TEHRAN -- Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi is scheduled to visit Oman on Saturday for consultations on the Strait of Hormuz, as part of efforts to facilitate safe maritime traffic in the strategic waterway, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Friday night.
In an interview with state-run IRIB TV, Baghaei said that under the recently signed Iran-U.S. memorandum of understanding (MoU), Iran and Oman should cooperate and consult on maritime issues regarding the strait, and several rounds of technical talks have been held over that both in Tehran and Muscat. (Iran-Hormuz Strait-Oman)
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JERUSALEM -- The U.S. military on Friday evacuated a squadron of its F-22 stealth fighter jets from Israel, Israel's state-owned Kan TV News reported.
According to the report, the squadron, consisting of 12 F-22 stealth fighters, had been based in Israel since Feb. 23 in preparation for a U.S.-Israeli military attack in Iran launched five days later. (Israel-US Jets-Evacuation)
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JERUSALEM -- Israel's political leadership has ordered the military to refrain from carrying out "unusual" operations in southern Lebanon following a demand from the United States, Israel's state-run Kan TV News reported on Friday.
According to Kan, the directive remains in effect until further notice, pending developments in the U.S.-Iran tensions and the ongoing negotiations between Israel and Lebanon. (Israel-Lebanon-Military Operations)
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ADEN -- Yemen's internationally recognized government has indefinitely postponed a planned prisoner exchange with the Houthi group, a government official told Xinhua on Friday.
"The prisoner exchange that was scheduled to take place in the coming hours has been postponed indefinitely due to the Houthi group's stalling," said the official from the government's Prisoners' Affairs Committee, who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing what he described as delays by the Houthi side in implementing the agreement. (Yemen-Houthis-Prisoner Swap) Enditem
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