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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says the late Qasem Soleimani, commander of the elite Quds Force, will be buried in Kerman, his hometown, on Tuesday. Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike on Thursday night. A huge crowd in Iraq’s capital Baghdad is currently taking part in a...

An image which circulated on Iranian media in the aftermath purporting to show Quds commander Qassem Soleimani's hand after the strike in the early hours of Friday. Two officials from the Iran-backed People's Mobilzation Forces (PMF) said Soleimani's body was torn..... Read more via Nairaland...

Donald Trump has spoken out following the killing of Qassem Soleimani (pictured above), who was the head of the elite Quds Force and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy-leader of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces at Baghdad International Airport. The US president taunted Iran following calls...

The United States issues travel advisory to its citizens in Iraq – The State Department issued the security alert after Iran promised retaliation against the US for an airstrike that killed top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani – The US says all consular operations are suspended in Iraq due …...

Iran will take a crushing revenge for the assassination on Friday of Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, the top commander of the elite Quds Force, Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami said, according to state news agency IRNA. “A crushing revenge will be taken for Soleimani’s unjust...

The Pentagon has confirmed that commander of Iran’s Quds Force has been killed in a United States air strike ordered by President Donald Trump and aimed at "deterring future Iranian attack plans"..... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2ZQnDQi Get more World News

Football’s governing body FIFA has been “assured” by Iran that they will lift its 40-year ban and allow women to attend a World Cup qualifying game next month. According to FIFA, the strict law against women breaches international soccer statutes prohibiting discrimination. FIFA President...

An Iranian female football fan who set herself on fire a week ago has died. The woman set herself alight in Tehran after her trial, for attempting to enter a football stadium disguised as a man, was postponed. The authorities in Iran regularly stop women from entering stadiums. Her … Read...

Oil prices firmed on Monday amid tensions over Iran’s nuclear program but gains were tempered by concerns about global economic growth and consequently oil demand... Read more via Reuters – https://ift.tt/2L8NnCM Get more: Nigeria Business News

US President Donald Trump has said he is imposing hard-hitting new sanctions on Iran, including on the office of the country’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamene.... Read more via BBC News – https://bbc.in/2YdBYo8 Get more World News

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ruled out any future negotiations with the U.S. on Thursday, during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.... Read more via Leadership Newspaper – http://bit.ly/2WAScpP Get more World News

Oil prices jumped as much as 4 per cent on Thursday after a suspected attack on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman near Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of global oil consumption passes..... Read more via Leadership Newspaper – http://bit.ly/2ICgbQq Get more: Nigeria...

Iran’s foreign minister has criticized President Donald Trump for his overnight tweet threatening to the Islamic Republic with its "official end." Mohammad Javad Zarif posted his own message Monday on Twitter, saying Trump had been "goaded" into "genocidal taunts." Zarif wrote that Trump...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has dismissed US President Donald Trump’s "genocidal taunts" and warned him not to threaten the country. With tensions rising, Mr Trump tweeted on Sunday: "If … Read more via BBC News – https://bbc.in/2Elu0Bt Get more World News

TOKYO (Reuters) – Iran is committed to its obligations under an international nuclear deal despite the U.S. withdrawal from the landmark agreement, its foreign minister said on Thursday, calling the reimposition of sanctions by Washington “unacceptable”. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad...

Iran has pulled out of key commitments under the 2015 international nuclear deal, a year after it was abandoned by the US. President Hassan Rouhani said Tehran would keep enriched uranium stocks in the country and not sell them abroad.... Read more via BBC News – https://bbc.in/3035DSl Get...

Iran is one of the most heavily sanctioned countries in the world. The United States will on Thursday go one severe step further toward strangling the country’s oil-dependent economy.... Read more via The Atlantic – http://bit.ly/2LhYB97 Get more World News

Oil prices rose sharply Monday to their highest levels since November as the White House confirmed it will end sanctions waivers for countries that still purchase Iranian oil... Read more via Axios – http://bit.ly/2DrKRCm Get more World News

Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, stepped down on Monday, announcing his resignation on Instagram. “I am apologising to you for all the shortcomings … in the … Read more via P.M. News – https://ift.tt/2Su0Fc4 Get more World News

More than 700 people were injured in a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that shook western Iran, ... Read more via Liadi’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2zpptM0 Get more World News