Iran’s Assembly of Experts announced on Saturday that it would “meet within a day” to select the new leader to succeed former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian media reported.Ayatollah Mozafari, one of the 88 members of the assembly,…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Report: Iran’s selection of Khamenei’s successor imminent
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Failed Israeli commando operation to find airman remains kills 41 in Lebanon
An Israeli special forces operation that failed to find the remains of airman Ron Arad, captured in Lebanon in 1986, killed 41 people and wounded 40 in eastern Lebanon.
Gutted buildings, torn-off roofs, munitions scattered on the ground surrounded…
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Azerbaijan says it foiled Iranian plots to attack oil pipeline, Israeli targets
Baku said an investigation found two Iranian citizens and an Azerbaijani national had colluded to bring over seven kilograms of the C-4 explosive into Azerbaijan on the instructions of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
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US intelligence doubts Iran regime will fall
Even a large-scale military assault against the Islamic Republic of Iran would be unlikely to oust the regime and its armed forces, The Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing a classified National Intelligence Council report.The Washington…
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India letting Iran warship dock after US sank another off Sri Lanka, officials say
NEW DELHI — India has allowed an Iranian warship to dock as a humanitarian gesture, Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Saturday, after the US sank another Iranian navy vessel off neighboring Sri Lanka.
The Lavan docked at…
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US starts using UK bases for ‘defensive’ Iran operations
The United States has started using British bases for certain operations against Iran during the Middle East war, the UK government announced on Saturday.
Britain’s defence ministry said the US had begun using the military sites for “specific…
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Kurds Are a Key to Toppling the Iranian Regime, but They Must Beware of Trump’s Treachery
Is a magic formula in the works for overthrowing the Iranian regime? Donald Trump spoke Sunday with the heads of Iraq’s two main Kurdish parties – the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s Masoud Barzani and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan’s Bafel…
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What we know about Khamenei’s killing one week on
With further negotiations pencilled in with the US and perhaps assuming that any assassination attempt would take place at night, Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei was at his complex in Tehran last Saturday morning. It would be his last.
An air…
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Iran’s IRGC claims strike on tanker in Strait of Hormuz
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that it hit a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media reported on Saturday.The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) issued a warning after…
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Understanding latest developments among Kurds and Iran
The Kurds are in the spotlight amid the war in Iran. There are around eight million Kurds in Iran. There are also Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. The current conflict in Iran has mostly brought a spotlight on Kurds in Iran and Iraq. Most of the…
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