Tag: Israel-Iran Tensions
Iran FM: Direct response to Haniyeh killing will be ‘calculated’
Iran’s foreign minister said on Sunday his country’s response to the assassination of Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31 would be “calculated.”
“Iran reaction to Israeli terrorist attack in Tehran is...
Blinken speaks with top diplomats from Qatar, Egypt on regional tensions
The U.S. State Department reports that Secretary of State Antony Blinken talked with Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar’s prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty on Wednesday about the...
White House confident it can help defend Israel against Iran, Kirby says
An Iranian attack on the Jewish state “could be this week,” although U.S. President Joe Biden “is confident that we have the capability available to us to help defend Israel should it come to...
Possible advantages of a preemptive strike on Iran
During its impending war with Iran, Israel’s overriding objective should be to keep that jihadist enemy non-nuclear. The best way to meet this objective will be by systematically controlling conflict escalations (“escalation dominance”). In...
Russian security envoy in Tehran as attack on Israel looms
Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council, arrived in Iran on Monday for talks with senior officials amid mounting concerns of a large-scale attack on Israel by Tehran and its terrorist proxies.
Shoigu, who...
Why Netanyahu has now decided to escalate attacks
With the assassinations of Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Mohammed Deif in Gaza, along with Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr in Lebanon, coupled with a major strike on the Houthis’ oil refineries in Yemen, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has clearly decided...
Iranian foreign minister: Oct. 7 created ‘shift of balance’ against ‘Zionists’
Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in southern Israel shifted the balance in the Middle East “in favor of the resistance,” interim Iranian foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani said on Tuesday in his first interview with a U.S....
‘Iran is fighting us on a seven-front war,’ Netanyahu tells JINSA delegation
The first thing that the Jewish state must do is to defeat Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a delegation of retired U.S. Jewish military leaders at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel...
Iraq, Iran step up training of militia fighters
Iraq and Iran are reportedly ramping up efforts to train hundreds of fighters for pro-Iranian militias, particularly the Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq, according to Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.
Sources told Al-Akhbar that training is taking place both within Iraq...
Iran reaffirms support for Palestinian terror
The death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will not affect Tehran’s backing for Palestinian terrorist groups or its approach to nuclear talks with the United States, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday.
Despite Raisi’s...