This Is Beirut 20/05 13:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Following the death of Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, in a helicopter crash on Monday, Ali Bagheri Kani has been appointed by the Iranian government as the country's new Foreign Minister. Ali Bagheri Kani can be understood as a continuity candidate, who will likely continue the hardline policies of the now deceased Amir-Abdollahian. Ali ...
This Is Beirut 20/05 13:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A war monitor said at least six pro-Iran fighters were killed on Monday in Israeli strikes in Syria near the Lebanese border, in an area where Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah group holds sway. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "Israeli strikes targeted two positions of pro-Iran groups in the Homs region," including "a Hezbollah site in ...
This Is Beirut 20/05 13:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash is a major blow to the Islamic regime, an exiled opposition group said Monday, predicting a succession of crises. The People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) and its political wing, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), have long detested Raisi, accusing him of involvement ...
This Is Beirut 20/05 10:41 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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US President Joe Biden's national security advisor briefed Benjamin Netanyahu on the "potential" of a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia after holding talks in the region, the White House said Sunday. Jake Sullivan also called on the Israeli prime minister to link the military operation against Hamas in Gaza with a "political ...
This Is Beirut 20/05 10:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Japan's top government spokesman said on Monday that a planned visit this week by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been postponed "due to the health condition of King Salman." The announcement came hours after the Royal Court in Riyadh said Prince Mohammed's 88-year-old father had a lung infection and was undergoing treatment ...
This Is Beirut 20/05 09:46 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran's first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber, is expected to assume the presidency after Ebrahim Raisi's death in a helicopter crash as the country gears up for early elections. The Iranian constitution stipulates that the first vice president take over "in the event of the president's death, dismissal, resignation, absence, or illness for more ...
This Is Beirut 20/05 09:06 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Iran's powerful allies on Monday mourned the death of its President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, while regional militants hailed him as a supporter of the Palestinian cause. Russia and China called the ultraconservative leader a "friend", while Iran's arch-foes the United States and Israel had yet to react publicly. Here is a roundup of ...
20/05 08:46 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
US President Joe Biden has seized on the ongoing war to offer a peace deal that dovetails with a finalized regional strategic understanding between the United States and Saudi Arabia. The settlement of the current conflict should be part of a new strategic vision that aims at extracting the Middle East from the Iranian stranglehold, ...
Malo Pinatel 20/05 08:43 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A prominent and influential figure in Iranian politics today, Mohammad Mokhber has held the position of First Vice-President of the Islamic Republic of Iran since August 2021. Following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, he replaces the latter, according to the Iranian constitution. IRGC officer Born into a clerical family on May 11, 1955, ...
This Is Beirut 20/05 08:29 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Iran's President Raisi, and Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian have been declared dead on Monday, following a helicopter crash in northwest Iran. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared five days of mourning. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was declared dead on Monday after rescue teams found his crashed helicopter in a fog-shrouded western ...
This Is Beirut 20/05 07:32 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iranian media has confirmed that Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian died on Monday morning following a helicopter crash in a mountainous region of north-west Iran. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, born in 1964, grew up in one of Tehran's poorest neighborhoods. In 1980, he volunteered to serve in the Iran-Iraq War, in what he called a ...
This Is Beirut 20/05 07:29 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
On Monday, Iranian state media confirmed that Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi had died following a helicopter accident in poor weather in a remote western mountain region. Always piously dressed in a black turban and religious robe, Iran's ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi had been in office during a tumultuous period of confrontation ...