As the Middle East grapples with tensions rising up multiple notches after the recent spate of high profile assassinations of the Hamas chief in Tehran and the Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, Iran is mulling to “harshly punish” Israel at Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei‘s order, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) deputy commander was quoted as…
NEW DELHI: Iran‘s Ambassador to India Iraj Elahi urged India, being a “big power” and “important country”, to take a more active role in resolving the West Asia crisisElahi highlighted India’s influence due to its strong relations with both Israel and Palestine. He emphasized that India being could leverage its relationships to stop the ongoing…
Hezbollah announced on Sunday that it had fired a barrage of Katyusha rockets into northern Israel, targeting the town of Beit Hillel. The militant group, which is backed by Iran, stated that this attack was the most recent in a string of assaults carried out in solidarity with the Palestinian people.According to Hezbollah, the rocket…
Khaled Meshaal is tipped off as the new leader of Hamas after the ‘assassination’ of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. The strike, which Hamas has blamed on Israel, has left the group scrambling to find a new leader while raising concerns about the direction the group will take amid ongoing conflict.What we know about Khaled Meshaal…
Iran‘s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered a direct attack against Israel in response to the killing of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday, reported The New York Times, citing three Iranian officials aware of the development. Khamenei gave his nod to strike Israel during an emergency meeting of Iran’s Supreme National…
NEW DELHI: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran‘s Tehran, the Palestinian militant group Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday, along with one of his bodyguards.In a statement, the Islamist faction mourned the death of Haniyeh, who it said was killed in ‘a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran’. “With condolences…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Monday thanked Israeli’s president and foreign minister, who lost their lives in a helicopter crash, for the Chabahar Port agreement and said India will get the benefit from this.Speaking on the Chabahar Port, Jaishankar remarked, “We’ve been trying for almost 20 years now to have an agreement…
PM Narendra Modi expressed solidarity with the people of Iran as he said he was deeply concerned by reports regarding Iran Prez Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter flight that crashed in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. “We stand in solidarity with the Iranian people in this hour of distress, and pray for the well-being of the president and…
NEW DELHI: A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi crashed in east Azerbaijan on Sunday. Iran has confirmed that the president was onboard the helicopter along with foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian as well as two senior east Azerbaijan leaders.Rescuers are trying to reach the site of the “incident”, state television reported. There was no…
NEW DELHI: A day after US warned India of “potential risks of sanctions” for signing strategic Chabahar port agreement with Iran, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said that people shouldn’t take a “narrow view of it”, adding that the pact is “actually for everyone’s benefit”.Speaking at his book launch event in Kolkata on Wednesday, Jaishankar…
