WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Thursday said U.S. attempts to broker a nuclear deal with Iran are going well, ahead of technical talks between U.S. and Iranian delegations in Oman on Saturday.
“I think we’re doing very well on an agreement with Iran. … That one is well on its way – we could have a very, very good decision. And a lot of lives will be saved,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
ANALYSIS: With His Promises of Peace Unmet in Gaza and Ukraine, Trump May Find Iran Just as Tough
(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Steve Holland)
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#USHouse, #DefenseBill, #Iran, #Israel, #USCongress, #MilitarySpending
By Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed its version of a massive defense policy bill on Wednesday, despite Democrats' concerns about its huge price tag, the Iran war and a provision...
#USMilitary, #Iran, #USStrikes, #IranWar, #MilitaryOperations, #MiddleEast
By Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Wednesday it completed its latest round of strikes on Iran at President Donald Trump's direction, for a 12th successive night of American attacks.
Here are details and quotes:
"U.S. forces struck Iranian...
#Israel, #SpyChief, #IranWar, #Washington, #Axios, #IntelligenceTalks
WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - The head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency traveled to Washington two weeks ago to discuss the Iran war, in his first visit to the U.S. capital since taking office, Axios reported on Wednesday, citing two...
#Iran, #CIAFacilities, #RussianRole, #IntelligenceOperations, #USSecurity, #MilitaryStrikes
By Jonathan Landay, Gram Slattery and Timour Azhari
WASHINGTON/RIYADH, July 22 (Reuters) - Iranian drone attacks on CIA facilities in the Gulf have prompted U.S. intelligence analysts to investigate whether Russia assisted by providing targeting information...
A Regime at War With Its Own People
By Ahmad Barakizadeh
As the Islamic Republic faces setbacks in the war, domestic pressure and repression at home have intensified, and ordinary Iranians are paying the price. Amid continuing strikes spreading across southern...
ATHENS, July 22 (Reuters) - Ships with links to Israel, the United States or Saudi Arabia are at a higher risk of being attacked by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militia and are advised to avoid voyages through the Red Sea and Gulf of...
WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday will attend a ceremony for four U.S. service members killed in Iranian attacks in the Middle East, who will return to American soil in flag-draped caskets.
The ceremony, known as a "dignified...
#UK, #Burnham, #BritishBases, #USStrikes, #Iran, #BloombergNews
July 21 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has approved the use of British military bases by the United States for what the UK calls defensive strikes against Iran, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.
Reuters could not...
#Iran, #Bulgaria, #USMilitaryOperations, #USAircraft, #DiplomaticWarning
DUBAI, July 21 (Reuters) - Iran's foreign ministry spokesman warned Bulgaria on Tuesday against allowing the U.S. to use its territory for military operations against Iran.
The Bulgarian government has said it will seek parliamentary approval to station up to...
By Jana Choukeir, Nayera Abdallah and Elwely Elwelly
DUBAI, July 21 (Reuters) - U.S. forces bombed targets in southern Iran overnight after President Donald Trump said Tehran would pay dearly for the deaths of American soldiers, while Iran targeted U.S. sites in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan...
#USTroops, #DonaldTrump, #Iran, #MilitaryConflict, #Retaliation
By Idrees Ali
July 20 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday said Iran would "pay" for killing U.S. soldiers after multiple service members were killed over the weekend as part of the United States' war against Iran.
The number of U.S. troops...
#France, #IslamicRepublic, #SecurityServices, #EmbassyStaff, #DiplomaticTensions
PARIS, July 20 (Reuters) - French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Monday there would be consequences after two of its embassy officials in Tehran were detained for several hours by Iranian security services.
Barrot said the French officials...
DUBAI, July 20 (Reuters) - Molavi Mohammad Anvar Rigi, a Sunni Friday prayer leader in the southeastern Iranian border town of Mirjaveh, was killed on Monday by unidentified gunmen, Iran's state media reported, citing local authorities.
Sistan-Baluchistan province, one of the country's poorest provinces...
July 19 (Reuters) - The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry condemned on Sunday what it described as an Iranian attack on a power generation and water desalination facility, calling it a direct strike on vital civilian infrastructure.
The repeated targeting of civilian facilities amounted to...
#IDF, #IslamicRepublic, #Jordan, #Aqaba, #MissileAttacks, #IsraeliTerritory
July 19 (Reuters) - The Israeli military said on Sunday that it had identified missiles launched from Iran towards the Jordanian city of Aqaba, adjacent to Israeli territory.
It also warned of possible spillover into southern Israel, as sirens...
#Jordan, #IranianDiplomat, #UnjustifiedAttacks, #ForeignMinistry, #DiplomaticTensions
July 19 (Reuters) - Jordan has summoned Iran's charge d'affaires in Amman over what it called "unjustified and blatant Iranian attacks" and "provocative and inflammatory statements targeting the Kingdom's territory," Jordan's ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement...
By Steven Scheer
#Israel, #USRefuellingPlanes, #IranAttacks, #IsraeliOfficials, #MilitaryAviation
JERUSALEM, July 19 (Reuters) - Israel is preparing to receive more U.S. refuelling aircraft, an Israeli military official said on Sunday, as attacks launched by the United States and Iran have escalated over the past week.
The U.S....
DUBAI, July 19 (Reuters) - Iran has executed two men convicted of killing four police officers during violent unrest in the central city of Isfahan in January, judiciary-linked news outlet Mizan reported on Sunday.
Mizan identified the men as Erfan Esfandiyari and Golmohammad...
By David Ljunggren, Enas Alashray and Hatem Maher
#US, #MilitaryPersonnel, #Jordan, #Casualties, #MiddleEast
WASHINGTON/CAIRO, July 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Saturday two of its personnel were killed in Jordan and another was missing after an Iranian attack, while Iran's supreme leader said...
#IslamicRepublic, #PersianGulfStates, #Jordan, #USStrikes, #RegionalConflict
By Jana Choukeir and Eman Abouhassira
DUBAI, July 18 (Reuters) - Iran launched more attacks on Washington's Gulf allies and Jordan on Saturday after a seventh straight night of U.S. strikes on Iranian military targets, escalating the war one week after...
DUBAI, July 18 (Reuters) - Iran has executed a man convicted of shooting to death a member of the security forces during nationwide unrest sparked by the 2022 death of a young woman in police custody, the judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported...
#UKPolice, #IranLinkedSpying, #Espionage, #NationalSecurity, #CriminalCharges
LONDON, July 17 (Reuters) - A British-Iranian national appeared in a London court on Friday accused of offering to help Iran's intelligence service, the latest in a series of incidents involving Tehran and offences covered under UK national security...
#US, #Iran, #Infrastructure, #MilitaryEscalation, #RegionalConflict
By Jana Choukeir and Eman Abouhassira
DUBAI, July 17 (Reuters) - The United States struck bridges in Iran, and Tehran responded by hitting a power and desalination plant in Kuwait on Friday, as the two sides risked further escalation...
#Pakistan, #USIranConflict, #Houthis, #SaudiArabia, #RegionalEscalation
By Rick Noack, Mubasher Bukhari and Asif Shahzad
ISLAMABAD, July 16 (Reuters) - Attacks on Saudi Arabia by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis this week have frustrated Pakistan and threaten to draw Islamabad into the conflict, complicating any future role it may...
By Nayera Abdallah, Jana Choukeir and Eman Abouhassira
DUBAI, July 16 (Reuters) - Iran and the United States exchanged intensified fire on Thursday in a week-long escalation that has all but torn up last month's truce, though Iran's release of a U.S. citizen pointed...
Video and written recipe by Chef Shane Fatemian (@ChefShanef on social media)
He writes: Let’s make forbidden black rice with pomegranate molasses!
Black rice is a nutrient-dense whole grain packed with more antioxidants, protein, and iron than brown or white rice....
