Tylia El Helou, 2024-02-29 14:52 - Reading : less than a minute
Journalist and writer at the Washington Post, Suzan Haidamous, said to Political Pulse that both UN Resolution 1701 and the Two-State Solution are not applicable in their current states, as concerned parties are not willing to compromise on their objectives and refuse to lower the stakes at hand. She also stressed the fact that Iran will not ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-02-28 21:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel reportedly carried out airstrikes near Damascus on Wednesday, according to Syrian media, marking the latest attack amid escalating regional tensions since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Israel carried out strikes Wednesday near Damascus, Syrian official media said, the latest reported attack amid soaring regional tensions ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-02-22 22:36 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The White House announced, on Thursday, that the United States will soon enact fresh sanctions against Iran due to its support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The United States will soon impose new sanctions on Iran over its backing of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the White House said Thursday. "In response to Iran's ongoing support for ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-02-22 13:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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On Thursday, February 22, Iran entered a short campaign for the March 1 legislative elections. According to the few polls published, Iranians remain largely indifferent to the vote, more than a year after the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini. Candidates running for seats in Iran's legislature launched their election campaigns on ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-02-21 12:11 - Reading : less than a minute
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Iran said Wednesday that Israel was behind twin sabotage attacks against gas pipelines that disrupted supplies in at least three provinces last week. Iran's Oil Minister, Javad Owji, accused Israel of sabotaging gas pipelines, citing disruptions in three provinces. "The explosion of the country's gas lines was the work of Israel," he told ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-01-16 09:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards attacked 'terrorist' targets in Syria and Iraq's Kurdistan on Monday, killing four people and wounding six others, and drawing United States criticism for recklessness and destabilization concerns. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they launched missile attacks on multiple 'terrorist' targets in Syria and Iraq's ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-31 19:20 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
The situation in Gaza continued to deteriorate on Sunday, December 31st, as the world prepares for New Year's celebrations. On a regional scale, tensions are sharply escalating in Iraq, Syria and the Red Sea. Israeli strikes pounded Gaza on Sunday as both sides near the end of a dark year, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the war ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-30 17:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Pro-Iran armed groups in Syria attacked two American bases in the east of the country on Saturday, December 30, in response to "probable Israeli strikes" carried out earlier in the day. Washington immediately retaliated. Armed groups affiliated to Iran targeted two American bases in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor on Saturday evening, ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-29 20:26 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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On Thursday evening, an Israeli strike on Damascus International Airport killed eleven leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to the Saudi TV channel Al-Hadath. This information was denied by the spokesman of the IRGC. Eleven leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in an air strike targeting ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-29 10:32 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iranian authorities executed four people convicted of colluding with the State of Israel in the north-west of the country on Friday, December 29. Iran is one of the countries that most frequently uses the death penalty. Iran hanged four people on Friday convicted of spying for arch foe Israel, the judiciary said, less than two weeks after ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-28 18:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated one individual and three entities responsible for facilitating the flow of Iranian financial assistance to Houthi forces and their destabilizing activities, mainly in the Red Sea. Among those designated on Thursday is the head of the Currency Exchangers Association in Sana’a ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-28 13:31 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The head of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards reaffirmed on Thursday that Tehran was not involved in the October 7 attacks. He made this statement in Tehran at the funeral of an official of the organization killed in Syria. His remarks contradicted those of the IRGC spokesman, who had said the opposite the previous day. The head of the Islamic ...