Tag: Iran

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Ayatollah Khamenei is preparing Iran for his death

Raman Ghavami · January 28, 2020 6:18 pm

This Jan. 26, 2020, satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. that has been annotated by experts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies shows activity at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran's Semnan province. Iranian officials and satellite images suggest the Islamic Republic is preparing to launch a satellite into space after three major failures last year, the latest for a program which the U.S. claims helps Tehran advance its ballistic missile program.

Iran preparing another satellite launch attempt after recent failures, images indicate

Zach Halaschak · January 28, 2020 5:17 pm

Posters of slain Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani are placed on chairs as supporters of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gather for his televised speech in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 following the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Soleimani. The posters read: "Sayyad of martyrs in the axis of resistance. The martyr Hajj Qassem Soleimani."

Top Saudi official says US acted in ‘legitimate self-defense’ by killing Soleimani

Zach Halaschak · January 28, 2020 4:25 pm

Influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr sits with Iraqi Christians during a visit to Our Lady of Salvation Church, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016.

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Why chameleon cleric Muqtada al Sadr has abandoned Iraqi protesters for Iran

Tom Rogan · January 27, 2020 6:28 pm

An Iranian passenger plane sits on a road outside Mahshahr airport after skidding off the runway, in southwestern city of Mahshahr, Iran, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. An Iranian passenger airliner carrying some 150 passengers skidded off the runway and into a street next to the airport in the southern city of Mahshahr on Monday, after apparently losing its landing gear in a hard landing.

Iranian airliner carrying 144 skids onto major highway in crash landing

Zach Halaschak · January 27, 2020 4:12 pm

One of the problems cited by the prince in the letter, first published by the Daily Mail following its discovery in a public archive, included terrorism. (AP Photo/Yong Teck Lim)

‘Inshallah’: Prince Charles praises ‘Islamic culture’ and prays in Arabic for Middle East peace

Tim Pearce · January 26, 2020 6:19 pm

Biden rebukes Trump ‘headaches’ comment on troop brain injuries

Emily Brooks · January 25, 2020 11:53 pm

Unidentified International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors and Iranian technicians are on hand to cut the connections between the twin cascades for 20 percent uranium enrichment at Natanz facility, some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014.

Iran says it has the ability to enrich uranium ‘at any percentage’

Zach Halaschak · January 25, 2020 5:35 pm

President Trump on Oct. 17 will call the families of four soldiers killed this month in Niger, the White House said. The Associated Press found relatives of two soldiers who died overseas during Trump's presidency who said they never received a call or a letter from him, as well as relatives of a third who did not get a call from him. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Veterans organization seeks Trump apology for comments about head injuries

Mike Brest · January 25, 2020 5:02 pm

Indiaâs Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Biden,Â June 2023.

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In defense of Trump’s gut instincts

Daniel Buck · January 25, 2020 5:00 pm

Marine Lt. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., director, Joint Staff, speaks during a media availability at the Pentagon, Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Washington.

General says US troops may stay in Middle East ‘for quite a while’

Zach Halaschak · January 25, 2020 4:33 pm

This undated photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, shows the wreckage of the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 at the scene of the crash in Shahedshahr, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran.

Families of those killed in plane that Iran shot down suing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Zach Halaschak · January 25, 2020 9:52 am