Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Israeli genocidal war on Gaza was a high-risk gamble that eventually proved a failure, and the rising direct and indirect costs of the war make it difficult for the regime to sustain it, says an analyst.

The Israeli regime has been training its ground forces for a potential operation into southern Lebanon, shows a report, as trading of fire between the regime and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement keeps intensifying. 

A pro-Israel lobby group has pushed for the ouster of an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) journalist, prompting the news agency’s staff to call for a strike.

Amid escalated Israeli attacks across the West Bank, a Palestinian shop owner says Israeli forces used him as a human shield during a raid on a town in the southern part of the occupied territory.

The foreign minister of Iran Amir Abdollahian lashed out at the US for its attempts to militarize the Red Sea by using a recent United Nation Security Council resolution as an excuse, warning that the American measures will aggravate insecurity in the Red sea. In a telephone conversation on Monday evening, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov talked about a range of regional and international issues including Red sea , as well as the relations between Tehran and Moscow. Highlighting the determination of the two countries to expand relations, Amirabdollahian expressed hope that Tehran and…

The “carnage” happening in Gaza could lead to the radicalization of a generation and pose a serious threat to regional security, Jordan’s prime minister said on Tuesday. Speaking to Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Bisher Khasawneh said that the impact of the war would have repercussions on both sides. “My main concern is that the continuation of this, of the horrific scenes that we see of carnage carnage in Gaza, of murdered children, of mutilated bodies, if it continues, it will create conditions that will deeper radicalize an entire generation on…

President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi highlighted the significant role that India can play in the cessation of Israeli attacks on Gaza, lifting the blockade on the enclave, and protecting the rights of Palestinian people.In a meeting with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, held in Tehran on Monday, Raisi stressed the need to follow up and accelerate the implementation of the agreements between the two countries. He also stressed the need for India to compensate for the delay in the implementation of its commitments under the Chabahar Port development plan. Highlighting the deep-rooted relations between Iran and India, Raisi called for…

Taher al-Nono, media adviser to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, has called for an end to the EU’s “double-standard policy”. “These are ridiculous and silly sanctions because everyone knows that Yahya Sinwar has no assets or money neither in Palestine nor outside it,” he told Reuters. “Such a decision has no value against Hamas, but the idea of imposing sanctions on the leaders of the resistance and Hamas, which is resisting the [Israeli] occupation as granted by international law, shows bias to the occupation.” Earlier we reported that Sinwar has been subjected to an asset freeze in the 27-nation bloc and…

The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has lodged a war crimes complaint against 13 unnamed UK individuals, including officials and those believed to be fighting for the Israeli army. “True to our word, we have taken the first step in holding those alleged to support war crimes in the UK to account,” said the ICJP ’s director, Tayab Ali. “We have referred a complaint to Scotland Yard. The complaint names nine UK citizens who are allegedly fighting with the IDF [Israeli military] and four UK government officials,” he said. The organisation said it turned over more than 70…

Jordan’s King Abdullah met separately the foreign ministers of Australia and Greece on Tuesday in Amman to stress the importance of ending Israel’s war in Gaza, the Jordan News Agency reported. King Abdullah reaffirmed to Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong Jordan’s opposition to the displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, and Israel’s plans to separate the territories, adding that both must be part of the Palestinian state. The king said that military and security solutions would not bring peace, and that the only way to do so was to establish a political horizon based on the two-state…