Tag: #QasemSoleimani
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After Southern Lebanon, a statue of Qasim Soleimani Installed in Iran
Tehran: After southern Lebanon, a statue of Qasem Soleimani has been installed in Ahwaz and Kerman, Iran. According to reports, after Ahwaz, a statue of General Qasem Soleimani has been installed in Kerman. It is the hometown of General Qasem Soleimani. Authorities in Iran have installed a statue of Qasem Soleimani. He is the slain…
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Khamenei plays down protests, says Iran foes exploiting plane tragedy
Tehran, Jan 17 (AFP/APP): Iran’s supreme leader said Friday that demonstrations at home over the accidental downing of a Ukrainian airliner were unrepresentative of the Iranian people and accused the country’s enemies of exploiting it for propaganda purposes. Leading the main weekly Muslim prayers in Tehran for the first time since 2012, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei…
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UN aviation experts to join Ukraine Airlines’ Iran crash investigation
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 15 (APP): Experts from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) will support the investigation into the crash of a Ukrainian passenger plane in Iran on January 8, following an invitation from the Iranian authorities, which was accepted on Tuesday, the Montreal-based UN specialized agency announced. In a statement, the ICAO said it…
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Iran agrees de-escalation ‘only solution’ to solve crises
Tehran, Jan 12 (AFP/APP): Iran signalled Sunday it favours “de-escalation” after 10 days of heightened tensions with the United States that saw both sides fire missiles and led Tehran to accidentally shoot down a passenger aircraft. Security was stepped up in Iran’s capital after a vigil the previous night for those killed in the air…
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Americans believe Trump-ordered Soleimani killing made US ‘less safe’: poll
NEW YORK, Jan 10 (APP): A majority of Americans in a new poll say the U.S. drone strike that killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force, made the U.S. less safe. The USA Today–Ipsos online survey, which was conducted in the lead-up to and aftermath of a retaliatory Iranian missile attack…
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Iranian-Americans gloomy about prospects for detente with Tehran
Vienna, United States, Jan 10 (AFP/APP): They are relieved but hardly at peace: Iranian-Americans in a town outside Washington say that even as tensions with Tehran ease, they’re not optimistic about prospects for real detente between the two long-time enemies. “I hope, I wish, that war is not going to happen,” said Massoud Mossadad, owner…
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UN chief makes an urgent appeal for avoiding war in Persian Gulf
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 08 (APP): In the wake of an Iranian ballistic missile attack on air bases which house US forces in Iraq, the UN Secretary-General said on Wednesday he would “continue his active engagement” to de-escalate tensions and avert full-scale war. In a statement released by his spokesperson, Antonio Guterres re-iterated the “passionate appeal…
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Assassination elevates Soleimani as icon of resistance
Dubai, Jan 8 (AFP/APP): Portraits of Qasem Soleimani have been carried aloft in rallies from Gaza to Yemen, raising the prospect that his violent death will elevate him as an icon of anti-American resistance. The powerful Iranian commander, who was buried on Wednesday, was hailed as a “living martyr” in the Islamic republic for his…
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Airlines avoid Iran and Iraq airspace
Paris, Jan 8 (AFP/APP): Several international airlines said Wednesday they would avoid Iranian and Iraqi airspace after Tehran fired ballistic missiles at bases housing US troops in Iraq. Lufthansa and its Austrian Airlines unit nonetheless decided to maintain flights to the Iranian capital, Tehran, this week, a statement said. Iran launched more than 20 missiles…
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Trump to give address on Iran at 1600 GMT
Washington, Jan 8 (AFP/APP): US President Donald Trump will deliver an address on the conflict with Iran at 11:00 am (1600 GMT) Wednesday, the White House said. It will be the first presidential response to Iran’s missile salvo aimed at the US military in Iraq overnight other than a tweet in which Trump said that…