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Month: December 2020

UN Security Council not interested in Iran scientist assassintion

2 years ago
Just hours after the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist, Tehran demanded the United Nations Security Council condemn the killing and take action against those responsible, but diplomats say the call is likely to go unheeded. At a minimum, the 15-member body could discuss Friday’s killing of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh behind closed doors […]
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Saudi says it had nothing to do with Iran scientist assassination

2 years ago
Saudi Arabia’s minister of state for foreign affairs on Tuesday criticised Iran’s foreign minister for implicating Riyadh in the killing of prominent Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. “Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif is desperate to blame the Kingdom for anything negative that happens in Iran. Will he blame us for the next earthquake or flood?,” minister […]
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Macron wants Lebanese consensus in exchange for aid

2 years ago
President Emmanuel Macron will seek to revive a French initiative on Lebanon when he hosts an international aid conference on Wednesday, but with the country’s fractious political class bickering, hopes of a breakthrough appear slim. Four months after a massive explosion that killed more than 200 people and destroyed swathes of the capital city, Lebanon […]
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Masks 'DON'T stop you getting Covid': Top experts criticize 'troubling lack of evidence'

2 years ago
Top scientists have warned there is a 'troubling lack of evidence' that face masks prevent Covid-19 infection, after a major study in Denmark found they don't protect people who wear them. By the Levant News newsdesk Governments around the world — including the UK — have made it mandatory to wear a face covering in […]
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Trump Train Iran and Angel NicGillicuddy

2 years ago
An unusual hum is heard and then just upon the horizon a door opens and a soldier steps into view holding a sign which reads, Angel, V, and The Beast. “I guess that means us.” Angel says. They board. “Where are we headed?” Angel asks. President Trump welcomes them aboard, “We are headed to visit […]
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European banks have defied Trump's anti-Iran sanctions

2 years ago
Germany, France and Britain urged the Trump administration in late October to reconsider broad, new sanctions against Iran’s banks, arguing that the move would deter legitimate humanitarian trade and hurt the allies’ common interests, diplomatic correspondence shows. Germany’s Bundesbank also kept a multi-billion-euro deposit facility open for Iranian banks, including two that faced fresh U.S. […]
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New revelations of revolutionary guard killed on Syria-Iraq border

2 years ago
An air strike killed a commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards at the Iraq-Syria border sometime between Saturday and Sunday, Iraqi security and local militia officials said on Monday. They could not confirm the identity of the commander, who they said was killed alongside three other men travelling in a vehicle with him. The vehicle was […]
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Turkey clamps down further on Gulen network

2 years ago
Turkey ordered the detention of 82 military personnel in an operation targeting supporters of the Muslim preacher who Ankara says was behind a failed coup in 2016, state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Tuesday. Operations targeting the network of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen have continued under a four-year-long crackdown since the attempted coup in July […]
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Iran uses assassination to harden nuclear stance, opposition suspected

2 years ago
A draft bill requiring Iran’s government to pursue uranium enrichment of 20%, and to disregard other restraints put on its nuclear programme by an accord reached with foreign powers in 2015 cleared its first hurdle in parliament on Tuesday. The legislation was proposed in the wake of the assassination of a top nuclear scientist on […]
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Human rights groups to interdict US arm shipments to Gulf

2 years ago
Twenty-nine arms control and human rights organizations have signed a letter opposing the sale of $23 billion worth of missiles, fighter jets and drones to the United Arab Emirates and asking the U.S. Congress to block the deal. “The hope is to stop these sales altogether,” said Seth Binder, advocacy officer at the Project on […]
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