US Iran Rift
The operative American policy seems to be ‘shoot first and ask questions later’.
Published 05 Jan, 2020 07:40am
"Targeting cultural sites is a WAR CRIME," responds Iran's top diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Updated 05 Jan, 2020 03:20pm
The killing of Gen Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad has the world bracing for a possible retaliation.
Updated 05 Jan, 2020 08:54am
Two mortar rounds hit Baghdad's Green Zone and two slam into an airbase north of the Iraqi capital.
Updated 08 Jan, 2020 11:37am
France urges Tehran to stick with the 2015 nuclear accord; Iranian FM discusses situation with Qatari counterpart.
Updated 04 Jan, 2020 10:21pm
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and militia commander Hadi al-Amiri attend funeral procession in Baghdad.
Updated 06 Jan, 2020 11:37am
Iraqi political leaders and clerics attend the mass ceremony to honour Soleimani and nine other victims of the attack.
Updated 04 Jan, 2020 05:30pm
The US attack is the most dramatic escalation yet in a feared proxy war between Iran and the US on Iraqi soil.
Updated 04 Jan, 2020 11:38pm
The strike targeted a convoy belonging to the Hashed al-Shaabi, an Iraqi paramilitary network.
Updated 04 Jan, 2020 11:29pm
The US embassy in Baghdad has urged all its citizens to leave Iraq immediately.
Updated 04 Jan, 2020 09:22am
“This was a good move, so that the whole world would realise who the terrorist is. The whole world found that out."
Updated 04 Jan, 2020 03:45pm
US Secretary of State says strike aimed to disrupt “imminent attack” that would've endangered Americans in Middle East.
Updated 03 Jan, 2020 10:37pm
FO expresses "deep concern" over tensions resulting from the killing of top Iranian commander in a US strike.
Updated 04 Jan, 2020 08:59am
"Soleimani's assassination an extremely dangerous and foolish escalation," says Iranian foreign minister.
Updated 03 Jan, 2020 10:34pm
"A big fat dollop of geopolitical uncertainty has landed on investors' desks," says Oanda analyst.
Updated 03 Jan, 2020 04:24pm
Unknown until the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, Soleimani's popularity grew out American officials calling for his killing.
Updated 03 Jan, 2020 07:40pm
US embassy in Baghdad issues travel advisory urging all Americans to depart Iraq immediately.
Updated 03 Jan, 2020 06:42pm
President Donald Trump and other US officials have blamed Iran for attacks on US forces and the embassy.
Updated 02 Jan, 2020 08:27am
Overnight, demonstrators pitched tents and camped outside the embassy walls.
Published 01 Jan, 2020 07:26pm
Waters around Iran have become a focus for international tensions.
Updated 28 Dec, 2019 08:46am
Ali Akbar Salehi says the entire reactor system will go online in 2021.
Updated 24 Dec, 2019 08:18am
"This budget announces to the world that despite sanctions we will manage the country, especially in terms of oil."
Published 08 Dec, 2019 02:06pm
Washington's policy “sides with the strong at the expense of the weak”, says Chinese assistant foreign minister.
Published 27 Nov, 2019 09:47pm
Since May, tensions in the Gulf have escalated following a string of attacks on oil tankers.
Updated 25 Nov, 2019 08:40am
The government imposed a near-total Internet blackout more than a week ago amid violent protests.
Published 24 Nov, 2019 11:25am
French defence minister says US's failure to respond to provocations blamed on Iran set off a dangerous chain of events.
Updated 23 Nov, 2019 11:01pm
The scale of the unrest that began on Friday remains unclear as authorities have shut down internet.
Updated 21 Nov, 2019 03:19pm
Says the time to reconcile past grievances is not when a missile is "en route from Iran" — the time "is now".
Published 16 Nov, 2019 03:15pm
Tensions in the Gulf have risen since attacks on oil tankers in a vital global shipping lane this summer.
Published 10 Nov, 2019 12:24pm
"They are like a lethal scorpion whose nature is to have a poisonous sting," says head of the army in a speech.
Published 04 Nov, 2019 04:25pm
