Turkey slams deal between US and Cyprus, calls for ‘neutrality’

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry on Monday urged the United States to “revert to a neutral stance on Cyprus” after Washington and Nicosia signed a memorandum of understanding to create a training centre. “The memorandum of understanding will not serve peace and stability in the eastern Mediterranean and will damage the solution of the Cyprus problem,” Turkey’s Foreign […]

How Hamas Plans to Destroy Lebanon

by Khaled Abu Toameh September 14, 2020 at 5:00 am During Haniyeh’s tour of Ain al-Hilweh, he said that the Iran-backed Hamas in the Gaza Strip “possesses missiles to strike Tel Aviv and beyond Tel Aviv.” Arab political analysts…. also believe that Iran is preparing to use its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, to target Arab […]

Report: 10 killed in alleged Israeli airstrikes in Syria

Airstrikes attributed to Israel kill 10 pro-Iranian combatants in eastern Syria. Weapons depots destroyed. David Rosenberg , 14/09/20 13:30 Airstrikes attributed to Israel killed at least 10 in eastern Syria Monday morning, according to a report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). The SOHR claimed that at least six powerful explosions were heard […]

Israel is world’s first to reimpose lockdown, as Europe, others see COVID soar

UK reports over 3,000 new cases in 24 hours for the third day in a row; France, Austria and Czech Republic also face surges; Brazil charts more than 131,000 deaths By AFP Today, 8:18 am Israel said Sunday it will reimpose a national lockdown after coronavirus cases soared, becoming the first country in the world […]

Iran’s assassins: Tehran has a long history of assassinating people

Iran has passed on its assassination expertise to its proxy Hezbollah and has also worked with the Syrian regime to carry out assassinations of those who oppose its interests. SETH J. FRANTZMAN SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 11:55 In 1989 Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, a Kurdish dissident living in Vienna, was supposed to meet for negotiations with Iranian […]

Qatar Is Pro-Iran and Anti-Gulf Arabs

By Dr. Edy Cohen September 14, 2020 Doha skyline from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar, photo by Florian Wehde via Unsplash   BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,745, September 14, 2020 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Normalized relations between Gulf States and Israel function as a deterrent to Iran. Qatar, which favors Iran at its Gulf […]

US, Iran to battle over sanctions at International Court of Justice

Opening week arguments to focus on whether UN’s top justice forum has jurisdiction to rule on Tehran’s claim against Washington; final judgement will take years By AFP and TOI staff Today, 7:35 am   The HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — The United States and Iran will face off at the UN’s top court on Monday in […]

Israeli intel firm: Friday airstrikes in Syria hit missile production facility

Satellite images show one building completely destroyed, another damaged following last week’s reported bombing near Aleppo Judah Ari Gross13 September 2020, 6:31 pm A reported Israeli airstrike on Friday targeted a missile production facility outside Aleppo, completely destroying one building and damaging another, according to satellite images released by a private Israeli intelligence firm. “The […]

Iran says 1,044 centrifuges now active at underground plant

Tehran announced resumption of enrichment at Fordo site last November in a further step away from 2015 nuclear accord abandoned by Washington in May 2018 AFP13 September 2020, 11:35 pm TEHRAN, Iran — The head of Iran’s atomic agency said Sunday that 1,044 centrifuges were active at the Fordo uranium enrichment plant, in line with […]

Officials say east Libya government resigns amid protests

CAIRO: An interim government in eastern Libya resigned Sunday amid street protests that erupted across the divided country over dire living conditions, officials said. Prime Minister Abdallah al-Thani submitted the resignation of his government to Aguila Saleh, speaker of the eastern-based House of Representatives, said the government’s spokesman, Ezzel-Deen al-Falih. Abdallah Abaihig, a spokesman for […]

Iran said plotting to assassinate US envoy to South Africa to avenge Soleimani

Politico reports that Lana Marks, a Jewish South Florida-based luxury handbag designer, was likely chosen due to her closeness to Trump, who ordered killing of Iranian general By TOI staff Today, 4:59 am 4 Edit Iran is plotting to assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa as it seeks to further avenge the killing of […]