The death of an 11-year-old Iranian boy reportedly in an air strike while manning a security checkpoint alongside his father in Tehran has thrown focus on a new initiative to recruit children into the security services. Alireza Jafari’s mother Sadaf Monfared told the municipality-run newspaper Hamshahri that the pair had been helping Basij volunteer militia […]
Greece has made clear it will not join a proposed European naval force to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, even as France and other European partners push for broader engagement in the Persian Gulf amid escalating tensions with Iran.
Iran is taking steps to prevent anti-establishment protests, with checkpoints appearing across the streets of the capital, internet access restricted, and mass text warnings sent to residents.
US President Donald Trump has said Iran are “welcome” to take part in this summer’s World Cup despite the countries being at war, according to Fifa president Gianni Infantino. Posting on Instagram, Infantino said he met with Trump on Tuesday to discuss preparations for the tournament, which is being hosted by the US, Canada and […]
Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was killed in US-Israeli strikes, has been chosen as his successor.
The geography of Greece and Cyprus makes both countries pivotal for the West whenever instability alarms sound in the Middle East, according to Greek officials and military assessments.
Cypriot foreign minister Constantinos Kombos says there needs to be a “conversation” about removing the UK’s two RAF bases in Cyprus, after a drone strike on RAF Akrotiri last Sunday.
Azerbaijan has said it is pulling its diplomatic staff out of Iran after it accused Iran of launching four drones across the border into the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan.
US President Donald Trump claims his country has a “virtually unlimited supply” of key weapons. Iran’s defence ministry says it has “the capacity to resist the enemy” for longer than the US had planned.
By Martin Banks Developments in Iran are “greatly concerning,” says the EU.
