Author: Steven Sahiounie

US sanctions prevented Iran from paying United Nations dues on January 19. The spokesperson for the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Paulina Kubik, announced that Iran and a number of other member states have paid the financial arrears owed to them in the budget of the organization, effectively restoring the country’s voting rights. It should be recalled that unilateral US sanctions prevented Iran from paying United Nations dues on January 19, putting it on a list of countries in arrears with several others. It is worth mentioning that the right to vote of a member nation is suspended…

Occupied Jerusalem, SANA-Four Palestinians were arrested by the Israeli occupation forces on Monday in several areas of the West Bank The occupation troops raided the towns of Naalin, Kharbatha al-Misbah and Budrus west of Ramallah, and Jaba’ town south of Jenin, and they arrested four Palestinians, Wafa News Agency reported. On Sunday, the occupation forces arrested four Palestinians in Tulkarm, the West Bank. Source: SANA

It is not yet clear how Riyadh and Abu Dhabi will choose to respond following a Saturday rally organised by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, where participants chanted anti-Saudi slogans. But a Gulf official has hinted that it might hit where it hurts most – their pockets. On Saturday, thousands of people took to the streets in the Gaza Strip to express their support for the Yemeni people and the Houthi rebels, following an alleged Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a detention centre in the province of Saada that led to the deaths of at least 80 people on Friday,…

“Iran has always backed the oppressed Yemeni people and has pursued to launch an intra-Yemeni dialogue”, says the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson. Iranian Foreign Ministry has strongly denounced the Saudi-Emirati airstrikes over the past few days against residential and civilian areas in Yemen, considering that “UK, France, Germany and the US are complicit in the war crimes in Yemen”. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh said during a press conference that Iran has always backed the oppressed Yemeni people and has pursued to launch an intra-Yemeni dialogue through political apparatuses and diplomatic channels. “Unfortunately, those making lucrative profits out of…

Dmitry Peskov also pointed out that information hysteria in the West, not Russia, should be blamed for the increased tensions around Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that a huge buildup of Ukrainian forces on the Donbass line of contact indicates Kiev is preparing for an attack. “Indeed, the Ukrainian authorities are concentrating a huge amount of forces and equipment on the border with the self-proclaimed republics on the line of contact. Indeed, the nature of this concentration points to preparations for offensive operations, and, indeed, there is such a threat now”, Peskov told reporters on Monday. He said…

Idleb, SANA-Identical media reports have revealed that Turkish occupation-backed terrorist organizations deployed in Idleb, led by the “Jabhat al-Nusra ” organization, invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Turkey, which they collected by seizing humanitarian aid and selling it in the black market. A report by the Russian Sputnik news agency quoted sources it described as “informed” in the city of Idleb as saying that as soon as the aid that is brought in from Turkish territory reaches the areas controlled by “Jabhat al-Nusra” terrorist organization, which is on the international terrorism list, the organization seizes it and collects it…

Dubai index suffered a major drop as the UAE has been targeted by the Yemeni Armed Forces in response to its recent massacres. Most major stock markets in the Gulf fell in early trading on Monday with the Dubai index suffering a major drop following the second Operation Yemen Hurricane, the Yemeni Armed Forces’ response to ongoing Saudi-Emirates massacres. Dubai’s main stock index (.DFMGI) fell as much as 1.4 percent, with the majority of equities dropping, including blue-chip developer Emaar Properties (EMAR.DU), going down 1.7 percent. The Abu Dhabi index (.FTFADGI) dropped 0.7 percent, with First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB.AD), the…

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The European Union will find out from US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken why the US has decided to evacuate some of its diplomats from Ukraine, foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday, adding that EU diplomats will not leave Ukraine. “We are not going to do the same thing because, we don’t know any specific reasons, but Secretary Blinken will inform us and we don’t have to dramatise, as far as negotiations are going I don’t think we will leave Ukraine”, Borrell said ahead of the EU foreign affairs council. Earlier in the day, the…

DOHA (Sputnik) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Defence Ministry earlier said that the country’s air defence systems had intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthis. The Yemeni Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement said on Monday that it had struck the Al Dharfa military base in Abu Dhabi, where US soldiers are also deployed, with ballistic missiles, adding that they are ready to expand their operation against the United Arab Emirates. “Ballistic missiles fired by the Yemeni armed forces reached the UAE military base of Al Dharfa in Abu Dhabi, drones were also launched at targets in Dubai, Sharorah,…

President Joe Biden is considering airdropping soldiers and equipment to the Russian border US President Joe Biden is considering deploying troops, aircraft, and warships to the Baltics and Eastern Europe as a means to deter Russia from invading Ukraine, The New York Times has reported. Citing anonymous sources, the newspaper claims the White House is currently mulling over plans to deploy between 1,000 and 5,000 troops, with the potential to increase this number tenfold if the situation deteriorates. The options were reportedly presented to the president by the US Department of Defense on Saturday, at a meeting at Camp David,…