Tag Archives: Iran

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pauses while listening to a translation of his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault during their joint press conference in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 31, 2017.(AP/Vahid Salemi)
Iran’s Foreign Minister: Saudi Arabia Involved In 94% Of Worldwide Terrorist Attacks By July 22, 2017
“We don’t see the situation in our region as a winning or losing battle. It’s a situation where the initial U.S. invasion of Iraq has led everybody to lose. Because we believe that the situation in today’s world is so...
In this picture taken on Friday, July 17, 2015, an Iranian woman walks past a Sony dealer at a shopping center in downtown Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
US Certifies Iran’s Compliance With Nuclear Deal, Announces New Sanctions Next Day By
The United States announced new sanctions against Iran on Tuesday over its ballistic missile program and what it called Tehran’s support for terrorist groups in the Middle East. The sanctions announced by the State Department target 18 individuals or entities...
United Arab Emirates' Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan listens questions during a meeting with the press in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 11, 2017. (AP/Mindaugas Kulbis)
US Intelligence: UAE Hacked Qatar, Sparking Gulf Crisis By
The UAE was behind a hacking campaign against Doha which sparked a diplomatic crisis in the Gulf region, US intelligence sources have said, after false statements attributed to Qatar’s emir were posted on an official news agency website. Senior UAE powers are...
French President Emmanuel Macron, left, welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, July 16, 2017. (AP/Michel Euler)
Israel Rejects US, Russia Syrian Ceasefire Deal – Presents List Of Demands By
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made clear today that he and his government opposes the ongoing ceasefire in Southern Syria, a deal negotiated between the United States and Russia, and which has continued to hold throughout the past week. Netanyahu made...
An Iraqi Kurd reads a copy of the magazine Israel-Kurd on a street in Irbil, Iraq in 2009. (Azad Lashkari/Reuters)
The Kurdish Connection: Israel, ISIS And U.S. Efforts To Destabilize Iran By
SYRIA (Analysis)– In Part I of independent analyst Sarah Abed’s three-part analysis for MintPress News, Abed began exposing the modern day Kurdish/Israeli alliance that both parties have tried to keep hidden in order to avoid drawing the public’s attention...
A girl is treated for a suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The World Health Organization says a rapidly spreading cholera outbreak in Yemen has claimed thousands of lives since April and is suspected of affecting 246,000 people. (AP/Hani Mohammed)
Ignoring The Human Disaster In Yemen By
It is hard to imagine that along with the catastrophe that has been inflicted on Syria for the past six years, another calamity is unfolding in Yemen of damning proportions while the whole world looks on with indifference. What is happening in Yemen is not merely a violent...
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives at the Hangzhou Exhibition Center to participate in G20 Summit, Sept. 4, 2016 in Hangzhou, China. (Etienne Oliveau/AP)
US Diplomat: New Saudi Crown Prince Is Israel’s ‘Dream Come True’ By
An American diplomat said that appointing Mohammed Bin Salman as the crown prince of Saudi Arabia was like a “dream come true for Israel”, Haaretz reported. The former US Ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro, said that the appointment of Bin Salman opens an unprecedented...
Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit, in Hamburg. A separate US-Russia-brokered truce for southern Syria, brokered by the U.S. and Russia, is finding support by both Iran and Israel.Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is at left, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is at right. (AP/Evan Vucci)
Iran And Israel Both Back Russia-Brokered Syrian Ceasefire By
For very different reasons and in very different ways,  the governments in Tehran and Tel Aviv have expressed their approval for the new ceasefire in southwestern Syria that was established between Russia, the United States, and Jordan. The ceasefire came into effect on...
The North Korea Law of Journalism. (Photo: FAIR)
After 1,379 Days, NYT Corrects Claim That Iran ‘Sponsored’ 9/11 By
In its reporting on a dubious lawsuit alleging Iranian meta-involvement in 9/11, the New York Times badly misunderstood the case and maintained for more than three years, in the paper of record, that the government of Iran “sponsored” the September 11, 2001, attacks....
U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at the Israel Museum, in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
Despite 200 Israeli Nukes Aimed At Iran, US To Fund Israel Defense To Tune Of $700M By
WASHINGTON, D.C.– In what can only be described as yet another massive giveaway of military aid, the Senate Armed Services Committee’s latest draft of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would give $705 million to Israeli missile defense programs....