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There are four things that came out of the U.S. strikes on Iran
Iran said that the US attack on its nuclear facilities was an “outrageous” violation of the United Nations Charter and international law. The US launched airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities after Israel carried out a series of attacks on Iranian military sites in June. Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif called the US operation an “outrageous,…
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Israel is forced to wait for Trump, and is facing a strategic dilemma
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview that his country would attack Iran even if US President Donald Trump doesn’t take part. “We’ll achieve all our objectives…If the US doesn’t participate, we will,” he added. Iran has killed 24 people in Israel, the country’s military said in a statement on Thursday.
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Iran retaliates after Israel hits more Iranian military targets
Israel on Monday carried out a series of airstrikes on Iranian military targets, Iranian media reported. This comes after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned of “more forceful,severe, precise and destructive” strikes. The airstrikes are part of the fourth day of the conflict between the two countries which began after Israel carried out an air strike on…
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Tehran is hitting back despite Israel’s claim that it has control of Iran’s skies
Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu said his country has destroyed nearly a third of Iran’s estimated 100 mobile launchers for ballistic missiles. He added that Israel had gained control of many of Iran’s airspace and had taken out its missile capabilities in less than a year. Israel launched an airstrike on Iran last week after the…
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Diplomacy with Iran isn’t dead
Israel said that it has crippled its air defenses in response to Iran’s missile attacks, the Associated Press and the Weizmann Institute of Science reported. Iran on Saturday fired missiles into Israel in retaliation for Israel’s air strikes on Iranian targets. “We will continue to target Iran’s military sites,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
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Israel and Iran traded more deadly strikes on each other
At least eight people were killed and nearly 100 were wounded after Iran struck Tel Aviv and Haifa with missiles and drones early Monday. The Israeli military said it “precisely struck” command centres belonging to Iran’s Quds Force, an elite military and intelligence arm of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), overnight. Iran’s UN envoy said…
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Iran retaliates against Israel on the fourth day of the conflict
US President Donald Trump has said that “the full strength of US Armed forces” will come down on Iran at levels “never seen before”. He added that he has “nothing to do with” Iran’s missile attack on Tel Aviv and Haifa. This comes a day after an Iranian military official said that Iran fired missiles…
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Will the U.S. and Iran meet up for more nuclear talks?
Iran is ready to negotiate with the US in the sixth round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program, the Iranian state media reported. It added that the final decision on whether to participate was still pending. Earlier, Iran suspended its participation in the talks “until further notice”, accusing the US of giving Israel its consent…
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Israel and Iran carry out strikes in the third day of the conflict
Iran has said it “crossed red lines” by firing ballistic missiles at “civilian population concentrations” and warned it would pay a “very heavy price”, the Times of Israel reported. US President Donald Trump said the US had “nothing to do with the attack on Iran, tonight” but warned that if Iran was attacked, that “the…
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Iran’s missiles rained down on Tel Aviv
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country would “wipe Iran off the map” with its airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. “Iran’s nuclear program is going to bewiped off the map,” he further said, adding, “We don’t intend to stay there for long. We will go on the offensive and continue to do so.” Iran…
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Iran retaliated after Israel attacked Iran’s nuclear and missile sites
Iran has suspended its participation in US-Iran nuclear talks “until further notice”. This comes after Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s key nuclear facilities, including the Natanz facility, on Friday. The talks were scheduled for Sunday in the Omani capital of Muscat. Earlier, Iran said it was suspending participation in the talks over the Israeli strikes on…
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Iran retaliated to Israel’s attacks on its nuclear and missile sites
Israel struck Iran’s nuclear facilities on Sunday in response to the country’s continued defiance of UNSC restrictions on its nuclear programme, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “Iran could produce a weapon in a very short time…if not stopped, Iran could produce a weapon in…very short time,” he added. Earlier, US President Donald Trump warned…
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Iran retaliated against Israel for their attacks on Iran’s nuclear and missile sites
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said that the country carried out strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, adding that they were “struck at the heart of Iran nuclear enrichment programme”. Israel said it intercepted Iranian drones while Jordan said its air force blocked attacks aimed at Israel in Jordanian airspace. Meanwhile, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said that Israel…
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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…