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Qassem Soleimani
Rescue teams work amid debris after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers crashed near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran early in the morning on January 8, 2020, killing everyone on board. (AFP)
February 24, 2021, 7:42 am
UN expert says Iran lied about downing of Ukraine airliner
Special UN rapporteur says Tehran’s explanation of 2020 incident, which killed 176, contradicts facts and technical assessments of experts
By AFP
Illustrative: Passengers queue to get on buses in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Nov. 6, 2020. (AP/Mulugeta Ayene)
February 15, 2021, 7:08 pm
Ethiopia foils Iranian plot to target UAE embassy in Addis Ababa — report
16 suspected cell members nabbed in what Western intelligence officials believe is part of broader plot to hit ‘soft targets’ of Israel and its allies in Africa in revenge attacks
By TOI staff
Supporters of Hezbollah terror group leader Hassan Nasrallah chant slogans ahead of his televised speech in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, January 5, 2020. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)
February 9, 2021, 7:48 pm
IDF: Hezbollah likely to initiate limited battles with Israel in 2021, not war
Military releases annual intelligence assessment for coming year, sees Iran shifting focus to Yemen and Iraq as possible launchpads for attacks on the Jewish state
By Judah Ari Gross
In this July 1, 2019 photo, United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths speaks during his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, Russia. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)
February 7, 2021, 4:54 pm
UN Yemen envoy makes first visit to Iran in push for peace
Martin Griffiths meets with Iran’s top diplomat to negotiate an end to humanitarian crisis, days after Biden pulls support for Saudi-led coalition
By Agencies and TOI staff
In this Sept. 21, 2019 file photo, Shiite Houthi tribesmen hold their weapons as they chant slogans during a tribal gathering showing support for the Houthi movement, in Sanaa, Yemen (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
February 6, 2021, 7:43 am
Biden moves to revoke terrorist designation for Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthis
White House cites need to mitigate humanitarian disaster; official says removal changes nothing about administration’s view of group, which targeted civilians, kidnapped Americans
By Agencies and TOI staff
Illustrative: Ethiopian Federal Police ride through Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Friday May 21, 2010. (AP/Jerome Delay)
February 5, 2021, 10:41 am
Report: Ethiopia arrests 16 in an Iranian cell planning attack on UAE embassy
Kan says fears of Iranian attack led to two months of high alert at Israeli mission in the African country
By TOI staff
Worshipers in Iran chant slogans during Friday prayers ceremony by a banner showing slain Iranian Revolutionary Guard general Qassem Soleimani, left, and Iraqi Shiite senior militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in Iraq in a US drone attack on January 3, and a banner which reads in Persian: 'Death To America,' at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, January 17, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
February 1, 2021, 11:46 pm
Iranian agents scouted Israeli, US, UAE embassies in East Africa for attack — TV
Attempted strike to avenge deaths of Iranian general, nuclear scientist was thwarted last month, Kan News claims, citing Western intelligence sources
By TOI staff
National Security Guard soldiers inspect the site of a blast near the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi, India, Jan. 30, 2021 (AP Photo/Dinesh Joshi)
January 30, 2021, 6:02 pm
Mossad said involved in probe of blast near Israeli embassy in New Delhi
Police reported to question Iranian nationals as letter claiming responsibility cites killings of Iranian officials; Israeli envoy: We weren’t surprised, we’d been on high alert
By Agencies and TOI staff
Police close off a street after an explosion near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi on January 29, 2021. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)
January 30, 2021, 12:41 pm
Note at Israel embassy blast scene cites Fakhrizadeh, Soleimani deaths — report
Letter found nearby reportedly claims Friday’s New Delhi explosion was just a ‘trailer’; 2nd claim on Telegram by unknown group says device targeted Indian government, not Israel
By TOI staff and Agencies
Palestinian members of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group, parade with a replica rocket on a truck during a march to show loyalty for the Iranian-backed Palestinian movement's newly-elected leader Ziad al-Nakhalah during a rally along the streets of Gaza, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
January 23, 2021, 9:07 pm
Islamic Jihad says late Iranian general Soleimani gave ‘direct orders’ in Gaza
Assassinated Quds force commander behind ‘complex’ delivery of Iranian missiles used to attack Tel Aviv, says senior figure in Palestinian terror group
By TOI staff
An image posted on Ali Khamenei's @khamenei_site Twitter account threatening former US president Donald Trump, with a doctored image of him playing golf under a shadow of a drone. (Twitter)
January 22, 2021, 4:46 pm
Khamenei account suspended after tweet of Trump golfing under warplane shadow
Twitter freezes account linked to Iranian supreme leader for threats to avenge 2020 Soleimani death, but main account that routinely threatens destruction of Jewish state still up
By TOI staff and Agencies
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends a news conference with Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza at the Foreign Ministry in Caracas, Venezuela, Nov. 5, 2020 (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
January 21, 2021, 9:06 am
Iran’s Zarif: Trump administration ‘relegated to the dustbin of history’
Tehran’s foreign minister says memories of US ‘crimes against humanity’ will continue; also retweets Soleimani’s daughter
By AFP and TOI staff
Popular Mobilization Forces and their supporters light candles at Baghdad's international airport on the first anniversary of the killing of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of the PMF and Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran's Quds forces, on Saturday, January 2, 2021. (Khalid Mohammed/AP)
January 7, 2021, 2:22 pm
A year later, Iraq issues arrest warrant for Trump over killing of Iran general
Symbolic move, relating to 2020 drone strike targeting Qassem Soleimani and militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, alleges premeditated murder, which carries death penalty
By AP
A Patriot missile defense battery sits in the desert in the Ovda air base in southern Israel during the international Blue Flag exercise on November 9, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
January 7, 2021, 8:53 am
IDF deploys air defenses to south amid threats of attack from Yemen
Iron Dome and Patriot batteries seen in Eilat area in recent days over concerns Iran may seek revenge for killings of Soleimani, Fakhrizadeh with attack on Israel by Houthis
By Judah Ari Gross
A worker cleans a statue of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, installed to commemorate the anniversary of his killing, in a US drone strike in Baghdad, in Ghobeiry, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
January 6, 2021, 6:42 pm
In Beirut, bronze bust of Iran general Soleimani sparks criticism of Hezbollah
Large statue of Quds Force chief erected in honor of efforts against Israel, but opponents slam it as ‘a cultural aggression being imposed on Lebanon’
By Agencies
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