This is Beirut, 03/01 09:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Airport Lebanon Iran Bassam Maoulaoui
A second plane originating from Iran was thoroughly searched at Beirut International Airport on Friday, without causing any problems similar to those which erupted the previous day on arrival of the Iranian Mahan Air plane. Speaking in a television interview, caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi pointed out: “We only want to protect ...
This is Beirut, 02/01 20:24 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Israeli military confirmed on Thursday that dozens of its troops were flown into Syria in September to destroy an underground missile factory funded by Iran. The military, which rarely comments on its activities inside Syria, said in a statement that the September 8 raid involved more than 100 Israeli commando soldiers who dismantled the ...
This is Beirut, 02/01 18:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Human Rights Iran Freedom Nobel Prize Activist
Temporarily released for medical reasons since December 4, Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian human rights activist, granted a rare interview to Elle magazine, revealing her literary projects and her relentless struggles behind bars. Winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, Mohammadi has been imprisoned multiple times over the past 25 years for her stance ...
This is Beirut, 02/01 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Ardavan Yousefi has gotten so used to life under Iran's sweeping internet restrictions that for him, a recent decision to lift a ban on messaging service WhatsApp went virtually unnoticed. "Is it really removed now?" Yousefi, a café owner from the capital Tehran, said of the two-year ban on the popular application. To be certain, he switched ...
This is Beirut, 01/01 19:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Saudi Arabia Iran Drug trafficking
Saudi Arabia has put six Iranians to death for drug trafficking, the interior ministry said Wednesday, after a year in which it carried out a record number of executions, according to an AFP tally of official reports. The six were executed in Dammam, on the Gulf coast, for having "clandestinely introduced hashish" into the kingdom, the ministry ...
This is Beirut, 01/01 13:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran will hold nuclear talks with France, Britain, and Germany on January 13 in Switzerland, local media reported on Wednesday, quoting a foreign ministry official. "The new round of talks between Iran and three European countries will be held in Geneva on January 13," said Kazem Gharibabadi, Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International ...
This is Beirut, 01/01 10:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israel's devastating campaigns against Iran's regional allies have severely weakened its arch-enemy's ability to project its power, but Yemen's Tehran-backed Houthis remain a stubborn thorn in its side, analysts say. With the ranks of Hamas and Hezbollah decimated after more than a year of war, and with the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria ...
Philippe Abi Akl, 2024-12-31 10:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
President Elections Iran Syria Lebanon Israel
Although the Lebanese presidential election is – or should be – a purely internal matter, observers of the issue agree that it has become organically linked to changes in the region. These include everything from Israel’s war on Hezbollah and its repercussions to the peaceful coup in Syria. While it is true that Iran – through its arm in ...
Charles Chartouni, 2024-12-30 10:37 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The regional landscape is far from reassuring; none of the political and military events have come to a closure, and none of the geostrategic and political issues have found a way to deliberation. The situation in Syria is under the pull and sway of strident political factionalism, clashing regional power politics and endemic instability. Lebanon ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-30 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
UNESCO Culture Afghanistan Heritage Iran Music
Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi's cramped workshop in the Afghan city of Herat as another rubab, the national musical instrument of his homeland, took shape under his deft hands. Sakhi has crafted two rubabs a month for decades, and he refuses to set down his tools even as a Taliban crackdown strangles music in Afghanistan. "I know only ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-28 21:50 - Reading : less than a minute
A "terrorist attack" killed a police commander on Saturday in Bandar-e Lengeh, a coastal city in Iran's southern province of Hormozgan, local media reported. Tasnim news agency said the commander "was targeted" in the deadly attack. "The attacker was also killed," Tasnim said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, a rarity ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-27 18:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Italy Iran Journalist Cecilia Sala Tehran
Italy denounced Friday the "unacceptable" arrest of an Italian journalist in Iran, who her employer said was being held in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Cecilia Sala was detained on December 19 by police in Tehran, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, adding that Italy's ambassador, Paola Amadei, had ...