Washington: US President Donald Trump has said that Iran has given America a “present” worth a “tremendous amount of money”, related to the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial waterway that has remained virtually closed since the US-Israeli strikes that started the war on February 28, causing global oil and gas prices to soar. The US…
Washington: US President Donald Trump has indicated that his defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, may have been the one who pushed America towards launching a war on Iran. On Monday, Trump told the media that Hegseth was the first person on his team to suggest launching military operations against Tehran. “I called Pete, I called General…
Washington: US President Donald Trump reportedly gave a green light to the US-Israeli joint military strikes on Iran after a phone call with Israel’s premier, Benjamin Netanyahu. The fateful phone call happened less than 48 hours before the attacks began, when the Israeli leader — determined to move forward with an operation he had urged…
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Aramco’s SAMREF refinery in the Red Sea port of Yanbu has been hit in an aerial strike after similar attacks on energy facilities in Qatar and the UAE in response to US-Israeli attacks on Iranian energy installations, according to a report by the news agency Reuters. The key energy facility…
On Monday, Larijani called for Muslim unity Jerusalem: Israeli media has claimed that its military has targeted Iran’s security chief, Ali Larijani, in an overnight airstrike. According to a Times of Israel report, it remains unclear if Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s National Security Council, was killed or injured in the strike. Iran has not yet commented…
Russia on Thursday (Mar 12) accused the United States and its Western allies of whipping up “hysteria” about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, as tensions flared at the United Nations over Washington’s military campaign Operation Epic Fury against Tehran. China also slammed the US, calling it the “instigator” of the Iranian nuclear crisis. US envoy to the…
A military conflict has erupted in West Asia as Iran attacks its neighbouring Gulf states in retaliation for the United States-Israeli strikes inside the country. In the middle of the turmoil, Israel has introduced a concept called “bomb shelter dating”, aimed at helping people meet and interact while they take cover during air-raid sirens. Patrons…