Middle East Experience

Araqchi said on Wednesday that Tehran had not delivered any ballistic missiles to Russia and sanctions imposed on Iran by the US and three European powers would not solve any problems between them.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Iran says it is open to talks but rejects pressure as US, EU impose sanctions

Thirty-six years after his death, the king of Mizrahi music is resurrected and will be joining the Revivo Project for a concert in Tel Aviv

Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Return of the king: Avatar of Zohar Argov to take the stage

A senior UN official said Saturday that teachers and other UN staff working in Gaza fear they are now targets after an Israeli air strike hit a school-turned-shelter in the territory this week.Wednesday's strike on the UN-run Al-Jawni School in central Gaza, which is housing displaced Palestinians, killed 18 people. including six employees of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). It was the deadliest single incident for the agency in more than 11 months of war and drew international condemnation.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: UN official says staff fear they are 'a target' as Israel hits Gaza shelters

Iran's Chamran-1 satellite was reportedly put into orbit with a rocket that uses solid-state fuel in its third stage just a week after the IRGC sent short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for use in Ukraine.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Iran's IRGC launches its fifth satellite into space

Novelist Elias Khoury, one of Lebanon's most renowned writers and a fervent advocate of the Palestinian cause, died on Sunday from illness aged 76, sources close to his family told AFP.Khoury, who was born in 1948 to a Christian family in Beirut, died in the Lebanese capital where he had been hospitalised for months, the sources said.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury dies aged 76

Israel dropped leaflets over a Lebanon border village Sunday urging residents to leave, state-run media said, but Israel's military told AFP a brigade had taken the initiative without approval.It was the first time Israelis had told residents of south Lebanon to evacuate in 11 months of cross-border fire between Hezbollah and Israel over the Gaza war, triggered by Hezbollah ally Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Israeli leaflets tell south Lebanon residents to evacuate

A senior Hamas official told AFP on Sunday that the Palestinian Islamist movement had ample resources to continue fighting Israel despite losses sustained over more than 11 months of war in Gaza."The resistance has a high ability to continue," Osama Hamdan told AFP during an interview in Istanbul. "There were martyrs and there were sacrifices... but in return there was an accumulation of experiences and the recruitment of new generations into the resistance."
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Hamas official says group has 'high ability' to continue Gaza war despite losses

Thirty-four women prisoners went on hunger strike in an Iranian prison Sunday to mark two years since protests erupted against clerical authorities, the foundation of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi said."Today, on the 15th September 2024, 34 female political prisoners in Evin Prison have gone on a hunger strike in commemoration of the second anniversary of the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement and the killing of Mahsa (Jina) Amini," it said.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: 34 Iran women prisoners on hunger strike: jailed Nobel peace laureate

The IDF will now probe why the interceptor impact only caused the missile to break up and did not completely destroy it.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Houthi's ballistic missile fired toward Israel is not hypersonic, IDF says

Shane Curry, charged with first-degree murder for fatally stabbing his girlfriend, Nevaeh Goddard, with a sword, attempted suicide after.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: ‘Hitting her is not working, have to knife her’: Man accused of stabbing girlfriend with sword