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Vessels report radio challenges in northern Gulf amid Iranian exercise, UKMTO says

News, Newsroom | January 31, 2025 | omid_for_iran

DUBAI, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Vessels in the northern Gulf have received multiple VHF radio challenges, including demands to alter course, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said on Friday, adding they could be part of an Iranian military exercise. The UKMTO, which monitors marine security in the region, advised seafarers that vessels near Iranian […]

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Iran says Trump’s ‘terrorist’ designation of Yemen’s Houthis is ‘baseless’

DUBAI, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Iran on Thursday condemned as “baseless” a move by U.S. President Donald Trump to re-designate Yemen’s Tehran-aligned Houthi movement as a “foreign terrorist organization (FTO)”. Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said that the move, which will impose harsher economic penalties than the Biden administration had applied to the Houthis, was “an excuse

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Iran says Swiss national who died in prison had photographed military sites

News, Newsroom | January 31, 2025 | omid_for_iran

DUBAI, Jan 22 (Reuters) – A Swiss national who Iranian authorities said took his own life while in an Iranian jail after being arrested on suspicion of espionage had taken pictures of military sites, Iran’s judiciary spokesperson said on Wednesday. Switzerland had demanded detailed information on the reasons for the arrest of the 64-year-old man, who had

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Iran is ‘pressing the gas pedal’ on uranium enrichment, IAEA chief says

Featured News, News | January 31, 2025 | omid_for_iran

DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 22 (Reuters) – Iran is “pressing the gas pedal” on its enrichment of uranium to near weapons grade, U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Wednesday, adding that Iran’s recently announced acceleration in enrichment was starting to take effect. Grossi said last month that Iran had informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that

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Iranian fighter jet crashes with pilots surviving, IRNA

News, Newsroom | January 31, 2025 | omid_for_iran

DUBAI, Jan 22 (Reuters) – An Iranian fighter jet crashed on Wednesday morning in the west of the country, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported, with the pilots surviving after ejecting before the crash. Read: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-fighter-jet-crashes-with-pilots-surviving-irna-2025-01-22/

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Iran unveils new underground naval base amid tension with US and Israel

News, Newsroom | January 31, 2025 | omid_for_iran

DUBAI, Jan 18 (Reuters) – Iran unveiled an underground naval missile base at an undisclosed Gulf location on Saturday, state TV said, two days before the start of Donald Trump’s second term as president. It was unveiled at a time when tension with Washington is widely expected to rise. Iranian leaders are concerned that Trump might empower Israeli Prime

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards extend control over Tehran’s oil exports, sources say

Featured News, News | January 31, 2025 | omid_for_iran

LONDON/DUBAI, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have tightened their grip on the country’s oil industry and control up to half the exports that generate most of Tehran’s revenue and fund its proxies across the Middle East, according to Western officials, security sources and Iranian insiders. All aspects of the oil business have come

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Khosrow B. Semnani’s Interview on KCPW

Uncategorized | January 22, 2025 | omid_for_iran

CityViews 10/15/12: Changing Iran from Within / “Apocalyptic Planet” 10.12.2012 by JCE Download this story. Segment 1: Between President Obama’s stern warnings toward Iran and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bomb diagram at the United Nations, there’s plenty of talk of attacking Iran’s nuclear sites. But Khosrow Semnani, an Iranian-American scientist and philanthropist who lives

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Radioactive fallout is likely if Iran hit, study says

Newsroom | January 22, 2025 | omid_for_iran

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The threat that Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad poses to Israel could prompt an attack from the Israelis. _______________________________________________________________________________________ One day after the 11th anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan, let’s turn our attention to that nation’s neighbor to the west — Iran. Iran is kind of hard to ignore,

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Jay Evensen: Strategic strike on Iran would kill thousands

Newsroom | January 22, 2025 | omid_for_iran

An Iranian security directs media at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, with the reactor building seen in the background, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. (Associated Press) __________________________________________________________________________________ When protests broke out in Iran this week over the devaluation of the nation’s currency, Khosrow Semnani saw the possible start

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