Iran’s top leader vows ‘tough response’ to deadly ‘terror’ attack
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has vowed that a "tough response" will be given to those who perpetrated and ordered the deadly "act of terror" in the southeastern city of Kerman.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has vowed that a "tough response" will be given to those who perpetrated and ordered the deadly "act of terror" in the southeastern city of Kerman.
The military bases housing US troops across Iraq and the American embassy in the Green Zone have been frequently targeted by insurgent mortar and rocket attacks.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far as the military bases housing US troops across Iraq and the US embassy have been frequently targeted by mortar and rocket attacks.
Any Gulf turbulence affecting India's energy supplies is a national security concern as evident in the Indian Navy being deployed, like other outside powers', near the Strait of Hormuz to secure them.
Iran had termed the US action of “international terrorism” as “extremely dangerous and a foolish escalation”.
The Tuesday attacks against Ain al-Asad airbase and another installation hosting US and coalition forces in Iraq is said not to be meant for military casualties but signalling Iranian resolve in response to the US killing of Soleimani.
The two leaders discussed the need for a thorough investigation to determine the cause of the Ukrainian plane crash, which killed 176 people including 63 Canadians.
When asked about this issue at a media briefing, Japanese Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga neither confirmed or denied the information on the postponement of Abe's trip to the Middle East.
The crash came hours after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack targeting two bases in Iraq housing US forces in retaliation for the killing of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassim Suleimani.
The split between the president and his Pentagon chief came amid heightened tensions with Tehran following a US drone strike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force
