In his first trip abroad since becoming Israel’s prime minister, centrist Yair Lapid flies to Paris today to ask French President Emmanuel Macron to “mediate” to save gas talks between Lebanon and the state of Israel . Lapid was appointed prime minister on Friday as part of a deal he made with Naftali Bennett that […]
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Iran: Five dead and 100 injured in earthquakes that hit Hormozgan province
Five people were killed and around 100 injured in Iran today, after a series of earthquakes hit a village in the south of the country, in the province of Hormozgan, near the Straits of Hormuz. Of the three tremors – two of which were magnitude 6 and the third 5.7 – half the village of […]
Iran: At least 5 dead due to strong earthquake in the south
LAST UPDATE: 08:54 At least five people were killed and about 20 others injured when an earthquake struck southern Iran in the early hours of the morning, according to Islamic Republic media; the initial tremor was followed by about 10 others, including one measuring 6.3 magnitude. “Five people were killed because of the earthquake (…) […]
Europeans call on Iran to denuclearize
France, Britain and Germany, parties to the Iran nuclear deal, today called on Tehran to opt for de-escalation and “return to full cooperation” with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a day after the multilaterals failed negotiations held in Doha. “We call on Iran to halt and reverse the escalation of its nuclear program, return […]
EU: Indirect Iran-US nuclear talks stall no progress
“Indirect talks between Iran and the United States to end the stalemate and revive the 2015 agreement on Iran’s nuclear program with the major powers have ended without any progress” that the EU team hoped to coordinate, “he said. today EU envoy Enrique Mora tweeted. “We will continue to work with even greater urgency to […]
Iran has applied to join the BRICS
Iran has applied to join the group of the largest emerging economies, known as the BRICS, an Iranian official said Monday. Iran’s accession to the BRICS group (from the initials of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) “will create added value for both sides,” according to a Foreign Ministry spokesman. Iran. Russian Foreign Ministry […]
How Erdogan uses Syria to ‘play’ between the US and Russia
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after first speaking at the EFES-2022 exercise on June 9, reiterated in his speech after the cabinet meeting on 27 Junehis plans suggest a possible upcoming Turkish military operation in northern Syria. The “why now” is trying to decode an article in the Jerusalem Post. Erdogan first announced his intention […]
How Erdogan uses Syria to ‘play’ between NATO and Russia
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after first speaking at the EFES-2022 exercise on June 9, reiterated in his speech after the cabinet meeting on 27 Junehis plans suggest a possible upcoming Turkish military operation in northern Syria. Erdogan first announced his intention to launch an additional invasion of northern Syria on May 23rd. Ankara has […]
Iran says it ‘understands’ the need for a Turkish operation in Syria
The Iranian foreign minister said in Ankara today that he “understands” the need for a new Turkish military operation against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. “We understand very well Turkey’s security concerns,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told a joint news conference with Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşo .lu. “We understand that a special operation (in […]
France calls on oil-producing countries to produce more
France today called on oil-producing countries to increase production “in an unusual way” and called for a “diversification of supplies” to Iran and Venezuela in order to halt the price spike in the war-torn pump in Ukraine. “We need producer countries to produce more in an unusual way,” until the peak of the crisis is […]
