Disengagement: Trump Vows New Strategy To ‘Strangle’ Iran Over Time
The US administration has already said this many times and in many different ways. We suppose President Trump wants the world to know that talks with Iran are really really over this time, and the gloves are coming off (again): US President Trump told top administration envoys to halt their conversations with Iran, according to […]
UAE halts trade and financial transactions with Iran until further notice
The United Arab Emirates has suspended all trade, commercial exchanges and financial transactions with Iran until further notice, the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Tuesday. Afra Al Hameli, Director of the Strategic Communications Department at the ministry, said the decision was taken amid regional developments that pose a threat to peace and security in […]
Huckabee to Israeli media: Another Iran war could happen if regime rejects diplomacy
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee spoke on Tuesday to Channel 12 News anchor Yonit Levi and commented on the possibility of another war with Iran, now that the 60-day ceasefire between the US and Iran has expired. “I hope not. I think we all hope not. All of us who have been through two […]
Netanyahu & Kushner agree: No Gaza withdrawal or reconstruction until full disarmament of Hamas
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy, Jared Kushner, met for over four hours in Jerusalem on Monday, discussing the U.S.-backed framework to end the Gaza war, which Hamas ostensibly approved. Netanyahu rejected the 15-point proposal by the Board of Peace (BoP) last week and has since come under pressure from […]
IAEA finds ‘tons’ of nuclear material in Syria; Damascus: We’ll keep it for ‘peaceful’ energy use
The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog said Tuesday that its inspectors had found several tons of nuclear material in Syria, at a site which the authorities said they reported to the agency last month. Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), praised Damascus’s “courageous decision” to report the undisclosed site, […]
Iran’s hardline mullahs ‘are considering attacks on European military targets’
Iran is weighing up attacking US military targets in Europe should Donald Trump escalate the war, according to a report. Two Islamic Republic insiders told the Financial Times that Iranian forces have assessed striking American assets in south-eastern European countries such as Bulgaria, which last month approved the use of its Bezmer air base for […]
Dem socialist clinches surprise primary win in Florida Senate race
In an upset for the Democratic establishment, progressive Angie Nixon won the party’s US Senate primary in Florida, beating former army intelligence officer Alexander Vindman. Nixon, a state representative and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, had significantly less funding going into the primary – with $975,000 to Vindman’s $16.3m at the end of […]