Tag: Iran
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US removes all bombers from air base targeted by a suspected terror attack
The U.S. Air Force has brought home its bombers stationed at a U.S.-run military air base in England used to strike Iran following an investigation into ... -
Questions surround counterterror probe into US air base in England
A surprise decision by the U.K.’s counterterror police to release five suspects on bail during an investigation into a suspected bomb plot targeting a U.S.-operated air ... -
Police probe whether air base arrests foiled Iran-linked attack
Police were holding five men on Monday and examining suspected explosives found near a U.S.-operated air force base in England, as counterterror detectives investigated whether the ... -
War, AI and climate test the United Nations
Under a global cloud of wars and bitter divisions, world leaders meet at the United Nations this week facing fears that runaway artificial intelligence could threaten ... -
Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi says Iranians are paying price for war, repression
Iranians are suffering as economic misery and internal repression leave “no room for people to breathe” after 1½ years of wars, Iran’s most prominent human rights activist ... -
US and Iran trade missile barrages as hopes dim for a quick resolution to the five-month conflict
The United States and Iran each fired barrages of missiles yesterday, as the pattern of back-and-forth strikes took hold again and hope dimmed for a quick end to ... -
US attacks Iran and Tehran retaliates across the Middle East, threatening a return to all-out war
The U.S. launched strikes on Iran yesterday, hours after President Donald Trump vowed to reinstate an American blockade of Iranian ports and charge ships for safe ... -
Oil prices jump more than 2% after US strikes on Iran, while world shares retreat
Shares fell yesterday in Europe and Asia and oil prices surged more than 2% after the U.S. launched strikes on Iran following attacks on three ships in the Strait ... -
Top officials attend prayer for the late Supreme Leader in Tehran
Iran’s top officials and brothers of the country’s new supreme leader emerged into public view yesterday to attend the funeral prayers for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ... -
Iran warns oil tankers to use approved routes in Strait of Hormuz or face a ‘forceful response’
Iran’s joint military command warned yesterday that all oil tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz must use its approved routes or face a “forceful response,” again ratcheting up ... -
Ship runs aground in Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state TV reports
A ship ran aground in the Strait of Hormuz after not running Iran’s approved route through the water, Iranian state television reported yesterday. The report identified the affected ... -
Iran’s president says $6B in frozen assets in Qatar to be released as US talks challenged
Iran’s president said yesterday that $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets would be released by Qatar, as negotiations with the United States were challenged by attacks across ... -
Iran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait following US strikes and threatens to halt talks to end the war
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard launched drone and missile attacks yesterday targeting Bahrain and Kuwait in response to U.S. airstrikes that hit the Islamic Republic, and threatened ... -
President heads to Pakistan as US-Iran teams work to finalize a war-ending deal
Iran’s president was traveling to Pakistan yesterday for talks with officials who have been mediating negotiations between Tehran and Washington on a permanent end to the war in ... -
US and Iran wrap high-level talks after making ‘encouraging progress,’ mediators say
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Iran’s parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf yesterday wrapped up a lengthy round of initial talks aimed at solidifying a permanent end to ... -
US and Iran sign initial deal to end war, ease sanctions and open strait as nuclear talks continue
President Donald Trump signed an agreement with Iran on Wednesday that calls for Tehran to dilute its stockpile of highly enriched uraniumand waives U.S.-backed sanctions on the country, ... -
Trump’s Iran deal greeted with skepticism and scrutiny on Capitol Hill
Republicans on Capitol Hill said yesterday they need more information about the agreement between the United States and Iran announced by President Donald Trump, and some are expressing ... -
Iran and US reach a tentative deal to end war as Israel rules out withdrawing from seized land
The United States and Iran reached an initial agreement yesterday that would extend their shaky ceasefire and lead to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, but challenges immediately ... -
US strikes Iran after blaming Tehran for helicopter crash
United States launched airstrikes yesterday against Iran after blaming Tehran for the crash of an American attack helicopter, and Iran fired back at countries in the ... -
Iran’s soccer team arrives in Mexico for training ahead of the World Cup
Iran defender Ehsan Hajsafi criticized soccer’s governing body after the team arrived in Mexico yesterday (Macau time) with some members of their entourage still lacking U.S. ... -
Despite proposal from Iran, ceasefire negotiations with US are in flux
Iran’s foreign minister continued his shuttle diplomacy, landing in St. Petersburg for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday after a weekend in Pakistan and Oman. ... -
US imposes sanctions on a China-based oil refinery and 40 shippers over Iranian oil
President Donald Trump’s administration is placing economic sanctions on a major China-based oil refinery and roughly 40 shipping companies and tankers involved in transporting Iranian oil. ... -
Iraqi captain keeps sailing amid regional war
Aboard an oil tanker plying the tense waters between the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz, Iraqi Captain Rahman Al-Jubouri continues to work in ... -
Hopes rise for renewed talks as US military says Iran blockade is in force
Hopes rose for renewed talks between the United States and Iran yesterday, as the U.S. military said its blockade of Iranian ports was in full effect ... -
US military is poised to blockade Iranian ports, while Tehran threatens ports in the Mideast
The U.S. military vowed to blockade all Iranian ports starting yesterday, part of efforts to force Tehran into agreeing to open the crucial Strait of Hormuz ... -
Markets surge worldwide as oil plunges toward $90 following ceasefire between US, Israel and Iran
Stock markets are surging worldwide, and oil prices are plunging back toward $90 per barrel after President Donald Trump pulled back from his threat to force ... -
Iran hits Golf states while strikes batter Tehran ahead of Trump speech
Iran hit an oil tanker off the coast of Qatar and Kuwait’s airport on Wednesday while airstrikes battered Tehran — an unrelenting tempo hours after U.S. ... -
Iran built a vast camera network to control dissent. Israel turned it into a targeting tool
The role of Israel’s hijacking of Iran’s street cameras in the killing of the country’s supreme leader underscores how surveillance systems are increasingly being targeted by ... -
A wave of executions is feared in after three young men were hanged last week
A 19-year-old star wrestler and two other young men were hanged in Iran this week, raising alarm among rights groups that a wave of executions may ... -
Iran’s secretive top leader vows to keep up attacks in his first statement
Iran’s new supreme leader released his first statement since succeeding his late father, saying yesterday that Iran would keep up its attacks on its Gulf Arab ... -
Iran war becomes a contest of who can take the most pain
The war with Iran, for all its complexity and global effects, boils down to a single question: Who can take the pain the longest? A surge ... -
Iran names Mojtaba Khamenei successor as oil prices soar
Iran named Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of the country’s late supreme leader, the Islamic Republic’s next ruler yesterday, putting a hard-line cleric in charge as the ... -
US and Iran spar over status of Iranian warship sunk by a submarine
The United States and Iran have offered sharply different accounts of the sinking of an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean last week, with Washington rejecting ... -
Iran launches new attacks, saying US will ‘bitterly regret’ sinking warship, calls for Trump’s blood
Iran launched a new wave of attacks Thursday morning at Israel, American bases and countries around the region, threatening that the United States would “bitterly regret” ... -
A son of late supreme leader is a possible candidate to replace his father as war rages
Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has long been considered a contender to the post of the country›s next paramount ruler — ...
