Fatemeh Bahrami/ Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A plane carrying 176 people crashed times after takeoff in Iran on January 8, killing everyone on board. Multiple report outlets on Thursday, quoting US intelligence officials, reported that an Iranian surface-to-air missile system had likely shot down the flight by coincidence. Iran …
Read More »Iran official news agency appears to confirm Ukraine jet crash with photo of aftermath
IRNA IRNA, Iran’s official news agency, wrote an image of the scene after a plane crash near Tehran. It came as information was still emerging about the gate-crash, which took early on Wednesday, January 8, neighbourhood hour. Accord to reports, the plane was operated by Ukrainian International Airlines, and had …
Read More »Lindsey Graham: If Iran Defies Trump’s 3 Demands He Will ‘Destroy Their Economy’
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, told Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Wednesday that the notion that Iran intentionally missed its targets in its weapon onslaught is false and that if Iran does not meet President Donald Trump’s demands that the president will” destroy their …
Read More »The FAA banned US airlines from flying over Iran and Iraq after a missile attack on US troops
amcharts/ Business Insider The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday night issued a Notice to Airmen( NOTAMS) establishing a no-fly zone over Iraq and Iran. The proceed comes after Iran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at basis in Iraq hosting US and Iraqi military personnel. The attack was retaliation …
Read More »Trump says ‘all is well’ after a barrage of Iranian missiles rained down on US forces in Iraq
Associated Press/ Evan Vucci In his first response to a missile attack by Iran on US forces in Iraq, President Donald Trump tweeted that ‘all is well.’ The president’s tweet follows an Iranian rocket attack on US military and coalition forces in Iraq Wednesday morning( in Iraq) in apparent retaliation …
Read More »UK would not back US bombing of Iran cultural sites – No 10
Downing Street says such military action would break international treaties in implicit chide to Trump UK politics latest- live updates Downing Street has said targeting cultural areas in Iran would breach international war conventions in an implicit admonition to Donald Trump for threatening to bomb protected heritage locates. Boris Johnson’s …
Read More »To believe there’ll be world war three is to swallow US propaganda | Nesrine Malik
There is no threat of annihilation from Iran. But the US killing of Qassem Suleimani could well bring terror to the region Afew weeks after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, several new Sudanese students appeared at my school in Khartoum. Halfway through the word they arrived, bewildered and dressed …
Read More »US government agency website crashes amid panic over military draft
Selective Service System said on Twitter its website was receiving high-pitched traffic volume’ due to the spread of misinformation’ Fonda and Ellsberg protest at escalating conflict with Iran In the aftermath of the US drone strike that killed the Iranian general Qassem Suleimani in Baghdad, the word “World War III” …
Read More »The Guardian view on Trump’s war: UK goes from poodle to lapdog? | Editorial
Home countries will not profit from pursuing a reckless Brexit while hitching ourselves to Donald Trump’s Iranian misadventure A British prime minister flies back from a Caribbean holiday where “hes been”, courtesy of millionaire friends, sunning himself on yachts while the Middle East is in flames and Britain in the …
Read More »Kylie Moore-Gilbert named as Australian-British academic jailed in Iran since 2018
Cambridge-educated lecturer in Islamic Studies at Melbourne University has been in prison in Tehran for almost a year The Australian government has identified the third person revealed this week to be in detention in prison in Iran as a Melbourne academic who has published work on the 2011 Arab insurgencies …
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