New York: Elon Musk, the tech billionaire closely allied with US President-elect Donald Trump, met Iran's ambassador to the United Nations in a bid to defuse tensions between Tehran and Washington, The New York Times reported Thursday. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, considered a moderate within the clerical state, on Thursday told the visiting head of the UN nuclear watchdog that …
As if the Middle East tension were not enough with incendiary events taking place in an arc from the Mediterranean coastline of Syria, Lebanon and Israel to Iran and stretching through to Afghanistan and Pakistan, a major terror incident killing at least 103 people in Kerman, Iran, comes like an ominous portent. The killing of a top Hamas leader in …
DOHA, Qatar — America’s top diplomat landed in Qatar on Monday to take in a World Cup match and hold talks as regional tensions remain high amid Iran’s rapid advancement of its nuclear program and nationwide protests shaking the Islamic Republic. Blinken will also hold crucial diplomatic talks with authorities in Qatar, one of the United States’ trusted interlocutors with …
New Delhi: After the assassination of a top Iranian general by the United States in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Friday, external affairs minister S. Jaishankar on Sunday spoke to both Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif and US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and “noted that developments have taken a very serious turn”, adding that “India remains deeply concerned about …
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday spoke with his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif amid spiraling United States-Iran tensions over the killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani and noted that the developments have taken a serious turn. S Jaishankar said India remained deeply concerned about the levels of tension in the region and that the country will remain in …
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. airstrike that killed a prominent Iranian general in Baghdad raises tensions even higher between Tehran and Washington, after months of trading attacks and threats across the wider Middle East. Soleimani’s death is the latest in a series of escalating incidents traces back to President Donald Trump’s decision in 2018 to unilaterally withdraw America …
