US officials said to be concerned by increasingly open conflict between Taliban and ISIS. "After decades of war, it will take time for the country to be completely pacified," Taliban says.
Washington, which opposes efforts to normalize ties with Assad until progress can be made on a political solution to the conflict, concerned by Arab ally's move.
Talks on renewed deal, stalled for months, set to renew in Vienna on Nov. 29.
Daily Kelid reportedly shut down after running front-page story about rampant poverty in Islamic Republic with graphic that appeared to show Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's hand drawing poverty line.
Seven of Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s security guards are wounded in the attack by at least two armed drones in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone area. Al-Kadhimi, who was unharmed says, "Cowardly rocket and drone attacks don't build homelands and don’t build a future."
The "Zolfaqar-1400" maneuvers will include troops from the ground forces, navy, air force, and air defenses and seek "to demonstrate Iran’s power at sea, warning the enemies that any act of aggression against Iran will draw a crushing response from the army."
The 2015 nuclear deal with world powers caps the purity to which Tehran can refine uranium at 3.67%.
The 280 air-to-air missiles are valued at up to $650 million, according to the Pentagon.
Gen. Hossein Salami, chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, denounces the United States as a "dictator-making factory."
Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami claims American policy toward Iran "has always been a failure." The Biden administration "has not learned any lesson from it," he says.
