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- Iran, missiles on Pakistan
Jan 17, 2024 4:47:03 p.m
The US adds the Houthis back to the list of terrorist groups
In response to the attacks in the Red Sea, the United States decided to put the Houthis back on the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT). This was reported by two senior American officials. The designation will take effect in 30 days. The Houthis, designated a terrorist group during Donald Trump's presidency, were removed from the same list by Joe Biden in 2021 to allow aid to Yemen. “This measure will not affect the Yemeni population and humanitarian assistance will continue,” the officials stressed.
Jan 17, 2024 12:34:22 p.m
Crosetto: “Italy is the most affected nation”
“The problem is not short-term, but if it lasts longer,” “it can have an impact.” It depends on the times and the intensity with which it continues,” Defense Minister Guido Crosetto told ANSA in Transatlantico, speaking after the Statements by the Governor of the Bank of Italy, Fabio Panetta, were asked, according to which “at the moment” we do not see any “macroeconomic impact” of the events in the Red Sea, “but we cannot rule it out ». The Italian economy? “It is the most affected,” replies Crosetto.
Jan 17, 2024 12:13:21 p.m
Oil tanker carrying Russian crude oil attacked by Houthis, Moscow: We have no information
Russia “has no information” about the Panamanian-flagged tanker that was reportedly struck by Yemen's Houthi rebels in the Gulf of Aden and was allegedly carrying Russian oil. The Ambrey company, which specializes in maritime security, reported that there was no damage to a ship. “We have no official information about this,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, according to the Russian news agency Tass. “We support the security of international sea routes and passenger and cargo traffic, including in the Red Sea and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait,” Zakharova added.
01/17/2024 11:28:36
Tajani: “The decline in maritime traffic worries us”
“The decline in maritime traffic” in the Red Sea due to the Houthi attacks “concerns us.” Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani reiterated this during a press conference in the Farnesina to illustrate the priorities of Italy's G7 Presidency, stressing that the Suez Canal had increased from the passage of “400 ships per day” to 250.
Jan 17, 2024 11:15:14 am
Hezbollah announces new “martyr”, 162 since war began
A new Hezbollah fighter has been killed by Israel, reportedly by the same Lebanese armed movement allied with Iran and Hamas. According to Lebanese media data based on Hezbollah press releases, 162 Party of God militiamen have been killed in the war with Israel from October 8 to today.
01/17/2024 10:06:36
IDF: Hamas counterintelligence officer killed
The Israeli army said it killed a Hamas counterintelligence officer in an attack in the Gaza Strip. The alleged Hamas member is Bilel Nofal and, according to the IDF, he is the Islamic group's head of interrogations of suspected spies in the southern Gaza Strip. In addition to Nofal, the army reported killing five other Palestinian fighters in Gaza: three in airstrikes in Khan Younis and two on the outskirts of the Sheikh Ejalin neighborhood in southern Gaza City. Israeli military strikes also killed more than a dozen Palestinian civilians, including women and children, in the central and southern Gaza Strip overnight, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.
01/17/2024 08:47:30
China calls for “moderation” from Iran and Pakistan
China urged Iran and Pakistan to “exercise restraint” after Islamabad accused Tehran of “unjustifiably violating its airspace” and carrying out “illegal” airstrikes on its territory that killed two children and injured three others. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said this during the daily briefing
2024-01-17 08:42:25
Iran: Attack in Pakistan on a Sunni militant group
It was reported in Iran that the attacks targeted the bases of a Sunni militant group, Jaish al-Adl, but references to the attack in Iranian media quickly disappeared. Iran and Pakistan have long had tense relations, largely due to the activities of Baloch separatists and other militant groups in the border area. However, this would mean a significant escalation on the territory of the nuclear-armed neighbor.
2024-01-17 08:41:44
Iran, missiles on Pakistan
Iran has carried out airstrikes into Pakistani territory that appeared to target a Sunni militant group. This is the latest sign of a wave of violence spreading across the Middle East and beyond. Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said two children were killed and three others injured in what it called an “illegal” airstrike, and summoned Tehran's top diplomats to Islamabad to protest the “groundless violation of its airspace.” The ministry did not provide further details about the attacks, but Pakistani social media reports said missile and drone attacks were aimed at Balochistan province, which lies on the 1,000-kilometer border between the two countries.
The war in Israel and the tensions in the Middle East. The live broadcast.
Iran is taking action. No longer just through its network of fighters spread across the Middle East, from Lebanon's Hezbollah to Yemen's Houthis, who continue to fire on passing ships in the Red Sea, triggering a response from the United States. On the night of Monday to Tuesday, the Revolutionary Guards Air Force launched “ballistic missiles” on Iraq and Syria: the first attack to send a signal to the enemy Israel and its ally USA that “is creating insecurity in the region”. Secondly, to “avenge” the bloody attack claimed by ISIS in Kerman in early January. In an overlapping – and for now indirect – clash, the US army has again attacked pro-Iranian rebels in Yemen, while the Jewish state has launched its most massive attack against Party of God militants in southern Lebanon. In the attack on Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan Autonomous Region, Tehran claimed to have “destroyed one of the most important spy centers of the Zionist regime (Mossad).”
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According to a statement from Pasdaran, the target was “the center for developing espionage operations and planning terrorist actions in the region and especially in our beloved country.” Local authorities said “at least four civilians were killed,” including well-known real estate entrepreneur Peshraw Dizayee and other members of his family. Kurdistan Prime Minister Masrour Barzani dismissed the fact that an Israeli secret service office was attacked as “completely unfounded” and “unjustified,” stressing that the Iranian attacks only targeted civilians and private homes, including that of the businessman . “These attacks must not go unanswered,” he thundered from Davos. The central government in Baghdad responded by condemning “an attack on its sovereignty and people,” summoning Iran’s ambassador to Iraq and recalling its own from Tehran. Iraq also announced “a complaint to the United Nations Security Council” and a commission of inquiry to “demonstrate to the Iraqi and international public the falsity of the allegations made by those responsible for these reprehensible acts.” The Iranian attack was also condemned by the US as “irresponsible”: explosions were heard even near the American consulate in Erbil at the time of the raids, without consequences. An Iraqi security source told the ABC that anti-ISIS coalition forces based in the region – which also includes Italy – shot down three drones near the airport. In Syria, however, Iranian forces announced that they had attacked “the meeting points of commanders and key elements linked to recent terrorist attacks, especially the Islamic State” in Aleppo in revenge for the double attack on January 3 in the Near Aleppo Grave of General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed by the US four years earlier, claiming nearly 100 lives in Kerman. Tehran then threatened new actions “until the last drops of the martyrs’ blood are avenged.” The feared escalation increasingly appears to be a reality across the region. After another attack by pro-Iranian Houthis on an American bulk carrier and a Greek cargo ship, Washington responded with attacks on anti-ship missile sites in Yemen that posed an “imminent threat” to maritime traffic in the Red Sea. Instead, Israel bombarded Hezbollah's “dozens of targets” with warplanes and artillery in Wadi Saluki in southern Lebanon. “It was one of the biggest attacks since the start of the war. And it was ready in a few minutes,” commented an IDF officer. In the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army has lost 190 soldiers so far, while there are 24,285 Palestinian casualties, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health. Its leader Yayha Sinwar was placed on the European Union's terrorist list with the appropriate sanctions. “A moral and just decision,” commented Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, determined to “eradicate the roots of evil wherever it rears its head.”
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