•Iran’s midfielder Mohammad Mohebbi celebrates goal against New Zealand with teammate Mehdi Ghayedi, yesterday Iran twice battled back for a 2-2 draw with New Zealand yesterday in their frenetic opening match of a World Cup campaign that has been utterly overshadowed by war, politics and protests. The Iranian team’s very presence at the Los A...
Iran has executed at least 40 people, including 18 protesters, on “national security grounds” since the start of 2026, the United Nations said today. UN rights chief Volker Turk said he felt “deeply for the people in Iran, caught between war and cruel repression”. Since the start of the year, the Iranian authorities “have executed […]...
•Donald Trump US President Donald Trump yesterday said he was calling off strikes on Iran and flagged the signing of a possible deal with Tehran after top-level talks. “Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have… cancelled […]...
•Trump President Donald Trump vowed yesterday to respond after he accused Iran of shooting down a US military helicopter the previous night, hours after he said negotiations to end the Middle East war were in their final stages. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker and its chief negotiator in talks with Washington, meanwhile war...
•Trump US President Donald Trump today said negotiations over a peace deal to end the Middle East war were in their final stages, after Iran and Israel halted attacks that threatened to reignite the months-long conflict. Iran fired missiles at Israel on Sunday in response to strikes against Lebanon’s Hezbollah in the southern suburbs of [&hell...
•Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre, yesterday Iran threatened to retaliate against the United States and Israel for fresh strikes in Beirut yesterday, further dampening hopes for a lasting peace as the Middle East war reached its 100th day. Efforts to turn a ceasefire into a settlement have repeatedly stalled, wh...
•US President Donald Trump Iran still has “21, 22 percent” of its missiles left, US President Donald Trump said yesterday, in a week in which Tehran fired dozens of them toward regional neighbours, despite a sputtering ceasefire. “They still have capacity. They have some missiles, they have some drones. I would say, percentage wise, maybe [&he...
Oil prices jumped and equities struggled yesterday as Middle East peace talks stumbled and tensions mounted between Iran and the United States. Crude futures shot around seven per cent higher after an Iranian news agency announced Tehran had suspended the negotiations with Washington via mediators, reports AFP. The United States and Iran had t...
•Smoke rises following Israeli bombardment in southern Lebanon, yesterday The United States and Iran said today they had again traded strikes, straining an already fragile ceasefire as negotiations between the two sides have stalled. Weeks of complicated talks marked by sharp rhetoric and occasional flare-ups of violence have not managed to r...
•Trump and a vessel near Strait Of Hormuz The United States Treasury has announced sanctions against Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority, Tehran’s new agency that collects fees for travelling through the strategic Strait of Hormuz. “The Iranian military’s latest attempt to extort global maritime trade is proof that Economic Fury has left the ...
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