Tag: Iran

EU: Copernicus EMS searches for Iran President

Brussels 19.05.2024 The European Union has responded to the request of the government of Iran, and started to search for the missing helicopter with President Ebrahim Raisi on board. “Upon Iranian request for assistance we are activating the EU’s Copernicus EMS /Copernicus Emergency Management Service/ rapid response for mapping service in view of to the…

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MEPs condemn Iran drone attack on Israel

Strasbourg 25.04.2024 MEPs strongly condemn the recent Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel and call for further sanctions against Iran, voting for a resolution on April 25. Condemning the Iranian strikes on April 13 and 14, MEPs voice serious concern over the escalation and threat to regional security. MEPs reiterate their full support for…

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IDF hits Iran Consulate in Damascus

Brussels 01.04.2024 UPDATE 18:52 *Iranian media also reported that the strikes in Damascus completely destroyed the annex building, and that the ambassador was unharmed. **AFP correspondents at the site confirmed the building next to the embassy, an annex, had been levelled, in an upscale neighbourhood of Damascus. Today Israeli warplanes struck the Iranian consulate in…

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EU: launches ASPIDES operation in Red Sea

Brussels 31.01.2024 “…We discussed two regions of common interest: the Red Sea and the Sahel. We did that in presence of our partners from the United Nations, NATO and also invited the European Parliament” said the EU High Representative Josep Borrell, after the Informal Defence Ministers meeting. “You know that the maritime security in the…

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Sakharov Prize: MEPs honour Iranian Jina Mahsa Amini

Strasbourg 12.12.2023 The European Parliament 2023 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought has been awarded to Jina Mahsa Amini and the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, in a ceremony on 12 December. The laureates were represented by Saleh Nikbakht, academic and acting lawyer of Jina Mahsa Amini’s family; and Afsoon Najafi and Mersedeh Shahinkar,…

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EU: Iran restrictive measures

Brussels 11.12.2023 The Council today imposed restrictive measures against 6 persons and 5 entities involved in Iran’s development and production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) used in Russia’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine. These are the first listings under the newly established framework for restrictive measures in view of Iran’s military support of Russia’s…

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Iran: EU diplomat trial rises suspicion

Brussels 10.12.2023 The trial against Swedish national and EU employee Johan Floderus started on December 9, Saturday. Floderus, a 33-year-old Swedish citizen and EU diplomat, has been held captive in Iran Tehran’s Evin prison, for the past 18 months, prompting his family to draw attention to the severe conditions he faces. “As EU, we have…

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EU: new measures against Iran

Brussels 20.07.2023 The Council today established a new framework for restrictive measures in view of Iran’s military support of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. #Iran 🇮🇷 #drones:@EUCouncil lists 6 people and creates a new sanctions regime to allow the EU to list Iranian people & entities providing military support to Russia’s war of aggression…

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Tehran: Azerbaijan evacuates diplomats

Brussels 29.01.2023 Azerbaijan will evacuate Embassy staff and family members from Iran on Sunday, January 29, the Foreign ministry spokesperson said, two days after a gunman shot dead a security guard and wounded two other people in an attack Baku branded an “act of terrorism”. The footage of surveillance cameras released on social media clearly…

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