par This Is Beirut, 18/09 12:39 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Major reactions emerged on Wednesday in response to a deadly attack that saw hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah simultaneously explode across Lebanon. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said that Western backers of Israel should feel "shame" after paging devices belonging to Lebanon's Hezbollah exploded, in a deadly attack the Tehran-aligned ...
par This Is Beirut, 19/09 16:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel's police arrested an Israeli citizen allegedly recruited by Iran to plot the assassinations of top Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the police and Shin Bet said Thursday. "An Israeli citizen was recruited by Iranian intelligence to promote assassinations of Israeli figures. He was smuggled twice into Iran and ...
par This Is Beirut, 21/09 13:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iran unveiled a new ballistic missile and an upgraded one-way attack drone at a military parade on Saturday, state media said, amid soaring regional tensions and allegations of arming Russia. Iran stands accused by Western governments of supplying both drones and missiles to Russia for use in its war with Ukraine, a charge it has repeatedly ...
par This Is Beirut, 24/09 14:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Abbas Araghchi Hezbollah Iran Israel
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday that its ally Hezbollah "cannot stand alone" against Israel which carried out its deadliest day of airstrikes on Lebanon since 2006. "Hebzollah cannot stand alone against a country that is being defended and supported and supplied by Western countries, by European countries and the United ...
par Natasha Metni Torbey, 24/09 20:55 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Diplomatic avenues are – at least for the time being – blocked. The objectives of the war have evolved, especially since the announcement made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 17 regarding the expansion of the conflict to allow the 68,000 residents of northern Israel to safely return home. To achieve this, the Lebanese ...
par This Is Beirut, 25/09 11:36 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Hezbollah confirmed on Tuesday evening that Israel had killed one of its top commanders, Ibrahim Qobeissi, in an airstrike that rocked the southern suburbs of Beirut earlier that day. “Qobeissi was a significant source of knowledge in the field of missiles and had close ties to senior military leaders in Hezbollah,” the Israel Defense Forces ...
25/09 12:59 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Iran Israel
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that Israel's killing of top Hezbollah commanders couldn't bring the Iran-backed militant group to its knees. "Some of the effective and valuable forces of Hezbollah were martyred, which undoubtedly caused damage to Hezbollah, but this was not the sort of damage that could bring the ...
par Marc Saikali, 26/09 09:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
When the expression “a firefighter who starts fires” takes on its full meaning. Just when we thought we’d seen it all, witnessing the surreal phenomenon of Americans asking Iran to pressure Hezbollah into stopping rocket fire on Israel, is like science fiction. The maker of the “Axis of Resistance,” whose ultimate focus was ...
par gdeveloper, 26/09 17:54 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Thursday denied claims that 40,000 Iran-backed militiamen had entered the Golan Heights from the Syrian borders. Israeli army officials had claimed a day earlier that Iran was moving troops into Lebanon, according to a Haaretz report. Some Israeli media outlets reported that around 40,000 fighters ...
27/09 12:19 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
As violence between Israel and Hezbollah escalates, Iran is walking a tightrope by supporting Hezbollah without being dragged into a full-blown conflict and playing into its enemy's hands. With a focus on easing its isolation and reviving its battered economy, Iran is aware that war could complicate efforts to secure relief from crippling ...
par This Is Beirut, 28/09 16:30 - Reading : less than a minute
A senior general in Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, state media reported Saturday. General Abbas Nilforoushan, deputy commander of Guards operations, "was killed in Israel's attack on Lebanon that assassinated the Hezbollah chief," said the official IRNA ...
par This Is Beirut, 28/09 17:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei has released a statement in response to the ongoing strikes across Lebanon and the Beirut suburb of Dahieh, saying that Lebanon will make Israel "regret their actions". On Friday, Israel launched a large airstrike on the neighborhood that reportedly killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. In the statement ...
