This is Beirut, 06/02 12:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran's Revolutionary Guards unveiled the country's first drone carrier on Thursday in Gulf waters, state media reported. The carrier, called the Martyr Bahman Bagheri, is a commercial vessel that was repurposed as a drone carrier over the past two-and-a-half years, Guards naval commander Alireza Tangsiri said during the unveiling ...
This is Beirut, 05/02 11:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was planning to reinstate what he called the "maximum pressure" policy against Iran over allegations that it is trying to develop nuclear weapons. However, Trump also said he hoped the policy will "hardly have to be used." Trump made the comment as he signed a memorandum reimposing the tough policy of ...
This is Beirut, 30/01 19:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met Hamas leaders and discussed the reconstruction of Gaza during a visit to Qatar on Thursday, according to the Palestinian militant group, whose political office is in Doha. Senior leaders of Iran-backed Hamas attended the talks, including Shura advisory council leader Mohammed Darwish and chief negotiator ...
This is Beirut, 30/01 10:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran is ready to discuss its nuclear programme if Western countries show they are "serious", the foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying in an interview published on Thursday. "We have said several times that we are ready for discussions, but only if the other side is serious about this," Esmaeil Baqaei told the government daily ...
Salam El Zaatari, 30/01 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
In the high-stakes chess game of Middle Eastern politics, a hidden force drives both Israel and Iran toward an eerily similar endgame, an unshakable belief that history is hurtling toward a divinely orchestrated climax. On one side, Israel’s religious circles whisper about the long-awaited Messiah, a figure destined to restore their ancient ...
This is Beirut, 27/01 18:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Two Iranian men convicted of membership of the People's Mujahedin opposition group, outlawed by the Islamic republic, are at imminent risk of execution after being transferred to a different prison, the organisation and activists said on Monday. The men, Behrouz Ehsani, 69, and Mehdi Hassani, 48, a father of three, were moved without prior notice ...
This is Beirut, 24/01 16:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Iranian police arrested two young women after publication of a video in which they danced in a Tehran cemetery without adhering to the country's strict dress code, local media reported Friday. "Not long ago, two people, in the cemetery of martyrs in Tehran, disregarding the sacred site, recorded a video clip with inappropriate clothing and ...
This is Beirut, 24/01 15:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards conducted naval drills on Friday in the Gulf and strategic Strait of Hormuz as part of a series of nationwide military exercises, state media reported. The drills -- which involved fast boats, shore-to-sea missiles and surface-to-surface missiles -- as featured by state TV, are part of a string of exercises, dubbed ...
This is Beirut, 22/01 21:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iranian authorities on Wednesday arrested 10 women members of the Bahai community, a representative group said, warning of escalating repression against one of the country's biggest non-Muslim religious minorities. "Security forces arrested ten Bahai women, without arrest warrants or prior notification, in a series of shocking home raids," the ...
This is Beirut, 22/01 20:14 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iranian Vice President for Strategic Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif said Wednesday that Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel had "destroyed" an opportunity for talks to revive a landmark nuclear accord. The Palestinian militant group's unprecedented assault triggered a devastating war in Gaza, drawing in Tehran-aligned ...
This is Beirut, 19/01 20:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An Iranian court has sentenced popular singer Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, to death on appeal after he was convicted of blasphemy, local media reported on Sunday. "The Supreme Court accepted the prosecutor's objection" to a previous five-year jail term on offences including blasphemy, reformist newspaper Etemad reported online. It ...
This is Beirut, 18/01 18:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Two judges were killed in a shooting attack on Saturday at the Supreme Court building in Tehran, Iranian state media reported. "This morning, a gunman infiltrated the Supreme Court in a planned act of assassination of two brave and experienced judges. The two judges were martyred in the act," the judiciary's Mizan Online website ...