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Plane overshoots runway, skids into street in Iran

After what seems like a botched landing, an Iranian passenger plane with some 150 passengers aboard, ended up belly-down on a highway near the airport in the city of Mahshahr, Iran.

27/01/2020

Iran

Iran MP offers three million dollar bounty to 'whoever kills Trump'

Lawmaker Ahmad Hamzeh announced the reward in the Iranian parliament on Tuesday

21/01/2020

Europe News

Analysis: Iran nuclear deal on the brink

With Iran diplomacy in limbo, the nuclear agreement seems at the brink of falling apart. Yet, the European guarantors of the deal, France, Germany and the UK, triggered the mediation mechanism in a last-ditch effort to save what was praised as one of the biggest diplomatic achievements of our time.

15/01/2020

Iran

Euroviews. Mourning at Soleimani’s funeral was staged. Iranians are not rallying behind the regime ǀ View

If you logged into Twitter while Soleimani’s funeral was ongoing, you might have encountered a much different narrative about the Quds Force commander and the impact of his death. There, hundreds of thousands of people tweeted using the hashtag #IraniansDetestSoleimani.

15/01/2020

Iran

Iran warns European troops in Middle East 'may be in danger'

Britain, France and Germany have triggered the accord's dispute mechanism to force Iran into discussions. The process could bring back UN and EU sanctions on Iran.

15/01/2020

Iran

Euroviews. The real losers of Trump’s Iran strategy are the long-suffering Iranian middle classes ǀ View

Thanks to Donald Trump’s unilateral decision to assassinate Iran’s most popular public figure, we now see millions of Iranians taking to the very same streets; not demanding the Islamic Republic to justify its brutality in putting down the protests, but instead demonstrating national unity.

14/01/2020

Iran

Iran makes arrests over downing of Ukrainian passenger plane

Hassan Rouhani said the world will be watching as families of the dead seek justice and transparency. But how was he in the dark at the beginning on the story?

14/01/2020

Iran

Iranian police fire tear gas and live rounds against protesters

Online videos from Tehran show Iranian police and security forces firing both tear gas and live rounds to disperse demonstrators who are protesting against the Islamic Republic's initial denial that it shot down a Ukrainian jetliner

13/01/2020

Iran

Europe urges Iran to keep nuclear deal as protesters defy regime

Videos on social media showed protesters shouting anti-government slogans in Tehran and other Iranian cities despite the presence of security forces.

12/01/2020

Iran

UK slams Iran over ambassador's arrest amid angry Tehran protests

The arrest came amid anti-government protests in Tehran over the missile blunder. Donald Trump warned Iran against "another massacre" of protesters.

11/01/2020

Iran

EU tells airlines to avoid Iran airspace after Tehran admits shootdown

Regulators urged airlines to avoid all Iranian airspace after Tehran admitted one of its missiles downed flight PS752 in a "disastrous mistake."

11/01/2020

Iran

Iran denies that it brought down Ukrainian plane with a missile

Iranian cabinet spokesman Ali Rabiei said that such allegations “rub salt on a painful wound” for the families of the victims.

09/01/2020

Iran

Ukraine plane did not radio for help before it crashed

Iran has refused to hand over the black box to the plane's manufacturer, Boeing

09/01/2020

Iran

Euroviews. Iran was always going to retaliate for Soleimani’s death. It doesn’t mean it wants a war ǀ View

It is possible that US withdrawal from the JCPOA is at the root of the escalating tensions between the two countries. After that, the region witnessed several attacks on American drones and other targets such as oil tankers in the Gulf and the Strait of Hurmuz.

08/01/2020

Iran

Khamenei says US presence in the Middle East is 'unacceptable'

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sees recent events as a watershed moment. Are we about to see mass evacuations?

08/01/2020

Iran

Black boxes found after Iran plane crash kills 176 people

Ukraine has confirmed that the victims come from at least seven nations, however Iranian media say that many were travelling on dual passports.

08/01/2020

Iran

Euroviews. In killing Soleimani, Trump’s only success is the uniting of a once divided Iran ǀ View

The extrajudicial killing of Iranian official Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi Al-Mohandis by US forces last week will set back Western-Iranian relations by decades, with repercussions not only across the region but across the world.

07/01/2020

World

How could Iran respond to the US drone strike?

A US airstrike on Iranian military leader Qassim Soleimani has brought the Middle East closer to conflict, as Iran narrows the scope of its possible responses to the assassination of a national hero.

07/01/2020

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Mourners gather in Tehran to pay homage to Qassem Soleimani

Hundreds of thousands attended the funeral procession in Tehran for a top Iranian general who was killed in a US airstrike in Baghdad. He will be buried in his hometown of Kerman.

06/01/2020

Iran

World leaders call for de-escalation after US kills Iranian general

"My message is simple and clear: stop escalation. Exercise maximum restraint. Restart dialogue," UN Secretary-General António Guterres said.

06/01/2020

Iran

Stampede kills at least 56 at Soleimani funeral procession in Kerman

The stampede erupted at a funeral procession for the top Iranian general killed in a US airstrike last week, Iranian state tv reported.

06/01/2020

Iran

Pentagon implies it won't target Iran cultural sites

The Pentagon said it will "follow the laws of armed conflict" and distanced itself from Trump's threat to target Iran's cultural sites.

05/01/2020

Iran

Iran abandons nuclear deal over Soleimani killing

Iran will no longer abide by any of the limits of its 2015 nuclear deal, the country's state television reported on Sunday.

05/01/2020

Iran

Euroviews. What the killing of Iran's General Soleimani means for Europe ǀ View

European calls for restraint will not be enough on their own, argues Thomas S Warrick

04/01/2020

Iran

Euroviews. Was Soleimani's killing justified? Yes. A million times yes ǀ View

Soleimani's death will also prove to be more significant than that of Osama Bin Laden or Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to one of Italy's ex-foreign ministers.

04/01/2020

Iran

Timeline: How the Iran crisis unfolded after Qassem Soleimani's murder

Reaction to the killing of Iran military chief Qassem Soleimani has been flooding in. Here's a chronological recap.

03/01/2020