ANKARA – The US has imposed sanctions on an international network accused of oil smuggling and money laundering that it said was led by officials of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force and supported by Russia. The network has “facilitated the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Iranian oil” for the […...
TEHRAN, Iran – The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the Greek charge d’affaires in Tehran to protest the seizure of an Iranian-flagged ship in Greece’s territorial waters. The ministry described the seizure as “an example of international banditry.” Earlier, Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) issued a statement, describing the...
RAMALLAH, Palestine – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed a new secretary for the executive committee of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Hussein al-Sheikh was named Secretary of the PLO Executive Committee. Al-Sheikh, who is also a member of the PLO’s Central Committee and Fatah group, was born in the West B...
WASHINGTON – The prospects for reviving the 2015 nuclear deal that world powers struck with Iran are exceedingly dim, President Joe Biden’s chief envoy for the talks has said amid an ongoing diplomatic impasse. “Of course, as I speak to you, we do not have a deal and prospects for reaching one are tenuous, at […]
ANKARA (AA) – Israel reportedly told the US that it was behind the killing of an officer of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the capital Tehran this week, according to The New York Times. Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodayee was shot dead outside his Tehran home on Sunday by two gunmen on a motorcycle. […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Thursday Tehran is committed to reaching a deal during the Vienna nuclear talks, but that US interests and foreign policy have been “taken hostage” by Israel. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he accused the Biden administration of ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Israeli forces have fired five teargas canisters toward the town of Al-Adaysah in southern Lebanon. Witnesses said Lebanese marking the anniversary of the Israeli troop pullout from southern Lebanon hurled rocks at a border fence with Israel. The National News Agency said Israeli forces fired teargas canisters at the ce...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Tourism Minister Yoel Razvozov said Wednesday that relations with Turkiye “will bring great achievements for our nations.” This came after his meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in West Jerusalem. “It was a pleasure to meet his excellency Mevlut Cavusoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Re...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid received his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday at the headquarters of the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. The meeting, which is expected to last for more than an hour, will be followed by a joint press conference by the two top diplomats. Earlier on Wednesday, Cavusogl...
Jerusalem, PALESTINE – (AFP): A Palestinian teenager was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in clashes that erupted during a Jewish pilgrimage to the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said Wednesday. The ministry identified the youngster as Ghaith Yamin, 16, who died of a head wound “after being shot by Israeli forces&...
