Iran has urged Washington to return to negotiations, insisting that dialogue is the only route out of a seven-month war, a day after US President Donald Trump said he had turned down Tehran’s plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and halt the fighting. Iran diplomacy war Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Sunday that […]
Iran warned on Sunday that it possessed intelligence pointing to a major new attack being prepared by the United States and its allies, cautioning that any such strike would trigger sustained retaliation against American bases and interests across the region. Iran Warns Sustained Retaliation The warning, issued by Iran’s military central command via state media, […]
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei called on Muslim nations, especially Gulf states, to set aside their differences and confront what he described as their common adversary, in a written message published Sunday that marked one of his most significant public statements since taking office. The message, posted to Khamenei’s Telegram account to mark Islamic Unity […]
Friday marks six months since the US and Israeli strikes on Iran started a conflict. This conflict has messed up energy flows and made financial markets around the world feel very shaky. You can see the effects of this conflict in oil prices, stocks, money values and food prices. The biggest hit has been on […]
Crude prices fell by more than $1 a barrel on Monday. This happened because traders wanted to take their profits before an US announcement. People expect this US announcement to make the economic squeeze on Iran even tighter. Brent futures went down 1.3 percent to end near $93 a barrel and at the time US […]
Iran has agreed to let a number of Iraqi oil tankers transit through the Strait of Hormuz, responding for weeks of appeals from Baghdad through multiple diplomatic channels, state news agency IRNA reported Saturday. The concession marks a rare easing of Tehran’s grip on the strategic waterway, which it has effectively kept closed to most […]
Iran is expected to become part of the New Development Bank (NDB), the bank established by the BRICS alliance, as Iran aims to enhance its economic relations with developing nations while minimizing its reliance on Western financial systems. This news was broken to the public by the Governor of the Central Bank of Iran, Abdolnaser […]
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has appointed Mohammad Reza Aref to the post of Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, ordering a personnel change within the Islamic Republic’s largest defense and foreign policy advisory platform. The new official will be tasked with overseeing the security issues of the country as well as the controversial waters […]
Iran has been using Kheibar Shekan missiles, cheap, mobile and accurate missiles that have a range of at least 1,400 kilometers in its recent attacks on US assets across the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal quoted US officials as saying on Saturday. The medium-range, solid-fuel Kheibar Shekan missiles differ from older Iranian missiles in […]
Washington, DC (Special to Informed Comment; Article) – It is increasingly clear that effective international communication is impossible without a basic knowledge of the world’s cultures. American officials say as much when they admit that failures in Afghanistan and Iraq were largely due to ignorance of the culture and pushing too many programs that conflicted […]
