Author: Steven Sahiounie

The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned the Israeli demolition of houses of Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank, reminding the Zionist regime that it cannot escape its grim fate by continuing barbarous activities. In a post on his Twitter account on Thursday, Nasser Kanaani condemned the demolition of six houses in Jericho in the occupied West Bank by the Zionist regime’s bulldozers as a daily practice of the occupiers that includes destruction, shooting, massacre, violence, suppression, arrest of children, ruining farmlands, cutting trees, etc. “Definitely, the continuation of such barbarism that happens under unconditional support from the US…

Experts note that Pelosi’s plan to visit Taiwan increases the threat of a military conflict between the People’s Liberation Army of China and the US Armed Forces It will be very difficult for Taiwan’s administration to refuse to receive Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, but if the visit takes place, the island’s authorities will have to ‘to bear the wrath of Beijing’, the leading Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post said on Thursday. On the one hand, the newspaper notes, Pelosi’s visit to the island would show that Taipei has Washington’s support and boost the…

The Russian military has destroyed a communication station for Bayraktar TB2 combat drones that was deployed by Ukrainian forces near the front in Kherson. A video released on July 28 shows the communication station receiving a direct hit from a Russian Lancet loitering munition, which was reportedly launched by the Russian Airborne Forces. The pinpoint strike destroyed the station and set it on fire. The Lancet, which was developed by the ZALA Aero Group, is equipped with an elector-optical system that allows it to detect, track and lock on static and moving targets. An improved version of the Lancet-3, that…

President Biden has responded by saying, “We are on the right path” The US economy has shrunk for two consecutive quarters, meeting one of the criteria for a recession, official figures released on Thursday suggest. Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.9% in the second quarter of 2022, following a decrease of 1.6% in the first quarter, according to a release published on the US government’s website. It notes that the data for the second quarter represents an advance estimate, and more complete data will be released in August. The drop in the GDP reflects…

A series of three attacks has targeted two of Turkey’s military bases well as one of its consulates in the northern region of Iraq. The attacks began late on July 26, when a suicide drone targeted a Turkish military base in the area of Barukhi and Siri in the province of Dohuk in the Kurdistan Region. The base is located on the Iraqi side of the border line with Turkey. A group calling itself the Ababil Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. The pro-Iranian group said that the attack was a response to the July 20 Turkish strikes on Zakho…

Boris Johnson, who is now stepping down as British Prime Minister, may take over as NATO Secretary-General after current alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg leaves his seat next September, the Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday. According to the newspaper, senior Tories are backing Boris Johnson as the next NATO Secretary-General. Prior to Johnson, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, as well as former UK prime ministers Theresa May and David Cameron, were considered for the role, the newspaper notes, TASS reported. The Daily Telegraph stressed that the post of NATO Secretary-General had long been offered to a British representative because of the…

Dmitry Peskov pointed out that agreements had been reached through dialogue and clarifications Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov views the resolution of the cargo transit crisis to Russia’s westernmost exclave of Kaliningrad as a positive development. “The crisis situation has been resolved, it is a positive development. Sometimes we see some seeds of common sense even amid an anti-Russia hysteria. Let’s hope that these seeds will continue to bear fruit,” he told reporters on Wednesday. When asked if the lifting of a transit ban meant that “the collective West is retreating,” Peskov noted that he would refrain from throwing around…

Defense Minister Benny Gantz has pushed back against possibility of restoring the nuclear deal Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz suggested his country could launch a strike against Iran’s nuclear program, calling it “a global problem” at a conference on Tuesday. He also criticized the 2015 nuclear deal – abandoned by the US in 2018 – and the possibility of its revival, though the negotiations to that effect don’t seem to be going anywhere. “Iran is a global problem. It is not just Israel’s private problem,” Gantz said in Jerusalem, during a conference hosted by Israel’s Channel 13. “We are able to seriously harm…

The deputy head of the Russian Security Council considers that the EU will have to bear dire consequences of imposing anti-Russian sanctions. Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of the Russian Security Council, described Tuesday Europe’s policy toward Russia as a “repulsive cocktail of arrogant rudeness, adolescent infantility, and primitive stupidity.” On his Telegram channel, Medvedev considered that the European Union will have to bear the consequences of imposing anti-Russian sanctions. He pointed out that the EU declared from the beginning its intention to severely punish Russia for its desire to protect people who suffer and to secure its long-term interests. The Russian official considered…

Turkish law enforcement units have detained 26 military personnel on the grounds of aiding a network accused of orchestrating a coup attempt in 2016, local media reported on Tuesday. In a joint effort by the army and the police forces detaining 35 individuals whose arrests were warranted by the prosecutor’s office following surveillance, simultaneous raids were carried out in 18 provinces, with a focus on the western province of Izmir, said the Hurriyet daily. Units from the Turkish Intelligence spotted out-of-protocol communication attempts by some army members with the network led by the U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, it added. Among…