Iranian government has bowed to public pressure by abolishing the controversial morality police units after more than two months of protests. Recall that the country witnessed its biggest uprising in decades after the death of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman from the north-western city of Saqez, who was said to have been arrested by the […]
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Iranian authorities on Saturday morning admitted that its military forces unintentionally shot down the Ukrainian plane which killed 167 passengers and nine crew members on Wednesday. In a statement released early Saturday, Iranian government said the plane was mistaken for a “hostile target” after it turned toward a “sensitive military center” of the Revolutionary Guard […]
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Ukraine asked international partners to provide any evidence they may have to help investigators probing a Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed in Iran, as US media reported it was mistakenly shot down by a missile. All 176 people on board died when Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Boeing 737NG went down on Wednesday, shortly after Tehran […]
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Officials of the United States (US) have accused Iran of mistakenly shooting the Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed on Wednesday, killing all the 176 people on board. The aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran’s airport. The incident occurred after Iran launched missiles that hit two air bases of US forces in Iraq. The attack […]
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Two rockets crashed late Wednesday into the Iraqi capital’s Green Zone, the high-security enclave where foreign embassies including the US mission are based, security sources told AFP. The attack came nearly 24 hours after Tehran launched ballistic missiles at Iraqi bases housing American and other coalition forces in retaliation for the US killing top Iranian […]
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The commander of the Guards in the southern province of Kerman in Iran, Gholamali Abuhamzeh, says his country has identified at least 35 US targets for retaliatory strikes over the death of Qassem Soleimani. According to Reuters, Abuhamzeh said Iran would soon hit and destroy American warships. “The Strait of Hormuz is a vital point […]
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The late Qasem Soleimani, commander of the elite Quds Force, will be buried in Kerman, his hometown, on Tuesday. This is according to a statement released by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike on Thursday night. A huge crowd in Iraq’s capital Baghdad is currently taking part […]
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Speaking in Florida, President Donald Trump of the United States of America, said “Soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel, but we caught him in the act and terminated him.” While referring to the Iranian military mastermind, killed in a US air attack earlier Friday in Baghdad, as “sick,” […]
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Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Zarif said the United States is creating instability and insecurity in the Middle East and Latin America, the Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday. “The resistance of Venezuela to the United States is very important for the people of the world and the people of Venezuela,’’ Zarif was quoted as saying. […]
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Brent crude oil prices hit their highest level since November 2014 on Monday ahead of U.S. sanctions against Iran that kick in next month. Brent sweet crude oil futures rose to as much as 83.27 dollars a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at 73.57 dollars a barrel. Brent was pushed up […]
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