Iran agreed to a 500 million Euros arms deal with Russia to acquire thousands of advanced shoulder-fired missiles, London-based outlet Financial Times reported on Sunday.This comes as part of an effort to rebuild Iran’s air defenses, which were…
Category: 3. Middle East
-
Iran signs €500 million arms deal with Russia for MANPADs
-
Netanyahu: An attack on Israel would be ‘most serious mistake’ in Iranian history
If Iran attacks Israel, it will be “perhaps the most serious mistake in their history,” warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday evening, threatening an overwhelming response to any aggression.
Speaking during a so-called…
Continue Reading
-
Risk of ‘escalation’ if Iran attacked: deputy foreign minister
Iran’s deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi warned of a wider escalation if his country was attacked, after US President Donald Trump raised the threat of strikes.
Trump has sent a major deployment of air and sea power to the Middle East and…
Continue Reading
-
Iraq says Turkey to take back citizens among IS detainees
Iraq’s foreign minister said on Monday that Turkey had agreed to take back Turkish citizens from among thousands of Islamic State detainees transferred to Iraq from Syria when camps and prisons there were shut in recent weeks.Iraq took in the…
Continue Reading
-
Here is what to know about Kuwait-Iraq maritime dispute
Arab Gulf countries expressed support for Kuwait’s sovereignty after Iraq sent a revised map of its maritime borders that reignited a decades-old dispute over sea boundaries between the two neighbors.
Continue Reading
-
USS Gerald R. Ford about to arrive in Israel
As part of the reinforcements, US tankers and transport planes have arrived at Israeli airports and docks.The Ford carrier strike group, officially known as Carrier Strike Group 12, entered the Mediterranean after transiting the Strait of…
Continue Reading
-
Iranian students protest for third day as US pressure mounts
By Elwely Elwelly
DUBAI, Feb 23 (Reuters) – Iranian students defied authorities with protests for a third day on Monday, weeks after security forces crushed mass unrest with thousands killed and as the United States weighs possible air strikes…
Continue Reading
-
US envoy Barrack oversees Chevron deal in Iraq amid Iran influence row
The Trump administration is maintaining pressure on Iraq over the nomination of former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the influence of Iran-backed militias in the country.
Continue Reading
-
Iran SMS campaign tells protesters Donald Trump is ‘man of action’
Iranian anti-regime protesters received a mass SMS messaging campaign, stating that US President Donald Trump is “a man of action,” local sources reported on Monday.The messages were written in Farsi, with some reports adding that they included…
Continue Reading
-
U.S. orders partial evacuation of Beirut embassy staff and families from Lebanon
The U.S. State Department ordered nonessential diplomats to leave Lebanon, as Trump’s threat of a potentially imminent strike, aimed at exerting military pressure on Iran to concede to U.S. demands over its nuclear program, looms over the region
Continue Reading