Tag: IRAN

War: “We will reconsider nuclear doctrine” – Iran threatens Israel

Aminu Imam
Iran threatens

Iran yesterday threatened to “reconsider” its nuclear doctrine if Israel attempts to attack any of its nuclear facilities amid heightened tensions between the duo. Brigadier-General Ahmed Haqtalab, the Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in charge of the protection of nuclear centres, said Iran would respond if Israel threatened the country’s nuclear facilities. The warning comes amid speculations that Tel Aviv is mulling a military response to IRGC’s unprecedented direct attack on multiple positions in Israel on Saturday that involved hundreds of missiles and drones. Tehran said the…

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British Prime Minister condemns ‘cowardly’ execution of British-Iranian

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was “appalled” by Iran’s decision to execute British-Iranian dual national, Alireza Akbari. “This was a callous and cowardly act, carried out by a barbaric regime with no respect for the human rights of their own people,” Sunak wrote on Twitter. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly also took to Twitter, saying the “barbaric act” deserved “condemnation in the strongest terms.” “This will not stand unchallenged,” Cleverly wrote. Iran had sentenced the former top politician to death earlier in the week over espionage charges.

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Assassins kill senior Iranian nuclear physicist in Tehran

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Iran Foreign Ministry on Friday confirmed that a high-ranking Iranian nuclear physicist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, had been assassinated. Fakhrizadeh was shot and injured “by terrorists” in his vehicle in Ab-Sard, a suburb in eastern Tehran, and later succumbed to his injuries in what amounted to a “martyr’s death,” the ministry said. Local authorities had confirmed Fakhrizadeh’s death several hours earlier and also said that several attackers were killed. Fakhrizade, 63, had been a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and was an expert in missile production. Fars news agency alleged that this…

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