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US President Donald Trump on Saturday said the United States has launched “major combat operations” in a joint effort with Israel aimed at “eliminating imminent threats” from Iran, in his first statement following the start of the operation. The operation, named “Lion’s Roar” by Israel, saw a broad daylight strike on Iran’s capital on Saturday,…
Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (AP file photo) The United States has escalated pressure on Iran’s leadership, formally designating the country a “state sponsor of wrongful detention” as tensions mount over its nuclear programme. In a statement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the move, accusing Tehran of using foreign nationals as political leverage….
US Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday said, “You can’t let the craziest and the worst regime in the world have nuclear weapons,” asserting that the Trump administration is determined to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear capability while maintaining that President Donald Trump still prefers a diplomatic solution.In an interview with Fox News, Vance said…
The United States has built up one of its largest Middle East deployments in years, with two aircraft carriers moving into position and additional warships and aircraft arriving in the region. The State Department has also begun thinning out exposed outposts. Meanwhile, Iran is preparing itself for a protracted war with US. It is dispersing…
As the United States keeps a powerful naval presence near the Middle East amid rising tensions with Iran, its most advanced aircraft carrier is facing an unexpected and persistent challenge — repeated failures in its onboard sewage system.The USS Gerald R Ford, commissioned in 2017 as the lead ship of a new class of supercarriers,…
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and exiled prince Reza Pahlavi Iran’s exiled prince Reza Pahlavi has mounted a forceful and deeply personal attack on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, accusing Iran’s clerical establishment of betraying the very faith it claims to defend. Calling on the country’s majority Shia population to rise and “reclaim faith,” he described…
BNP chief Tarique Rahman (AP) Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the first global leaders to congratulate BNP chief Tarique Rahman for leading his party to a “decisive victory” in the Bangladesh parliamentary elections, building upon his earlier outreach to both Rahman and his recently deceased mother and former PM Khaleda Zia.Effectively endorsing the poll…
Iranian security forces have been accused of executing wounded anti-regime protesters inside hospitals, including patients lying in beds with IV lines and breathing tubes, according to a report by the New York Post. The account alleges that officers entered medical facilities to identify injured demonstrators and shot some of them in the head at close…
The safe harbour regime proposed in the Union Budget for component warehousing linked to manufacturing could offer multinational companies a comparable or better post-tax cost structure, along with lower regulatory risk, Finance Ministry sources told PTI.The proposal, which targets supply chain efficiency for electronics manufacturing, is expected to result in an effective tax of about…
The new income tax regime has seen widespread adoption among individual taxpayers, with about 88 per cent now filing returns under the system, CBDT Chairman Ravi Agrawal said, while clarifying that the government is not considering a sunset clause for the old tax regime.He said the choice between tax regimes continues to remain with taxpayers,…
