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By John Irish and Jonathan Saul July 29 (Reuters)

By John Irish and Jonathan Saul
July 29 (Reuters) – Iran is expected to receive within weeks a first shipment out of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired air-defense missile launchers, three sources familiar with the deal told Reuters, as it rebuilds its defenses amid war with the United States.

The purchase, valued at $60-70 million, is one of Tehran’s largest-known efforts to strengthen its short-range air defenses since the outbreak of its war with the U.S. and Israel, which exposed gaps in Iran‘s ability to protect military sites and strategic infrastructure.

The contract covers the purchase of between 300 and 400 man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), including Chinese-made QW-12 and FN-16 missiles, the sources said.

The deal was signed with Zhongqing Baoshang International Investment, a Hong Kong-based company that the sources said was acting as an intermediary between the Iranian side and the Chinese supplier.

DUBAI/CAIRO, July 29 (Reuters) – The U.S. and Saud

DUBAI/CAIRO, July 29 (Reuters) – The U.S. and Saudi Arabia launched strikes on Iran-backed groups in Iraq on Wednesday, saying they were responsible for drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities, prompting Iran to warn that blaming it for such attacks was a “major miscalculation”.

The strikes on targets inside Iraq come as Oman proposed a new regional deal aimed at resolving the conflict over the critical Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas flowed before the war.

Iran‘s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said on Wednesday that its forces struck three oil tankers in the strait and forced them to stop after they ignored warnings for taking an “unsafe and illegal route”.

The IRGC Navy said in a statement that it continued to maintain full control over the strategic waterway and warned that “unlawful U.S. military interference” and instructions to vessels in the region would not go unanswered.

Reuters could not immediately verify the Guards’ account.

The U.S.-Saudi strikes in eastern Iraq occurred just hours after the U.S. military said its air defences had averted a surprise Iranian attack on U.S. troops in the region. The IRGC said on Wednesday it had fired several ballistic missiles at U.S. military installations in Jordan.

Back-and-forth attacks in recent days have ended a brief pause in the fighting, after U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly called off a two-week U.S. bombing campaign and Iran appeared to follow suit.

Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday that its air defences destroyed several drones targeting oil facilities in the kingdom’s Eastern Province. Iran-backed militias launched the attacks from Iraqi territory, Saudi Defence Ministry spokesperson Turki al-Maliki said.

Later in the day, U.S. Central Command and Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry said the two countries hit multiple sites across eastern Iraq that they said had been used by Iran to direct drone attacks. The Saudi Defence Ministry said it was not seeking escalation but would respond to any “aggression”.

WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) – Iran launched ball

WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) – Iran launched ballistic missiles towards a U.S. Base in Jordan and the missiles were intercepted, Axios reported on Tuesday, citing a U.S. official.

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh; editing by Ismail Shakil)

July 28 (Reuters) – Ukrainian Foreign Minister And

July 28 (Reuters) – Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Tuesday he called his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araqchi, following Iran‘s denunciation of a Ukrainian drone attack on one of its ships, warned him against escalation and told him to end all support for Russia.

“I emphasised the necessity to refrain from any escalatory steps, as well as to end any support for Russia’s war against Ukraine. This war is illegal and it must end,” Sybiha wrote on X of his conversation with Araqchi.

Iran confirmed the conversation had taken place.

Araqchi said on Sunday that the Ukrainian attack on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea, which killed one sailor and injured another, “cannot go unanswered”.

In his comments, Sybiha said Ukraine’s actions were “aimed solely at defending our country from Russian aggression and never intended to target civilian vessels or people”.

In more than four years of conflict with Russia, Ukraine has faced barrages of Iranian-designed drones.

Kyiv has, over that time, developed technology to counter drone threats and has offered its assistance to Middle Eastern countries facing strikes launched this year by Tehran.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, meanwhile, wrote on X that he had spoken to Sybiha and “discussed the challenges facing our nations, including the threat posed by Iran.”

He said he looked forward to deepening cooperation with Ukraine.

(Reporting by Ron Popeski; Editing by Nia Williams)

DUBAI, July 28 (Reuters) – Iran has executed two m

DUBAI, July 28 (Reuters) – Iran has executed two men for their role in nationwide protests in January, state media reported on Tuesday, among a series of death sentences that rights groups say have been handed out since the start of the war with the United States.

Abolfazl Sepahi-Badjani and Amirhossein Safari-Hosseinabadi were accused of taking part in the killing of four security force members in Alikhani Square in Isfahan on January 8, the judiciary’s news outlet Mizan said.

The nationwide anti-government protests were repressed in the biggest crackdown in the history of the Islamic Republic, during which security forces killed thousands of protesters.

Since then, more pressure has piled onto Iran over five months of war that the authorities in Tehran view as existential.

A panel of United Nations experts said in a press release on Monday, before Sepahi-Badjani and Safari-Hosseinabadi’s executionswere announced, that at least 24 people had been executed for offences tied to the January protests.

At least 12 of those convicted of involvement in the Alikhani Square case have been sentenced to death, the U.N. experts said. Two of them, Erfan Esfandiari and Gol Mohammad Mohammadi, were executed on July 19, Mizan said.

The U.N. experts said the 12 had been sentenced to death in a single hearing, in a closed courtroom and without clarity as to each defendant’s individual responsibility, which the experts said violated standards for fair trials.

Human Rights Watch said this week that at least 50 people had been executed on what it called vague national security charges over the past four months.

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) – U

By Steve Holland
WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump voiced irritation with Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of their White House meeting on Tuesday, complaining that details of the Israeli prime minister’s planned talking points on Iran had surfaced publicly, in a fresh sign of strain between the two leaders.

Asked about reports that Netanyahu wanted to talk to him about Pickaxe Mountain, a fortified facility buried deep underground near one of Iran‘s main nuclear sites, Trump said, using Netanyahu’s nickname. “I don’t need Bibi to tell me that. Bibi’s telling me that because he wants me to stay involved.”

“Why don’t you just tell it to me? Why do you have to announce it to the world?” Trump said in an interview with “Fox & Friends.”

The New York Post reported on Monday that Netanyahu was expected to provide intelligence to Trump that Iran is building up its nuclear facilities at Pickaxe Mountain and is lying about wanting a peace deal, citing a source in Jerusalem.

Netanyahu’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Trump’s remarks.

The U.S. president was meeting Netanyahu after first having brief closed-door talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

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