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The American Peace Proposal and the Intricacies of an Ongoing War
The American Peace Proposal and the Intricacies of an Ongoing War

  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, ...

Iran's Interim Ruler VP Mohammad Mokhber, a Pure Product of Islamic Republic
Iran's Interim Ruler VP Mohammad Mokhber, a Pure Product of Islamic Republic

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, ...

Iranian President and Foreign Minister Killed in Helicopter Crash
Iranian President and Foreign Minister Killed in Helicopter Crash

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 ...

Amir-Abdollahian, Iran's Hawkish Foreign Minister
Amir-Abdollahian, Iran's Hawkish Foreign Minister

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 ...

Ebrahim Raisi, Iran's Ultraconservative President
Ebrahim Raisi, Iran's Ultraconservative President

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 ...

Raisi Still Missing, Conflicting Reports on Search Operations
Raisi Still Missing, Conflicting Reports on Search Operations

Iran launched a massive search and rescue operation in a fog-shrouded mountainous area after President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter disappeared on Sunday in what state media described as an "accident". Contradictory information was circulating about the intense search for the helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi, which was continuing in ...

Is Iran's Government Preparing for the Post-Raïssi Era?
Is Iran's Government Preparing for the Post-Raïssi Era?

Is Tehran preparing for the possibility of the deaths of its President and Foreign Minister, following a helicopter crash on Sunday? Rescue operations continue in search of the site where Iranian President Ebrahim Raissi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian's helicopter "crashed" on Sunday. However, Tehran already seems to be preparing ...

Congolese Military Thwarts Coup Attempt in Kinshasa
Congolese Military Thwarts Coup Attempt in Kinshasa

The DR Congo military on Sunday thwarted an attempted coup near the offices of President Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa involving "foreigners and Congolese", the army spokesperson said. The coup bid took place in the early hours of the morning outside the residence of economy minister Vital Kamerhe, in the Gombe area in the north of the capital, ...

Several Senior Iranian Officials Involved in Helicopter Crash
Several Senior Iranian Officials Involved in Helicopter Crash

A helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi was involved in "an accident" in poor weather conditions on Sunday, state media reported, with a search underway and no news yet on his condition. "An accident happened to the helicopter carrying the president" in the Jofa region of the western province of East Azerbaijan, state television ...

Senior Syrian Officials to Go to Trial for Crimes Against Humanity
Senior Syrian Officials to Go to Trial for Crimes Against Humanity

According to The Guardian, three high-ranking Syrian officials are to go on trial in Paris on Tuesday. They are accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes. In 2013, 20-year-old student Patrick Dabbagh was arrested by the Syrian army at his home in Damascus. Within 24-hours, the army returned for his 48-year-old father. Their fate remained ...

Russian Shelling of Kharkiv Kills Four Civilians
Russian Shelling of Kharkiv Kills Four Civilians

Russian shelling on the outskirts of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Sunday killed at least four civilians, said the governor of the region facing a new Russian offensive. Russia launched an assault in the border region on May 10 after a surge in aerial strikes. "We know about four civilians killed. At least eight people are wounded," governor ...

Slovak Prime Minister's Life No Longer in Danger, Says Deputy
Slovak Prime Minister's Life No Longer in Danger, Says Deputy

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico's life is no longer in danger following an assassination attempt, Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kalinak said on Sunday. Fico has been in the hospital since Wednesday, when a lone gunman shot him four times, including in the abdomen. "He has emerged from the immediate threat to his life, but his condition remains ...