In the most ambitious U.S. stealth airstrike in decades, seven B-2 Spirit bombers flew 7,000 miles from Missouri to Iran over the weekend weekend, dropping more than a dozen 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs on nuclear sites buried deep under rock and reinforced concrete. Codenamed Operation Midnight Hammer, the overnight mission relied on deception, aerial refueling, and…
Iran has responded to the United States’ direct involvement in the Iran-Israel conflict by targeting its military assets in the Middle East. On Monday, Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, announced that bases used by US forces “in the region or elsewhere” could be attacked in retaliation for US attacks…
Russia called the US strikes on Iran ‘unjustified’ and ‘unprovoked’, while China warned they ‘set a bad precedent’. Russia and China have strongly condemned US attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, warning they could drag the world into a broader war and set a dangerous international precedent. The reactions came just hours before Iran launched missiles…
As United States President Donald Trump addressed the world on the strikes launched by his country’s military against three key Iranian nuclear sites in the early hours on Sunday, he thanked several people and institutions. The US military, fighter pilots who dropped the bombs, and a general were among those on his list. So was one…
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday announced he will travel to Moscow in the coming hours for urgent talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, shortly after the United States launched airstrikes against three Iranian nuclear sites. Araghchi emphasized the “strategic partnership” between Iran and Russia. “We always consult with each other and coordinate our…
For years we’ve read stories about antidemocratic countries abroad — supreme leaders acting with impunity, masked agents rounding up residents, troops in the streets, crackdowns on peaceful protests, intimidation and arrests of opposition figures, show-of-force military parades and political assassinations. For a time this month, I was abroad. And the antidemocratic country I was reading…
Peskov also said the direct participation of other actors in the conflict “is potentially even more dangerous,” as the U.S. mulls providing military support to Israel. “It will lead only to another circle of confrontation and escalation of tension in the region,” he added. Russia, for its part, has been carrying out a full-scale invasion…
Israeli strikes have hit two facilities in Iran that made parts for centrifuges, says the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog. It identified the facilities as the TESA Karaj workshop and the Tehran Research Centre. “At the Tehran site, one building was hit where advanced centrifuge rotors were manufactured and tested. At Karaj,…
The Royal Navy is set to deploy its £1.3billion ‘hunter-killer’ submarine following weapons tests in the Atlantic and a visit to the US’s seafaring ‘Area 51’. The HMS Anson is the fifth addition to the Navy’s Astute-class of nuclear-powered vessels, which can circumnavigate the globe completely submerged beneath the waves, and is the most advanced…