Iran

Long-range Iranian missiles rained down dangerously close to a commercial ship in the Indian Ocean on Saturday and 100 miles from the US Nimitz aircraft carrier strike group, Fox News reported. US officials, who wished to remain…
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The commander of the "Fatemiyoun" Brigade, affiliated with Iran, denied the validity of media reports regarding the killing of a number of Afghan fighters in the Israeli raids that targeted sites in Deir Ezzor, eastern Syria, at dawn…
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Israeli warplanes struck eastern Syria overnight on Wednesday, Syria's state-run news agency said, hitting targets that a local monitoring group said included Iranian military positions and forces loyal to Syria President Bashar al-Assad.…
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Dubai - (East): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, Tuesday, that "Iran has become a center for Al-Qaeda," adding that "the second man in the organization, Muhammad al-Masri, wanted for his involvement in the killing of Americans in…
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday, without providing hard evidence, that Al-Qaeda had established a new home base in Iran and the United States had fewer options in dealing with the group now it was “burrowed inside” that…
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Dubai - (East) - The spokesman for the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Behrouz Kamalondi, said that Iran "produces heavy water to meet its needs," as well as "exports to eight countries." "We have not stopped producing heavy water…
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London - (Reuters): Britain, France and Germany expressed, in a joint statement, "deep concern" that Iran would enrich uranium to a purity of 20 percent, which was announced on January 4. On Wednesday, the three countries said, "We…
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The South Korean government said it will send a delegation to Iran “at the earliest possible date” in a bid to secure the release of a tanker seized in the Arabian Gulf, amid tensions surrounding the freezing of Iranian funds in Seoul…
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Dubai - (East): The Iranian authorities announced that they had identified all the "persons involved" in the assassination of the nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, according to the Iranian "Al-Alam" TV channel. The channel quoted…
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The United States on Tuesday blacklisted a Chinese company that makes elements for steel production, 12 Iranian steel and metals makers and three foreign-based sales agents of a major Iranian metals and mining holding company, seeking to…
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