Tag: Tehran

As in previous times when protests began to get underway, Iranian authorities shut down the internet nationwide and security forces gathered.

One of the pilots, Alexei Naumkin, was reportedly Jewish.

Taking a shot at an American fighter jet and actually hitting one would ... be an introduction to World War III. President Trump knew that.

The plane stopped transmitting two minutes into the flight.

A source said Haniyeh sent a back channel message to Israel that Hamas does not seek an escalation and will not attack Israel as part of the Iranian revenge.

On Friday, after news broke about Soleimani's killing, thousands in Iraq and other places went out to celebrate in the streets, and candy was given out.

"To the Iranian government: Be careful what you wish for — a country that depends on the ability to refine oil for its existence needs to be cautious."

Iran's intelligence ministry agents seized 126 guns, including assault rifles, handguns and pellet guns, mostly US-made.

“Look, they even jail and murder environmentalists when they organize, like the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation.”

The civilized West has no choice but to meet the Iranian challenge today – before this country brings down hellfire on the world.

PM Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a statement after the attack, saying: "I made it clear that whoever hurts us – we will hurt him."

Amnesty believes the real death toll could be much higher, as some reports have suggested as many as 200 killed.

Amnesty International expressed "serious fears that the intentional lethal use of firearms to crush protests has become a matter of state policy.”

Is Gantz the antidote to Bibi's clever arguments, acerbic humor, and almost visceral contempt for his enemies?

Netanyahu underscored that Arabs can be Zionists and support the State of Israel, but the Joint List MKs are not Zionists and do not support the State of Israel.

At present, Iran says it possesses some 150 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves.

“Iran’s expansion of proliferation-sensitive activities raises concerns that Iran is positioning itself to have the option of a rapid nuclear breakout.”

“Thanks to the pressure of world major powers, we are able to easily manufacture the best centrifuges.”

"The takeover of the US embassy 40 years ago, on November 4, 1979, destroyed Washington’s fictitious grandeur."

Iranian filmmaker Nader Talebzadeh, chairman and founder of New Horizon, delivered a speech about "Israel’s recent acts of aggression and the US support for the Israeli regime."

US officials said that seventeen points of impact were precisely targeted, an operation that required a surveillance and planning capacity "of a whole new level of sophistication."

Iran has offered no explanation for the findings.

The Iranian Parliament's General Director for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Monday that the response to Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Syria is...

The IAEA has not made the information public, nor was it shared during a quarterly meeting of the agency's 35 member nation Board of Governors this past week.

The Russians warned that the incident may have serious consequences and that "responsibility for that will rest entirely on those who never stop their attempts to exert maximum illegitimate pressure on Teheran and Damascus."

“There were numerous civil aviation aircraft operating in the area at the time of the intercept” of the US drone."

The rearming is part of a Hamas pressure campaign to relax the tight Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.

An estimated 600 pro-Israel counter-protesters, including anti-fascists, feminists, LGBTQ supporters, members of the Iranian opposition and simple pro-Israel Germans took to the streets against the Quds Day protests.

Iran’s having its own access to the Mediterranean would deprive Russia of its economic monopoly along Syria’s coastal areas and would create "certain security risks."

A female Iranian national who was in charge of the Iran desk at the British Council was sentenced to 10 years in prison after confessing to spying