PM convenes security cabinet in Jerusalem, as Israel reportedly believes talks will fail; Witkoff, Kushner to meet Araghchi in Oman as 6 Muslim nations push for non-aggression pact
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Category: 3. Middle East
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‘They Washed the Blood Away, but Rage Is Simmering. People Are Worried Trump Won’t Attack’: A Diary From Inside Iran
Nothing has gone back to what it was after the 12-day war last June. You wouldn’t know it from the official news coverage or the political analyses, but among the public, the narrative had collapsed. You could see it in people’s eyes, in…
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Iranian ballistic missile deployedin IRGC’s missile citiy
Iran’s state-run Press TV said on Thursday that “one of the country’s most advanced long-range ballistic missiles, Khorramshahr 4,” has been deployed at one of the Revolutionary Guards’ aerospace underground missile cities.The Khorramshahr 4 has…
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In Lebanon, a Hezbollah-run camp houses people escaping Syria
“They drove us out at gunpoint,” says Lebanese citizen Zeinab Qataya, who fled her adopted home in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad and returned to her country to live in a camp built by Hezbollah.
The construction of the Imam Ali Housing…
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Iran filmmaker Panahi fears Iranians’ interests will be ‘sacrificed’ in US talks
Dissident Iranian film director Jafar Panahi told AFP he believes ordinary Iranians risk being “sacrificed” in talks between Iran and the United States on Friday, with his country still “in shock” over a deadly crackdown on protests.
Panahi,…
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Reuters sees map of UAE Gaza housing plan
A map of the United Arab Emirates’ plans to build a compound to house thousands of displaced Palestinians in a part of south Gaza under Israeli military control was seen by Reuters on Thursday.The Jerusalem Post learned of the plans to construct…
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Iran names Ali Shamkhani head of Defense Council: What to know
Ali Shamkhani, a longtime security official, recently dismissed the idea of sending enriched uranium abroad and expressed a degree of hope about the upcoming negotiations with the US.
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Iran’s foreign minister heads to Muscat for nuclear talks with US
Feb 5 (Reuters) – Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has departed for the Omani capital Muscat at the head of a diplomatic delegation for nuclear talks with the U.S. due to be held on Friday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson said….
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Witkoff and Araghchi: the men leading US-Iran talks
US special envoy Steve Witkoff has spearheaded talks on Gaza and Ukraine, while Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is Iran’s face abroad.
On Friday, they meet in Muscat following a deadly crackdown on a mass protest movement against the Islamic…
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From ‘help is on the way’ to nuclear talks, Iranians wary of Trump’s shift
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WASHINGTON — When US and Iranian negotiators sit down for talks Friday, nearly a month…
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