Israel’s most extremist former PM and his ultra-right coalition are set to be in power.

Talks to revive the 2015 Iran deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA, remain stalled after a year of intensive diplomacy.

With an economy weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic, Tel Aviv took a huge risk in starting a war which, it appears, it had not thought through economically or politically.

More than a week into the Israeli aggression against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite more and more civilians falling victim to such attacks, the US has approved the sale of $735 million of precision guided missiles to Israel.

Israel boasts of having a higher percentage of its population inoculated against COVID-19 than anyone else yet has intentionally excluded Palestinians living under Israeli occupation from receiving the vaccine in a clear case of medical apartheid.

Iran has finally begun the first human trial of a domestically-produced coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for the country to be among only a few nations capable of producing it.

Arab countries aligning with Israel is nothing new. However, what is new and less reported is Saudi Arabia's attempt to encourage not only Arab but also African countries to join the pro-Israeli covenant.

Iran's defense ministry said the top scientist was seriously wounded after attackers targeted his car and exchanged fire with his bodyguards in Absard, to the east of capital Tehran. Fakhrizadeh later died from his injuries in hospital.