Iran’s aircraft manufacturing capabilities should be taken with a large grain of salt.
Here s What You Need to Remember: The latest F-5 iteration, the Kowsar, was shown in an unveiling ceremony in 2018 attended by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani claimed once again that this time, they had manufactured at “fourth generation” jet fighter completely domestically.
The American-designed Northrop F-5 was first drawn up in the late 1950s or early 1960s. Originally envisioned as a highly aerodynamic fighter with good handling characteristics, including high thrust and supersonic flight, and ease of maintenance.
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Prior to the Iranian revolution, Iran received extensive American military aid the Imperial Iranian Air Force was no exception and received hundreds of F-5s in several variants. Iran had also received a number of more advanced fighters from the United States and other countries, which resulted in a sell-off of their F-5 frames, though they retained sev
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Iran’s President Optimistic on Progress of Vienna Talks Iran s foreign minister said the onus is on the US to revive nuclear deal
Because President Biden refuses to lift all Trump-era sanctions on Iran, the two sides are negotiating what measures the US will lift. Rouhani said progress has been made on most major sanctions.
“We’ve reached a point where the Americans and the Europeans are saying openly they have no choice but to lift sanctions and return to the [nuclear deal], and that almost all main sanctions have been lifted and talks continue on some details,” he said on Saturday.
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The Guardian report on this morning’s clashes that have broken out between Israeli police and Palestinians at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, ahead of a planned Jewish nationalist march. Palestinians threw stones at Israeli security forces, who fired stun grenades, according to reports. Hundreds of Palestinians and more than 20 Israeli police have been injured in clashes over the past three days. There are fears of more violence on Monday over the annual Jerusalem Day Flag March.
Reuters has published an explainer into how and why the tensions and riots in Jerusalem began. The news site also reports that US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday expressed “serious concerns” to his Israeli counterpart about violent clashes in Jerusalem sparked by planned evictions of Palestinians from East Jerusalem. Israel and the US also “agreed that the launching of rocket attacks and incendiary balloons from Gaza
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West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is bid in the open on Monday with a few headlines from the weekend being digested.
WTI is trading at $65.29 and has travelled between a low of $64.83 and a high of $65.50 in a bullish start to the week.
WTI was ending Friday around flat at $64.83 and travelled between a low of $63.93 and $65.21, recovering from the worst levels of the day due to the growing optimism over the economic reopening in the US and Europe.
West Texas Intermediate crude for June delivery added on 19 cents, or 0.3%, to settle at $64.90 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, leaving front-month prices for the US benchmark up 2.1% for the week.
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A Palestinian family prepare traditional pastries to be sold in preparation for the upcoming Eid al-Fitr holiday which marks the end of Ramadan, in the village of Susya in the southern area of Hebron, on May 7, 2021. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP)
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Israeli police use a water cannon to disperse Palestinian protesters from the area near the Damascus Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem after clashes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Friday, May 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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A member of UNIFIL monitors from a hill by the border facing the Israeli northern town of Metula, during a ceremony by members and supporters of Hezbollah and Palestinian refugees to mark al-Quds (Jerusalem) day, on May 7, 2021. (Photo by Ali DIA / AFP)