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Iran Tests New “Smart” Missile with 300km Strike Range Our Bureau 2533 Iran has test-fired a new medium-range smart missile that can fly as far as 300km. “The missile is prepared for deployment in defense of our homeland. We are trying for our armaments in the area to firstly be smart, secondly be capable of automatic control function, and thirdly be surgical in nature,” Brigadier General Kioumars Heydari, commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Force, was quoted as saying by gover...

A catastrophic explosion and fire at an Afghan customs depot has destroyed hundreds of fuel tankers and caused traders tens of millions of dollars of losses. A series of blasts hurled lorries hundreds of yards into the air and deposited the crumpled remains of fuel tanks as far as half a mile from the blast site. Nasa satellites could reportedly see the blast from space and the fire was so intense that Afghan officials appealed to neighbouring Iran for help. The blast on the Iranian border in W...

Francis Boyle, Ali Khamenei: Meet the superspreaders behind top COVID-19 conspiracy theories Legitimate questions about the virus created perfect conditions for conspiracy theories. In the absence of knowledge, guesswork and propaganda flourished Associated Press | February 15, 2021 | Updated 12:58 IST Anonymous social media users posed as high-level intelligence officials. And from China to Iran to Russia to the United States, governments amplified claims for their own motives As the coronavi...

As the coronavirus spread across the globe, so too did speculation about its origins. Perhaps the virus escaped from a lab. Maybe it was engineered as a bioweapon.

As the coronavirus spread across the globe, so too did speculation about its origins. Perhaps the virus escaped from a lab. Maybe it was engineered as a bioweapon. Legitimate questions about the virus created perfect conditions for conspiracy theories. In the absence of knowledge, guesswork and propaganda flourished. University professors with no evidence or training in virology were touted as experts. Anonymous social media users posed as high-level intelligence officials. And from China to Ir...

As the coronavirus spread across the globe, so too did speculation about its origins....

It came during a three-day war game underway in southern Iranian waters. The Army on Thursday and Friday held the first and second days of the large-scale military exercise, which included testing drones and firing cruise missiles. The war game, dubbed Zolfaqar-99, kicked off under the command of the Army’s Zolfaqar base. It has been attended by the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, and Air Defense. The exercise covers an area of two million square kilometers in the eastern waters of the Strait ...

14 Feb in 13:30 The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ (IRGC) Ground Force completed a two-day massive drill in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, near the Iraqi border on February 12,Caspian News reports.  The drill dubbed “Payambar-e Azam 16” (The Great Prophet), involved infantry units, commandos, special forces, armored divisions, artillery, missile and drone units, and ground force airborne troops of the IRGC, according to Iran’s Mehr news agency. “In this drill, all battalio...

The blasts on the Afghan-Iranian border were powerful enough to be spotted from space by Nasa satellites. 14 February 2021 • 5:05pm Explosions at a border customs depot in Islam Qala, in Afghanistans Herat province, destroyed as many as 500 tankers and caused more than $50m in damage.  Credit: Andrew Quilty for the Telegraph A catastrophic explosion and fire at an Afghan customs depot has destroyed hundreds of fuel tankers and caused traders tens of millions of pounds of losses. A series of ...

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