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What you need to know about coronavirus right now

March 9th, 20200 Here’s what you need to know about the coronavirus: The spread in figures The number of people infected with the coronavirus topped 107,000 globally, according to a Reuters tally of government announcements. Mainland China, outside the epicenter of Hubei province, reported no new locally transmitted cases for the second straight...
Saudi’s suspend pilgrimages, Coronavirus widespread in Iran World

Saudi’s suspend pilgrimages, Coronavirus widespread in Iran

March 4th, 20200 RIYADH -  Saudi Arabia has extended its suspension of travel to the holy sites of Mecca and Medina from foreigners to Saudi citizens and residents, after it reported its first case of the novel coronavirus in an individual who failed to disclose he had travelled to Iran before entering the country. “Based on the recommendations of...
Iraq’s PM Allawi seeks vote of confidence for new cabinet World

Iraq’s PM Allawi seeks vote of confidence for new cabinet

February 21st, 20200 BAGHDAD — Iraq’s newly appointed Prime Minister Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi said on Wednesday that he has picked a cabinet of political independents and has called on the country’s parliament to hold an extraordinary session next week to give it its vote of confidence.  Speaking to the nation in a televised speech, Allawi said that...
Directive tells CBP officers to detain Iranians, Lebanese and Palestinians U.S.A

Directive tells CBP officers to detain Iranians, Lebanese and Palestinians

January 30th, 20200 SEATTLE — A report by a community newspaper in Washington unveiled a directive issued by U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Seattle Field Office that instructs officers to perform vetting on individuals from or who have connections to Palestine, Lebanon or Iran, as well as those belonging to other nationalities that have traveled...
New report shows killing of Soleimani had been an option for seven months U.S.A

New report shows killing of Soleimani had been an option for seven months

January 14th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C — A new report by NBC News claims President Trump authorized the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani seven months ago with the condition that Trump would have final signoff on any specific plans to kill the general. The information was provided by five current and former senior...
Pentagon admits there was no specific evidence of attack on four U.S. embassies U.S.A

Pentagon admits there was no specific evidence of attack on four U.S. embassies

January 12th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defense Secretary Mark Esper contradicted President Trump on Sunday, saying he did not see any specific evidence from intelligence officials that Iran had plans to attack four U.S. embassies. Trump has used these purported plans to justify the Jan. 2 killing of Iran Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani in...
U.S. House votes to rein in Trump's war powers against Iran U.S.A

U.S. House votes to rein in Trump’s war powers against Iran

January 10th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to stop President Trump from further military action against Iran as the Middle East remained tense after the U.S. killing of a top Iranian commander and Iran’s retaliatory missile strikes. The resolution passed 224-194 along party lines in the...
Ukraine says Iran cooperating in plane crash probe, cautious on blaming missile Iran

Ukraine says Iran cooperating in plane crash probe, cautious on blaming missile

January 10th, 20200 KIEV — Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said on Friday that Iran was cooperating with an investigation into the crash of a Ukrainian passenger plane, and that Kiev was not ruling out any version yet of what might have happened. Canada and others have said the plane was brought down by an Iranian missile, probably by...
U.S. flirts with war in the Middle East: A looming military conflict with Iran U.S.A

U.S. flirts with war in the Middle East: A looming military conflict with Iran

January 10th, 20200 The world has been in the grips of an uncertain fear since it woke up to news of the Jan. 2 assassination of a top Iranian general at the hands of the U.S.. Images from recent memory of endless, expensive and insane military ventures in the Middle East became vivid once more as Tehran promised revenge and President Trump goaded the...
Community and faith leaders call for an end to dangerous escalation with Iran Local

Community and faith leaders call for an end to dangerous escalation with Iran

January 10th, 20200 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Faith leaders from across Metro Detroit gathered Thursday in the Islamic House of Wisdom to call for calm in the face of escalating tensions between Iran and the United States following a drone attack that killed an Iranian general and a missile attack on an Iraqi air base housing American troops. The Christian and...
Trump indicates deescalation with Iran, promises further economic sanctions U.S.A

Trump indicates deescalation with Iran, promises further economic sanctions

January 8th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. - At the White House on Wednesday, President Trump seemed to simmer down days of heated rhetoric and said the U.S. would not respond to early morning missile attacks on Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops with military force. Early Wednesday, both Iranian authorities and U.S officials confirmed Tehran launched a series of...
Iran responds with missile attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq U.S.A

Iran responds with missile attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq

January 7th, 20200 TEHRAN - Tensions came to a head on early Wednesday as Iran retaliated against the U.S. killing of Iran Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani by launching a series of surface-to-surface missiles at two Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops. Reuters reports the firing of more than a dozen ballistic missiles from Iranian...
As throngs of Iranians gather to mourn Soleimani, uncertainty over response grows World

As throngs of Iranians gather to mourn Soleimani, uncertainty over response grows

January 6th, 20200 TEHRAN — On Monday, in the wake of the January 2 targeted killing through a missile strike of Iran Revolutionary Guard General and important political figure Qassem Soleimani, throngs of Iranians mourned the death of a beloved leader. Aerial views and independent reports on the ground told of a vast procession of mourners, a mass...
Violence in Baghdad as protests continue amid political uncertainty in Iraq Local

Violence in Baghdad as protests continue amid political uncertainty in Iraq

December 8th, 20190 BAGHDAD —Fears of infiltration by unknown groups grew in Iraq on Thursday after 13 people were stabbed in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square. The stabbings caused no fatalities in the area of Iraq’s capital that has been the home of recent protests against the country’s government.  Protesters gathered in Tahrir shouting slogans in...
Iran’s president rejects nuclear talks before sanctions are lifted World

Iran’s president rejects nuclear talks before sanctions are lifted

September 29th, 20190 NEW YORK/U.N. — Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, has ruled out negotiations on its nuclear program with the United States so long as sanctions remained in place and said he was not interested in a “memento photo” with President Trump. “I would like to announce that our response to any negotiation under sanctions is...
Rouhani to Trump: Lift sanctions first International

Rouhani to Trump: Lift sanctions first

August 9th, 20190 TEHRAN — Iranian president Hassan Rouhani denounced "economic terrorism" and stated that the U.S. "maximum pressure" campaign through sanctions will not change anything in the Iranian regime. Rouhani reiterated that if President Trump wants to start negotiations with Tehran, he must lift all sanctions against his country "before...
Iran: From strategic patience to mutual action International

Iran: From strategic patience to mutual action

July 20th, 20190 TEHRAN - After a pressure campaign from the U.S. and its allies on the Iranian economy, followed by a few threat exchanges, Iran has seized an oil tanker it claimed was carrying 1 million liters of "smuggled fuel," state news agency Press TV said on Thursday. The IRGC said it had initially responded to distress calls from a ship on...
U.S. Rep. Andy Levin to stand with faith leaders opposing war on Iran Local

U.S. Rep. Andy Levin to stand with faith leaders opposing war on Iran

July 5th, 20190 DETROIT - Christian and Muslim clerics will stand with U.S. Rep. Andy Levin (D-Warren) on Monday to call for peace and reason after the nation was brought to the brink of war with Iran last month. The demonstration will be held at Central United Methodist Church, located at 23 E Adams Ave in Detroit, at 12:30 p.m. Iranian born Imam...
Trump hits Iran with new sanctions in retaliation to downing of drone International

Trump hits Iran with new sanctions in retaliation to downing of drone

June 24th, 20190 WASHINGTON — President Trump announced on Monday that he was imposing new sanctions on Iran, further squeezing the Iranian economy in retaliation for what the United States says are recent "aggressive" acts by Tehran, but the response to the penalties targeting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were "is that all you got?" This...
Khamenei says Iran will not abandon its missile program World

Khamenei says Iran will not abandon its missile program

June 7th, 20190 Tehran — Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that Tehran has no plans to give up its missile program and be deceived by President Trump's offer of negotiations. Trump has condemned the nuclear deal between Iran and global powers signed by his predecessor, Barack Obama. Washington pulled out of this deal...
Saudi Arabia fails to gather a firm Arab stand against Iran World

Saudi Arabia fails to gather a firm Arab stand against Iran

May 31st, 20190 MECCA — Saudi Arabia’s king told an emergency Arab summit on Thursday that decisive action was needed to stop Iranian “escalations” in the region following attacks on Gulf oil assets, as American officials said a U.S. military deployment had deterred Tehran. King Salman had opened an earlier meeting of Arab Gulf leaders with a...
Poll: Half of American adults expect war with Iran 'within next few years' U.S.A

Poll: Half of American adults expect war with Iran ‘within next few years’

May 24th, 20190 NEW YORK — Half of all Americans believe that the United States will go to war with Iran “within the next few years”, according to a Reuters/Ipsos public opinion poll released on Tuesday amid increased tensions between the two countries. While Americans are more concerned about Iran as a security threat to the United States now...
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