Salam Zaatari, 2024-11-07 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on November 4, 2024, citing “a lack of trust” amid deepening policy disagreements. Gallant, who was aligned with Biden’s administration, had criticized Netanyahu's approach to handling the Israel-Gaza conflict, warning that it endangered national security and ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-06 21:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu United States Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the "Iranian threat" in a call with US president-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday as the wars in Gaza and Lebanon show no sign of easing. Saudi state media also reported that the Gulf heavyweight's de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, spoke to Trump to congratulate ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-05 12:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russia launched 55 satellites into orbit on Tuesday, including two privately built Iranian devices, amid deepening ties between Moscow and Tehran. A Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East at 02:18 Moscow time (2318 GMT on Monday) carrying the satellites, Russia's Roscosmos space agency said. In total, ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-05 12:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel has not yet achieved the military objectives required to enter negotiations. Consequently, it is expected to press on with efforts to dismantle Hezbollah’s military and organizational structure, employing a scorched-earth strategy to create a 3-to-6-kilometer deep uninhabitable zone. According to Western diplomatic sources, after securing ...
Charles Chartouni, 2024-11-04 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The mutating objectives of the Israeli counteroffensive have evolved from border sanctuarization to the deliberate changing of the strategic and political dynamics in the Middle East and the questioning of the political and military hegemony of Iranian imperialism. The strategy has moved from defensive goals to an overt offensive strategy to upend ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-03 19:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran Ceasefire Masoud Pezeshkian
Iran's president said Sunday a potential ceasefire between its allies and Israel “could affect the intensity” of Tehran's response to Israel's recent strikes on Iranian military sites. “If they (the Israelis) reconsider their behaviour, accept a ceasefire, and stop massacring the oppressed and innocent people of the ...
Mario Chartouni, 2024-11-02 11:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Middle East United States Iran Threats
Listening to the reverberating rhetoric between the key players in the Middle Eastern conflict feels akin to witnessing a trivial quarrel. However, when words become the currency of fools, how can we gauge the credibility of the threats exchanged between Iran and Israel? A Volatile Rhetoric In the aftermath of the attack launched by Israel last ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-01 18:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran Kamal Kharrazi Iran Nuclear Program
Kamal Kharrazi, chairman of Iran's Strategic Council on Foreign Relations and adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader, told the Al-Mayadeen news agency, which is close to Hezbollah, that Tehran is likely to increase the range of its ballistic missiles. He added that Iran currently has the ability to produce nuclear weapons. “We now have the technical ...
This is Beirut, 2024-10-30 17:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hassan Nasrallah Naim Qassem Iran
In his first address as Hezbollah’s new Secretary General, Naim Qassem said on Wednesday that he will follow in the footsteps of his slain predecessor Hassan Nasrallah by pursuing the same policy of supporting Gaza through the south Lebanon front. “My program (as new secretary general) will be a perpetuation of Nasrallah’s work in all ...
This is Beirut, 2024-10-29 18:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
European Union Iran Annalena Baerbock Josep Borrell Germany
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday slammed his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock and EU chief Josep Borrell over their critism of Iran's execution of Iranian-German Jamshid Sharmahd. On Monday, Iran executed 69-year-old German-Iranian Sharmahd, who was sentenced to death in February 2023 for the capital offence of "corruption on ...
This is Beirut, 2024-10-29 16:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil Iran
The head of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), MP Gebran Bassil, met on Tuesday with the Iranian Foreign Minister’s special envoy for Middle Eastern affairs, Mohammad Reza Sheibani. Officially, the meeting was aimed at discussing the ongoing war in Lebanon and its repercussions, according to Lebanese news agencies. However, Bassil’s meeting ...
Philippe Abi-Akl, 2024-10-29 08:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Amos Hochstein Iran US election
Israel’s response to Iran’s Oct.1 missile attack signals a marked shift from the previous phase, easing widespread concerns in Lebanon and internationally that Tel Aviv might push the region toward a broader conflict. Reports indicate that a US-brokered arrangement between the two sides has defused the immediate threat of war, with further ...