Director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, warned that Iran was likely to attack the Zionist entity if Tel Aviv went ahead with airstrikes on alleged Iranian targets in Syria. “We assess that Iran seeks to avoid a major armed conflict with Israel. However, Israeli strikes that result in Iranian casualties ...
Moscow on Tuesday slammed as “illegal” sanctions announced by Washington against Venezuela’s state oil company aimed at crippling embattled President Nicolas Maduro’s power base. “The legitimate authorities of Venezuela have already labelled these sanctions illegal. We can wholly support this point of view,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists.