Category: 2. Middle East

Iran said Tuesday that it is in talks with FIFA to relocate its 2026 World Cup matches from the US to Mexico, citing security and logistical concerns, Anadolu reports.

Iran’s Embassy in Mexico wrote on the US social…

MEXICO CITY, March 17 (Reuters) – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Tuesday that her country would have no problem hosting Iran’s matches in the 2026 World Cup, if soccer governing body FIFA agrees.

Iran’s football federation has asked…

AMSTERDAM, March 17 (Reuters) – The Netherlands is investigating whether Iran was involved in the attack on a Rotterdam synagogue on Friday, Justice Minister David van Weel has said, adding that the suspects apprehended for the attack had most…

The four youths arrested on suspicion of detonating an explosive device outside a Rotterdam synagogue were probably “recruited”, the Dutch justice minister said Tuesday, with investigators probing possible links to Iran.

The attack on the…

A senior US counterterrorism official resigned on Tuesday to protest the US-Israeli war against Iran and said the Islamic Republic posed no imminent threat to the United States.

“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Joseph…

The director of the US National Counterterrorism Center, Joseph Kent, resigned Tuesday, citing his opposition to the ongoing US war in Iran, Anadolu reports.

“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in…

Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney on Tuesday criticized the actions of the US and Israel in Iran, saying they “have no basis under international law,” Anadolu reports.

“So let me be clear, the…

WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) – The head of the National Counterterrorism Center resigned on Tuesday, becoming the first and most senior member of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to resign over the war in Iran, saying Tehran posed…