DUBAI

• Iran's top diplomat issues most direct threat yet to US as crackdown over protests squeezes nation - Iran's foreign minister issued the most direct threat yet Wednesday against the United States after Tehran's bloody crackdown on protesters, warning the Islamic Republic will be “firing back with everything we have if we come under renewed
• Internet shutdown squeezes Iran's ailing businesses already hurt by crashing currency - Iranians have been struggling for nearly two weeks with the longest, most comprehensive internet shutdown in the history of the Islamic Republic — one that has not only restricted their access to information and the outside world, but is al
• Hackers target Iran state TV's satellite transmission to broadcast exiled crown prince - Hackers disrupted Iranian state television satellite transmissions to air footage supporting the country's exiled crown prince and calling on security forces to not “point your weapons at the people,” footage online showed early Monday, the
• Iran army chief threatens preemptive attack over 'rhetoric' targeting country after Trump's comments - Iran's army chief threatened preemptive military action Wednesday over the “rhetoric” targeting the Islamic Republic, likely referring to U.S. President Donald Trump's warning that if Tehran “violently kills peaceful protesters,” the United
• Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen over shipment of weapons for separatists that arrived from UAE - Saudi Arabia bombed the port city of Mukalla in Yemen on Tuesday over what it described as a shipment of weapons for a separatist force there that arrived from the United Arab Emirates. The UAE did not immediately acknowledge the strike.