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Iran has denounced US plans to announce new sanctions that could put further strain on the Islamic Republic's economy and have an impact on its most important trading partners including China.
6 days agoUS Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. Eastern time on Monday amid promises to reveal "the toughest sanctions in history" on Iran while also urging China to cooperate with Washington. ...
1 week agoUS President Donald Trump warned of economic consequences against any country that provided "any type of lifeline to Iran" as the US looks to resolve a war it began alongside Israel nearly six months ago. ...
1 week agoThe Defense Ministry says it has prepared troops designated for a possible Gaza peacekeeping mission, awaiting only a final decision from President Prabowo Subianto expected at the end of the month.
6 months agoForeign ministers of Muslim countries, including Indonesia, condemned the illegal Israeli decisions, which are seen as an attempt to impose "unlawful" Israeli sovereignty, Saudi Arabia said in a statement.
6 months agoJakarta-based Center for Strategic and International Studies’ (CSIS) senior fellow and cofounder Jusuf Wanandi views Indonesia’s participation in the United States-led Board of Peace as giving the country and other Muslim-majority nations leverage within the board.
6 months agoThe meeting is planned to be held at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, the report added, noting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet Trump at the White House on Feb. 18, a day before the planned meeting.
6 months agoThe government claimed that the country’s international relations community had backed President Prabowo Subianto’s foreign policy, following a closed-door meeting at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, though analysts warned the gathering may have been aimed at neutralizing critics rather than engaging the public.
6 months agoUnder US President Donald Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan that ended a two-year war in the Palestinian territory, the PA's post-war role in Gaza was left unclear.
6 months agoSaif al-Islam's office said in a statement on Tuesday that he had been killed during a "direct confrontation" with four unknown gunmen who broke into his home. Further details were not made public.
6 months agoAround 150 people were due to leave the territory on Monday, and 50 to enter it, according to Egyptian officials, more than 20 months after Israeli forces fighting in Gaza closed the crossing.
6 months agoIndonesia has condemned Israel’s latest air strikes and repeated ceasefire breaches in Gaza, amid public concerns that its long-standing pro-Palestinian stance is softening after joining the United States-controlled Board of Peace.
6 months agoThe resumption of operations in a tightly restricted pilot phase on Sunday came after months of appeals from aid groups.
6 months ago"The Americans should know that if they start a war, this time it will be a regional war," Khamenei was quoted as saying by the Tasnim news agency.
6 months agoThe State Department said it green-lighted a $3.8-billion sale of 30 Apache attack helicopters to Israel, which has agreed to a fragile ceasefire in Gaza.
6 months agoEntry and exit "will be permitted in coordination with Egypt, following prior security clearance of individuals by Israel, and under the supervision of the European Union mission", Israel has announced.
6 months ago"I built (up) the military in my first term, and now we have a group headed out to a place called Iran, and hopefully we won't have to use it," Trump told reporters at the premiere of a documentary about his wife Melania.
6 months ago"Melania" was not listed on the websites of the Nu Metro or Ster Kinekor theatres on Thursday, the day before its international release on January 30.
7 months agoThe carrier and its accompanying ships were ordered to the region as Iran cracked down on mass protests. While President Donald Trump has since backed away from military action against Tehran, he has insisted all options remain on the table.
7 months agoIndonesia’s entry onto the Board of Peace for Gaza on Thursday has stoked fresh fears that Jakarta could be coerced into a United States-controlled agenda in the war-torn territory, amid concerns it might stray from or even rival existing United Nations mechanisms to restore peace.
7 months agoDemonstrations initially sparked by economic grievances turned into a movement against the theocracy that has ruled Iran since 1979.
7 months agoThe statement added that each country will sign accession documents in accordance with its legal procedures.
7 months agoWhile some traditional allies of the US have responded cautiously, and in a few cases have rejected Trump's offer, other nations have accepted an invitation to join the Washington-led Gaza reconstruction efforts.
7 months agoAlthough originally meant to oversee Gaza's rebuilding, the board's charter does not seem to limit its role to the Strip and appears to want to rival the United Nations, sparking the ire of some US allies including France.
7 months agoIndonesia has denounced Israel's recent demolition of buildings belonging to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in the occupied East Jerusalem.
7 months agoIn a heated exchange of threats, Iran and the United States both threatened broadscale wars if the leaders of either country are assassinated.
7 months agoThe Chagos agreement will see Britain hand the archipelago -- some 2,000 kilometers northeast of Mauritius -- to its former colony and pay to lease the US-UK military base for a century.
7 months agoWhen asked by a reporter about Macron saying he will not join the board, Trump said, "Did he say that? Well, nobody wants him because he will be out of office very soon."
7 months agoThe board would be chaired for life by Trump and would start by addressing the Gaza conflict and then be expanded to deal with other conflicts, according to a copy of the letter and draft charter seen by Reuters.
7 months agoThe White House said that under Trump's plan, there would be a main board, chaired by Trump himself, a Palestinian committee of technocrats meant to govern the war-wracked territory, and a second "executive board" that appears designed to have a more advisory role.
7 months agoInternational outrage has built over the crackdown that a rights group said has likely killed thousands during protests posing one of the biggest challenges yet to Iran's clerical leadership.
7 months agoAll 386 registered Indonesians in Iran, most of them students based in the cities of Qom and Isfahan, remain safe, according to a ministry statement issued on Monday.
7 months ago"The Islamic Republic of Iran is not seeking war but is fully prepared for war," Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told a conference of foreign ambassadors in Tehran broadcast by state TV. "We are also ready for negotiations but these negotiations should be fair, with equal rights and based on mutual respect."
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