Ethiopian Federal Police ride through Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Friday May 21, 2010. (AP) February 16, 2021 Iran is seeking to “activate sleeper cells” in Africa in order to attack “soft targets” in an attempt to avenge the killing of top commander Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike and its top nuclear scientist [...]
UAE's Etihad Airways will scrap flights to Tehran on Jan. 24. (Reuters) November 25, 2020 The United Arab Emirates has stopped issuing new visas to citizens of 13 countries, including Iran, Syria and Somalia, according to a document issued by a state-owned business park. The document, which was sent to companies operating in [...]
Emirates Boeing 777-31H aircraft taxying upon arrival at the Iranian capital Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport, July 17, 2020. (AFP) October 2, 2020 The US Transportation Department said Thursday it has fined Emirates airline $400,000 for operating flights in parts of prohibited Iranian airspace in 2019. The flight was carrying the JetBlue Airways [...]
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AFP) September 3, 2020 Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei took to Twitter on Tuesday to denounce the US and the UAE, using extreme rhetoric including “filthy Zionist agents” and the hashtag “#UAEStabsMuslims.” “The nation of Palestine is under various, severe pressures. Then, the UAE acts in agreement with [...]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (AP) September 2, 2020 After Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei accused the United Arab Emirates of "betraying" Muslims, Arab nations and Palestine by establishing diplomatic ties with Israel, the United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on Tuesday that the world should "reject and condemn" Khamenei's [...]
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks to the crowd during a ceremony on June 04, 2018. (IRIB) September 1, 2020 The United Arab Emirates has betrayed the Islamic world and the Palestinians by reaching a deal toward normalizing ties with Israel, Iran’s top authority Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said in a speech [...]
The city hall in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv is lit up in the colours of the United Arab Emirates national flag on August 13, 2020. (AFP) By John C. Hulsman August 22, 2020 The German philosopher Georg Hegel was surely on to something when he wryly noted that “reading the morning [...]
Iranian commandos fast-rope down from a helicopter onto the MV Wila oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman off the coast of the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. (AP) August 20, 2020 Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday it summoned the United Arab Emirates envoy after Emirati Coast Guard vessels shot [...]
A plane from the Iranian private airline, Mahan Air. (AP) August 19, 2020 The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on two companies for providing material support to Iranian airline Mahan Air, the US Treasury Department said. The Treasury in a statement said that the UAE-based Parthia Cargo and Delta Parts Supply FZC [...]
Aid destined for Iran is loaded onto a UAE military transport plane, Dubai, March 3, 2020. (AFP) August 18, 2020 Iranian experts and traders are concerned that the tensions between Iran and the UAE could affect the mutual trade relations, at a time when Tehran is facing an economic crisis due to the [...]
