EU foreign ministers met in Brussels on Friday to look for ways to avert war between the US and Iran and save the deal to stop Iran getting nuclear weapons. The 28 member states’ foreign ministers ministers gathered for an emergency foreign affairs council meeting to decide the bloc’s approach. Josep Borrell, the EU’s top diplomat, told […] More
In the latest phase of the US-Iran confrontation, who came out on top is not clear-cut; both countries made gains and losses from the crisis and some of its the results are still to come. By ordering the assassination on 3 January of general Qassem Soleimani, the head of Quds Force, the external arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, President Trump claims to […] More
The president of the European Council has urged Iran not to retaliate to the assassination of its top general with “irreversible acts”, in the latest plea for de-escalation. Charles Michel, who replaced Donald Tusk in the top role at the end of last year, said the Iran nuclear deal, the so-called JCPOA, could still survive. […] More
Iranians had promised “severe revenge” for the assassination of their top general Qassem Soleimani, and on Tuesday night they delivered. Missiles were launched from Iranian soil into a large airbase in Iraq where hundreds of American forces are stationed alongside others. But the high profile attack seemed to have been planned in a way to […] More
Iranians woke up Friday morning to the shocking news of the targeted killing of major general Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s elite Quds force, by the United States in Iraq. The killing of one of Iran’s most powerful and feared men, who was the mastermind of Iran’s military presence and proxy wars across the Middle […] More
