Ten Iranian nationals charged with evading US sanctions

The eight men and two women were outside the United States and had not been arrested. By REUTERS MARCH 20, 2021 01:42 US prosecutors charged 10 Iranian nationals on Friday over an alleged long-running scheme to dodge US sanctions on Tehran by disguising $300 million in transactions, including the purchase of two oil tankers. The […]

Erdogan defends Putin over spat with Biden

Turkish President Erdogan said it was unbecoming of a head of state for Biden to call Putin a “killer.” Al-Monitor Staff Russian influence Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has weighed in on the ongoing feud between US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Turkish head of state is so far siding with […]

Terrorists Preparing Provocations Using Poisonous Substances in Syria’s Idlib, Russian Military Says

Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia has repeatedly pointed out that while almost every month Syria provides information about terrorists planning chemical weapons provocations, such data is not reflected in the OPCW documentation. Terrorists from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham* are preparing provocations using poisonous substances in the northeast of Syria’s Idlib province, Rear Adm, […]

Turkey’s Erdogan says Biden’s comments about Putin are ‘unacceptable’

2021-03-19 BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:20 P.M.) – Joe Biden sparked a minor diplomatic spat with Moscow after agreeing with a journalist’s characterization of the Russian president as as “killer,” and threatening to make the Russian leader “pay a price” for Moscow’s alleged meddling in the 2020 US presidential election. Vladimir Putin brushed off the remarks, wishing […]

‘Israel has attacked Iranian ships dozens of times in recent years’

The Israeli attacks against Iranian vessels have led to an approximately $1 billion loss to Hezbollah over the last three years. JERUSALEM POST STAFF MARCH 19, 2021 11:59 Israel has carried out dozens of attacks against Iranian ships throughout the Middle East, a report in Maariv claimed on Friday. According to the story by veteran […]

Iran says to cold test redesigned Arak nuclear reactor

By Reuters Staff     FILE PHOTO: Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran speaks during news conference in Tehran, Iran September 7, 2019. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS (Reuters) – Iran will cold test its redesigned Arak nuclear reactor as prelude to fully commissioning it later in the year, […]

A Hezbollah Takeover in Beirut Would Put Iran on Israel’s Doorstep

by Shimon Shapira / JNS.org JNS.org – An official Hezbollah delegation, headed by Lebanese Parliament member Mohammad Ra’ad, arrived in Moscow on Monday for a three-day visit at the Russian Foreign Ministry’s invitation. Hezbollah representatives met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov; his deputy, Mikhail Bogdanov, President Vladimir Putin’s representative to the Middle East; the […]

UAE lashes out at PM Netanyahu: ‘We won’t be part of internal electioneering in Israel’

‘UAE signed Abraham Accords for hope and opportunities, not individual leaders,’ Emirati official tells CNN. Arutz Sheva Staff , Mar 19 , 2021 9:59 AM The United Arab Emirates (UAE) distanced itself from claims that the Abraham Accords were a prop to aid Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the upcoming election, CNN reported. “The […]

US, China strained relations on display in first talks of Biden presidency

Beijing has said Washington is full of illusions if it thinks it will compromise. REUTERS MARCH 19, 2021 05:30 The United States and China leveled sharp rebukes of each others’ policies in the first high-level, in-person talks of the Biden administration on Thursday, with deeply strained relations of the two global rivals on rare public […]