Category: International

  By Ryan Fahey, Mailonline The US administration has denied a visa to allow Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to attend a UN Security Council meeting in New York on Thursday, a US official said. The Iranian Mission to the UN said they “have not received any official communication” on the status of Zarif’s visa despite him having requested it weeks ago. Zarif is looking to use the meeting to condemn last Friday’s attack on Qassem Soleimani in…

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  By CNN US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on Monday contradicted President Donald Trump by asserting the US would not target Iranian cultural sites amid rising tensions after a US strike killed Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani. “We will follow the laws of armed conflict,” Esper told CNN Monday. When pressed if that meant not targeting Iranian cultural sites, Esper replied, “That’s the laws of armed conflict.” The comments come one day after Trump reiterated his threat to…

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  By Azarrah Karrim, allAfrica.com South Africa ruling party, African National Congress (ANC), has slammed what it calls “inhumane” airstrikes by the United States in Iran, which saw General Qassem Soleimani, Commander of Iranian Quds Force killed. The governing party called on the United Nations to take action against “this act of international terrorism” and for restraint between countries. In a statement over the weekend, ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule described the airstrikes as an attack on the people of…

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  By CNN President Donald Trump on Saturday drew what may come to be seen as the most significant red line of his presidency in a three-part tweet, vowing specific military action against Iran if it “strikes any Americans, or American assets.” “We have … targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level and important to Iran and the Iranian culture” and “if Iran strikes any…

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  By Andre van Wyk, allAfrica.com All assets of Isabel dos Santos, daughter to former Angola president Eduardo dos Santos, her husband Sindika Dokolo and Mário Filipe Moreira Leite da Silva, CEO of the Banco de Fomento Angola (BFA), have been frozen following an order by the Luanda court, according to Angola Press (ANGOP) The Luanda court ruling is a result of a precautionary measure requested by the government, in sequence of a lawsuit in which the governmental authorities…

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  By CNN US President Donald Trump ordered an airstrike at Baghdad International Airport that killed Qasem Soleimani, a key Iranian military commander, in a “decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad” that was intended to deter “future Iranian attack plans,” the Pentagon confirmed Thursday. Soleimani — the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force unit — and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis — the deputy head of the Iran-backed Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) — were…

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