Category: Iran
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Iran focused on Syria as lynchpin of ‘resistance’ axis – analysis
Unlike in Iraq, Yemen, and Lebanon, where Iran relies on proxies, Syria’s regime is directly aligned with Tehran. By SETH J. FRANTZMAN NOVEMBER 21, 2024 12:18 IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves before voting in the country’s presidential election, in Tehran earlier this month. Khamenei has made statements for years stating that the Iranians’…
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Iran Says Western Resolution Will ‘Weaken’ Interaction With IAEA
By AFP – Agence France Presse November 21, 2024 Order Reprints Print Article Text size A resolution tabled by Western countries to censure Iran’s nuclear program at the International Atomic Energy Agency “will weaken and disrupt” interactions between the UN body and Tehran, it warned ahead of the vote on Thursday. Paris, Berlin, London and…
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Senate rejects bid to block key arms transfers to Israel
WASHINGTON — An effort by a group of Senate lawmakers to restrict some of the Biden administration’s continued flow of weapons to Israel fell far short of the needed votes on Wednesday night, despite mounting evidence of war crimes in Gaza. The three Joint Resolutions of Disapproval aimed to block the transfer of some $20…
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Iraqi PM Slams Israel’s Complaint over Attacks by Iraqi Iran-Backed Militias
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has dismissed an Israeli complaint to the UN Security Council about strikes by Iraq’s Iran-backed Shiite militias on Israel as a “pretext and argument to attack Iraq” and to “expand the war in the region.” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar had earlier posted on X a letter to the…
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Cat-astrophe! What happens when dirty-minded North Koreans meet Iranian nuclear purrfidy
New starters to the work of intelligence analysis are warned about the danger from “invisible cats”. The circular logic was brilliantly captured by the author C.S Lewis. “If there were an invisible cat in that chair, the chair would look empty,” he reasoned. “But the chair does look empty; therefore there is an invisible cat…
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Israeli airstrikes kill dozens in Gaza, amid rising deaths in Syria’s Palmyra
Israeli airstrikes kill dozens in Gaza, amid rising deaths in Syria’s Palmyra Israeli airstrikes have killed dozens of Palestinians in Gaza City and other areas, according to medical sources and rescuers. Civil Defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal reported that 22 people were killed in a strike targeting a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood. Palestinian journalists…
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How is Lebanon’s Middle East Airlines still flying amid rockets, missiles?
Commercial air travel has continued doggedly traversing the airspace over the Middle East, despite pilots seeing missiles flying through the air from their cockpits. Drones, rockets and missiles have crisscrossed the sky since Israel’s assault on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, followed by its assault on Lebanon a year later. The most remarkable among…
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Iran hiding missile, drone programs under guise of commercial front to evade sanctions
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In Landmark Vote, 19 Senate Democrats Oppose Arms Sales to Israel
Haaretz | U.S. News Three of the nine Jewish Democrats in the Senate backed Sen. Bernie Sanders’ landmark effort to formally disapprove five arms sales to Israel due to their use in ‘unacceptable civilian death and harm’ in Gaza Ben Samuels Washington Nov 21, 2024 3:21 am ISTUpdated: Nov 20, 2024 5:48 pm IST Nov…
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CDS Anil Chauhan explains three major trends transforming modern warfare
ET Online | 21 Nov 2024, 02:38 PM IST New Delhi: General Anil Chauhan, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), addressed an audience at the International Centre on November 20, highlighting the transformative changes in modern warfare driven by technological advancements. Speaking at the C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, he elaborated on the evolving nature of warfare and…