Trump claims Iran wants a ceasefire, Iran says remarks are ‘false and baseless’
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“Trump claims Iran wants a ceasefire, Iran says remarks are ‘false and baseless’”
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— On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from U.S. president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader …
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— Since the beginning of the 2025–2026 Iranian protests, the government of Iran has perpetrated widespread massacres of civilians, deploying both its own security forces and also imported foreign militi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres
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— On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel started a war with surprise airstrikes on sites and cities across Iran, assassinating Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several other Iranian officials …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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“US journalist Shelly Kittleson kidnapped in Iraq”
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— The 2026 Iran war has involved Iraq, where Iranian forces and allied militias conducted missile and drone strikes against coalition facilities and targeted areas in Baghdad and Kurdistan Region.
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— The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist m…
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— Shelly Kittleson (born 1976/77) is a freelance American journalist, primarily reporting on conflict, security, and humanitarian concerns in the Middle East and Afghanistan. On March 31, 2026, Kittleso…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelly_Kittleson
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“Death penalty 'a deep stain on the law books of the state of Israel'”
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— Death penalty law 'a deep stain on the law books of the state of Israel'
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“‘Blatantly racist’: Death penalty law among 'worst legislation' in Israeli parliamentary history”
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“As US pursues 'maximalist demands', Iran relies on four decades of asymmetric warfare”
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“Gulf allies privately make the case to Trump to keep fighting until Iran is decisively defeated”
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— Beginning on 28 February 2026, the governments of the United States under Donald Trump and Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu launched coordinated joint attacks on various sites in Iran, which started t…
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— On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from U.S. president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader …
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— On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel started a war with surprise airstrikes on sites and cities across Iran, assassinating Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several other Iranian officials …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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“Israel to occupy swaths of south Lebanon and destroy houses near border”
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“Iran desalination plant in the Strait of Hormuz out of service following strikes”
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