Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Islamic Republic has been actively upgrading and developing its defence industry in light of international sanctions that have long prevented the country from buying weapons abroad. The nation’s missile programme has sparked numerous protests in the West, with Tehran, however, refusing to slash it, and insisting on its right to defend itself. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will be unveiling a new “strategic missile” in the near future, IRGC Aerospace Force commander, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, has stated. It is manufactured domestically in Iran. The brigadier general did not elaborate on the new missile’s specifications and effective range…

Some Twitter users have branded Israel’s police a bunch of liars. Others have been urging the government to dismantle the entire institution, while there have also been those who expressed their anger at the Jewish state “losing” its democratic values and “infringing upon basic rights”. Weeks after revelations by Calcalist that suggested Israeli police have been spying on former politicians, mayors, and political activists for years, the news website has stirred up yet another storm.On Monday, the publication unveiled a long list of people who have been monitored by the police, apparently with no warrant from a court to do so, and without…

The Israeli occupation forces assassinate three Palestinians in Nablus, claiming they carried out shooting operations against the IOF last week. The Israeli occupation forces assassinated Tuesday three Palestinian civilians and arrested another, after opening fire at their vehicle in Nablus. At noon, the IOF stormed Al-Makhfieh neighborhood in Nablus in a public vehicle holding a Palestinian registration plate. It then opened fire at a vehicle with four Palestinian passengers, which led to the martyrdom of three of them and the arrest of the fourth whose identity has not yet been identified. For its part, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in…

Moscow, SANA- Washington is plundering Syria’s natural resources and secretly involved in the illegal oil trade, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said. Sputnik News Agency quoted the SVR as saying in a statement that the US companies continue to plunder the Syrian natural resources, as Washington remains actively involved in the illegal trade of oil produced in the occupied territories of northeast Syria, adding that up to 3 million barrels of raw materials are extracted from fields in the provinces of Hasaka, Raqqa, and Deir Ezzor every month. The US occupation continues plundering and looting the Syrian resources, as dozens…

Ahead of India’s state polls, Hindu supremacist politician Yogi Adityanath seeks to be re-elected as chief minister of the country’s most populous state, backed by his anti-Muslim rhetoric. A monk known for his controversial anti-Muslim rhetoric leads the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) into Thursday elections in India’s most populous state — Uttar Pradesh — where a strong win could put him in pole position to succeed Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Yogi Adityanath, 49, has stirred controversy since his surprise appointment in 2017 as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern India home to over 200 million…

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian thanks the Chinese government for its supportive stances for Iran in the Vienna negotiations and for explaining Iran’s policies. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian stressed that the West must take a serious and effective decision with regard to canceling the embargo and proving its true deflection from the failed policies of the previous US government. This came during a telephone conversation with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on Monday evening, during which they discussed and exchanged views on bilateral relations, the Vienna negotiations process, and international developments. Amir-Abdollahian thanked and praised China’s government for taking a…

Three Yemenis were wounded, in a separate incident, by a cluster bomb dropped by the Saudi-led coalition aircraft on Saada. A Yemeni citizen was martyred and four others were wounded, including an African immigrant, on Monday, by the Saudi-led coalition in the Al-Muftah and Al-Raqqo areas in the Munabih border district in Saada, northern Yemen. Additionally, three civilians were injured by an explosion caused by cluster bombs left behind by the Saudi-led coalition aircraft in the Haidan District, southwest of the governorate, north of Yemen. Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Sanaa reported that the Yemeni Army and Popular Committees liberated Al-Mahsam…

The progressive commenter said his talking about Jamal Khashoggi murder and Yemen war crimes may have caused old episode’s removal Spotify appears to have censored an old episode of the Joe Rogan Experience show over criticism voiced in it against Saudi Arabia, the guest featured in the show has alleged. Kyle Kulinsky pointed out that the Arab kingdom is a promising new market for the audio streaming company. Kulinski, who hosts his own ‘Secular Talk’ show on YouTube, has been invited to Rogan’s on several occasions throughout the years. The episode that got axed by Spotify last week was aired in October…

The Israeli occupation is holding off on processing Palestinian requests for family reunification. The Israeli occupation denied Palestinians their right to reunification with their families, asserting once and for all that the Israeli regime is forcing a system of apartheid on Palestinians. The right-wing Israeli interior minister, Ayelet Shaked, is pressuring the occupation’s government to adopt a law prohibiting Palestinians from the occupied west bank who are married to Palestinians living inside the Palestinian occupied territories in 1948 from reuniting with their husbands and families. Shaked, the vocal face of opposition to reunification efforts overseeing the halt in applications, has…

Hasaka, SANA- The US occupation-backed SDF militia has raided a number of houses in the vicinity of Tal Tamir town in Hasaka western countryside and kidnapped a number of citizens and took them to an unknown destination, local sources told SANA reporter. The sources said that the SDF militia kidnapped a number of civilians during their raid yesterday on al-Askari neighborhood on the outskirts of Hasaka city center from the eastern direction and the southern section of Azizyia neighborhood under the pretext of searching for fugitives from the Industrial Secondary School Prison. In continuation of its violations against the locals,…