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Iran launched drones at Israel directly from its territory Saturday, the Israeli army said, marking a major escalation of the long-running covert war between the regional foes. “Iran launched UAVs from its territory towards the…
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The man who allegedly stabbed Sir Salman Rushdie on stage at an event in New York said he was “surprised” to learn the renowned author was alive following the attack. Hadi Matar, 24, said Salman, 75, was “someone who attacked Islam” but…
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“Rushdie himself is responsible for the attack,” Kanaani asserted, noting that the author’s work not only offended Iran, but Muslims worldwide. Rushdie was stabbed onstage as he was about to deliver a lecture in New York State on Friday.
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But in a tweet by Craig Considine, an Irish-Italian American scholar of Islam, and a faculty member of the Department of Sociology at Rice University, he said, speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things, including blasphemy on…
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Iran’s Health Ministry reported on Sunday that the country recorded 459 deaths due to COVID-19 in a day, as the daily infection rate also reached new heights. There were more than 9,200 new cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the…
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A Nigerian aircraft engineer, Dauda Onoruoiza was among the 176 passengers and crew that were killed last week Wednesday when a missile from the Iranian forces hit Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 departing for Kiev. The…
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Iran’s military announced early Saturday that it had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, blaming human error because of what it called the plane’s sharp, unexpected turn toward a sensitive military base. After days of…
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The Nigeria Customs Service has revealed that six containers of suspected poisonous Iranian tomato paste, branded as Shirin Asal my tomato paste, have arrived Nigerian seaports for onward clearance into local markets across the country …
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A senior Iranian commander has dismissed the United States’ aggressive posturing against Iran, reasoning that any potential confrontation in the Persian Gulf would instantly increase oil prices to over 100 dollars per barrel, something…
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Iran President Hassan Rouhani’s son-in-law resigned on Monday just two days after his appointment as head of Iran’s geological survey sparked accusations of nepotism, official news agency IRNA reported. In his earlythirties and…
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