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KYIV: The US military has rushed its advanced anti-missile system to Israel and it is now “in place”, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said. THAAD, or the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, is a critical part of the US military’s layered air defense systems and adds to Israel’s already formidable anti-missile defenses. “The THAAD system…
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Cafes in bustling Central London are always full of tourists, of which many moneyed ones come from the Arab world. Once, I found myself deep in conversation with a young Saudi architect, who, in a moment of rare candour, shared his thoughts on what he termed the “slaughtering of Gazans” over the past year. “We…
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Hamas Chief Yahya Sinwar was killed in Israeli strike on Thursday in Gaza. Tehran: Iran’s mission to the United Nations said Thursday the killing of Yahya Sinwar would lead to the strengthening of “resistance” in the region, hours after Israel said it had killed the Hamas chief. “The spirit of resistance will be strengthened. He…
Does the highly volatile situation in West Asia put a premium on multipolarity? This question needs to be addressed beyond the foreign policy of America. For John Mearsheimer, a leading political scientist, the battle between Democrats and the Republicans is akin to a choice between “Tweedledum and Tweedledee”. It is the deep state that operates…
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This comes following Iran’s unprecedented attacks against Israel on April 13. Washington: The Pentagon said Sunday it will deploy a high-altitude anti-missile system and its US military crew to Israel to help the ally protect itself from potential Iranian missile attacks. At the direction of US President Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “authorized the…
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Tehran: Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations in New York rejected claims linking Tehran to Hamas’ October 7 surprise attack on Israel, the state media reported. In a statement, the Iranian mission responded to questions from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal regarding Israel’s claim of having access to minutes from…
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This action intensifies financial pressure on Iran amid tensions with Israel. Washington: The United States on Friday expanded sanctions against Iran’s petroleum and petrochemical sectors in response to Iran’s missile attack on Israel, the Treasury Department said. “This action intensifies financial pressure on Iran, limiting the regime’s ability to earn critical energy revenues to undermine…
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Washington: The United States still believes that Iran has not decided to build a nuclear weapon despite Tehran’s recent strategic setbacks, including Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leaders and two largely unsuccessful attempts to attack Israel, two US officials told Reuters. The comments from a senior Biden administration official and a spokesperson for the Office of…
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In an essay in Foreign Affairs magazine in October 2023, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan wrote, “…Although the Middle East remains beset with perennial challenges, the region is quieter than it has been for decades… The Israeli-Palestinian situation is tense, particularly in the West Bank, but in the face of serious frictions, we have…
Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs on October 6, 2024, in Beirut, Lebanon. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Iran has prepared a plan to respond to a possible Israeli attack following the Islamic Republic’s retaliatory missile strike against it last week, local media reported on Sunday (October 6, 2024). “The plan…
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