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Greco-Roman wrestler wins Iran’s first medal in Paris Olympics

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Greco-Roman wrestler Amin Mirzazadeh claimed Iran’s first medal in the 2024 Olympic Games in France on Tuesday.
Middle East

Israeli warplanes set off sonic booms over Beirut as Hezbollah warns of response

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Israeli fighter jets have flown over the Lebanese capital Beirut, setting off a series of sonic booms meant to intimidate the city’s population following drone attacks on northern Israel by Hezbollah.
Security

Iran acting FM tells UK’s Lammy Europe, US wasted diplomacy chance for de-escalation

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The acting Iranian foreign minister, in a telephone conversation with the British foreign secretary, emphasized that the United States and several European countries, by obstructing the United Nations Security Council from countering the Zionist regime, have wasted the first diplomatic chance to de-escalate tensions in the region.
Middle East

12 Palestinians killed in Israel West Bank raid, one of deadliest in months

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Israeli attacks, including air strikes on the Jenin refugee camp, have killed at least 12 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank in one of the deadliest days in the territory in recent months, the Palestinian Health Ministry has announced.
Middle East

Hamas names Yahya Sinwar as new leader following Haniyeh assassination

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Hamas on Tuesday announced that it has chosen Yahya Sinwar, who heads the movement in the Gaza Strip, as the new chief of the group, following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran last week.
Foreign Policy

Visa waiver between Iran, Tajikistan to take effect soon

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The visa waiver system between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Tajikistan will come into effect on August 10, 2024.
Middle East

Hezbollah conducts air attacks on Israel, warns more to come

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Lebanon's armed group Hezbollah launched a series of drone and rocket attacks into northern Israel on Tuesday but warned that its much-anticipated retaliation for the regime's killing of a top commander last week was yet to come.
Middle East

5 killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon

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Five people were killed and four others wounded on Tuesday in Israeli air raids on two Lebanese villages, Lebanon's military sources told Xinhua news agency.
Europe

Zelensky says Ukraine clinging onto ‘peace formula’

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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that his administration aims to work out a basis for a “just end” to the conflict with Russia this year.
Middle East

8 Palestinians, including 3 teens, killed in Israel West Bank raids

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Palestinian officials say Israeli soldiers killed eight people in two separate attacks in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, as violence in the occupied territory shows no sign of abating.
Security

Sunni scholar killed, another injured in shooting in southeast Iran

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A Sunni scholar was killed and another was wounded in a shooting in the southeastern Iranian city of Rask on Monday evening, the governor of the town announced.
Middle East

Palestine’s Abbas: Haniyeh killed to prolong Gaza war

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The assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran was intended to prolong the conflict in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Russia’s RIA state news agency in an interview published Tuesday.
Middle East

Israel has stolen thousands of bodies from Gaza Strip: Report

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Israeli soldiers have taken at least 2,000 bodies from cemeteries throughout the besieged Gaza Strip over the course of the war, and some corpses have been handed back in ways that “desecrated the bodies” of those killed, Gaza’s government media office has reported.
Judiciary

Initial court ruling on Iranian singer Hajipour annulled

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An initial court verdict on Iranian Grammy Award-winning singer Shervin Hajipour has been declared null and void in an appeals court, according to the Iranian Judiciary’s Media Center.
Security

Iran security chief: Reprisal against Israel ‘definite’

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Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says the Israeli regime will definitely get a response over the assassination of the political head of the Palestinian resistance movement in Tehran last week.
Middle East

Israel systematically abusing Palestinians in ‘torture camps’: Report

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Israeli authorities are systematically abusing Palestinian detainees in torture camps, subjecting them to severe violence and sexual assault, the Israeli rights group  B'Tselem has reported.
Foreign Policy

President Pezeshkian: Enhancing relations with Russia Iran’s ‘foreign policy priority’

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has described Moscow as a “strategic partner” of Tehran, stressing that the expansion of ties with Russia is a top foreign policy priority of his government.
Middle East

9 employees ‘may have been involved’ in October 7 Hamas attack against Israel: UN

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The United Nations has announced nine employees of UNRWA, its agency for Palestinian refugees, “may have been involved” in the October 7 attack on southern Israel by Palestinian group Hamas, adding that they have been fired.
Middle East

Several US soldiers injured in rocket attack on military base in Iraq

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A suspected rocket attack on a military base in western Iraq has wounded several US personnel, according to a defense spokesperson.
Europe

Ukraine claims West too fearful of escalation with Russia

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Kiev is pushing NATO member states to create a coalition that would attempt to intercept Russian missiles but the Western nations are always concerned about possible escalation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated.
Security

Iran’s top military official describes ties with Moscow, strategic, deep-rooted

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Brigadier General Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces told Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of Russia’s National Security Council, that the ties between Tehran and Moscow are strategic, deep and long-term and will not change with the change of administrations.
Incidents

Huge fire shuts economic zone in northeast Iran

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A huge blaze has caused damage to the fuel tanks in the Dowqarun special economic zone in Iran’s northwest region of Taybad near the border with Afghanistan.
Middle East

Nearly half of Hamas’ battalions in north, central Gaza rebuilt fighting power: Report

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Nearly half of Hamas' military battalions in northern and central Gaza Strip have rebuilt some of their fighting capabilities at least once, a CNN investigation has found.
Foreign Policy

Iranian Acting FM to foreign ambassadors: Haniyeh assassination part of genocide of Palestinians 

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Iran’s Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri tells foreign ambassadors in Tehran that the assassination of late leader of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh is part of the Zionist regime’s genocidal project targeting Palestinians.
Foreign Policy

Iran’s response to Haniyeh assassination definite: Spokesman

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No one can throw doubt on Tehran’s right to respond to the Israeli assassination of the Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani told reporters on Monday.
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