secretary of the Supreme Council of [...]
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Yutaka Katada, the chairman of Kokuka Sangyo, the Japanese company that chartered the oil tanker Kokuka Sangyo, said the ship was hit by a torpedo and not a mine, as US officials claim, who blame Iran. "We have received reports that something has flown to the ship," Katada said in [...]
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According to "Reuters", Iran, stressing that Europe is not in a position to criticize Tehran for its military capabilities, has called on European leaders to regularize economic ties with the Islamic Republic by ignoring US sanctions reintroduced after Donald Trump's withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran [...]
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The escalation of tension between the United States and #Iran, and the consequent escalation in the Persian Gulf, could be the result of a misreading of the intelligence apparatuses of both countries, according to a new report cited by the Wall Street Journal. Reports from the Middle East continue to describe the situation as tense as indeed [...]
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Behind the attack on two Saudi oil tankers and two other ships, damaged near the Strait of Hormuz, there is probably Iran. According to the US press, which cites US officials, Tehran or Iranian supporters have used explosives to damage commercial ships, a finding that, if confirmed, would further fuel the military tensions in the Persian Gulf. [...]
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Iran is capable of destroying the US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln with a single missile, which yesterday crossed the Suez Canal after setting sail for a mission in the Middle East. This was stated by Ayatollah Yousef Tabatabai-Nejad, representative of the province of Isfahan in the Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic. "Their ship, which cost billions of [...]
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The sudden US decision to deploy a significant military component in the Middle East came in response to intelligence information given to Washington by Israeli officials. The United States announced that the USS Abraham Lincoln had received instructions to navigate the Middle East. The aircraft carrier is sailing alongside a cruiser [...]
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Iran rejects news related to the seizure of the cargo ship Shahr and Kord in the port of Misurata by the authorities of the Government of National Accord (GNA) of Tripoli. In a statement released to the "Irna" news agency, Mohammed Saeedi, general manager of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line (Irisl), confirmed that it is in progress [...]
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has inaugurated a new nationally built submarine armed with cruise missiles. "From this moment, the Fateh Submarine joins the Iranian naval force," Rouhani said in an English-language ceremony broadcast live on state TV. The Fateh "Conqueror" submarine weighs 600 tons and "yes [...]
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According to Iranian media reports, a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards was killed and five were injured in an attack on a base in southeastern Iran. Mohammad Hadi Marashi, provincial deputy governor for security affairs. IRNA agency, said: "A Basij paramilitary base in Nik Shahr passed [...]
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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said in a weekly press conference, broadcast live on state TV, said that he could not confirm secret talks with France on the ballistic missile program, as he had requested. the French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian who [...]
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An Israeli attack hit Iranian forces in Syria believed to be responsible for launching a missile at Israel. Netanyahu himself said: "We are working against Iran and against the Syrian forces that favor the aggression of Iran". According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the Israeli attack would have caused the deaths of at least 11 people [...]
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California - The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested two men of Iranian descent accused of operating as deep cover spies for Iran. Documents filed in a federal court in Washington refer to the men as Majid Ghorbani, 59, and Ahmadreza Mohammadi Doostdar, 38. Both have American citizenship and are […]
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According to "Reuters", last fall, after a group of militants aligned with Tehran fired mortar rounds in an area of Baghdad that houses the US embassy, the White House national security team he asked the Pentagon to provide him with options for striking Iran. Citing US officials [...]
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The Shiite militias that fought in the war against the Islamic State are now "committed to mafia-like activities" in the former strongholds of the Islamic State. Iraqi Sunnis fear another Islamic uprising, according to an article published in the Washington Post. In 2014, the rapid rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - ISIS, in [...]
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Last night Iran successfully conducted preliminary tests on three new satellites: Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said on Twitter this morning, stating that the satellites will be launched soon. The minister did not specify the date. Iran announced last Tuesday its intention to use Simorgh rockets [...]
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An Iranian Navy flotilla will begin a voyage in the Atlantic Ocean starting March 21, 2019, according to the Iranian Navy commander, Rear Admiral Touraj Hassani Moqaddam, in an interview with the "Irna" news agency. According to the senior official, the trip will last at least five months and a circumnavigation of the globe is expected. Hassani [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Since the US primacy in the world, as a global police force, is fading or is no longer what it once was, the international order is today more than ever in chaos. World leaders are increasingly tempted to test the limits of international law to strengthen their influence and [...]
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The Guardians of the Iranian Revolution have announced that they intend to upgrade their fast boats used in the Gulf with stealth technologies to avoid radar and equip them with new missile launchers. At the end of a long absence of US aircraft carriers in the region, the USS John C. Stennis entered the Gulf last week and [...]
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The oil giant was sentenced Friday in Paris to a 500.000 euro fine for "bribery of a foreign public official" on the sidelines of the signing of a huge gas contract in Iran in 1997 The Paris court sentenced the Total group to a fine of 500.000 euros for bribery of foreign public officials in [...]
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The United States accused Iran of testing a new medium-range ballistic missile, capable of carrying more warheads. According to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the 2015 international agreement on the Iranian nuclear program was violated, from which, however, Washington withdrew. "Missile tests are carried out for defense [...]
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According to reports from the Iranian news agencies Mehr and Tasmnim, the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Bahram Ghasemi, hoped that the major powers could remain faithful to the nuclear agreement signed in 2015. Bahram, during the usual press conference on Monday, revealed that "there are some ambiguities about the implementation of the EU mechanism for [...]
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On November 5, President Trump continued his plan to reintroduce sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran after withdrawing the United States from the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on USA Today: “Our goal is to stress the Iranian regime on the revenues it uses to finance violent activities [...]
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Reuter reported that Iran has begun production of the Kowsar fighter jet designed for its air force, state television reported, as tensions with the United States escalate after sanctions are reintroduced. "Soon the necessary number of this aircraft will go into full production in the service of the Air Force", said the [...]
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'Sanctions are coming', sanctions are on the way, so with a message on Twitter Donald Trump announces the restoration of all US sanctions against Iran starting from Monday 5 November. Mostly oil and banks will be affected. This is in an attempt to cut off the legs of the Tehran government, even if the White House continues to [...]
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The Iranian government is allegedly smuggling ballistic missile parts into Lebanon, where they are secretly stored in clandestine factories run by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, according to a former Israeli intelligence official. For several months, the international news agency Reuters has claimed that Tehran would transport short-range ballistic missiles to secret bases controlled by the militias [...]
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The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister has expressed his country's opposition to US sanctions against Iran, saying the US appears to take every opportunity to exert pressure on countries that do not follow its policies, and negatively judging the new US sanctions against Iran. 'Iran and the nations involved Ryabkov further stated that Moscow [...]
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The numerous appeals launched by the main civil rights organizations, Zeinab Sekaanvand, the 24-year-old Iranian woman arrested in 2011, when she was only 17, for killing the man she was forced to marry at 15, did not help. years and to suffer physical and psychological abuse so as to induce it [...]
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US President Donald Trump presided over the United Nations General Assembly for the first time in front of a cold audience. There was also some sarcastic giggles from the world representatives who attended. Trump warned Europe "that it wants to circumvent sanctions against Iran" and a frontal attack on China on [...]
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Benyamin Netanyahu's departure for New York is scheduled for today, where he will speak at the UN General Assembly next Thursday. On the sidelines of the assembly, Prime Minister Netanyahu will meet Donald Trump, and probably also the Egyptian leader Sisi. There were many topics that could be discussed in the meeting with Trump, one of them being the dossier relating to the American peace plan and [...]
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According to reports from the Iranian news agency "MIZAN", Iranian security services arrested several people suspected of having links with the attack that took place last September 22 during a military parade of the body of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution in Ahvaz, in 'South West Iran. Mahmoud Alavi, Iranian Minister of Intelligence, replying to the media said "We are [...]
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accused the Arab states of the Gulf supported by the United States holding them responsible for the terrorist attack that took place during the military parade that killed at least 25 people, almost half of them members of the Revolutionary Guards of elite of the country. The prosecution will likely increase tensions with Arabia [...]
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According to an online security company, Islamic State supporters, most of them Persians, were spied on by the Iranian government through two smartphone applications containing, one, images of ISIS-themed wallpapers that users could download on their devices, the other, a counterfeit version of the Firat News application [...]
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France advised, in an August 20 communication addressed to its diplomats and foreign ministry officials, to indefinitely postpone all non-essential travel to Iran, referring to a thwarted attack on a demonstration - held by a group of the Iranian opposition in exile near Paris to which [...]
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Following the nine US sanctions on Iran and the tightening of relations with the West, the security forces of Tehran are carrying out a series of intelligence activities within the state apparatus. Thus they arrested dozens of spies working in state bodies, intelligence minister Mahmoud Alavi reported. It was not specified when the arrests [...]
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The Tasnim news agency reports that Iranian defense minister Amir Hatami arrived in Syria on Sunday for meetings with President Bashar al-Assad and senior defense and military officials. During the meeting, Hatami told Assad that "relations between the two countries are strong and stable ... The Iranian forces supported Assad [...]
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As the US threatened new sanctions on Iran, followed by the bald abandonment of the nuclear program, Iran launched a massive naval training campaign in the Strait of Hormuz last week. The motivation is to make the world understand that Iran is also ready to block the transits of this strait. [...]
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“For a long time, China and Iran have had open, transparent and normal trade cooperation in the fields of business, trade and energy, which is reasonable, fair and legal. This does not violate the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council or the international commitments promised by China, nor does it harm the interests of anyone [...]
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The push and pull in foreign policy by US President Donald Trump continues. The politics of rhetoric, mixed with that of threats, would be part of a strategy studied by the American tycoon. A practice widely used in the field of big business. A chessboard where the opponents, before making the [...]
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The Iranian state news agency IRNA reported that in recent days the guardians of the revolution have carried out a massive drill in the Gulf to train themselves to "face possible threats". US officials confirmed to Reuters that Iran has anticipated annual drills due to mounting tensions with Washington. The spokesman for the revolutionary guards Ramezan [...]
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The tones between Washington and Tehran are getting harder. In recent days, according to reports from the Reuters news agency, senior officials of the American administration had launched a massive media offensive against the Iranian government with the aim of fomenting unrest in the Islamic Republic. The campaign, according to Reuters, intends to "work in concert" with the thrust [...]
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke to some Iranian diplomats referring explicitly to the foreign policy of US President Donald Trump. At the most heartfelt moment of his speech, he said, "the US should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the [...]
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The Iranian embassy Hague Holland expelled two Iranian diplomats without explaining the reasons, thus fueling the hypothesis that the expulsions may be linked to the arrests of members of an alleged Iranian sleeper cell in Belgium, Germany and France last week. On Friday, a spokesperson for the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) told [...]
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gave little weight to the plot intended to strike an Iranian opposition rally in France calling it a "false trick" aimed at overshadowing President Hassan Rohani's just-begun journey to Europe. As soon as the presidential visit to Europe began, an alleged Iranian operation and [...]
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A Syrian human rights organization said Iranian military forces and Hezbollah were preparing to withdraw from southern Syria. London also confirmed that the aforementioned military forces will soon leave the governorates of Daraa and Quneitra, which are adjacent to the border with Israel. However, a senior Syrian official vehemently denied this [...]
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The tough financial confrontation between the US and China now turns to black gold. In fact, as of November 4th, the United States plans to ban the purchase of Iranian oil and all transactions with the Central Bank of Tehran and financial institutions that violate these sanctions will lose access to payment systems based [...]
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Israel accused Gonen Segev, who was the Jewish State's Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, of committing espionage with Iran. According to reports from the Shin Bet National Security Service, Segev was arrested last month while on a trip to Equatorial Guinea following a request for arrest by [...]
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It is no coincidence that the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was organized while the G7 is taking place in Canada. It is also no coincidence that Trump had talked about the G8, trying to include Russia, among the greats of the earth. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a regional alliance led by China and Russia, of [...]
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Following Donald Trump's decision to exit the nuclear deal signed in 2015, Iran announces its intention to resume uranium enrichment. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaking to the crowd that flocked to the Khomeini mausoleum on the anniversary of his death, announced that Tehran has ordered preparations to resume uranium enrichment, stating that [...]
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Total received an "ultimtum" from the Iranian authorities. Two months to obtain exemption from sanctions by the United States, before being replaced by the Chinese CNPC in the contract for the development of phase 11 of the South Pars natural gas field. At stake is the extraction of natural gas from the largest point [...]
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Reuters reported that the United States today called on Iran to make sweeping changes, drop its nuclear program until the Syrian civil war is eliminated, alternatively face severe economic sanctions. Iran rejected Washington's ultimatum and a senior Iranian official said the United States is trying to "change the regime" [...]
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According to the statement by the Iranian foreign minister to the EU energy chief, the European Union is not doing enough to preserve the benefits for Iran from the 2015 international nuclear deal following the US withdrawal. "With the withdrawal of America, public expectations (of Iran) from the European Union have increased to maintain the gains of the agreement and, in [...]
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If the European Union is distant from the United States' withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal, it will not have repercussions on Tehran's oil exports. Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh told reporters today after meeting with the European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, Miguel Arias Canete, according to the Iranian agency [...]
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(by Prof. Barbara Faccenda) It will take years before the full repercussions of Trump's decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran are clear - whether it will contain Iranian regional aggression and nuclear program or feed them. Analyzing the logic of Trump's decision, we understand how it is the result of a strategy based [...]
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The day after the announcement of the US exit from the nuclear deal, the tension between Iran and Israel continues to rise. During the night explosions were heard on the southern outskirts of Damascus while some fighters flew over the area: it could have been the Israeli response to the launch of the 20 rockets launched at its military posts on the Golan. Second […]
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After the announcement of Donald Trump, who withdrew the US from the agreement with Iran, the International Atomic Energy Agency (Aiea) confirms that Tehran will respect "the commitments relating to nuclear power" provided for in the agreement. The director of the UN agency, Yukiya Amano, reiterates in a note that "Iran is subjected to the strictest nuclear verification regime in the world" and that [...]
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Morocco has cut diplomatic ties with Iran, for its alleged involvement in the delivery of weapons from Lebanese ally Hezbollah to the Polisario Front. This was announced by the Foreign Minister, Nasser Bourita, stating that "a first shipment of weapons was recently" sent to the Front, through an "element" at the Iranian embassy in Algiers. Rabat [...]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of alleged "evidence" of Iran's secret ambitions in the development of nuclear weapons, information obtained from the Mossad, the Israeli secret services, from the examination of secret Iranian documents that they allegedly come into possession of. This statement provoked skeptical reactions from supporters of the 2015 agreement between Tehran and [...]
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Federica Mogherini, High Representative for Foreign Policy of the European Union, speaking of the accusations made by Israel against Iran on the nuclear program said: "If any party, if any party, has information on non-compliance, of any kind, it can and should address and channel this information to its own legitimate and recognized mechanisms, the Hague and the joint commission [...]
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Iran welcomed the agreement between the two Koreas on the denuclearization of the peninsula but also warned that the United States is not entitled to play any role since Washington "does not respect its commitments". The meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon jae-in represented [...]
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US prosecutors in New York are investigating whether Chinese tech firm Huawei has violated US sanctions in relation to Iran, according to sources who follow the story closely. Since at least 2016, the US authorities have been probing the alleged shipment of products of US origin by Huawei to Iran [...]
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According to statements by the head of the Elysée, Emmanuel Macron, President Donald Trump will abandon the Iranian nuclear deal. Macron's comment comes after his talks with the White House tenant aimed at dissuading Trump from his intentions. On the occasion of an event organized at George Washington University, addressing reporters, he said: "The [...]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin warned yesterday that further Western attacks in Syria would wreak havoc on the business world as Washington threatened to increase pressure on Russia with new economic sanctions. In a telephone conversation with Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani, he agreed that the Western attack had damaged the odds [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The apparent American lack of interest in the Middle East has for some time been favoring new processes of strategic influence of new / old international players. Syria is an area that in this regard is demonstrating how the triumvirate Russia, Turkey, Iran is doing good and bad weather in a perspective that is anything but pacifying, to the detriment, above all, of the civilian population [...]
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Saudi Arabia once again points the finger at Iran for the missiles launched by the Yemeni Houthi rebels against Riyadh. Turki al Malki, spokesman for the Saudi-led Arab Coalition, said: “This aggressive and hostile action by the Iranian-backed Houthis proves that the Iranian regime continues to militarily support this armed group. The launch [...]
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Carlo Maresca SpA today inaugurated in Iran the first photovoltaic park built in full equity by an Italian company, Blu Terra2. The energy produced by the 'Blu Terra2 ″ park which has 30 panels on an area of 20 hectares equal to about 40 football fields entered the Iranian energy network on March 4th [...]
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According to international media reports citing the Austrian police as a source, a man armed with a knife was shot dead in front of the Iranian ambassador's residence in Vienna and more precisely in the district of Hietzing. The man, a XNUMX-year-old of Austrian nationality, was killed just before midnight. On [...]
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The former chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces said foreign governments have used several species of lizards, including chameleons, to spy on Iran's nuclear program. The story was denounced by Hassan Firuzabadi, a veteran Iranian military officer, who from 1989 to 2016 was the chief of staff of the Forces [...]
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On March 16, the foreign ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey will discuss the Syrian crisis agreement in Astana as promoters of the peace process in Syria. The news was announced in a press release by the Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry. "According to the information received from the states guaranteeing the [...]
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A senior Iranian military official said today that Iran will not negotiate its missile program unless Europe and the United States destroy their nuclear weapons and missiles. "What the Americans say to exercise restrictions on Iranian missile capabilities is their unattainable dream," the deputy chief said on Saturday [...]
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Iranian President Hassan Rohani was received in New Delhi by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday on the last day of his visit to India. Rohani: “Relations between Iran and India do not aim to harm any other nation. The two countries must exploit common capabilities to broaden and deepen their [...]
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An Iranian passenger plane with 66 people on board crashed in central Iran earlier in the day during a flight from Tehran to the city of Yasuj in the southwest of the country, Iranian media reported. The ATR plane, operated by the Iranian company Aseman Airlines, crashed in a mountainous area near the city [...]
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Israel is as if it were by now at war and has begun to hit military targets of the regime but also of "Iranians". It lost one of its jets during the most serious escalation of tensions that has involved the three countries in years. An Israeli pilot was seriously injured. The current tension is the most [...]
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Israeli planes attacked Iranian targets in Syria on Saturday after intercepting an Iranian unmanned aircraft (UAV), and after an Israeli fighter jet was shot down from Syria. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attacked the launch components of Iranian aircraft in Syrian territory, the IDF said in a [...]
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The country that has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world should take the initiative to follow the trend of disarmament instead of going against it, ”the Chinese Defense Ministry said today. The US military believes its nuclear weapons are seen as too large to use and want to develop low-yield bombs. [...]
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Pakistan is cooperating in the construction of the "peace" pipeline to transport Iranian natural gas to the country. This is the accusation launched by the Iranian oil minister, Bijan Zangeneh against Islamabad. Interviewed by the "Irna" news agency, the minister stressed that Iran has completed its part of the pipeline to the border with Pakistan and [...]
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Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, said recent attempts by the United States to scuttle the Iranian nuclear deal (also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Jcpoa) are illegal and that the agreement it cannot be renegotiated under any circumstances. Underlining that the agreement meets Iran's minimum demands, he [...]
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, at the end of the meeting held yesterday in London with British Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, announced the formation of a working group involving European countries to improve the agreement Iranian nuclear power and whose purpose would be to evaluate new measures [...]
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Iran, responding to the ultimatum launched by US President Donald Trump, has made it known that it rejects any changes to the nuclear deal signed with the 5 + 1 group. The news was made known through an official note issued by the foreign ministry which reads: "The Islamic Republic of Iran will not take any measures beyond its own [...]
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The nuclear deal is not renegotiated. This is what the Iranian Foreign Ministry reiterated following the request for 'corrections' made by the President of the United States Donald Trump, who yesterday signed a new suspension of sanctions, provided that the agreement is improved. "The nuclear agreement is an internationally recognized and concluded pact [...]
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The United States needs an aggressive Iran, to justify the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia or its bases in Qatar: for this they only want to weaken it, but not destroy it. And in this they favor the 'right' in Iran, and go against the interests of the people ”. Speaking is Saeed Leylaz, economist and analyst [...]
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(by Pasquale PREZIOSA) In 2015, in Vienna, an agreement on Iranian nuclear was reached through the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between Iran and the P5 + 1 (permanent countries of the UN Security Council + Germany + European Union). The agreement provides that Iran will eliminate, from its deposits, medium-level enriched uranium, it will cut that by 98% [...]
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(by Pasquale Preziosa) The defeat of the Islamic state (Isis) in Syria, started the consolidation of alliances to be able to reposition themselves on a geopolitical level The Hezbollah formation, from Lebanon, was heavily involved in the anti-ISIS fighting in support of Bashar's Syria Al Assad. Already at the beginning of last October, the Secretary General of Hezbollah, [...]
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A 5 billion euro agreement between Italy and Iran to relaunch investments in three key sectors: purchase of goods and services, infrastructure and energy with the support of the newco Invitalia Global Investment. While in Tehran the protest against the cost of living and the government of the moderate president Hassan Rohani does not stop, Italy succeeds [...]
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The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, today praised "the massive movement of the people against the conspiracy of enemies", accusing the United States, Israel and an opposition group in exile of planning the recent protests they rocked the country. According to the Iranian state media, the demonstrations in support of the Republic [...]
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Defeated ISIS now we are moving towards Idlib, so the Syrian army has started its campaign against the militias linked to Al Qaeda that still control the area, while thousands of civilians flee towards the Turkish border besieged as well as by weapons , from the bitter cold of these days. He had been the Russian Foreign Minister [...]
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This was reported by the pan-Arab daily Al Quds al Arabi: former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was arrested in Shiraz, accused of having instigated protests against the regime. The arrest would have received the imprimatur of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. According to sources in the Qatari-owned newspaper, Ahmadinejad is said to be under house arrest. Speaking in Bushehr [...]
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According to reports from the BBC, 32 people are missing after the collision between an oil tanker and a cargo ship, which occurred not far from Shanghai late Saturday evening. The Panamanian flag tanker "Sanchi", managed by the Iranian company Glory Shipping, which transported 136 thousand tons of condensed oil to South Korea collided [...]
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif criticized the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) emergency meeting saying that a gross foreign policy mistake has been made for Washington, the Tasnim news agency reported today. "The United Nations Security Council has rejected the American attempt to use [...]
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Almost all the UN member countries condemned the violence and invited Tehran to restraint, however during the meeting a chorus rose in defense of the 2015 international agreement on Iranian nuclear power, repeatedly in the crosshairs of the Donald Trump administration. After criticizing the development of ballistic missiles and Iran's role in supporting [...]
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Washington has called for an emergency meeting of the Security Council to discuss the situation in the Islamic Republic after the demonstrations in recent days. While Moscow, (also flanked by China), said it was against, accusing the United States of interfering in the country's internal affairs, and threatened to ask for a procedural vote to try [...]
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More than 1000 people were arrested during the protests and transferred to detention centers known for the torture practiced there, ”continued Amnesty. “In the Evin prison alone, in Tehran, 31 prisoners entered were registered between December 2017, 2018 and January 423, XNUMX. Many of them [...]
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US Vice President Mike Pence, through an editorial for the Washington Post, highlights the different attitude that US President Donald Trump is taking towards the Iranian protests. The Trump administration will not remain silent as did Barack Obama in 2009, when protesters took to the streets to protest the [...]
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An operation carried out last night by Iranian intelligence led to the identification and dismantling of an active terrorist cell in Piranshahr ready to commit attacks during demonstrations by demonstrators. During a firefight on Wednesday night, the terrorists used a woman as a human shield. A member of the cell would have been killed while [...]
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Despite the protesters shouting slogans against the Islamic regime, for many analysts the causes of the current protests in Iran are to be found in the austerity policy adopted by the moderate government of President Hassan Rohani which has made "life really difficult" for the population, even in the capital Tehran. The protests broke out in several [...]
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Four days of demonstrations in Iran represented the biggest challenge for the clerical leadership after the pro-reform riots of 2009. At least four people were killed while some clashes with the police were truly violent. "I can only wish the Iranian people success in the struggle for freedom and democracy", he [...]
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Tens of thousands of Iranians have been protesting across the country since Thursday against the unelected clerical elite of the Islamic Republic and against Iranian foreign policy in the region. They also chanted slogans in support of political prisoners. The demonstrators initially vented their anger at the economic difficulties and alleged corruption, but [...]
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Street protests hit Iran for the third day, spreading to the capital Tehran with crowds confronting police and attacking some state buildings. A social media post reported that two protesters were killed in a provincial town. The wave of anti-government demonstrations, partly caused by discontent [...]
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Women who in Tehran do not respect the dress rules imposed after the advent of the Ayatollah regime (1979) will no longer be arrested or tried as they once were. This was stated by the chief of police of the Iranian capital, General Hossein Rahimi, quoted by the reformist newspaper Sharq. This is a move in line with the [...]
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Mohammed al-Masuri, a lawyer for the former president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was assassinated on 4 December in Sanaa, revealed yesterday that those responsible for the murder are members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. This was reported by the broadcaster al-Arabiyaa, to which Masuri promised that he would soon reveal further details on Iran's involvement in the killing of Saleh and on the extent of the presence [...]
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The toll is provisional and speaks of at least one woman dead and 30 people injured during the 5.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Iran yesterday evening, with its epicenter 40 kilometers from the capital Tehran. The quake, felt in the provinces of Tehran, Guilan, Alborz, Qom, Markazi and Qazvin at 23:27 local time, had [...]
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Saudi Arabia and Iran at loggerheads after the launch of a missile from Yemen, which fell south of Riyadh, whose paternity has been claimed by the Shiite Houthi rebels. The missile launched, a rebel spokesman said, is a Burkan-2. The missile was directed towards the Yamama Palace, the royal residence where it was [...]
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Iranian President Hassan Rohani harshly condemned US President Donald Trump's announcement of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Tehran will not tolerate it! Iran "will not tolerate a violation of Muslim holy places," he said in a speech in Tehran. "Muslims must remain united against this great" horror "that smells of conspiracy." Also […]
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According to reports from the Dpa news agency, Iranian President Hassan Rohani hoped for an improvement in relations with Saudi Arabia and assured that the Islamic Republic does not seek regional competition with the Gulf monarchy. Hassan said: “We never wanted this rivalry in the region, nor the current confrontation. Tehran [...]
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UN experts who arrived in Saudi Arabia to verify and study the fragments of a missile fired by Yemen last month have found a probable link with an Iranian contractor. This was revealed by a confidential document that France Presse was able to view. Saudi Arabia and the United States accused Iran of supplying weapons [...]
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A magnitude 6 earthquake shook eastern Iran this morning, near the city of Kerman. According to reports from the American Geosismic Institute (Usgs), the earthquake was recorded at a depth of 10 kilometers and 58 kilometers north-east of Kerman. The institute also reported a magnitude 5 quake recorded about ten [...]
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The signal from the deputy head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Brigadier General Hossein Salami, is clear: if Europe threatens Tehran, the Pasdaran will increase the range of their missiles beyond 2.000 kilometers. The international media report today. If we have kept the range of our missiles at 2.000 kilometers it is not due to the lack of technology: [...]
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Russia, Turkey and Iran are determined to continue cooperation in the fight against terrorism and to work to organize a conference for Syrian dialogue that is capable of bringing together all factions of Syria. This is what the Russian president, Vladimir Putin declared in the press conference organized in Sochi at the end of the summit [...]
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According to the Nova agency, there is great anticipation for the trilateral summit on Syria to be held today in Sochi, Russia, and which will be attended by the presidents of Russia, Iran and Turkey, respectively Vladimir Putin, Hassan Rohani and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The meeting was preceded by a meeting held yesterday, also in [...]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Paris in early December to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron. This was announced by the office of the head of the Israeli government, referring to a long telephone conversation between the two leaders which took place today. The head of the Elysée informed Netanyahu of his initiative to resolve the crisis [...]
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The Russian, Iranian and Turkish foreign ministers met today in Turkey to discuss Syria, just days before a trilateral summit crucial for the de-escalation process in this country. The Russian Sergei Lavrov, the Iranian Javad Zarif and the Turkish Mevlu Cavusoglu met in Antalya, in southern Turkey, [...]
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According to Nova reports, with the defeat of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the strategic areas of the two countries are becoming increasingly the subject of contention between other forces and states in the region. In particular Turkey and Iran both remain strongly interested in some strategic areas of these countries. Sinjar, Kurdish-Yazidi region, located [...]
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The number of victims of the earthquake that hit Iran and Iraq is destined to rise. This was stated by the ambassador of Italy to Iran, Claudio Conciatori, in an interview with TG2000, speaking of the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that devastated the area on the border of the two countries, reported that the latest update [... ]
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Saudi Arabia is opening a new front against Iran and wants Israel to play the dirty game ”in Lebanon against Hezbollah. This is hypothesized by a long analysis by Haaretz, according to which the Saudi kingdom is trying to move the battlefield with Iran from Syria to Lebanon, with the risk of triggering a [...]
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Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, son of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, killed in an attack on the Beirut waterfront on February 14, 2005 along with 22 other people, resigned. The unexpected announcement came with a statement released on the al-Arabiya satellite channel and broadcast directly from Saudi Arabia, where Hariri arrived yesterday in [...]
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According to what was announced by the official Irna news agency, eight soldiers were killed today during clashes with "terrorist groups" which took place on the border with Turkey. "This afternoon, during clashes between border guards and terrorist groups, the latter suffered several losses but unfortunately eight members of the security forces were battered", [...]
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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, will meet today the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during his visit to Tehran. This was stated by the spokesman of the Kremlin, Dmitrij Peskov, who illustrated the progress of the visit already announced in Iran. “The president will be on a working visit to Iran. There will be a Russian-Iranian bilateral talks. One [...]
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Ali Khamene, Supreme Leader of Iran, meeting Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in Tehran expressed agreement on the political line followed by the government of Baghdad aimed at defending the administrative unity of the country and its territorial integrity. The official website reads that Khamenei also referred to the unity among the different Iraqi ethnic groups. The [...]
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Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi criticized the United States for depriving Iran of the benefits envisaged in the 2015 agreement signed between Tehran and world powers. The deputy minister, during a conference, speaking of the attitude shown by the United States towards Tehran commented: “This negative atmosphere created by the US administration is [...]
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Japan intends to support the agreement signed with Iran by the six major powers, including the United States, despite the fact that US President Donald Trump has decided in recent days not to certify the agreement. The Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono reiterated this to his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif through a videoconference, whose resolutions [...]
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US President Donald Trump will not jeopardize Iran's business with the world, because after the nuclear deal he concluded agreements in various fields for 86 billion dollars, and attracted 14 billion in foreign investments. The Iranian newspaper 'Iran', from the government area, writes today. In particular, the newspaper still writes, [...]
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The Pentagon said Friday that it is examining, more broadly, measures to counter Iran after President Trump said he would review the American stance on the nuclear deal signed by the Obama administration. In a statement, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Adrian Rankine-Galloway said the overall strategy review includes […]
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After six years, Italy is once again the EU's first trading partner. This is certified by Eurostat data which reports, in its latest data on trade trends in member countries, a record volume of trade of 1,2 billion euros with Tehran. The EU statistical office in Brussels testifies that in 2011, the volume of Iran-Italy trade had reached the figure [...]
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US President Donald Trump spoke on the phone with King Salman of Saudi Arabia, who praised the US president for “his new, visionary strategy on Iran, promising support for the American leadership. This is what we read in a note from the White House, in which it is reported that during the telephone call that took place yesterday [...]
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Russia will continue its dialogue with the United States to keep the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program intact. This was stated by the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergej Ryabkov, to the "Tass" news agency. “Of course, we will dialogue with the United States. Our goal is always the same: we must preserve the great achievement of [...]
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If the US ends the Iran nuclear deal or re-imposes sanctions on Tehran, Iran could develop nuclear weapons and raise the danger of war near Europe. This is the warning issued by the German Foreign Minister, Sigmar Gabriel, to the microphones of the radio Deutschlandfunk, after yesterday the US President Donald Trump [...]
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Donald Trump will not certify to Congress the nuclear deal with Iran, the "dictatorship" that "trained al Qaeda" and "hid Osama bin Laden", but for the moment he is not withdrawing from the agreement signed with Tehran and the rest of the international community in June 2015. Instead, he asks Congress and allies to negotiate [...]
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Italian companies see the Islamic Republic as a privileged interlocutor with whom today it is possible to do excellent business. This is confirmed by the figures of the ICE (Foreign Trade Institute) but also the evidence of those who today in Tehran register a growing interest in the development of bilateral economic relations. For the moment we see no signs of a slowdown [...]
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In order to save what can be saved, Washington is working for a compromise, a sort of "third way", in short, devised by the National Security Advisor, HR McMaster to be able to satisfy Trump's destructive fury even against this piece of Obama's legacy. It is the Washington Post today that tells the process with which [...]
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Iran, international pressure to make Trump desist from revoking the Trump agreement against everyone. It is now clear that the American President wants to close its doors to Iran and therefore interrupt the nuclear deal signed by the Obama administration in 2005. The international community has condemned Trump's intention, as it is not considered wise in the light of the assurances of the 'Aeia - Agency [...]
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Iran is respecting the nuclear deal, the words of the Head of the IAEA The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (Aiea) of the UN, the Japanese Yukiya Amano has made clear that Iran is respecting the nuclear treaty signed in 2015. His words confirm the data of a report of the same international organization published [...]
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Iran will regard the US military as the Islamic State if Washington puts the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Pasdaran) on the list of terrorist organizations. Mohammad Ali Jafari said this today to the Iranian news agency "Tasnim", commenting on the latest news regarding the United States' intention to revoke the nuclear agreement signed by Tehran with [...]
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It's the calm before the storm ”: with an enigmatic notation, without adding explanations, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, had his photograph taken in the White House, just before dinner with the American generals and their respective wives. “You know, guys, what does this represent? Maybe it's the calm before the storm, ”he said suddenly, standing [...]
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According to Nova, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reiterated today, on the occasion of the press conference held in Tehran with his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rohani, his opposition to the referendum held on 25 September last in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan , announcing that "major countermeasures" will be taken against Erbil. "We do not recognize the [...]
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Iran, Trump softer: they do not respect agreement, we do not increase sanctions President Trump wants to save the face of the US on the worst agreement ever signed, as Trump himself defines it. National security advisors unanimously recommended Trump not to certify Tehran's compliance with the agreement, but not to ask the [...]
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According to Nova, Pakistan does not agree with the strategy of Donald Trump's US presidential administration for Afghanistan, does not intend to fight the Afghan war on its own territory and will continue to oppose an expansion of India's role in that country " , and for this reason it would do better to prepare for a further deterioration of relations with [...]
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Since the tension between the countries of the Persian Gulf has risen in an anti-Doha sense, Turkey and Iran, like two hawks, have thrown themselves on Qatar to increase their influence in the region and to increase trade flows. It would have been unimaginable long ago to see a Shiite country like Iran supporting the cause [...]
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The autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan celebrated the referendum on independence, amid local tension and international fear of another regional conflict. The polling stations closed at 18 pm Italian time, an hour after what was initially expected, and according to the latest official data on the turnout of 17 the participation was 78%. The forecast is that [...]
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Iran: Pasdaran, missiles multiplied after Trump threats The development of Iran's missile program "has multiplied after the threats of the US president, Donald Trump, and after Washington imposed new sanctions on Iranian people and institutions following missile activity of the country ". The commander of the Aerospace Forces said [...]
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Iranian state television announced that Iran has successfully tested the new Khoramshahr super-missile shown to the world during the military parade on the occasion of the “Week of Sacred Defense”. The Khoramshahr, which will soon be supplied to the Iranian armed forces, has a range of two thousand kilometers and can carry more warheads. The news […]
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Russia active to interfere with elections in Germany: German intelligence at work to prevent hybrid attacks The Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LFV) warns that in the elections in 2017 (parliamentary elections of 24 September 2017) and 2018 (election state in Bavaria in autumn 2018) strengthened the websites of [...]
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The speech by US President Donald Trump to the United Nations General Assembly referring to Kim Jong-un: "is the sound of a dog barking". There was no lack of first-person reaction from the Korean leader. Pyongyang could detonate a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific, in response to President Donald Trump, who has threatened to "destroy [...]
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According to the Nova agency, Saudi Arabia believes that Iran is not respecting the terms of the international agreement on its nuclear program concluded in 2015 in Vienna. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al Jubeir spoke to the media on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly underway in New York. "We count on the international community to [...]
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Nobody will rely on the United States if they withdraw from the 2015 deal on Iran's nuclear program. The president of the Islamic republic, Hassan Rohani, denounced this. "If the United States does not honor their commitments and violates this agreement, it will result in a loss of confidence of nations towards" Washington, Rohani said [...]
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Emir Qatar around Europe to raise awareness of the country after embargo Turkey supports the mediation initiative launched by Kuwait, and together with Iran it is one of the few countries that sided with Qatar after the boycott initiated by the four Arab states who accuse Doha of supporting terrorism and interfering [...]
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According to a study by ISPI, the goal for the Islamic Republic “is to become the first country in the region of South-West Asia (which includes Central Asia and the Caucasus as well as the Middle East) for economic, scientific and technological development. Great emphasis is therefore given to the hi-tech sector, whose potential for job creation is recognized [...]
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The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, will be in Ankara today to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. This is his first trip abroad since the beginning of the crisis between Doha and other Arab countries, prepared two days ago by the face to face between Erdogan himself and the Qatari foreign minister, [...]
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The phenomenon has not escaped the Fox, a conservative network close to Donald Trump who, like the US president, hardly stands out for conciliatory tones towards Iran. Olivier Jager, CEO of the tourism analysis agency, ForwardKeys, spoke to the American broadcaster, explaining that the nation has "a treasure trove of art and historical monuments" and that the opening [...]
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Iran complimented Saudi Arabia for the good organization of the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj), considering it as an opportunity for negotiations between the two regional rival countries, according to the state television broadcaster "Irib". . "We thank Saudi Arabia for having opted for a new attitude towards Iranian pilgrims", said Ali Ghazi-Asghar, [...]
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Doing a huge favor to US President Donald Trump, who never misses an opportunity to verbally attack Iran, Tehran's new defense minister, General Amir Hatami, announced that the Islamic Republic's priority is to accelerate the missile program. and export these weapons to neighboring allied countries, primarily Syria. "In the field […]
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This is what the former Iranian ambassador to Qatar, Abdullah Suhrabi claims, during an interview with the newspaper 'Jaam-e Jam'. "The information we have from Qatar tells us that the prince, the Emir, wants to retire from the CCG following the Gulf crisis, but has not yet taken this decision on the advice of his consultants," said the [...]
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Two million Muslims from all over the world meet in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for the traditional pilgrimage of the hajj, an obligation that every faithful who has the physical and economic possibilities must fulfill, at least once in their life. This year the anniversary marks the return of Shiite pilgrims from Iran, the regional rival of Sunni Arabia [...]
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The resumption of diplomatic relations between Iran and Qatar in recent days will certainly affect regional developments, and in particular the future of Syria. It is no coincidence that Doha's intention to "strengthen bilateral relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran in all fields" has exacerbated the crisis between the countries of [...]
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South Korea has opened an 8 billion euro line of credit for projects in Iran, the largest contract of its kind in recent years. A move hoped for by the Iranian government which has a vital need for foreign investment. According to the Iranian media, the line of credit was inaugurated by the Korean [...]
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Qatar has announced the resumption of full diplomatic relations with Iran, thus going in the opposite direction to the request of the Gulf countries that asked Doha to degrade relations with Tehran. In announcing its decision, Qatar did not mention the diplomatic crisis underway since June 5 with Saudi Arabia, the [...]
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Iranian President Hassan Rohani responded to Trump's provocations on the sanctions to be increased on Iran: "Enough with threats and sanctions or we will resume the nuclear program in a few hours, taking it to a much more advanced level than in 2015". Today the authoritative director of the Iranian Organization for Atomic Energy confirmed Rohani's thinking [...]
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We will continue our commitment to positive dialogue with the world, says the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, who said he was "honored" by the confirmation of his post approved by Parliament. The minister then confirmed the primary importance of the nuclear agreement and the "need to prevent the United States from violating this international agreement [...]
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An Iranian military adviser in Syria, Mohsen Hojajji, was killed and beheaded by the Islamic State, an act of violence that confirms the "brutality" of the jihadist group. This was stated by the Foreign Minister of Tehran, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in a message on his Instagram page that honors "the sacrifices made by all the councilors [...]
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An unarmed Iranian drone reached a distance of just 31 meters from a US Navy F-18 fighter landing on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, a US military official reported to US media. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, stated that, despite repeated warnings via radio [...]
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Accredited sources and foreign services have for years been monitoring the criminal activity of small groups of criminals, even of small caliber who are allegedly in business with the Lebanese terrorist organization. The direction of everything would be Iran. Eventually Iranian Ayatollah Mohsen Araki, number two of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, managed to hold a rally in Brazil. [...]
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The Middle East is one of the most complex regions in the world. Right now there are four failed states (Yemen, Libya, Iraq and Syria) and three ongoing wars (Syria, Iraq and Yemen), with major powers like Russia and the United States increasingly taking part in conflicts on different fronts. The region has seen conflict after conflict since [...]
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The White House threatens "new consequences" for Iran regarding the unjust detention of American citizens. Trump does not specify what measures the Trump administration intends to consider. A statement explains that “President Trump and his administration are stepping up efforts to bring all Americans detained abroad home. "For almost […]
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For the second time, the administration of President Donald Trump certified Iran's compliance with the nuclear agreement to the United States Congress, which will therefore continue to enjoy the relaxation of international economic sanctions. Administration officials said this during a conference call with reporters, while insisting that Tehran is "indisputably [...]
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