Tag: Iran
What really happened in the skies near Israel’s nuclear reactor?
Two days before a Syrian surface-to-air missile flew into southern Israel in response to reported Israeli airstrikes on targets in the Damascus area, two suspicious Iranian cargo planes landed at Damascus International Airport, likely...
Iranian president: We have cut off the hands of those behind Natanz ‘nuclear terrorism’
Iran has “chopped off the hands” of those responsible for the April 11 blast at its Natanz nuclear facility by activating advanced centrifuges and starting to enrich uranium to 60 percent, said Iranian President...
Deputy Quds Force commander dead of heart attack, says Iran
The deputy commander of Iran’s Quds Force has died of heart disease, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced on Sunday.
Brig. Gen. Muhammad Hussein-Zada Hejazi, who died at the age of 65, took up the...
China’s strategic cooperation agreement with Iran is ‘part of its struggle with the US’
The recent announcement by Iran and China of a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement involving some $400 billion of Chinese investment in the Islamic Republic is part of Beijing’s wider struggle against the United States,...
The Iran-China deal is cause for Israeli concern
While Israel was busy with the domestic political imbroglio surrounding last week’s Knesset elections, a strategic threat that could threaten the country’s very existence was developing. If the Iranian-Chinese alliance reaches its full potential, the Middle...
Young Iranians pose a threat to the regime, warns Revolutionary Guard Corps
The weekly Sobh-e Eghtesad, the official newspaper of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Political Bureau, calls young Iranians born in the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century a “serious threat” to the...
Iran said to have threatened ‘USS Cole-style’ attack against Washington’s Fort McNair
Iran has threatened to attack an army base in Washington, D.C., as well as the vice chief of staff of the U.S. Army, the AP reported on Sunday.
Citing “two senior U.S. intelligence officials” speaking on condition...
Iran unveils IRGC Navy ‘missile city’ arsenal
Iran unveiled a “missile city” on Monday belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, introducing the various armaments that have been added to the navy’s arsenal.
In a ceremony aired on Iran’s Channel 1, IRGC...
Syrian media reports Israeli airstrikes near Damascus
Syrian state media reported on Tuesday that Israel had launched an airstrike against targets in the Damascus region.
The Syrian Arab News Agency quoted an unnamed Syrian military official as saying that Israel had launched missiles from...
Washington attempts to quell Israel’s shadow war with Iran at sea
Recent reports suggest that the United States is disturbed by aspects of the Israeli-Iranian shadow war that is raging across the region—in this case, at sea. It seems reasonable to conclude that Washington is...