The Iran parliament’s newly elected Speaker Mohmmad Baqer Qalibaf said Sunday the Islamic system is “an important power in the region” that has grown to be a force on the world stage destined soon to evict U.S. military “terrorists” from the Middle East.
A cartoon in a Chinese Communist Party-controlled newspaper has laughed at Australia’s long alliance to the U.S. through war and peace, deriding it as something to be ridiculed.
TEL AVIV — Rep. Ilhan Omar compared Israel with Saudi Arabia in an interview Sunday, saying both countries used money to influence the Trump administration and that as a result Israel’s “destructive policies” were being “rubber stamped” by the U.S.
The Chinese coronavirus has killed more than 342,000 people around the globe, decimated economies and laid waste to the hopes and dream of millions of people, yet the bungled response of World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to the crisis was warmly applauded Sunday by China’s Communist government.
President Donald Trump has scored a major foreign policy success in recent weeks, as Iran has reportedly begun pulling its forces out of Syria slowly. The likely reason: economic pressure caused by U.S. sanctions makes it impossible for Iran to continue.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday the Islamic Republic does not “let the autocrats at the White House smile” because of the stern national resolve to thwart “hostility to Iranian people.”
TEL AVIV – The U.S. has called on Israel to sever ties with China in areas with security risks, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday citing a U.S. official with intimate knowledge on the matter.
China’s Ambassador to Israel, Du Wei, was found dead in his Tel Aviv apartment on Sunday, various reports emanating from Israel indicated.
Australia’s demand for an investigation into the World Health Organization’s bungled response to the deadly Chinese coronavirus pandemic now has the backing of 62 nations, all willing to support a draft resolution addressing the issue Tuesday at a meeting of the World Health Assembly.
TEL AVIV – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on a visit to Jerusalem, accused Iran of “fomenting terror” even as Iranians are battling the coronavirus pandemic.
World leaders and thousands of other diplomatic participants will not gather in New York in September for the annual U.N. General Assembly, Secretary General Antonio Guterres lamented Thursday, as the globalist body marks 75 years since it was inaugurated in the shadow of the end World War II.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed erstwhile Likud rival Gilad Erdan as Israel’s ambassador both to the United Nations and to the United States, marking only the second time in Israel’s history that one man was tapped for the double role.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans to travel to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his first international trip since coronavirus-related restrictions were put in place.
A bipartisan U.S. Congress group has slammed China for threatening punitive economic sanctions against long-term ally Australia. The support follows Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s very public drive for an independent investigation into the origins of the global Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
Washington’s continual “lawless bullying” against other countries will put the U.N.’s hard-won global credibility at risk, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned Saturday.
China renewed its backing of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Wednesday, with a senior Chinese diplomat saying there will be no inspection of the Wuhan origins of the coronavirus until Beijing says so – and only then after the pandemic is beaten.
Russia and China see the coronavirus emergency engulfing Europe as a crisis they can exploit, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday, specifically pointing to Chinese efforts to push Huawei 5G network equipment as malign.
The war of undiplomatic words between China and Australia over the latter’s call for a global inquiry into the coronavirus epidemic rumbled onwards Thursday, with Australian lawmakers past and present hitting out at recent comments from China’s representatives.
Australia’s refusal to retreat from its call for a global inquiry into the causes of the coronavirus pandemic continued to draw a furious response from Beijing on Wednesday, with Chinese media claiming Australia is forever making trouble, “a bit like chewing gum stuck on the sole of China’s shoes.”
CAIRO — Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday condemned a new Egyptian TV drama set in the year 2120 that predicts Israel’s destruction as well as the breakup of the United States.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s aid to the Palestinians in the face of the coronavirus pandemic is being met with “poisonous lies and inciting hatred” by the Palestinian leadership, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said in an oped published Wednesday on Fox news.
Australia on Sunday joined global calls for China to explain itself over its bungled handling of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, questioning its transparency and demanding an international investigation into the origins of the virus and how it flooded the globe.
The commander of the Iranian Navy said on Thursday the country is thinking about making nuclear submarines, a prospect first publicly broached back in 2016.
China said Wednesday the U.S. should fulfill its obligations to the World Health Organization during the coronavirus crisis, adding it was “seriously concerned” about the U.S. decision to suspend funding for the globalist body.
A senior Iranian on Sunday called U.S. President Donald Trump “more dangerous than coronavirus,” saying moves to block an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan reaching Iran was tantamount to crimes against humanity.
Tehran — Iran’s death toll from the coronavirus has passed 3,000, the health ministry said on Wednesday, as President Hassan Rouhani accused Washington of missing a “historic opportunity” to lift sanctions.
Tehran — Iran said on Thursday it had “no knowledge” of the whereabouts of a former FBI agent missing since 2007, after his family said he had died in Iranian custody.
Greece celebrated its independence day Wednesday as Turkish fighter planes violated Greek airspace and hundreds of Syrian refugees spent a 27th day waiting to enter at the border.
The Chinese Communist Party is wilfully denying the world vital information it needs to stem the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo charged on Tuesday night.
The world must look to “miraculous” China for leadership in the growing coronavirus epidemic, a Pakistan political analyst said Thursday, adding criticism of the Communist state by the U.S. is “not conducive to global harmony.”
India will buy $3 billion worth of military equipment, including attack helicopters, U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday, in further evidence of deepening ties between the two countries acting as a counterbalance to the rising weight of China in the region.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visited the Taj Mahal in India on Monday, after the president spoke at a massive rally of over 100,000 people at India’s Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium in Ahmedabad.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Thursday in a visit focused primarily on discussing shared security concerns about regional rival Iran.
TEL AVIV – A delegation of 55 major U.S. Jewish leaders traveled to Saudi Arabia last week in what was hailed as a “big step forward” in the kingdom’s warming ties with Israel. The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
TEL AVIV – Hundreds of worshipers gathered at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sunday to pray for the recovery of people afflicted by coronavirus and to ask God to stop the outbreak of the disease.
China steals Western capabilities, intimidates smaller nation states and seeks “advantage by any means and at any cost,” U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper cautioned on Saturday as he cast the world’s most populous nation as a disruptive threat to world order.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reaffirmed his nation’s global role on Saturday, vowing Western values of freedom and democracy would always prevail over Russian and Chinese desires for “empire.”
Sailors onboard the Iranian Navy’s 66th flotilla took to international waters Tuesday to commemorate the 41st anniversary of the Iran Islamic Revolution by shouting angry insults and threats at U.S. and Israeli forces.
President Donald Trump issued a positive message toward Xi Jinping on Friday morning, after a phone call with the Chinese president about the coronavirus.
The European Union (E.U.) foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Thursday said “bombings and other attacks on civilians in northwest Syria must stop,” issuing a special “stern warning” backed by European crisis commissioner Janez Lenarčič and other diplomats.
