Iran’s new supreme leader faces a massive external assault and growing internal anger at a time when the backing of the diehard ideologues who supported his predecessors is less clear than before.Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who has deep influence…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Iran’s new supreme leader faces shrinking support
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UNRWA fires Gaza school principal outed as being with Hamas
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that it fired a Gaza school principal after learning of his involvement in the October 7 massacre.Both Israel and, later, the US have concluded that Gaza school…
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A drone attacked a US military base near Erbil airport in Iraq
An American military base located near the Erbil airport in northern Iraq has become the target of an attack by an unmanned aerial vehicle.
This is reported by the Reuters news agency, citing sources. No details are…
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Iran war puts Yemen’s Houthis in strategic bind
The Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen are between a “rock and a hard place,” the UAE-based Al-Ain media reported on Monday.The report says that during the war with Iran the Houthis continue to wait and see what will happen. They are…
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Israel Advises Against Travel to Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia Over Iranian Terror Threat
Israel’s National Security Council issued on Sunday an updated travel advisory for the three largest countries in the Caucasus region – Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia – over fears that Iran will target Israelis amid the ongoing war.
In…
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Mojtaba Khamenei elected as new supreme leader of Iran – Fars
The Iranian Council of Experts has elected Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the deceased Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to the post of the country’s third supreme leader, Fars reported.
According to the agency, the election…
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New clip further implicates US in deadly strike on Iran girls’ school
Footage aired by Iranian media, confirmed by multiple third-party investigators, shows building hit by Tomahawk cruise missile, which only the US is known to possess in this war
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Saudi fury grows as Iran attacks push Gulf to respond
Riyadh is increasingly angry over Iran’s aggression against Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. This comes amid increasing discussions and meetings between Gulf countries and the Arab League. According to Arab News in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia’s…
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Ukraine received 11 requests on countering Iran’s Shahed drones, Zelenskiy says
KYIV, March 9 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Ukraine had received 11 requests from countries neighboring Iran as well as European states and the United States for drone interceptors, electronic warfare systems and…
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Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly owns two London properties overlooking the Israeli Embassy
UK newspapers say new Iranian leader’s vast global property holdings include two apartments on same street as embassy, 50 yards away, enabling ‘permanent surveillance’ and constituing a ‘serious security breach’
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