By Kawala Xie Iran may look to China for weapons support amid conflicts with the US and Israel, but Beijing will remain cautious, considering strained economic ties with Tehran and its broader interest in balancing ties with Israel and other Western-aligned states in the region, according to a veteran Chinese expert on the Middle East. […]
Read MoreTEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the country will remain committed to the ceasefire in fighting as long as the Zionist regime does not violate the truce. “If the Zionist regime does not violate the ceasefire, Iran will not do so,” Pezeshkian said in a telephone conversation with the prime minister of Malaysia […]
Read MoreIran’s supreme leader sent his foreign minister to Moscow on Monday to ask President Vladimir Putin for more help from Russia after the biggest US military action against the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution over the weekend. US President Donald Trump and Israel have publicly speculated about killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and […]
Read MoreAmid Israel’s ongoing attacks in Gaza and Iran, US President Donald Trump’s unprecedented decision to bomb three Iranian nuclear sites has deepened fears of a regional conflict in the Middle East. Over the weekend, the United States military carried out its first known strikes against Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution toppled pro-Western Mohammad Reza […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: Iran has opened its otherwise closed airspace exclusively for Indian evacuation flights. At least 1,000 Indian students stranded in conflict-hit Iranian cities are expected to land in Delhi in the next two days as part of the government’s emergency evacuation programme, Operation Sindhu. The first flight is due to land at 11:00 PM […]
Read MoreBy John T Psaropoulos The three largest European nations by population, Germany, France and the UK, held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday, in an effort to avert a protracted war in the Middle East. US President Donald Trump, who has said he will decide within two weeks whether […]
Read MoreBy Yashraj Sharma and John T Psaropoulos Returning early from the Group of Seven summit in Canada early on Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump told reporters he believed Iran was “very close” to building nuclear weapons. His comments were in keeping with increasingly threatening social media posts and language from Trump against Iran in […]
Read MoreIsraeli gunfire and strikes killed at least 140 people across Gaza in the past 24 hours, local health officials said, as some Palestinians in the strip said their plight was being forgotten while attention shifted to the air war between Israel and Iran. At least 40 of the total number killed in the past day […]
Read MoreBy Kawala Xie China is likely to remain cautious about intervening in the escalating Israel-Iran conflict even if the US engages militarily, a prospect that would bring mixed results for Beijing, according to observers. Speculation over US intervention has grown since last Friday, following Israel’s most intense strikes on Iran in decades. Washington has since […]
Read MoreIran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a statement read by a television presenter on Wednesday that his country will not accept US President Donald Trump’s call for an unconditional surrender. In his first remarks since Friday, when he delivered a speech broadcast on state media after Israel began bombarding Iran, Khamenei said peace […]
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