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Foreign minister makes it clear that China will be a stabilising, cooperative force in international affairs, and calls on US to honour its pledges with a warning over Taiwan.
A four-day cessation to hostilities, while welcome, is hardly the answer; as Chinese President Xi Jinping rightly said, a two-state solution is the only viable route to peace.
Among the steps that have been discussed is ending national airline Iran Air’s flights to Europe.
Concerns about Beijing’s potential to threaten US national security have spurred several bills seeking more scrutiny about who is representing Chinese interests.
Joint exercises in Gulf of Oman focus on rescuing hijacked merchant ships and feature Chinese and Iranian special ops teams and PLA guided-missile destroyer.
Maritime Security Belt – 2024 is second time China has conducted joint drills in Indian Ocean following Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel and start of Gaza war.
Moscow’s dire circumstances could lead to upended ‘non-proliferation norms’ and fuel disinformation meant to interfere with elections, Senate hears.
Iranian media said ultraconservative candidates secured 12 of the 30 parliament seats allotted to the capital. Local media estimated a record low turnout of around 41 per cent.
Iran’s judiciary has executed a ‘terrorist’ over a drone attack that targeted a defence ministry site in central Iran last year, state media reported.
Iran’s provision of around 400 missiles is seen as deepening military cooperation between the two US-sanctioned countries.
The barter deal allows sanctions-hit Iran to avoid having to use up scarce hard currency to pay for imports of popular tea. It also allowed Sri Lanka to pay with tea, as the country was short of foreign currency.
Customers in Asia were now more interested in not just countering ballistic missiles, but also aerial threats such as drones, a US defence contractor said on the sidelines of the Singapore Airshow.
This week, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels seriously damaged a ship in a crucial strait and downed an American drone worth tens of millions of dollars.
Yemen’s Houthis targeted the Rubymar cargo ship and it is now at risk of sinking, the group’s military spokesperson said.
The group called the attack a ‘preliminary response’ to the killing of 10 civilians in Lebanon, amid fears that the Gaza war will erupt into a wider conflict.
The company announced the find as it rolled out a blanket ban on state-backed hacking groups using its AI products.
The threat of a wider conflict could encourage nations in the region to expand their fighter jet forces but China has challenges in eroding US dominance.
Since the 1979 revolution the Muslim power has had deeply hostile relations with Israel, the US and Britain, but tensions have spiralled since the Israel-Gaza war began in October.
Kataeb Hezbollah’s Abu Baqir al-Saadi is said to have been responsible for planning and taking part on attacks on US forces in the area.
Top Iranian naval official reportedly confirms joint exercise will be held before end of March as US-led coalition launches new strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Whitney Wright faced accusations of promoting propaganda for Iran’s government after posting pictures which have since been removed at sites including the former US embassy in Tehran.
Under biting US sanctions, Iran denies any ambition to develop a nuclear weapons capability.
Even as the US contemplates more attacks, it’s pushing forward a Qatar-mediated deal that would see Israel and Hamas halt the fighting that began with the militant group’s October 7 attack in southern Israel.
But US national security adviser Jake Sullivan declined to be drawn on whether the US might attack sites inside Iran, something the US military has been very careful to avoid.
Iran’s warning appeared to signal Tehran’s growing unease over US strikes in recent days in Iraq, Syria and Yemen targeting militias backed by the Islamic Republic.