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2020-10-04 22:14
Despite normalization hype, Netanyahu faces wrath of Israelis
Tel Aviv restive nights
TEHRAN – Tens of thousands of Israelis continued their protests on Saturday against the “failed” leadership of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, weeks after he vociferously sought to boost his political standing through hyping two normalization deals with some Arab countries.
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2020-10-04 12:31
Israel pours gasoline on the fire in Nagorno-Karabakh
TEHRAN – As the war rages on for the eighth straight day between Azerbaijan and Armenia, more attention has been paid to Israel’s role in the conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, with some news media reports suggesting that Israel is militarily siding with Azerbaijan.
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2020-10-03 13:18
Zarif: World must force Israel to destroy its nuclear arsenal
Israel which has openly threatened others with nuclear annihilation is always crying wolf about proliferation, Iranian FM says
TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said the international community must compel Israel—which has aggression in its very DNA—to promptly accede to the NPT and destroy its nuclear arsenal.
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2020-10-02 23:48
Mossad chief’s visit to Bahrain stokes fears of disintegration
Israel plotting to partition Saudi Arabia: Iran
TEHRAN – following the visit by a senior Israeli intelligence official to Bahrain, Iranian officials and analysts expressed concerns over Israel’s secret plots to disintegrate larger countries in the region, including Saudi Arabia.
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2020-10-02 14:35
Israel hatching plot to disintegrate Saudi Arabia: adviser
TEHRAN — Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the special aide to the speaker of the Iranian Parliament on international affairs, says Israel is hatching a plot to disintegrate the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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2020-09-27 14:52
Israel would collapse if Western support stops: general
TEHRAN — Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri says the Zionist regime would collapse if the U.S. and other Western countries stop their economic, political support for the regime.
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2020-09-26 17:32
Nuclear armed Israel remains biggest threat to peace in West Asia: Tehran
TEHRAN — Iran has called on the international community to stand for a nuclear-free world, and condemned the U.S. and the Zionist regime for their destabilizing policies and activities which threaten world peace.
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2020-09-20 23:14
By Mohammad Mazhari
Israel's greatest fear is rapprochement between Ankara and Tehran: Turkish politician
Dogan Bekin likens UAE-Bahrain normalization deals with Israel to ‘cotton thread’
TEHRAN – Dogan Bekin, vice president of the New Welfare Party in Turkey, is of the opinion that Israel's greatest fear is a rapprochement between countries like Turkey and Iran as two regional powers.
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2020-09-20 23:13
By Mohammad Mazhari
Bahraini regime’s function is to serve Western powers’ interests: Bahraini activist
TEHRAN – A Bahraini political activist says the Bahraini regime’s function is to serve the interests of Western powers in the region.
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2020-09-18 17:11
Traitorous rulers are accomplice to Israel’s crimes, says Ghalibaf
TEHRAN — Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says the traitorous rulers of some regional countries are accomplices to the Zionist regime’s crimes.
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2020-09-16 21:01
Arab normalization deals with Israel will not last long
TEHRAN – While the White House portrays the normalization deals between some Arab states and Israel as “the dawn of a new Middle East [West Asia]”, an expert on West Asia tells the Tehran Times that the normalization deals are doomed to fail.
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2020-09-16 21:00
By Mohammad Mazhari
Riyadh pushed Bahrain, UAE to normalize ties with Israel: human right defender
TEHRAN – A human rights defender, Yahya Alhadid, predicts that Saudi Arabia will join the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to declare a normalization of ties with the Israeli regime, noting that Riyadh had nodded and backed normalization of ties with Israel by the UAE and Bahrain.
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2020-09-15 18:35
Former Iraqi PM meets top Iranian officials
TEHRAN — Former Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has traveled to Iran to discuss regional and bilateral topics with top Iranian officials.
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2020-09-14 20:39
Zarif dismisses Arab normalization deals with Israel as election photo op
TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday that Donald Trump, wading through a reelection year with a troubled campaign, “desperately” needed a photo op with certain Arab rulers to boost his reelection chances.
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2020-09-14 20:37
How U.S.-led Iranophobic propaganda contributed to Arab normalization deals with Israel
TEHRAN – In the wake of normalization deals between some Arab states and Israel, former and current U.S. officials sought to put the deals in the broader context of confronting Iran’s influence in the region, a move seen by some experts as an attempt to propagate Iranophobia across the Arab world.
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2020-09-14 20:36
By Mohammad Mazhari
Persian Gulf states' hypocrisy is being revealed: Iraqi politician
TEHRAN – The spokesman of the al-Sadeghoun movement in Iraq says that the normalization of ties between some Arab countries with Israel has revealed these regimes' hypocrisy.
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2020/09/14
By Khalid Qaddoumi
Normalization between some Arab governments and ‘Israel’: Facts and figures
The term itself says that something is not "normal". It needs to be normalized, or something that was a taboo is converted into permissible. This is the situation of the relations between Arabs and "Israel" since the Palestinians' catastrophe (Nakba) in 1948 when the "Israeli" occupation started. Hence, no doubt this topic is controversial and paradoxical.
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2020-09-14 15:26
Israel will perish according to God’s promise: Judiciary chief
TEHRAN — The Zionist regime will perish according to God’s promise, Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday.
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2020-09-13 19:08
Normalization with Israel aimed to implement ‘deal of century’: professor
TEHRAN – Bahrain and the UAE’s move to normalize ties with Israel is a step to implement the U.S.-brokered plan of the “deal of the century”, says the director of the West Asian Studies Group at the International Association of Muslim University Professors.
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2020-09-13 14:15
IRGC: Israel-Bahrain détente will refresh Muslim resolve to repel cancerous Israeli tumor
TEHRAN – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Saturday strongly condemned the normalization of ties between Bahrain and Israel, saying the Bahraini regime should await a harsh revenge from the country’s freedom-seekers and its Muslim people.
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2020-09-12 21:58
Bahrain normalization deal stokes fears of political exploitation in Israel and U.S.
TEHRAN – In a highly expected move, Bahrain and Israel agreed to normalize relations and exchange embassies. A West Asia expert tells the Tehran Times that the normalization deal is meant to serve internal interests in Israel, Bahrain, and the U.S.
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2020-09-12 11:39
Iran strongly condemns Bahrain-Israel deal
Iran calls Bahrain’s move to establish ties with Israel ‘disgraceful and humiliating’
TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Ministry condemned in the strongest terms a U.S.-brokered deal between the Kingdom of Bahrain and Israel, saying the Palestinian people and Muslims around the world “will never accept” the normalization of ties with Israel.
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2020-09-11 18:50
Iran advises Arab League to counter main source of threat in the region
TEHRAN - Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Thursday that the Arab League should focus on countering the main source of threat in the region instead of issuing “heinous” and “hollow” statements.
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2020-09-08 23:21
Iran, Turkey should make unified decision on UAE ‘betrayal’: Rouhani
TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani told his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday that Iran and Turkey should take a unified stance on a recent normalization deal between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel.
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2020-09-07 21:50
Iran’s response to any move by Mossad in region will include UAE, says aide to parliament speaker
TEHRAN – In a clear warning to the United Arab Emirates, Hussein Amir-Abdollahian, the special aide to the speaker of the Iranian Parliament on international affairs, said Iran’s response to any provocative move by the Israeli intelligence services would include the UAE.
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2020-09-06 18:18
Advisor sees Palestinians’ vigilance as chief reason behind failure of ‘deal of century’
TEHRAN - A senior foreign policy advisor to the Iranian parliament speaker has said that vigilance and resistance by the Palestinians are the chief reasons behind the defeat of the so-called “deal of the century”.
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2020-09-06 16:22
‘Presidential candidates in U.S. seeking Zionist lobby’s endorsement’
TEHRAN — The deputy chairman of the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee has said that rival presidential candidates in the U.S. are trying to get the endorsement of the anti-Iran and Zionist lobbies by pressuring Tehran.
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2020-09-06 11:19
Iran welcomes meeting of Palestinian groups
TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry has welcomed a recent meeting of the leaders of Palestinian groups, stressing that the only way to secure the liberation of the occupied Palestine and the holy Quds is that all Palestinian and resistance groups to remain united against the criminal and occupying regime of Israel.
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2020-09-05 23:08
UAE normalization deal with Israel is ‘apostasy’: deputy speaker
TEHRAN - Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, the first deputy speaker of the Iranian Parliament, denounced on Saturday a normalization deal between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi as an act of “apostasy” by the UAE.
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2020-09-05 23:08
UAE deal raises questions about manipulation of Jared Kushner by Israel
TEHRAN – Jared Kushner, the U.S. president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, who was a target of manipulation for many countries, is a “plaything” serving Israeli interests in a way that would destabilize the region, according to a former Iranian diplomat.
