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Saudi Arabia says would ‘certainly’ recognize Israel if Palestinian issue resolved

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Prince Faisal bin Farhan

“We agree that regional peace includes peace for Israel, but that could only happen through peace for the Palestinians through a Palestinian state,” Prince Faisal bin Farhan told a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Asked if Saudi Arabia would then recognize Israel as part of a wider political agreement, he said: “Certainly.”

He added securing regional peace through the creation of a Palestinian state was “something we have been indeed working on with the US administration, and it is more relevant in the context of Gaza”.

Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin Salman told Fox News in an interview aired late September that they “get closer” every day to normalization with Tel Aviv. Israeli Premiere Benjamin Netanyahu said during his UN speech last month that the regime was at the cusp of a historic normalization deal with Saudi Arabia.

However, the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has reportedly blocked further talks.

Washington’s efforts for adding Saudi Arabia to the list of Arab countries that have signed the Abraham Accords come at a critical time when US President Joe Biden is seeking re-election and the US government has been left embarrassed by the kingdom’s bolstering of ties with Iran and Syria, and its further gravitation toward China.

The UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco signed US-brokered normalization agreements with Israel in 2020, drawing condemnations from Palestinians who slammed the deals as “a stab in the back of the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people”.

EU adds Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to terrorist list

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Yahya Sinwar

While Hamas is already designated as a terrorist organisation by the EU, the new decision means that Sinwar’s assets in EU member states will be frozen.

The decision also means that no economic resources can be made available to him from EU states, according to reports.

“The decision comes as part of the European Union’s response to the threat posed by Hamas and its brutal and indiscriminate terrorist attacks in Israel on 7 October 2023,” an official statement from the Council of the European Union said.

In December, the Council added Hamas military leaders Mohammed Deif and Marwan Issa to the list.

Sinwar served 22 years in prison until he was released along with more than 1,000 other Palestinian prisoners in exchange for an Israeli soldier in 2011.

Taher al-Nono, media adviser to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, has called for an end to the EU’s “double-standard policy”.

“These are ridiculous and silly sanctions because everyone knows that Yahya Sinwar has no assets or money neither in Palestine nor outside it,” he told Reuters.

“Such a decision has no value against Hamas, but the idea of imposing sanctions on the leaders of the resistance and Hamas, which is resisting the [Israeli] occupation as granted by international law, shows bias to the occupation.”

It comes days after unnamed US officials stated that the CIA is helping Israel gather intelligence on top Hamas officials, for targeting purposes.

Killing or capturing the central Hamas figures believed to be responsible for the October 7 attack that killed 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped another 240 back to Gaza would be a major public relations victory for the beleaguered Benjamin Netanyahu government.

US officials believe at least one of them – the group’s leader in Gaza, Sinwar – is holed up in a tunnel system deep under the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. The other, military commander Deif, has avoided capture by Israel’s security services for decades.

Report: IRGC launches missile, drone attacks in Pakistan, pounds anti-Iran terrorists

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran Drone

According to Tadsim, these headquarters were destroyed by missiles and drones.

Jaish al-Adl is a terrorist group which largely operates across the border in Pakistan. It is also a U.S.-designated terrorist group.

Last month, the terrorist group claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a police station in the southeastern Iranian city of Rask.

The terrorist attack left 11 police officers dead and six others injured.

Late Monday, Iran had also fired missiles into Iraq at what it called an Israeli spy headquarters near the U.S. Consulate compound in the city of Erbil, the seat of Iraq’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdish region, and at Daesh terrorists bases in northern Syria.

Shell suspends Red Sea shipments amid fears of Houthi strikes

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Shell

Last week, the company took the step to halt all crossings over concerns that a successful attack on one of its ships could trigger a massive spill in the region, as well as present risks to the safety of crews on the ships, according to the report.

Last month, rival oil company BP announced it had temporarily paused all transits through the Red Sea.

Several shipping companies have suspended their operations in the Red Sea amid Houthi attacks.

In solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, the Yemeni armed forces have targeted ships in the Red Sea with owners linked to Israel or those going to and from ports in the occupied territories.

In response, the US has formed a military coalition against Yemeni forces in the Red Sea and endangered maritime navigation in the strategic waterway.

The US and Britain, backed by Bahrain, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands, struck more than 60 targets at almost 30 locations in Yemen on Friday, killing five people and injuring six others.

On Saturday, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that a “follow-on action” was conducted against a Yemeni radar facility by the Navy destroyer USS Carney using Tomahawk land attack missiles.

Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, stressed all American and British ships and warships participating in the aggression are “hostile targets”.

Yemen’s Houthi group has also accused the United States on Tuesday of pressuring shipping companies to suspend operations in the Red Sea.

“The suspension of operations by shipping companies in the Red Sea is the result of American pressure and intimidation,” Houthi spokesman Mohamed Abdel-Salam said in a statement.

He termed the suspension of shipping operations in the Red Sea as an “inaccurate position” and “only serves the tendentious American propaganda”.

Intl. relations professor: Iran-U.S. diplomatic talks in Oman close

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Iran US Flags

Falahatpisheh emphasized the mutual interest for Tehran and Washington to return to the negotiation table in Muscat to avoid the perilous prospect of war within the next one or two years.

He warned that the current trajectory, if sustained, could lead to dangerous war conditions.

The international relations professor highlighted the potential for Iran to maneuver in the event of conflict, stating that war would not solely be under American control.

The former lawmaker suggested that recent regional developments, including the U.S. attack on Yemen and the assassination of resistance leaders, are indicative of rising tensions.

Expressing concern over the situation, Falahatpisheh asserted that the Omani table offers a practical solution after numerous unsuccessful visits by American officials to the region.

He attributed the escalating tension to the U.S.’s obstruction of Iran’s access to 6 billion dollars, accusing it of breaking commitments and playing into the hands of the Israeli regime and Zionist extremists.

Iran’s Leader lauds Yemenis’ ‘great achievement’ in supporting Gaza

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Iran's Leader Ayatollah Khamenei

Speaking during a meeting with Friday Prayer leaders on Tuesday, Ayatollah Khamenei said that the Yemeni maritime campaign in support of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip “deserves admiration and appreciation”.

“The Yemeni nation and the Ansarullah government did a great job… They damaged the vital channels of the Zionist regime. The United States threatened [them], but they were not afraid of the US,” he stated.

“Their job is rightly and fairly an example of jihad (endeavor for the sake of God). We hope that these efforts, acts of resistance and activities will continue until victory.”

The Leader also added the people of the world acknowledge that the Gazans are “innocent and victorious” while the usurping regime is “cruel and bloodthirsty” as well as “defeated and disintegrated.”

“The innocent and powerful people of Gaza were able to influence the world with their struggles, and today the world views these people, fighters and their resistance group as hero,” he noted.

Through their resilience, the Gazans promoted the holy faith of Islam and popularized the Qur’an, the Leader said, wishing pride for resistance fighters, especially the Gaza people and fighters.

Referring to Iran’s parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections scheduled for March 1, Ayatollah Khamenei stated, “Participation in elections is not just a duty, but it is the right of the people.”

Linking Yemen’s attacks to Tehran meant to conceal Israeli crimes in Gaza: Iran’s UN envoy

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Yemen Houthis

In two identical letters addressed to UN Security Council António Guterres and rotating President of the UN Security Council Nicolas de Rivière on Monday, Iravani underlined that the ongoing Israeli genocide and barbaric massacres, which the Israeli regime is committing with the full support of the United States, is the root cause of the current situation in the Red Sea.

“The United States cannot deny or cover up the incontestable reality that recent incidents in the Red Sea are directly related to Israel’s continued atrocities against the Palestinian people in Gaza,” he said.

The Iranian diplomat noted that any attempt to attribute Yemeni retaliatory strikes to his country is a mere diversion from the reality on the ground in Yemen, as well as a distraction from the brutalities being perpetrated by Israel in Gaza.

“I wish to emphasize that the caretaker government in Sana’a maintains independent sovereignty, making decisions and taking actions in its own interest,” Iravani emphasized.

He also unequivocally condemned and categorically rejected the unfounded allegations made by the representative of the United States to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, against Tehran in the recent Security Council sessions, stressing that she has misappropriated the platform to disseminate falsehoods and exercise deliberate disinformation.

“Iran has never taken any activities in violation of Security Council Resolution 2216 (2015), including any engagement in the sale or transfer of arms or weaponry systems that would contravene this resolution. Furthermore, Iran has always advocated for resolving the Yemen crisis through political means,” Iravani added.

The Iranian UN ambassador also sharply criticized the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allies for their recent acts of aggression against Yemen, saying these countries bear full responsibility for the violation of international law.

Iravani finally urged the international community to unequivocally condemn the US and UK military aggression against Yemen, stating that the attacks amount to a clear violation of international law and the UN Charter.

Yemenis have declared their open support for Palestine’s struggle against the Israeli occupation since the regime launched a devastating war on Gaza on October 7 after the territory’s Palestinian resistance movements carried out a surprise retaliatory attack, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, against the occupying entity.

The relentless Israeli military campaign against Gaza has killed at least 24,100 people, most of them women and children. Another 60,800 individuals have been wounded.

Reports revealed that Israeli shipping companies have already decided to reroute their vessels in fear of attacks by Yemeni forces.

Yemeni forces have also launched missile and drone attacks on targets in the Israeli-occupied territories after the regime’s aggression on Gaza.

Iraq vows to take Iran to UNSC over Erbil missile attack

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Iran Missile Attack Erbil Iraq

The Iraqi foreign ministry said in a statement posted on its website that the Iraqi government “will take all legal procedures, including lodging a complaint with the United Nations Security Council” in response to the Iranian strikes.

The attack was an “aggression on Iraq’s sovereignty and the security of the Iraqi people, and an abuse to the good neighborliness and the security of the region”, it added.

It noted that the council of ministers formed a committee headed by Iraq’s national security advisor to investigate the incident and collect relevant information to support the government’s position at the international level.

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry also on Tuesday summoned the Iranian charge d’affaires to Baghdad over the strike.

The foreign ministry handed a note of protest to the Iranian envoy which included Iraq’s condemnation of the Iranian attacks on areas of Erbil.

The ministry called the attack “a blatant violation of Iraq’s sovereignty, sharply contradicting the principle of good neighborliness and international law”.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq has also announced that Iran targeted “several civilian residential areas” in Erbil with a large number of ballistic missiles, killing four civilians and injuring six others.

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced, in separate operations, they have fired barrages of ballistic missiles at anti-Tehran terrorist groups’ bases in Syria as well as an Israeli espionage center in Iraq’s Kurdistan region in retaliation for recent terrorist attacks.

The IRGC said in a statement on Tuesday that the first barrage of missiles overnight hit the headquarters of terror groups in the militant-held areas in Syria.

The statement added they were involved in the recent terrorist attacks in the Iranian cities of Kerman and Rask.

The Iranian forces also targeted an espionage center used by Israel’s Mossad spy agency in Iraq’s Kurdistan region to plan terrorism plots in the region, according to a second statement by the IRGC.

The statement also noted the operation was in response to the recent assassinations of the commanders of resistance fronts by Israel.

The operation came after a twin terrorist bomb explosion in Kerman claimed by Daesh killed nearly 100 people and injured hundreds of others who had convened on January 3 to commemorate Iran’s senior commander General Qassem Soleimani on his martyrdom anniversary.

Another terrorist attack hit a police station in the city of Rask in Sistan and Baluchestan Province last month, which claimed the lives of 11 police officers and left at least six others injured.

US, UK raids on Yemen strategic mistake: Iran FM to UN chief

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Antonio Guterres and Hossein Amir Abdollahian

Hossein Amirabdollahian and Guterres, in the early Tuesday phone call, discussed the latest developments related to the Gaza Strip and the Red Sea.

Iran’s top diplomat stressed the Islamic Republic’s principled stance on protecting and maintaining security of shipping and navigation.

“By stopping ships that are bound for the occupied [Palestinian] territories, Yemen seeks to put a halt to the Zionist regime’s crimes and genocide against civilians in Gaza,” he continued.

He added that “illegal measures taken by the United States and the UK in attacking Yemen” amounted to a strategic mistake that would lead to further escalation of tensions in the region.

Since the start of the Israeli military aggression on Gaza in early October 2023, the United States and its Western allies have been providing financial and logistical support to the occupying regime in its ceaseless bombardment campaign against Palestinians in the besieged territory.

As part of their support for Palestinians, Yemen’s Armed Forces and popular Ansarullah resistance movement have over the past month targeted several ships owned by Israel or bound for ports in the occupied territories in the strategic Red Sea after multiple warnings.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Iran’s foreign minister expressed concern about the complicated humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza Strip, reiterating Iran’s readiness to send humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people in the territory.

The Israeli genocide in Gaza has so far claimed the lives of more than 24,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, leaving thousands of others wounded and millions homeless. According to the UN, about 85 percent of the territory’s population has been displaced and forced into crowded shelters.

The regime has been also enforcing an all-out siege against Gaza that has prevented the flow of food, water, fuel, and medicine into the territory.

The UN chief, for his part, expressed concern about further spread of conflicts across the region, saying the world body is trying to stop the war and alleviate the suffering of the regional people.

He once again condemned the ongoing military aggression against Gaza, stressing the need for stopping it and sending humanitarian aid to Palestinians there.

Guterres also lauded the role played by the Islamic Republic in bolstering peace and stability in the region.

Iran Health Ministry: Tehran 19th most polluted capital in world

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran Air Pollution

Submitting an annual report on the air pollution-related fatalities in Iran, Abbas Shahsavani, the head of the health ministry’s Air Quality and Climate Change Research Center, said based on the studies fine particulate matters with 2.5 microns or less in diameter, technically known as PM2.5, caused 13.9% of natural deaths in the country last year.

Shahsavani added, “The average concentration of suspended particles in our country is 7.6 times higher than the guidelines by the World Health Organization (WHO) and over 3 times higher than the national standard of our country.”

He also said Iran is ranked 21st among 131 countries in the world in terms of air quality.

For the past several years, the air pollution index in major metropolises across Iran has been touching dangerously high levels with thick layers of smog enveloping the cities during the winter due to a phenomenon called ‘inversion’.

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