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☆ Argentina Frees Iranian and Venezuelan Crew Members of Plane Detained Since June
  + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Ryan Dube | Silvina Frydlewsky | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Venezuelan ambassador to Argentina Stella Lugo de Montilla, second from right, accompanied crew members of the Venezuelan cargo plane to Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires. BUENOS AIRES—Argentina released five Iranian and Venezuelan crew members of a cargo jet that was grounded for an investigation into possible terrorism ties, after a judge ruled that there wasn’t enough evidence to charge them. Among those freed was a pilot who U.S. and Latin American law-enforcement officials have said is a high-ranking member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
☆ U.S., allies to discuss Iranian drone transfers to Russia at U.N.
  + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Michelle Nichols Arshad Mohammed | Michelle Nichols | Arshad Mohammed | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Ukraine says they are Iranian-made Shahed-136 attack drones - loitering munitions that cruise towards their target before plummeting at velocity and detonating on impact. Kremlin on Tuesday denied its forces had used Iranian drones to attack Ukraine. The newspaper said the Iranian trainers are operating from a Russian military base in Crimea where many of the drones have been based since being delivered from Iran. It said the trainers are from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, a part of Iran's military which Washington deems a terrorist organization. Two senior Iranian officials and two Iranian diplomats told Reuters that Iran has promised to provide Russia with surface to surface missiles, in addition to more drones.
☆ No hope for the future: Economic struggles add fuel to Iran's protests
  + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Lee Ying Shan | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +6 min
Anti-government uprisings are to remain a sticking point and increase in frequency in Iran's political landscape as dissatisfaction with other factors like the country's economic conditions surface, according to analysts. These protests will be met with force, and increase the Islamic Republic's dependence on Iran's elite armed forces, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, she told CNBC. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khameinei broke his silence last week and called the protests "riots." Iran's economic troublesInflation in Iran is expected to remain high at over 30%, according to the World Bank. Anti-government uprisings are to remain a sticking point and increase in frequency in Iran's political landscape as dissatisfaction with other factors like the country's economic conditions surface, according to analysts.
☆ Iran Attacks Northern Iraq With Missiles and Drones, Killing at Least 13
  + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Iran attacked northern Iraq on Wednesday with more than 40 ballistic missiles and armed drones, one of which was shot down by a U.S. warplane as it headed toward the city of Erbil where American troops are based, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials. The strikes were by far the largest and most deadly in recent days by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which has carried out repeated bombardments of Kurdish areas in northern Iraq since last week, after publicly blaming Iranian Kurdish separatist groups based there for fomenting unrest that has swept across Iran.
☆ Despite Biden's assurances, Middle East militaries are buying their own weapons to take on Iran at sea and in the air
  + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Benjamin Brimelow | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been investing heavily in new military hardware in order to Iran. The Royal Saudi Air Force's core strength are its 232 F-15 Eagles, at least 84 of which are F-15SA variants designed specifically for Saudi Arabia. A Royal Saudi Air Force F-15 at King Faisal Air Base in Saudi Arabia in February 2021. US and Bahraini officials in front of unmanned naval vessels at at Naval Support Activity Bahrain in Manama in January. US Navy/MCS1 Mark Thomas MahmodIMX 2022 was also the first time Israel and Saudi Arabia, which don't have diplomatic relations, officially took part in an exercise together.
☆ Trump thought he'd be assassinated after he authorized the deadly drone strike that killed top Iranian leader Qassem Soleimani: book
  + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Trump worried that he'd be assassinated by the Iranian government for authorizing a strike that killed the Iranian military commander. Trump told several of his Florida friends about his fears at a cocktail party, two journalists wrote in an upcoming book. In public, though, Trump bragged about the strike, saying he took out a "noted terrorist." Trump told several confidantes about his fear, according to a report from The Guardian, which obtained an advance copy of the forthcoming book "The Divider" by journalists Susan Glasser and Peter Baker. In public, though, Trump talked up the drone strike to Republican donors in Florida, recounting the minutes that led up to the deadly event.
☆ Newly unsealed indictment accuses three Iranian nationals of ransomware attacks against hundreds of U.S. victims
  + stars: | 2022-09-14 | by ( Christina Wilkie | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
Several hours after the Justice Department unsealed the indictments, the Treasury Department announced new sanctions against 10 Iranian nationals and two Iranian tech companies. Treasury officials described all 10 of the sanctioned individuals as "affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps." The IRGC is an elite branch of the Iranian military that oversees Iran's international cyber warfare and espionage operations. According to a notice from the Treasury Department, this particular group of Iranians is not obviously aligned with one of the existing IRGC proxy gangs. The Justice Department has struggled for decades to convince institutional victims of cyberattacks that they would be better served by reporting the attack than by covering it up.
☆ Four ways the Ukraine war has impacted the Middle East
  + stars: | 2022-08-24 | by ( Abbas Al Lawati Nadeen Ebrahim | Abbas Al Lawati | Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +14 min
As Russia bombs its neighbor, what has become the biggest European war since 1945 has had an outsized impact far south, in the Middle East. Here are four ways the Ukraine war has affected the Middle East over the last six months:Energy exporters are cashing inThe war has seen oil prices rise to as much as a 14-year high. Despite vowing to turn Saudi Arabia into a pariah, US President Joe Biden visited Saudi Arabia in a landmark trip last month. Saudi Arabia: #How_many_wives_would_you_takeSaudi men took to Twitter to ask each other how many wives they’d like to take. According to the 2019 report by the Doha International Forum called State of Marriage in the Arab World, information on polygamy in Saudi Arabia is not readily available.
☆ Salman Rushdie off ventilator and 'road to recovery has begun,' agent says
  + stars: | 2022-08-15 | by ( Nathan Layne | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
"He's off the ventilator, so the road to recovery has begun," his agent, Andrew Wylie, wrote in an email to Reuters. Rushdie was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, for treatment after the attack. Authorities in Iran have made no public comment about the attack, although hardline state media outlets have celebrated it with headlines including "Satan has been blinded" and some Iranians voiced support online for the stabbing. Rushdie was stabbed 10 times, prosecutors said during Matar's arraignment, according to the New York Times. A Hezbollah official told Reuters on Saturday that the group had no additional information on the attack on Rushdie.
☆ Salman Rushdie still hospitalized as attack suspect pleads not guilty
  + stars: | 2022-08-14 | by ( Kanishka Singh Nathan Layne | Kanishka Singh | Nathan Layne | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
Wylie did not respond to messages requesting updates on Rushdie's condition on Saturday, though the New York Times reported that Rushdie had started to talk, citing Wylie. In a statement on Saturday, President Joe Biden commended the "universal ideals" that Rushdie and his work embody. Rushdie was stabbed 10 times, prosecutors said during Matar's arraignment, according to the Times. There has been no official government reaction in Iran to the attack on Rushdie, but several hardline Iranian newspapers praised his assailant. A Hezbollah official told Reuters on Saturday that the group had no additional information on the attack on Rushdie.
☆ Iran's hardline newspapers praise Salman Rushdie's attacker
  + stars: | 2022-08-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Author Salman Rushdie arrives at the High Court to settle a libel action brought against Ron Evans local media reported, in London August 26, 2008. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/File PhotoAug 13 (Reuters) - Several hardline Iranian newspapers heaped praise on Saturday on the person who attacked and seriously wounded author Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" had drawn death threats from Iran since 1989. In 2019, Twitter suspended Khamenei’s account over a tweet that said Khomeini’s fatwa against Rushdie was “solid and irrevocable”. The headline of the hardline Vatan Emrooz newspaper read: “Knife in Salman Rushdie’s neck”. read moreRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register<a href="mailto:dubai.newsroom@thomsonreuters.com" target="_blank">dubai.newsroom@thomsonreuters.com</a> Editing by Frances KerryOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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