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Tehran/Tel Aviv, (UNI) Iran threatened to attack oil and gas infrastructure in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates after the US and Israel conducted a joint strike on Iran’s largest natural gas facility at South Pars, in the country’s southwest, earlier on Wednesday. Iran’s Tasnim news agency cited its oil ministry, saying that…
Tehran/Tel Aviv, (UNI) The Iranian government on Wednesday confirmed that Esmail Khatib, the Minister of Intelligence, was killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike in Tehran. This targeted operation marks the third assassination of a high-ranking Iranian official within a 24-hour window during the ongoing conflict. Khatib’s death follows that of Ali Larijani, the head of…
Reckong Peo, Mar 18 (UNI) In a significant move for frontier commerce, cross-border trade between India and China through the Shipki La pass in Kinnaur district is set to resume from June 1, 2026, following directions from the Ministry of External Affairs. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Deputy Commissioner Kinnaur,…
Washington/Tel Aviv, March 18 (UNI) US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been in near-daily contact since the war with Iran began, with Trump reportedly saying that the two leaders are “working great together”. However, behind the close coordination, US officials acknowledged that there has been a growing rift between the…
David Smith New Delhi, Mar 18 (UNI) No US president in living memory has gone to war with less public support than Donald Trump has for the war in Iran. Even Barack Obama’s much-maligned Libyan intervention began with 60 per cent of Americans in support in 2011. There is no poll that shows a majority…
Tehran/New Delhi, Mar 18 (UNI) Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) said on Wednesday the killing of Ali Larijani and many other leaders will make the Iranian nation and the Muslim Ummah ‘’more determined to continue on the path of these men of God.’’ Larijani was at his daughter’s home in the Pardis area when…
Tel Aviv/Tehran, (UNI) The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) today said it carried out overnight strikes in Tehran which reportedly eliminated two high-level Iranian officials in a decapitation strike, which include the commander of the Basij paramilitary force, and the Supreme National Security Council’s chief, Ali Larijani. Earlier, Defence Minister Israel Katz had claimed that Larijani…
Tehran, March 17 (Sputnik/UNI) Iran attacked a US base in Qatar and missile defence infrastructure in Israel, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said. “The 57th phase of Operation True Promise 4 was successfully carried out against targets in the heart of the occupied territories, which included command and communication infrastructure, as well as missile…
London, March 17 (Sputnik/UNI) A ship was struck by a projectile 23 nautical miles east of Fujairah on the east coast of the UAE, the Royal Navy’s UK Maritime Trade Office (UKMTO) said. “UKMTO has received a report of an incident 23NM east of Fujairah, (Gulf of) Oman. A Tanker has reported being struck by…
New Delhi/Washinton/Berlin, March 17 (UNI) US President Donald Trump on Monday criticised allies for what he described as a lack of “enthusiasm” toward a coalition he has proposed to secure the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s energy resources are shipped. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office late Monday, Trump…
