Ali Akbar Velayati’s remarks on X were a rare sharp public rebuke to one of Iran’s Arab neighbors across the Persian Gulf, with whom Tehran has long feuded but has shifted toward detente in recent years as pressure from the United States and…
Category: 1. Iran
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Trump administration halts immigration processing for 19 countries
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Citing concerns over national security and public safety, the U.S. government has paused all immigration applications, including green card and U.S. citizenship processing by immigrants from 19 non-European countries.
The pause…
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“Fear of Others” published in Persian
TEHRAN – The Persian translation of the book “Fear of Others” written by Christophe André, Patrick Légeron, and Antoine Pelissolo has been released in the bookstores across Iran.
Simin Ramezani has translated the book and Qoqnoos…
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Tehran Art Fair “Open Paper” kicks off
TEHRAN – The first edition of Tehran Art Fair “Open Paper” kicked off at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon).
“Open Paper,” the first paper-based art fair in the MENA region, is organized…
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Iran gaining access to technology of advanced American GBU bombs: Report
TEHRAN – Lebanese media have reported that Hezbollah, the Lebanese Resistance movement, has provided its ally Iran with images and components of the advanced U.S.-made GBU-39B bomb.
Following the assassination last month of senior Hezbollah…
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Scrambling to Sustain a Waning Hegemony
TEHRAN – The White House’s periodic document outlining United States foreign policy and national security strategy was released by the Trump administration on Thursday. The 33-page document, which appears to draw heavily on Trump’s “America…
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Iran opens major seawater transfer project to Isfahan
Iran starts supplying desalinated sweater to industries in the central province of Isfahan.
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Israeli Ambassador to US addresses Lebanese: We want security, not your land
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 6 (ANI/TPS): In an interview with the website ‘This is Beirut’, Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the United States and a close associate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said that disarming Hezbollah and…
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Iranian rights lawyer found dead, sparking allegations of state involvement
Alikordi died of cardiac arrest on Friday night in his office in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, according to a report on Saturday by Iranian lawyers news agency (Vokala Press).
His body was transferred to the forensic institute for determination of…
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Afghanistan Says Five Killed in Heavy Exchange of Fire With Pakistani Forces
Driving the news:
Clashes erupted late Friday, with both sides accusing the other of firing first. Kabul says Pakistan shelled civilian areas; Islamabad calls the incident “unprovoked firing” by Afghan forces.
Why…
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