Qasem Soleimani death fallout: US imposes sanctions on top Iranian leaders
World | January 10, 2020 23:58 ISTA total of eight senior Iranian functionaries, including top leaders, have been individually targeted in the new sanctions
A total of eight senior Iranian functionaries, including top leaders, have been individually targeted in the new sanctions
In comments to The Associated Press, Plame questioned Trump’s justification for ordering the attack that killed Qassem Soleimani and said the lives of thousands of American troops are at risk
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has said that Iran could have a nuclear bomb in 1-2 years if they violate the nuclear accord signed between Iran and the combined alliance of Russia, China, France, USA, UK, Germany and EU.
After the Canadian Prime Minister accused Iran of downing the Ukrainian civilian aircraft which killed over 60 Canadians, Iran has sought information and intelligence from Canada that could help the former come to a conclusion as to why the plane went down.
As the top leadership of several western countries including the US, UK and Canada blame Iran of shooting down the Ukrainian jetliner, a video has surfaced which claims to show the exact moment that the aircraft was hit by the Iranian missile. The 19-second clip shows a small explosion in its early part and claims that it was the Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 Flight PS752 that was hit by an Iranian missile.
US and British top leaderships on Thursday claimed that it was 'highly likely' that Iran shot down the civilian Ukrainian jetliner that crashed after taking off from Tehran airport on Tuesday. The officials have said that there is a major possibility that Iran downed the aircraft by mistake and blamed it on engine failure to cover its tracks.
Pence's remarks came after US President Donald Trump said in an address on Wednesday that no Americans were harmed in the attack by Iran on US bases in Iraq.
Donald Trump Iran address: Here are the major statements US President Donald Trump made during his address.
It is worth noting that Iran has a unique advantage in Middle East/West Asia, due to its geographical position. USA is engaged in long-drawn wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Afghanistan has seen a major resurgence of Taliban and other terrorist outfits whom the US had vowed to eliminate after 9-11 terror attacks in 2001.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the country's final response to General Qasem Soleimani's death would be to expel all US forces out of the region.
Iranian state media has claimed that at least '80 terrorist US soldiers' were killed in the missile strikes at Iraqi bases housing US troops. The strike was in retaliation to the killing of Iran's top general Qasem Soleimani in a US airstrike.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said a slap was delivered last night after Iran targeted US bases in Iraq taking revenge over the killing of their top general Qasem Soleimani in a US airstrike.
Second tremor of magnitude 4.5 has been reported near Iran nuclear site. The first tremor reported this morning was of 4.9 magnitude that had struck 10 km south-east of Borazjan, Iran, at 2.20 am GMT according to USGS.
Iranian Envoy to India, Ali Chegeni, said thaty Iran will welcome any peace initiative by India for de-escalating its tension with the United States, news agency PTI reported. "We are not for war, looking for peace and prosperity for everybody in this region," The Iranian Envoy said.
The US aviation authority has prohibited its civil flight operators from using the airspace over Iraq, Iran and the Gulf, hours after Iran fired over a dozen ballistic missiles targeting at least two American bases in response to the killing of its General Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike.
India on Wednesday asked its citizens to avoid all non-essential travel to Iraq, amid rising tension between Iran and the US after a drone strike by the American military killed their Iranian commander General Qasem Soleimani last week. Iran retaliated today with ballistic missile strikes at two bases used by US and coalition forces in Iraq.
Soleimani’s killing and the strikes by Iran came as tensions have been rising steadily across the Mideast after President Donald Trump’s decision to unilaterally withdraw America from Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers.
A video showing missile attacks at Iraq airbases has surfaced on social media. The missile attacks come as a revenge for the US killing of Qassem Soleimani, whose death last week in an American drone strike near Baghdad prompted angry calls to avenge his slaying.
Here are the latest updates on U.S.-Iran tensions after the U.S. airstrike that killed Iran's top general Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad. Iran has retaliated this morning by launching rocket strikes at US military base at Al Asad in Iraq.
Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards' General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone attack last week in Iraq, was plotting to kill American diplomats by attacking US facilities, a top national security advisor to President Donald Trump said on Tuesday.
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