Iran denies it was involved in the drone attack which killed three US troops and injured 34 on a US base in Jordan, near the Syria border US President Joe Biden said the attack had been carried out by Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq “We shall respond,” he said at a campaign…
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Senior Iran Revolutionary Guard officials killed in Syria strike blamed on Israel
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard blamed Israel for the attack, which it said killed four military advisers as well as a number of Syrian forces. Israel has not commented. For years it has carried out strikes on Iranian-linked targets in Syria. Such strikes have intensified since the Israel-Gaza war began following Hamas’s 7 October attacks on…
Iran President Praises Uganda Anti- LGBTQ Law
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was in Zimbabwe Thursday, wrapping up a three-nation Africa visit that also took him to Kenya and Uganda. While in Uganda, Raisi said the West was promoting homosexuality in order to end what he called the “generation of human beings.” Raisi’s visit came after Uganda in May signed a law with…
Iranian President on African tour, arrives Uganda on Wednesday
Iran’s Raisi Kampala, Uganda– Iranian President, Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi is scheduled to arrive in Uganda this Wednesday for a two-day state visit, according to the Deputy Presidential Press Secretary, Faruk Kirunda. The three-day trip – which includes Kenya, Uganda, and Zimbabwe – will be the first by an Iranian president to Africa in 11 years….
Iran schoolgirls remove hijabs in protests against government
By David Gritten Schoolgirls in Iran have been waving their headscarves in the air and chanting against clerical authorities, in an unprecedented show of support for the protests engulfing the country. Videos verified by the B showed demonstrations inside schoolyards and on the streets of several cities. They echoed the wider unrest sparked by the…
UAE ambassador to Iran to return, 6 years after relations severed
It has been more than six years since the Gulf Arab state downgraded ties with Iran after Saudi diplomatic missions attacked by protesters. The United Arab Emirates says its ambassador to Iran, Saif Mohammed Al Zaabi, would return to Tehran “in coming days”, more than six years after the Gulf Arab state downgraded ties with…
Iran nuclear deal could be near as EU circulates ‘final text’.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 2159 EAT on Monday 8th August 2022. Tehran, Iran – An agreement on restoring Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers could be near after another round of negotiations led to a “final text” offered by the European Union. The bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the latest indirect,…
Train derailment kills at least 17 in Iran.
Reports suggest that the train collided with an excavator near the desert city of Tabas. Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1112 EAT on Wednesday 8th June 2022. 17 people have died after a passenger train derailed in eastern Iran, the semi-official Fars news agency has said, while over 50 passengers were seriously injured. The…
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