Author: Steven Sahiounie

By: Steven Sahiounie, Journalist and political commentator It has become abundantly clear that achieving long-term stability in the Middle East requires solving the Palestinian issue and ensuring the normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab nations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bowed to pressure from some of his own generals and political allies to attack Iran after Iran’s massive bombardment of Israel, which ended with no causalities or damages. The Israeli military claimed 99% of the projectiles were brought down. But, ultranationalist Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir described the Israeli strike on Iran as “feeble” or “lame”. Israel has…

Head of the politburo of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has issued a stern warning against any Israeli military operation on the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, stressing that Palestinian resistance groups are ready to defend themselves and the besieged territory. Ismail Haniyeh raised the alarm in an exclusive interview with the Turkish Anadolu news agency on Sunday after meeting with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and discussing the latest developments in Gaza amid Israel’s plans to carry out a broad offensive in Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians are sheltering. Haniyeh warned against a possible military operation…

The foreign minister of Oman condemned the Israeli regime’s destabilizing measures in the region, describing an end to the war crimes against Gaza as the sole way to restore regional security. In a telephone conversation on Saturday, Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi and his Iranian counterpart discussed the latest developments in the region. The top Omani diplomat condemned the destabilizing actions of the Zionist regime and stressed that the only way to restore security to the region is to stop the war crimes of the Zionists in Gaza. For his part, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian thanked the Sultanate of Oman…

Head of the politburo of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has issued a stern warning against any Israeli military operation on the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, stressing that Palestinian resistance groups are ready to defend themselves and the besieged territory.

The foreign minister of Iran praised Algeria for proposing a draft resolution at the UN Security Council that recommended granting the State of Palestine full membership in the UN, taking a swipe at the US for its “irresponsible and unconstructive” veto on the bid. Hossein Amirabdollahian and his Algerian counterpart Ahmed Attaf discussed a range of regional and international issues on the sidelines of a UN Security Council meeting in New York on Friday. Amirabdollahian appreciated Algeria’s role in helping stop the Zionist regime’s genocide in Gaza and also presenting a resolution at the Security Council on Palestine’s UN membership.…

Iran has responded to Israel’s murderous missile assault on the Iranian consulate in Damascus earlier this month.

A Turkish official said Saturday that Ankara’s foremost objective is “to bring the massacre in Gaza to an end” and the establishment of a Palestinian state to achieve lasting peace in the region. Foreign Ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli’s comments were in response to Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz’s post on X with a picture of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh that was accompanied by derogatory and defamatory comments. Keceli said efforts by members of the Israeli government to shift the agenda will be fruitless. “It is the Israeli authorities who should be ashamed.…

The number of residential buildings in Russia affected by the spring flood keeps falling, having decreased by 978 over the past 24 hours to 15,280, a source in operative services told TASS. “The trend of the falling number of flooded residential buildings across the country has persisted for the third consecutive day. In the morning of April 21, their number was 15,280 in 187 settlements and 173 allotment associations, having decreased by 978 compared with Saturday morning,” he said. The trend of the falling number of household plots affected by the flood also persists, the source added. “At the moment…

The Palestinian Hamas resistance group has called for a general strike across the occupied West Bank and a day of mourning in condemnation of an Israeli military raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp that killed at least 14 Palestinians.

The US military aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan will aggravate the global crises, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. “The military aid earmarked by the United States for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan will exacerbate the global crises, as the military aid to the Kiev regime is direct financial support of terrorist activity, [the aid] to Taiwan is an interference in China’s domestic affairs and to Israel is a direct path to the unprecedented escalation in the region,” she wrote on her Telegram channel. The $95bln package of bills on military aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, on the…