TEHRAN (AA) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has strongly condemned the assassination of Hamas political bureau leader Ismail Haniyeh, saying Iran considers it a duty to “avenge the dear guest’s blood.” The statement came hours after Haniyeh, who was in Tehran to attend Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian&...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Palestinian resistance group Hamas announced early Wednesday that its political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting his residence in the Iranian capital Tehran. “Hamas mourns to our great Palestinian people, to the Arab and Islamic nations, and to all the free people of the world, ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken claimed Friday that Iran’s ability to rapidly produce enough weapons-grade material for a nuclear weapon was “now probably one or two weeks away.” “Iran, because of the nuclear agreement was thrown out, instead of being at least a year away from having the breakout capacity of [&helli...
In most parts of the world, Muslims marked the day of Ashura on Tuesday. Ashura falls on the tenth day of the Islamic month of Muharram. It commemorates the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of Prophet Muhammad, in Karbala, Iraq, in 680 of the Common Era. Ashura symbolizes his stand against a tyrant, and […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh spoke by phone with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on developments in Israel’s war on Gaza. Hamas said in a statement on its Telegram channel that Haniyeh called President Pezeshkian “to discuss political and field developments related to the genocidal war being waged by the (Israeli) occu...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States said Monday it did not expect policy changes from Iran after voters elected reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, and downplayed chances to resume dialogue. “We have no expectation that this election will lead to a fundamental change in Iran’s direction or its policies,”...
Tehran, Iran – AFP Iranians cast their ballots Friday in a presidential election marked by a lone reformist’s bid to break through against a divided conservative field. Around 61 million Iranians were eligible to vote in the election called after the death of ultraconservative president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last mont...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for high participation in the forthcoming snap presidential election, saying it “silences enemies.” Speaking to a gathering from different provinces in Tehran on Tuesday, Ayatollah Khamenei said public participation in the election “brings...
Iran is formally indicting the US government and 73 American military officials for the 2020 drone strike that killed General Qassem Soleimani. According to Iranian state media, Tehran’s judiciary chief announced the 164-page indictment and urged the accused to appoint legal representatives for a public trial at the Tehran Criminal Cour...
Paris, France — AFP Frenchman Louis Arnaud has returned to Paris after his release from a more than 20-month prison stay in Iran. Activists and some Western governments, including France, accuse Iran of exercising a strategy of taking foreign nationals as “hostages” to pursue their interests. Arnaud was held in Iran in Septem...
