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January 27, 2024

Odd News

Secret sex tapes expose hypocrisy of country’s elites

A country with hard line rules on sex and drugs is embroiled in a scandal as prominent figures are exposed in X-rated footage.

Mohammad-Mehdi Karami speaks in a courtroom before being executed by hanging, along with Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, for allegedly killing a member of the security forces during nationwide protests. Picture: West Asia News Agency

January 20, 2024

World

Iran announces successful satellite launch, heightening Western concerns over missile program

Iran said Saturday it had conducted a successful satellite launch into its highest orbit yet, the latest for a program the West fears improves Tehran’s ballistic missiles.

By Editors Desk

File photo: In this photo released Wednesday, April 22, 2020, by Sepah news, an Iranian rocket carrying a satellite is launched from an undisclosed site believed to be in Iran's Semnan province. © Sepah / AP

January 18, 2024

World

Pakistan carries out military strikes on separatist targets in Iran following deadly attack on its own soil by Tehran

Akhtar Soomro/Reuters Pakistan and Iran have now taken extraordinary step of attacking militants on each other’s soil at a time of expanding conflict in the Middle East and wider region

January 17, 2024

World

Pakistan condemns deadly Iranian missile strike on its territory as an ‘unprovoked violation’

Authorities in Balochistan province told CNN two girls had died and at least four people were injured.

Pakistans Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani attends an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting regarding the situation in the besieged Gaza Strip in Jeddah on October 18 2023. © Amer Hilabi AFP

January 16, 2024

Middle East

Iraq recalls ambassador from Tehran after Iranian missiles strike Kurdish region

Iraq condemned an "attack on its sovereignty" on Tuesday after Iran's Revolutionary Guards launched missile strikes on anti-Tehran groups and an alleged Israeli "spy headquarters" in Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan.

By Editors Desk

January 16, 2024

Middle East

Iran launches missile strikes in northern Iraq and Syria, claims to destroy Israeli spy base

CNN has reached out to Israel’s Prime Minister’s office for comment on the IRGC’s claim.

January 15, 2024

Military

US Consulate explosion, ship hit in escalation

Explosions have reportedly been heard near a US Consulate amid rising tensions in the Middle East.

By Editors Desk

Iranian protesters burn an Israeli and a US flag during a demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Picture: ATTA KENARE / AFP

January 11, 2024

Middle East

US-UK coalition strike Iran-backed Houthi targets in Yemen after spate of ship attacks in Red Sea

Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi militants have stepped up attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea in recent weeks

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images, FILE

January 04, 2024

World

Islamic State Takes Responsibility for Deadly Bombings in Iran

The Islamic State announcement dovetailed with American intelligence assessments indicating that the attack was most likely the work of the group.

A photo released by Iran’s state-run news media on Wednesday of the site of the explosions in the city of Kerman.Credit...Sare Tajalli/ISNA, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

January 04, 2024

World

Iran Vows Revenge Over Deadly Bomb Attack at Soleimani Memorial

Authorities investigate the pair of blasts amid regional tensions between Iranian-backed groups and Israel

Iranians waved images of the late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in Tehran on Wednesday. ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH/SHUTTERSTOCK

January 03, 2024

World

Dozens killed as explosions rock memorial for slain Iranian general – media

Qassem Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike on this day in 2020

By Editors Desk

A view of the scene after explosions leaving at least 73 feared dead in explosions near slain Gen. Qassem Soleimani's tomb, in Kerman City, Iran on January 03, 2024 © Getty Images / Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images

December 26, 2023

Middle East

US hits Iran-backed militias in Iraq after attack

The US military has attacked Iranian-backed militant groups in Iraq, hours after US personnel were injured in a drone strike on a US airbase there.

By Editors Desk

The US hit sites used by Kataib Hezbollah. Getty Images

December 07, 2023

World

Russia and Iran ‘building momentum’ – Putin

The two nations are cooperating in fields ranging from infrastructure projects to education, the president has said

By Editors Desk

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Moscow, Russia, on December 7, 2023. © Sputnik / Pavel Bednyakov

November 15, 2023

World

Arab and Muslim leaders blame West for Gaza misery

Hypocrisy, double standards and a failure to understand the region. These are the charges being levelled at the West, primarily the US, by leaders of 57 Arab and Muslim countries who convened at the weekend in the Saudi capital Riyadh.

By Editors Desk

REUTERS, Leaders warned of the "disastrous repercussions" of what they called Israel's "retaliatory aggression"

October 15, 2023

Middle East

Iran warns Israel of regional ‘earthquake’

There is still a chance to prevent the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from spilling over, Tehran believes

By Editors Desk

Khirbet Selm Lebanon- October 10: Hezbollah buries three militants after Israeli strike © Daniel Carde/Getty Images

October 12, 2023

Foreign Policy

US and Qatar reach ‘quiet understanding’ not to release $6bn sent to Iran for now, Treasury official tells House Democrats

“We have strict oversight of the funds, and we retain the right to freeze them,” Blinken said.

By Editors Desk

September 18, 2023

National Security

U.S. and Iran trade prisoners, signaling partial thaw in relations

The U.S.-Iran prisoner exchange, which includes a provision to unlock $6 billion in frozen Iranian oil funds, marks a major breakthrough for the bitter foes.

By Editors Desk

April 06, 2023

World

China’s position on display with Iran, Saudi, France meetings

The rapidity with which China is doing back-to-back meetings with key countries such as France, Saudi and Iran, China is positioning itself as a broker of “wisdom.”

By Editors Desk