Iran has indirectly issued a death threat against U.S. President Donald Trump, after an influential cleric said threats against Iranian leader Ali Khamenei are considered a curse and a sin, punishable by death under Islam. Nearly two weeks ago, Trump had indirectly threatened Khamenei, saying he was an easy target. …
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A student has been arrested in Israel on suspicion of spying for Iran. The 22-year-old is alleged to have committed security offences and carried out tasks on behalf of Iranian agents, according to a joint statement issued Thursday by the Shin Bet domestic security service and the police. The young …
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Iran and Israel on Tuesday at the UN Security Council, sharply disagreed over employing diplomacy to resolve Iran’s nuclear programme that led to a 13-day violent conflict between them. Iran had said diplomacy could and must resolve differences between it and Israel on the one hand, and the world on …
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned Iran’s missile attack on the U.S. military base in Qatar on Monday. The Spokesperson to the Secretary-General said in a statement that Guterres was “deeply alarmed” by the further escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. This is just as Trump confirmed that …
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Iran communicated to US President Donald Trump several days ago that it could activate sleeper-cells to attack the American homeland in response to a strike on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities, NBC reports. The message made its way to the US president during the G7 summit in Canada last week, …
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U.S. President Donald Trump says the U.S. has bombed Fordow, Iran’s heavily fortified nuclear facility as well as two other sites, Natanz and Esfahan. Trump, who spoke from the White House on Saturday night, said the objective of the strikes was to destroy Iran’s nuclear capacity and stop its nuclear …
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An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale on Friday evening struck Iran’s north-central province of Semnan. “At 21.19 p.m. (local time), Friday, June 20, a 5.5-magnitude earthquake shook the area around Sorkheh, a district in the Semnan Province,” reported Iranian news agency IRNA The quake struck 17 kilometres (10.6 …
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THE Nigerian government has finalized arrangements for the emergency evacuation of stranded Nigerians in Israel and Iran as crisis between the two nations escalates with incessant bombings. The arrangements of the Nigerian government was communicated on Wednesday in a statement signed by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, …
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Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday rejected U.S. calls for surrender in the face of blistering Israeli strikes and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause “irreparable damage” to them, in recorded video aired by state TV It was the second public appearance by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei since …
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THE U.S. Treasury Department has announced sanctions against more than 30 individuals and companies accused of helping Iran evade sanctions and launder billions from oil and petrochemical sales to fund its nuclear and missile programmes. The sanctioned network operated as a system of “shadow banking” involving front companies in places …
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