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alarabiya – Three out of five rockets fired on Sunday directly hit the US embassy in Iraq’s capital, a security source told AFP, including one that slammed into a cafe at dinner time. Iraq’s security forces had earlier reported no casualties. The diplomatic mission, which lies in Baghdad’s high-security Green Zone, has been regularly hit by rockets in recent months. …

radiofarda – Iran’s top diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif hosted his Omani counterpart Yusuf bin Alawi on Sunday for the second time within a week for talks on security in the sensitive Gulf. Alawi was making the visit to Tehran on the tail end of his trip to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, which Zarif skipped after scheduling …

radiofarda – An Iranian lawmaker on Saturday warned the Health Ministry to prevent a deadly Coronavirus outbreak in Iran by taking preventative measures or even canceling the programs of a two-week winter festival in Hamadan which Chinese tourists are expected to attend. In his tweet Amir Khojasteh, the representative of Hamadan in the Iranian Parliament, has called on the authorities …

radiofarda – The Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has claimed that President Donald Trump misunderstood his comments in an interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel on Friday, when he had said the Trump administration can lift its sanctions and return to negotiations, adding, “We are still at the negotiating table”. Zarif comment appears to point to the framework of the …

rferl.org – With Iranian parliamentary elections just a month away, there are increasing signs that the vote will be a case of the conservatives battling hard-liners, in what analysts describe as an attempt by the clerical establishment to consolidate power. The hard-line Guardians Council, which vets all election candidates, has disqualified some 9,000 of the 14,000 who registered to run …