The latest senior official to attribute Friday’s killing of Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh declined to say whether the US knew about the attack in advance or participated in any way, CNN said on Wednesday. The person acknowledged that the US and Israel have previously shared information about covert operations …
Read More »Syria condemns ‘Zionist terrorist attack on science’ as Israel says it has ‘no clue’ who was behind Iranian scientist’s murder
Syria’s Foreign Minister Faysal Mikdad denounced what he called a “cowardly act” in a phone call with his Iranian colleague, Javad Zarif. Offering his nation’s condolences to Iran over the incident, Mikdad said that the murder was an attack against scientists and researchers in all parts of the world. While …
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Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was the shadowy father of Iran’s nuclear program; his existence, let alone his work, was barely acknowledged by Iran. A brigadier general with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Command, Fakhrizadeh was involved in the academic aspects of Iranian national security, eventually heading up the Physics Research Center, where he …
Read More »Iranian president points finger at Israel after assassination of top military scientist near Tehran
“Once again, the evil hands of global arrogance were stained with the blood … of the mercenary usurper Zionist regime,” the Iranian president said in a statement extending his condolences for the death of Fakhrizadeh. The term is used in Iran to describe the Israeli government, which Tehran does not …
Read More »Iran warns US & Israel against any ‘adventurism’ during Trump’s ‘final’ days in office after murder of scientist – letter to UN
The Islamic Republic’s UN envoy Majid Takht Ravanchi penned a harshly worded letter to the international body on Friday, blasting the “terrorist assassination” of leading nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh by unknown assailants earlier Friday morning, while also warning that Tehran would retaliate to any brash moves taken by Israel or the US. …
Read More »‘Act of state terror’: Iran’s FM accuses Israel of having ‘role’ in assassination of key nuclear scientist (VIDEOS)
Zarif said in a tweet that an “eminent” Iranian scientist had been killed by unnamed “terrorists”. He also said Tehran had “serious indications” to believe that Tel Aviv had had some role in the incident, but did not provide any specific evidence to substantiate his accusation. The foreign minister also called on …
Read More »CNN’s Amanpour says sorry after her ‘Trump is Hitler’ jab angers Israel
The veteran journalist launched her Nazi-themed attack against the incumbent US president last week. She said his administration was “four years of a modern-day assault” on “fact, knowledge, history, and truth” similarly to how Nazi Germany enforced its ideology. The comparison came as Amanpour reflected on how the organized pogroms …
Read More »Israel to send its second astronaut into space after pioneer killed in US shuttle Columbia explosion in 2003
Stibbe is scheduled to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) from Florida in late 2021, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said during a ceremony at his residence in Jerusalem on Monday. “This is a day of national joy, and great pride” for Israel, Rivlin said, adding that Stibbe would …
Read More »Israel signs $237mn contract with Pfizer for 8 million doses of Covid vaccine
Pfizer could receive an upfront payment of over $35 million as early as next week, even though the agreement does not include any commitment to actually supply the vaccine, Ynet reports. The remaining $200+ million will be paid once some eight million jabs are shipped, but if increased demand in …
Read More »‘Disgraceful and illegal’: Israel West Bank destruction blasted by Irish government as EU & UN call for halt to demolitions
Simon Coveney said he is “deeply dismayed” that Israeli authorities demolished buildings belonging to 11 Palestinian Bedouin families in Humsa Al Bqai’a in the northern Jordan Valley. Israeli bulldozers destroyed the village including houses, businesses, and sanitation facilities. The United Nations labeled the demolition the “largest displacement incident in over …
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