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Middle East latest: Israeli strikes kill 11 as Lebanon cease-fire efforts appear to gain steam
1 month, 1 week ago

Middle East latest: Israeli strikes kill 11 as Lebanon cease-fire efforts appear to gain steam

Associated Press  

Israeli strikes killed at least 11 people across Lebanon on Friday — including a mother, father and their three kids in a home — as rescue workers called off their search for survivors a day after an Israeli strike on a civil defense center killed 14 emergency workers and volunteers. The U.N. humanitarian agency voiced concern over the escalating toll …

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FBI thwarts Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

FBI thwarts Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump

Hindustan Times  

The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges Friday in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump before this week's presidential election. Shakeri told the FBI he didn't plan to propose a plan to murder Trump within the seven days the official had requested, according to the complaint. A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan alleges that an …

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FBI stops plan for Iranian paramilitary official to kill Trump before election
1 month, 2 weeks ago

FBI stops plan for Iranian paramilitary official to kill Trump before election

Raw Story  

The Department of Justice unsealed criminal charges in a thwarted plot by Iran to kill Donald Trump. A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan alleges that an unnamed official in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard spoke to a contact in September about plans to conduct surveillance on the former president and kill him before this week's election, which he …

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Commander of Iran's Quds Force is 'in good health', force's deputy commander says
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Commander of Iran's Quds Force is 'in good health', force's deputy commander says

The Hindu  

The top commander of Iran's Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, is in "good health", the force's deputy commander Iraj Masjedi said on Monday, after two Iranian security sources told Reuters he had been out of contact since strikes on Beirut last week. The Iranian Students' News Agency reported that a message from Mr. Qaani was conveyed to a conference in solidarity …

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Bus carrying Shiite pilgrims from Pakistan to Iraq crashes in Iran, killing at least 28 people
4 months ago

Bus carrying Shiite pilgrims from Pakistan to Iraq crashes in Iran, killing at least 28 people

New Indian Express  

TEHRAN: A bus carrying Shiite pilgrims from Pakistan to Iraq crashed in central Iran, killing at least 28 people, an official said Wednesday. The crash happened Tuesday night in the central Iranian province of Yazd, said Mohammad Ali Malekzadeh, a local emergency official, according to the state-run IRNA news agency. Iranian state television later broadcast images of the bus, turned …

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Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim 2 attacks in Gulf of Aden as Iran official renews nuclear bomb threats
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim 2 attacks in Gulf of Aden as Iran official renews nuclear bomb threats

Associated Press  

JERUSALEM — Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Thursday claimed responsibility for two missile attacks in the Gulf of Aden on two Panama-flagged container ships that caused no damage. Meanwhile Thursday, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency carried the comments made by Kharrazi, a former foreign minister under reformist President Mohammad Khatami. Speaking to the Al Jazeera news network in an interview that …

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Cyprus says a joint operation with Mossad has foiled a suspected Iranian plot to kill Israelis
1 year ago

Cyprus says a joint operation with Mossad has foiled a suspected Iranian plot to kill Israelis

Associated Press  

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus has disrupted an alleged Iranian plot to target Israeli businessmen with the arrest of two Iranian asylum-seekers who were in contact with another Iranian associated with the Revolutionary Guard, a Cypriot official said Tuesday. Cypriot authorities said the suspects’ Iranian handler moved in and out of Cyprus through the ethnically divided island nation’s breakaway Turkish Cypriot …

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Four inmates killed in fire at Tehran’s Evin prison: State media
2 years, 2 months ago

Four inmates killed in fire at Tehran’s Evin prison: State media

Al Jazeera  

At least four people killed and 61 injured after violence and fire inside a high-security Iranian prison. At least four prisoners have been killed and 61 others injured after a fire broke out at Tehran’s Evin prison overnight following a fight between inmates, the official state news agency IRNA reported quoting the country’s judiciary. Reacting to reports of the fire, …

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Iranian foreign minister apologizes for leaked comments
3 years, 7 months ago

Iranian foreign minister apologizes for leaked comments

Associated Press  

TEHRAN, Iran — After coming under fire from Iran’s supreme leader, the country’s foreign minister offered him a direct and extensive apology Sunday for recorded comments leaked to the public last week. The recordings that surfaced of Mohammad Javad Zarif, including a blunt appraisal of the country’s internal power struggles and criticism of the powerful late Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, …

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