(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Iran’s Deputy Health Minister, Iraj Harirchi and an MP Mahmoud Sadeghi, have both tested positive to the new coronavirus Covid – 19. The development happened as the country struggles to contain an outbreak that has killed 15. The country is one of three hot-spots outside China causing concern that the virus could be becoming a pandemic. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After maintaining for days that there was no evidence to show one of its missiles had struck the plane, the Iranian military said it was an accident caused by human error. Iran announced early Saturday that it had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, blaming it on human error because of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Boeing 737 plane carrying 180 passengers and crew crashed shortly after takeoff from Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran, Iran early Wednesday. Most passengers on board the Ukraine International Airlines flight died, said Pirhossein Koulivand, head of Iran’s Emegency Medical Services. Emergency crews have been dispatched to the crash site but cannot […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Protesters enraged by the recent deadly US air strikes targeted at an Iran-backed Iraqi militia have attacked the US embassy compound in the capital Baghdad. While responding, the US troops fired tear gas to disperse the crowd that breached the outer wall of the compound, which is in the capital’s heavily fortified Green […]
The diplomatic row ongoing between Iran and Saudi Arabia Thursday deepens as the Shiat Middle East nation accused the Saudi-led coalition warplanes of “deliberately” bombing its embassy in Sanaa, the Yemen’s capital. The local media quoted Iranian foreign Ministry Spokesman, claiming that members of staff had been wounded in an air strike. In the same […]
