Middle Orient

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh gunned down near Tehran; Iran blames Israel; UN, Germany urge restraint. Iran vowed revenge on Saturday for the assassination a day earlier of its top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, raising the threat of a new confrontation between the Islamic Republic and the West with just over seven weeks …

Iranians mourn Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Tehran, Nov. 28. The targeted assassination of top Iranian physicist and nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on Nov. 27, and Donald Trump’s immediate approving Tweet, confirm the determination of U.S. and Israeli rulers to sabotage every possible effort for peace or normalization of relations with Iran or …

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Shamkhani: The assassination of Fakhrizadeh was carried out with electronic equipment & no one was present at the scene, but there are clues. We know who did it… The MEK surely played a role; The criminal element behind this is Zionist regime & Mossad.

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani has held Israel, its intelligence agency Mossad, and the MKO terrorists accountable for the assassination of distinguished Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

After being protected by Donald Trump, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could soon face US sanctions and political pushback from Joe Biden’s administration that would sour Ankara-Washington relations. President Donald Trump shielded his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan from the consequences of buying proscribed Russian weapons, evading US sanctions on …

As U.S. President Donald Trump’s time in office comes to a close, his outgoing administration intends to put further pressure on Iran by introducing new punitive sanctions against the U.S. adversary.

Iran’s president reiterated his hope Wednesday that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden would return America’s Iran policy to where he left things as vice president four years ago, state TV reported, rejoining Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers.

The Syrian army said early Wednesday that Israel launched air strikes on an area in the southern outskirts of Damascus, where military defectors believe has a strong Iranian military presence in the second such attack within a week. The Israeli aerial strike on a strategic area that Israel had hit …

Iran’s most senior nuclear scientist has been assassinated near Tehran by “armed terrorists” in an attack that Iran said bore the hallmarks of an Israeli operation.

Prominent Iranian physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been assassinated in a terrorist attack near the capital Tehran. The Fars news agency reported that he had been targeted on Friday in a multi-pronged attack involving at least one explosion and small fire by a number of assailants in Absard city of Damavand …