MONITORING (SW) – President Joe Biden warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the U.S. will not take part in a counter-offensive against Iran, an option Netanyahu’s war cabinet favors after a mass drone and missile attack on Israeli territory, according to officials.
MONITORING (SW) – Iranian authorities have once again expedited the deportation of Afghan refugees lacking legal documents for stay in Iran.
KABYUL (SW) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan announced that in 2023, it treated 715,000 malnourished children in the country.
KABUL (SW) – Iranian media have reported that Iskandar Momeni, the Secretary-General of the Iran’s Anti-Narcotics Headquarters, voiced concern over the increase in drug smuggling from Afghanistan to this country.
MONITORING (SW) – Iran hanged at least 834 people in 2023, the second-highest number of executions in two decades, according to a report released by rights groups.
MONITORING (SW) – Iran has provided Russia with a large number of powerful surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, six sources told Reuters, deepening the military cooperation between the two U.S.-sanctioned countries.
MONITORING (SW) – Iran unveiled new weaponry on Saturday including what it said was the locally made Arman anti-ballistic missile system and the Azarakhsh low-altitude air defense system, the official IRNA news agency reported.
MONITORING (SW) – An Iranian government official has blamed “terrorism and sabotage” for twin explosions on gas pipelines overnight.
MONITORING (SW) – Iran simultaneously launched three satellites for the first time on Sunday using the Simorgh (Phoenix) satellite carrier rocket developed by the Ministry of Defence, state media reported.
KABUL (SW) – Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran’s Ambassador and Special Representative for Afghanistan, has had another meeting with Amir-Khan Muttaqi, the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the de-facto government, to discuss the establishment of a regional contact group on Afghanistan, stated the Embassy of Iran in Kabul.
KABUL (SW) – During the first meeting of the appointed committees between Afghanistan and Iran, both sides reached an agreement to enhance trade and transit between the two nations.
MONITORING (SW) – Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for two explosions in Iran that killed more than 100 people and wounded scores at a memorial for top commander Qassem Soleimani.
