Biden administration making world a ‘dangerous place’
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Biden’s first phone calls show where he’s looking — and it’s not at Israel
Unlike his predecessors, the US president has not called Middle East leaders in his first days, likely indicating what his administration will focus on: Neighbors and NATO. US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House on January 25, 2021. (JIM WATSON / AFP) In his first week in office, US President…
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Suicide drones deployed in Yemen by Iran within striking distance of Israel
Workers prep an Iranian drone. (YouTube/ali javid/Screenshot) The mullahs would hope for “plausible deniability” if Yemeni rebels launch a strike on their behalf, says Iranian expert. The Houthi movement that controls almost all of northern Yemen has received so-called “suicide drones” from Iran that could hit Israel, Newsweek reported in an exclusive on Wednesday. The extremist Shiite…
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Iranian missiles land within 20 miles of ship, 100 miles from Nimitz strike group in Indian Ocean: officials
Officials say at least one missile landed 20 miles from a commercial vessel. EXCLUSIVE: Long-range missiles from Iran splashed down close to a commercial ship in the Indian Ocean Saturday and 100 miles from the Nimitz aircraft carrier strike group, Fox News has learned, in the latest example of rising tensions in the region. U.S. officials say…
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‘Completely untrustworthy’ – Iran leader bans import of US and UK-made COVID-19 vaccines
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei —Reuters Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday banned the import of US and British-produced coronavirus vaccines, saying they were “completely untrustworthy.” “It’s not unlikely they would want to contaminate other nations. Given our experience with France’s HIV-tainted blood supplies, French vaccines aren’t trustworthy either,” he said in a…
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Biden faces a minefield in new diplomacy with Iran
Joe Biden has known key Iranian figures for decades, but the issue of reëntering the nuclear deal is fraught, and time is short. Photograph by Alex Wong / Getty Joe Biden knows Iran better than any American President since its 1979 revolution. He has personally dealt with its top officials—a few of them for decades….
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Iran reveals new missile base on the Persian Gulf
Iranian military forces have shown off their Naval Missile Facility on the coast of the Persian Gulf and boasted of their extended defensive capabilities. The new facility was built on the Persian Gulf, a hotly contested maritime region that plays a key role in global oil exports Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) published photos of a…
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South Korea presses Iran over seized oil tanker as Gulf tensions rise
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps troops on Monday seized the South Korean-flagged MT Hankuk Chemi A South Korean delegation left for Iran on Thursday to negotiate the early release of an oil tanker and its crew seized in strategic Gulf waters this week. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps troops on Monday stormed the South Korean-flagged MT Hankuk Chemi…
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Israel ‘will not allow’ Iran to get nuclear bomb amid uranium enrichment
Netanyahu says Iran’s decision to enrich uranium to a greater purity ‘cannot be explained in any way, other than a desire to continue realising its goal’ of getting a bomb. Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif Israeli leaders have vowed not to let Iran get a nuclear weapon after it said it was enriching uranium to…
