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The 39th US President Jimmy Carter is dead at the age of 100
The US Embassy in Tehran has been invaded and occupied by Iranian students. Over 50 Americans were held hostage for 444 days in Iran prior to Jimmy Carter’s presidency. Carter negotiated a nuclear arms deal with North Korea in 1994 and helped negotiate a peace deal between Israel and Palestine.
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The world is happy that the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire is in place
Nearly 3,760 people have been killed in Lebanon during the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, many of them civilians, Lebanese health officials said. More than 70 people were killed in Israel during the fighting, and dozens of Israeli soldiers were also killed in southern Lebanon. Iran, which backs Hezbollah and Hamas in Gaza, said it…
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Iran has launched missiles at Israel, and it appears that some targets have been hit
Iran reportedly used 200 drones and 100 missiles against Israel in a recent attack. In April, Iran used 100 missiles and 200 drones against Israel, reports said. This time, it’s clear that Iran wanted to avoid the failures of April by primarily using ballistic missiles, reports further said. An air defense radar was knocked out…
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As Iran launches an attack on Israel may decide the course of war
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has said that the missile attack on Israel was in response to several recent killings, including the assassination of Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah. This comes after Israel killed Nasrallah, Hamas’ Ismail Haniyeh and a commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in a series of airstrikes last week.
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Israel is considering how to respond to the Iranian Missile Attack
Iran has launched nearly 200 missiles at an Israeli airbase in the Golan Heights as part of its military campaign against Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia, the country’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported on Wednesday. The missiles were launched at around 4 pm local time, it added. Israeli warplanes carried out raids on several Iranian targets over…
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Netanyahu ignores calls for a cease-fire at the U.N as Israel strikes Lebanon
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said, “We will continue to attack Iran and its proxies anywhere in the Middle East.” He added that Israel is “winning” on multiple fronts and would attack Iran and its proxies anywhere in the Middle East. Netanyahu made the comments during an address to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday.
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Iran’s president and others were killed in a helicopter crash
Iran has launched a series of ceremonies after the death of its President Ebrahim Raisi and several others in a helicopter crash on Sunday. Raisi’s body will be flown to his hometown of Raisi for a five-day funeral, followed by a funeral and burial in the holy city of Mashhad. The country’s top prosecutor has…
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The president of Iran dies in a helicopter crash
Mourning public started gathering in black on Tuesday for five days of funerals and processions for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi who died in a helicopter crash, Iranian state media reported. Iran’s top prosecutor has already issued an order demanding cases be filed against those “publishing false content, lies and insults” against Raisi and others who…
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The U.S. military official says that Israel launched missiles into Iran
A loud sound heard east of Isfahan city was the sound of air defenses intercepting a “suspicious target”, Brigadier General Mihan Dost, an Iranian military official said. No damage was reported in the area, he added. This comes after Israel carried out an air strike on a military installation in Isfahan that was being used…
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Israel was faced with a sophisticated attack from Iran
The US has said that it is “deeply concerned” by the air strikes carried out by Iran against Israeli aircraft and drones in the Middle East. “We…stand in solidarity with Israel,” a statement by the US, UK, France, Italy and Canada said. It added, “We call upon all parties to exercise restraint and exercise maximum…
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Iran launched a sophisticated attack on Israel
Iran used land-attack cruise missiles which could carry a ton of explosives, US State Department official Jeffrey Lewis said. “Iran has a lot of missiles that are very capable of reaching…Israel,” he added. The UN Secretary-General Antnio Guterres has said he’s “deeply alarmed” about the “very real danger” of “a devastating region-wide escalation” in the…
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There are risks to Israel’s choices on response to Iran
Iran fired a volley of missiles at Israeli targets on Sunday as aresult of an attack on Iran’s embassy complex in Damascus that killed several commanders in Iran’s armed forces. Iran said the attack was in response to an airstrike from earlier this month that hit Iran’s consulate in Syria’s Damascus. Iranian officials said the…
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Iran has launched a cyberattack on Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “We’ll defend ourselves with all our might against Iran’s aggression.” Netanyahu’s comment came after Iran fired around 300 missiles into Israel, wounding a 7-year-old girl. “We’re ready to defend ourselves against attacks from Iran and other countries,” he added. Earlier, Iran said that its missile attacks on Israel had…
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Israel was faced with an attack from Iran
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday called for the “strongest possible” response to the drone strike by Iran in the occupied West Bank. “In order to stop Iran’s efforts to harm Israel, we need the international community to come together,” he said. This comes after Iran said it had launched dozens ofdrones and missiles…
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Iran has launched a weapon against Israel
Israel on Wednesday carried out an air strike on Iranian military targets in Syria, killing several senior officers. Iran claimed the strike was a retaliation for an earlier Israeli strike that killed two Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officers last week. Iran said that it would retaliate to the strike, saying that it had launched…
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Biden has threatened to pivot the U.S. policy
US President Joe Biden stood by Israel against Iran during his 30-minute call with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House said. “Israel is acting against Iran and its proxies,…in both defensive and offensive operations,” it added. “For years Iran has been acting against us…and therefore Israel is acting against Iran and its proxies,” it…
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Iranian officials say Israel was behind an attack on the Iran’s consulate in Syria
Iran’s armed forces chief Major General Zahedi was killed along with several others in an airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Syria’s Damascus, Iran’s state media reported. The airstrike was carried out by the Israeli Air Force, it added. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “The death of General Zahedi is a significant blow to…
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The U.S. says that the Moscow Concert Hall attack was caused by the Islamic State
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the terror attack in Moscow that killed at least seven people and injured over 20 others, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday. The attack took place on the messaging service Telegram. The attack comes two weeks after the US had warned Iran about the…
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The death of US troops in Jordan raises the specter of a larger war in the Middle East
Four US military personnel were injured on Monday in a drone attack in southeastern Syria, the country’s Health Ministry said. In response, the US carried out several airstrikes against facilities used by militants. An Iran-backed umbrella group of militias called the Islamic Resistance in Iraq said it was behind the attack, but Iran denied involvement.
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Pakistan launched strikes on Iran after a Tehran attack
Pakistan’s military has denied that it carried out air strikes on Iran after Iran fired rockets into Pakistan’s Balochistan province. The Pakistani military said, “Iran is responsible for the violence in Balochistan, and we condemn the acts of terrorism.” However, Pakistan expressed concerns over Iran’s missile strikes on Tuesday and demanded an explanation from Iran.
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The Amini family was blocked from collecting a prize in her name by Iran
Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old woman whose death sparked nationwide protests in Iran, has been banned by the government from travelling to France to collect a human rights award in her name. She died while in custody of Iran’s morality police for allegedly violating dress code. Amini’s death led to anti-government protests that spread to other…
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The U.S. launched an airstrike in Syria after the attacks by the Iranian militias
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said that US airstrikes in the Kurdistan Region were directed at Iranian “terrorists”. “The Islamic Republic of Iran condemns all such attacks,” he added. This comes after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said that it had shot down a US surveillance drone in Yemen. The US had carried out strikes against Iranian…
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Israel’s president says there is more to this battle than just between Israel and Hamas
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said that his country will “take action to prevent Iran from being able to manufacture rockets”. Netanyahu added, “It is very important to us that our allies…are not involved in the war in the Middle East.” Iran has fired thousands of rockets at Israel in response to an Israeli air strike…
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The US has targeted Iranian-linked targets in Syria
US officials said that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) conducted two drone attacks on US forces in Syria and Iraq on Friday. “The United States does not seek conflict and has no intention nor desire to engage in further hostilities, but these Iranian backed attacks against US forces are unacceptable and must stop,” General…
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Iran’s foreign minister noted that armed groups are ready to discharge their weapons
US State Secretary Antony Blinken has said that if the US comes under attack from Iran or its proxies in the Middle East, it’ll act “swiftly and decisively”. His comments come amid rising concerns of the Israel-Hamas war spreading. The senior Hamas official based in Lebanon, Ali Barakeh, said that while Iran knows Hamas fights…