Iran's acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani has met with Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi who is on an official visit to Tehran amid increased tensions in the West Asian region.

US President Joe Biden expressed hope Iran would stand down despite its threat to avenge the assassination of Hamas’ leader in Tehran, as fears mounted that Israel’s war against Palestinians in Gaza could escalate into a wider Middle East conflict.

The commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has arrived in the occupied territories to help Israel prepare for Iran and Hezbollah’s retaliatory strikes in response to the recent assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and the deadly strike on southern Beirut, US media says.

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) confirmed in a statement that the head of the political bureau of the Hamas resistance movement, Ismail Haniyeh, was martyred in Tehran in an Israeli assassination strike with the use of a projectile whose warhead weighed around 7 kg.

Iran’s Minister of Intelligence Esmaeil Khatib has said that the Zionist regime's assassination of Hamas top leader Ismail Haniyeh has happened with the US green light.

Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations has said the role of the United States as a strategic ally and main backer of the Zionist regime should not be ignored in the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Palestinian resistance movement in Tehran.

Iran's permanent Ambassador to the United Nations criticized US continuous support for the Israel regime, including its condoning of the regimes dangerous nuclear weapon program. Speaking inthe second session of the Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on Monday,Majid ...

IRNA - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a Twitter message referred to the US president's recent remarks that they are in the Middle East for the sake of Israel, saying Israel firsters not only ruined the region but betrayed their people just for votes. Zarif attached a report published by "Jewish Telegraphic Agency" with regard ...

MNA Foreign Minister Spokesman Abbas Mousavi said the American and Israeli regimes are trying to destroy the JCPOA and bring back the once defeated project of 'securitizing' Iran. One of the most important achievements of the JCPOA was defeating the securitization project of Iran after nearly 40 years, wrote Foreign Minister Spokesman ...

IRNA Iran's Ambassador to London Hamid Baeedinejad says the US policy is Israel's hostage, thus doomed to failure. 'As long as the US policy is Israel's hostage, Washington will be unable to think freely of healthy relations with the region and the more it tries to interfere in the region, it will face former defeats again,' said Baeedinejad in ...

Press TV - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that Washington will continue to work closely with Israel over Syria and Iran, despite President Donald Trumps announcement of withdrawing American troops from Syria. Pompeo made the remarks as he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Brazilian capital Brasilia on Tuesday....

Press TV - President Mahmoud Abbas says Palestine will never allow the United States to sell Jerusalem al-Quds to Israel, reiterating that the occupied city will remain the eternal capital of the state of Palestine. Jerusalem al-Quds is not for sale, Abbas said in a speech marking the 54th anniversary of the Fatah partys founding in the West Bank ...

Press TV - President Donald Trump says US military forces will stay in the Middle East to ensure the security of its close ally, Israel, days after he suggested thatthe occupyingentity will have toleave the region without Riyadhs support. We have reached a point where we dont have to stay in the Middle East. One reason to stay is Israel, Trump said ...

Press TV - US State Departments Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook is to visit Israel and the UAE to advance US President Donald Trumps so-called Iran strategy and push for Washingtons hostile campaign against Tehran. Hook will travel to Israel and the United Arab Emirates November 12-20, a media note by the US State Department said ...

Alwaght - On Sunday, the US and the Israeli regime have begun joint military drills with the presence of thousands of troops, with the declared aim being improving combat readiness of the two sides militaries for a joint regional conflict and also exploring ways to address possible missile attacks. The drills, codenamed Juniper Cobra, include simulation ...

American Herald Tribune | PHILIP GIRALDI: The most recent claim that Russian President Vladimir Putinis runningDonald Trumpas if the U.S. president is a Russian intelligence assetcomes fromformer Director of National Intelligence (DNI)James Clapper. [Putin] knows how to handle an asset, and thats what hes doing with the president, Clapper told CNN ...

American Herald Tribune | MICHAEL HOWARD: Cast your mind back to 2014, when Donald J. Trump was merely a national embarrassment, as opposed to a global emergency. In March of that year, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 68/262 in response to Russias takeover of Crimea following a controversial referendum in which the overwhelming majority ...

American Herald Tribune | MICHAEL HOWARD: Last month, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley stated that, should Rex Tillerson find himself cashiered, she would not replace him as secretary of state. I want to be where Im most effective, she said. Whatever that means, we can all breath a sigh of relief. With the intellectual capacity of Sarah Palin, Haley ...

Press TV- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has personally greeted US President Donald Trump on his first visit to Israel. Trump and his wife, Melania, arrived in Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airporton Monday and were welcomed by Netanyahu and his wife on the red carpet during a grand welcoming ceremony, attended by all Israeli ministers....

Al Monitor | Ben Caspit: As President Donald Trump's May 22 arrival in Israel approaches, everything that can go wrong in the relationship between the White House and the Israeli Prime Minister's Office seems to be going wrong. Until recently, both parties had kept their dirty laundry indoors. In the last two days, however, more and more problems have ...