Author: Steven Sahiounie

Türkiye’s Disaster Management Agency (AFAD) announced on Sunday that the country is sending a night vision search and rescue helicopter and 32 rescuers following a request from Iran. “Iran has requested a night vision search and rescue helicopter from Türkiye” through the Turkish Foreign Ministry, the agency said on X. “32 search and rescue mountaineers from the Van and Erzurum branches of the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) and 6 vehicles are en route to the area,” it added. Also, “15 mountaineer search and rescue personnel from Ankara, Diyarbakir, and Konya are on standby,” the agency said and added…

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The Commander in Chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has described Israel as a regime which understands nothing but the language of force. Salami said on Sunday that Iran’s mid-April military operation against Israel was necessary to punish a violent and insane regime that has created instability and chaos in the region. Speaking in a ceremony in Tehran, Salami was making a reference to Iran’s missile and drone attacks against Israel on April 14 which was carried out in response to the regime’s airstrike earlier that month against Iranian consulate in Syria’s Damascus. The general insisted, however, that…

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Saudi Arabia expressed its support for Iran and said it was ready to provide any assistance required after a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi crashed on Sunday. The Foreign Ministry said the Kingdom was following reports about the crash with “great concern.” Meanwhile, the Iraqi government said in a statement it had instructed its interior ministry, the Red Crescent and other relevant bodies to offer help to neighboring Iran in the search mission. Iranian search and rescue teams were scouring a fog-shrouded mountainside after the helicopter carrying the president and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian went missing in an “accident”…

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The Jordanian FM sheds light on a “political assassination attempt” targeting UNRWA following October 7, detailing that all accusations made by the Israeli occupation have no evidence. Jordanian FM Ayman Safadi reaffirmed his country’s continuing support for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, despite a campaign spearheaded by “Israeli” charges against the institution. In a joint news conference with UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini, Safadi expressed that UNRWA is “fulfilling its duty in Gaza despite the aggression on the Strip,” explaining that its role in the area cannot be “replaced or dispensed with by any other entity.” He went on to say that UNRWA…

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This evening, Israeli colonist militias set fire to agricultural lands and a scrapyard in the village of Yatma, located south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Ahmed Sanobar, head of the Yatma Village Council, told WAFA that hundreds of colonists attacked the village under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. The assailants torched a scrapyard and large areas of farmland, and also threw stones at a house on the outskirts of the village, he added. Sanobar reported that villagers confronted the attackers and managed to extinguish the fires. Confrontations ensued between the residents and the attacking colonists, supported by…

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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has expressed his concern and sympathies to the Iranian nation after the helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raeisi experienced a hard landing in a mountainous region in northwestern Iran. “We hope that the Almighty God returns the respected and esteemed President and his companions to the embrace of the nation,” Ayatollah Khamenei said on Sunday. The Leader urged all Iranians to pray for the health and safety of President Raeisi and other public servants on board the helicopter. “The Iranian nation should not be worried or anxious, there will be no disruption…

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