Mideast News from WN Network

Iran's uranium capable of making 3 to 5 nuclear bombs: ex-Israeli official 2023-06-01
Anadolu Agency

A former head of Israel’s military intelligence on Thursday claimed that Iran possesses a quantity of uranium capable of making three to five nuclear bombs. Speaking to the Israeli public broadcaster KAN, Amos...

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Thousands to march in Jerusalem Pride parade under Israel’s most right-wing government ever 2023-06-01
The Los Angeles Times

Thousands of people are expected to march in Jerusalem's Pride parade Thursday, an annual event that is taking place this year under Israel’s most right-wing government ever, stacked with openly homophobic members. The march in the conservative city is always tense and tightly secured by police, and...

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US sanctions Iranian officials accused of plotting assassinations abroad including against Bolton and Pompeo 2023-06-01
CNN

The Biden administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials accused of plotting assassinations abroad, including against former national security adviser John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Thursday’s sanctions target Mohammad Reza...

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Turkey’s Erdogan faces struggle to fulfill Syrian refugee pledge 2023-06-01
The Arab Weekly

ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan played up his plans to repatriate a million Syrian refugees as he rode a wave of nationalism to his third decade in power, but he could struggle to make good on the promise as conflict lingers on in neighbouring Syria. Erdogan, long seen as an ally by Syrian opponents...

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Trapped by Sudan fighting, dozens of children died in orphanage in capital 2023-06-01
The Gleaner

CAIRO (AP) — At least 60 infants, toddlers and older children perished over the past six weeks while trapped in harrowing conditions in an orphanage in Sudan's capital as fighting raged outside. Most died from lack of food and from fever. Twenty-six died in two days over the weekend. The...

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Yemen: Houthis Forcibly Disappear Baha’is 2023-05-31
Human Rights Watch

(Beirut) – Armed Houthi forces stormed a private residence in Sanaa, Yemen on May 25, 2023, where Yemeni Baha’is were meeting, and detained and subsequently disappeared 17 people, Human Rights Watch said today. The Baha’is, a religious community and a minority in Yemen, have faced ongoing...

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As Imran Khan’s star wanes, is Pakistan’s military pushing Bilawal Bhutto Zardari for prime minister? 2023-05-31
South China Morning Post

Bhutto Zardari, 34, ‘wouldn’t have shot up to the very senior post of foreign minister without the military’s blessing’, one analyst notes. ......

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A man without a strategy: How Netanyahu is provoking armed Intifada in the West Bank 2023-05-30
Middle East Monitor

After signing a military decree on 18 May, allowing illegal Israeli Jewish settlers to reclaim the abandoned Homesh...

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Disappointing weather takes its toll on Gaza wheat 2023-05-30
Rumble

Shifting weather patterns and disappointing rains in Gaza mean Palestinian farmer Itaf Qudeih has managed to harvest only a quarter of the wheat she once grew on her land. Loading comments... 1:27 Reuters 3 hours ago Hanoi cuts public lighting to save power in heatwaves 454 LIVE ZeducationOfficial 1...

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Iran leader says he would ‘welcome’ resumed ties with Egypt 2023-05-30
The Jordan Times

TEHRAN — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday he would welcome a resumption of diplomatic relations with Egypt, during a meeting with Oman’s visiting Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik. Ties between Tehran and Cairo soured following the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran and Egypt’s...

photo: AP / Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader