A senior Iranian official said the country’s military shouldn’t let public demands dictate its actions against Israel, suggesting that Tehran is trying to balance domestic pressures against U.S. warnings as it decides how to retaliate against an attack in Syria in which it says Israel killed one of its top generals.
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The World Health Organization chief said staff who visited Khan Younis in southern Gaza described destruction “disproportionate to anything one can imagine.”
US dismisses claims of Iranian support for ISIS in Pakistan
US State Department spokesperson Mathew Miller has denied any information that suggested that Iran was supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Pakistan, contributing to the recent …
Iran aims to contain fallout in Israel response, will not be hasty, sources say
Iran has signalled to Washington that it will respond to Israel’s attack on its Syrian embassy in a way that aims to avoid major escalation and it will not act hastily, as Tehran presses demands …
Pakistan bans Iran-backed Shiite group fighting in Syria
Pakistan officials say Pakistani nationals trained to fight in Syria have been returning home and pose a security threat …
The Latest | Israel vows to defend itself if Iran responds to attack on its consulate
Israel’s military says it is prepared to defend the country and strike back if Iran decides to retaliate for this month’s deadly airstrike on the Iranian Consulate in Syria …
‘Whoever harms us, we will harm them’: Israel warns Iran against retaliation for Syria strike
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to retaliate against any attack on Israel’s interests as the US warned allies that Iran was close to a revenge attack for Israel’s strike on its consulate in Damascus, …
‘Whoever harms us, we will harm them’: Israel warns Iran against retaliation for Syria strike
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to retaliate against any attack on Israel’s interests as the US warned allies that Iran was close to a revenge attack for Israel’s strike on its consulate in Damascus, …
UN Security Council should have condemned Iran embassy attack in Syria – Iran’s UN mission
The “imperative for Iran” to retaliate for the attack on its embassy compound in Damascus might have been avoided had the U.N. Security Council condemned the strike, Tehran’s mission to the United …
The Syria I came back to is not the one I left
BBC Middle East correspondent Lina Sinjab left her home in the Syrian capital Damascus in 2013, soon after the start of the civil war. Recently she was able to travel back for the first time in years, …