A man has been sentenced to death for the murders of prominent Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjui and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar. Mehrjui and Mohammadifar were stabbed to death in their home in Karaj, near the capital Tehran, in October. Three others were jailed for between 8 and 36 years for their roles in planning…
The White House has warned that its air strikes on Iran-backed targets in Iraq and Syria are just “the beginning, not the end” of its response to Iran. National security adviser Jake Sullivan told US media on Sunday “there will be more steps”. The US is responding to the deaths of three soldiers in an…
Iran has called US air strikes on Iraq and Syria a “strategic mistake” after 85 targets were hit across the region on Friday. The US has launched retaliatory strikes in response to last week’s drone attack on a US military base that killed three American soldiers. The White House blamed the drone attack on an…
US forces have bombed 85 targets in Iraq and Syria as retaliation for an attack that killed three US troops at a base in northern Jordan last month. According to US officials, the co-ordinated attack was against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Force and allied militia groups. US President Joe Biden said the US…
Nearly a week after a drone strike in Jordan killed three US soldiers, retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed militias have begun. The strikes had been expected for several days, and in the interim, the Biden administration began to face questions and criticism from Republicans about the timing and forcefulness of the US response. But foreign policy…
The White House has blamed an Iran-backed militia for a deadly drone strike on an American base in Jordan, as the US considers how to hit back. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said US intelligence believed the Islamic Resistance in Iraq was responsible for Sunday’s attack. President Joe Biden has said without elaborating that…
An Iraqi militant group suspected of launching a drone strike in Jordan that killed three US troops says it has suspended operations against the US. Kataib Hezbollah, the Iran-aligned group that took credit for the attack on Sunday, said it was “to prevent embarrassment of the Iraqi government”. President Joe Biden said he has decided…
President Joe Biden says he has decided how the US will respond to a drone strike that killed three American troops in Jordan. Speaking as he left the White House for fundraisers in Florida, Mr Biden added that “we don’t need a wider war” in the Middle East. An Iran-backed militia group has claimed responsibility…
US authorities have charged three men with plotting to murder an Iranian defector living in Maryland. Naji Sharifi Zindashti, 49, who lives in Iran, allegedly asked Canadian Damion Ryan to help with an assassination. Mr Ryan, a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, then enlisted associate Adam Pearson, who is currently in prison. They…
The deaths of three American soldiers – two women and a man from the US state of Georgia – in a drone attack in Jordan on Sunday was exactly what the Biden administration was dreading. And it means the White House now faces an extremely difficult decision over how to respond. President Biden, who met…