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Middle East

Warmongering detrimental to Israel: Iran president

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has warned Israel that the regional equation has changed and warmongering would be detrimental to the Zionists.
Foreign Policy

Iranian pres. discusses developments in occupied territory during high-stakes phone calls

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi engaged in separate phone conversations with Ziad Al-Nakhale, the Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, and Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movementm, Hamas.
Europe

France would be responsible for causing new conflict in region: Azerbaijan

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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has blamed France for causing a new conflict in the region by providing weapons to Armenia.
Local

Iran sends search, rescue teams to quake-hit regions in Afghanistan

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Iran has dispatched search and rescue teams to earthquake-stricken areas in neighboring Afghanistan.
Africa

At least 2 Israeli tourists killed in Egypt

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At least two Israelis have been killed when a gunman opened fire on a bus full of tourists in Egypt. The two Israelis were reportedly killed by an Egyptian policeman.
Security

Iran’s top general: Nightmare of Israeli regime’s collapse to come true

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Iran’s top military commander says the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation launched by Palestinian resistance groups against Israeli targets has left Tel Aviv officials with no doubt that the nightmare of the regime’s collapse will definitely come true.
Americas

US says “too early” to say if Iran directly involved in Israel attack

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The United States cannot say whether Iran played a direct role in the Palestinians’ recent strike on Israel, a senior administration official said Saturday, adding the US is planning to look into the matter.
Europe

Putin discusses Nagorno-Karabakh with Azerbaijani, Armenian leaders

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed the situation in and around the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in telephone conversations, the Kremlin press service has announced.
Asia

Death toll from powerful earthquakes in Afghanistan rises to over 2,000

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The death toll from strong earthquakes that jolted western Afghanistan has risen to more than 2,000, a Taliban government spokesman confirmed Sunday. It’s one of the deadliest earthquakes to strike the country in two decades.
Middle East

Israel-Palestine conflict: Israeli security cabinet declares state of war

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Palestinian group, Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, has announced the start of military the operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel. Thousands of rockets have been fired from the blockaded enclave towards the occupied territories as far away as Tel Aviv, killing over 600 Israelis, including both military and settlers. More than 300 Palestinians have been so far killed in an exchange of fire between the two sides.
Local

Iranians celebrate Palestinians victory against Israel

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A group of Iranians held a ceremony in Terran's Palestine Square to celebrate the victory of Palestinian resistance fighters against Israel.
Local

Ayatollah Khamenei: Israel is a goner

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The leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution's website has posted remarks by Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in which he makes a thinly veiled reference to the blitz by the Palestinian resistance fighters against Israel.
Parliament

Iranian MPs support Palestinians’ operation against Israel

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Iranian lawmakers have thrown their full support behind Saturday's surprise attack on Israel's military posts near the Gaza border by the Gaza-based Palestinian groups.
Incidents

Quake in Afghanistan rocks areas in neighboring Iran, no damage or casualties yet

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Back-to-back earthquakes have jolted Afghanistan as well as Khorasan Razavi Province in northeastern Iran, but there are no reports of any possible damage in the Iranian province, which borders Afghanistan.
Security

Iran says wants full disarmament of Iraq-based secessionist groups

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Iran’s top military commander has expressed dismay over Iraq’s failure to take adequate action with regards to secessionist in the Kurdistan region, saying the Iraqi side's measures have not been enough.
Middle East

Israel-Palestine conflict: Gaza under heavy bombardment, more than 200 killed

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Hundreds of rockets have been fired from the blockaded Gaza Strip towards the occupied territories, and sirens have been heard as far away as the greater Tel Aviv area. Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, which runs the besieged enclave, has announced the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel. The Israeli Army says it has declared a “state of readiness for war”.
Views

Ex-Iran OIC envoy: Riyadh concerned about Tehran’s reaction to normalization with Israel

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A former Iranian envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) says Saudi Arabia is concerned over Iran’s reaction to Riyadh’s normalization of ties with the Israeli regime.
Europe

No final report yet on cause of Wagner boss’s plane crash: Kremlin

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There is not yet a final report from investigators on the cause of the plane crash that killed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in August, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has stated.
Americas

US expels 2 Russian diplomats in response to Moscow’s diplomatic expulsions

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The United States has expelled two Russian diplomats from the embassy in Washington, according to the State Department.
Europe

Live Update: Russia’s “Special Operation” in Ukraine; Day 590

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Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine in February 2022 after the Western-leaning Kiev government turned a deaf ear to Moscow’s calls for its neighbor to maintain its neutrality. In the middle of the mayhem, Moscow and Kiev are trying to hammer out a peaceful solution to the conflict. Follow the latest about the Russia-Ukraine conflict here:
Human Rights

Iran condemns awarding Nobel Peace Prize to an Iranian as “spiteful, political”

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Iran has condemned as biased and political, the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to an Iranian, Tehran says “has been found guilty of frequently violating the law and engaging in criminal acts.”
Middle East

Israeli settler kills Palestinian youth in WB

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A Palestinian teenage has been killed when a group of Israeli settlers attacked the town of Huwara amid a surge in settler violence across the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Americas

Pentagon planning major cuts to US special forces in pivot away from Middle East: Report

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The US Department of Defense is planning to make large cuts to the country's special operation forces, as it shifts its “focus from counterterrorism in the Middle East to threats from China”, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Middle East

Israeli police seeking to ‘legitimize’ killing of Palestinian citizens in new open-fire rules

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Israeli authorities are seeking to allow the use of live fire by police to disperse mass protests held by Palestinian citizens, the regime's national security minister has announced.
Security

Iran’s top general stresses joint fight with Syria against terrorism

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The chairman of Iran's Joint Chiefs of Staff has strongly condemned the recent terrorist drone attack in Syria, voicing Tehran's readiness to engage in joint fight agaist terrorism with Damascus.
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