Tehran: Iran on Saturday said the Ukrainian passenger plane which crashed outside Tehran earlier this week had flown close to a sensitive military site and been brought down due to human error “at a time of crisis caused by US adventurism”. In a statement issued on Saturday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the […]
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Evidence suggests Iran missile shot down plane: Boris Johnson
London: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that there was a “body of information” to suggest an Iranian surface-to-air missile brought down a Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near Tehran earlier this week. Johnson’s comments on Thursday came the same day his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau said that he had seen evidence that suggested […]
No takers for Pakistan’s ‘malware’ of lies at UN: India
United Nations: Pakistan’s “malware” of falsehoods against India has found no takers at the UN and it has to heal itself of the malaise of terrorism and subversion, India’s Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin has told the Security Council. Hitting back at Pakistan’s attacks on India at the Council on Thursday, he said, “My simple response […]
JNU students get support from Pakistan
Lahore: Students in Pakistan on Wednesday expressed solidarity with their counterparts in Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) who were assaulted violently by masked goons on January 5. “We stand in solidarity with the students of India who are resisting fascism. Students on both sides have struggled in the face of repression, be it the abduction of […]
Iran launched 16 missiles from 3 locations, says US
Washington: US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper has said Iran launched 16 short-range ballistic missiles from three locations within Iran in Wednesday’s attack on the US air bases in Iraq. Esper, with Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley aside, told reporters on Wednesday that out of 16 missiles, 11 hit the Ayn […]
Trump says no one killed in Iran attacks, warns of new sanctions
Washington: No US or Iraqi personnel were killed in Iranian missile attacks on two US bases in Iraq on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump said. In a brief address, he also said that Iran “appears to be standing down” after it targeted the Irbil and Al Asad base housing US forces in retaliation for assassination of […]
Ukrainian Boeing passenger plane crashes in Iran, 179 killed
Tehran: A Kiev-bound Ukrainian Boeing 737 passenger plane with 179 people on board crashed on Wednesday shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital of Tehran, killing all those aboard. The number of people on board had differed and also the toll was initially said to be 176. But the head of Iran’s Emergency Medical Services, […]
Iran’s retaliation against US only a slap: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Tehran: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday said that Tehran’s attack on the US Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq, which was in retaliation to the January 3 killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani, was just “a slap”. “A slap was delivered, but what is important is that the seditious presence of America in the […]
80 US personnel killed in Iran missile attack: IRGC source
Tehran: Some 80 US personnel were killed and nearly 200 others injured during Iran’s missile attack on the American Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq on Wednesday, which was launched in retaliation to the killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani, an IRGC source has claimed. Speaking to the Tehran-based private Tasnim News Agency, the source said the […]
Trump bringing US close to war with Iran: Joe Biden
New York: Former US Vice President and Democratic front-runner Joe Biden has said that President Donald Trump was bringing the US “dangerously close” to starting a war with Iran. The Democratic presidential candidate said here on Tuesday that Trump’s authorization of killing Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani on January 3, an abrupt move made without consultation with […]