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Taliban say living up to watershare treaty with Iran if there is rain

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Iran Water Crisis

Zabihullah Mujahed said if there is water enough, the Taliban will respect the 1972 treaty between the two countries, under which Iran is entitled to use 820 million cubic meters of the Hirmand River water.

Earlier, Iran and Afghanistan formed a working group to pursue the issue of Iran’s right to water of Hirmand.

The Taliban’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Motaqqi has previously said, “Just as we care about our own people, we also care about the people of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province”, bordering Afghanistan.

Motaqqi stressed that Afghanistan abides by the 1972 treaty between Tehran and Kabul.

He however warned against politicizing the water right issue, and instead called for resolving it through dialog.

Despite such conciliatory comments, since their takeover of Afghanistan over two years ago, the Taliban officials have on several occasions ignored calls for Kabul to respect Iran’s right to the water of the border river.

Famous Iranian actress Parvenh Masoumi dead at 79 

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Parvaneh Masoumi

Fellow cinema actress Naeemeh Nezamdoost announced Masoumi’s death by publishing a post online.

Masoumi was born on March 2, 1945. He graduated from the Foreign Languages Faculty of National University of Iran.

After the Islamic Revolution, she won the Crystal Simorgh for the best actress of the Fajr Film Festival for her roles in Chrysanthemum Flowers (1984) as well as Dowry for Rabab and Splendor of Life (both in 1987).

She made her debut on TV by starring in Behrouz Afkhami’s Imam Ali series in 1987 Other movies in which Masoumi starred include Reverse, Eastern Song, Rey Passenger, Prophet Joseph, Dilemma, Nasserddin Shah, the Cinema Actor.

Iran: US failed to achieve goals in Gaza war

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Nasser Kanaani

“Based on our monitoring the situation on the ground and contacts with the involved parties, the US seeks to achieve what it has not gained through political means,” Nasser Kanaani said while addressing reporters at a press briefing on Monday.

“In other words, the US seeks to realize the unfulfilled goals in [Israel’s] cruel war through political approaches,” he added.

He stated all evidence proved that the Israeli regime seeks to continue its adventurism in the region.

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

Tel Aviv has also blocked water, food, and electricity to Gaza, plunging the coastal strip into a humanitarian crisis.

Nearly 15,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed in the Israeli strikes.

Asked about the future of Gaza and the US interventionist policies, Kanaani said that over the past decades, the US has been a part of the problem in the Palestinian issue, including the recent Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.

During the Gaza war, the US provided the Israeli regime with full support in all sectors and prevented efforts aim to end the onslaught in the Strip, the Iranian spokesperson continued.

The US is not expected to be a part of the solution but its cessation of supporting the Tel Aviv regime can help solve the issue, he added.

Kanaani emphasized that the US lack of heed to the realities on the ground have always led to failure of its plans on finding a possible solution to the Palestinian issue

“The US and the Zionist regime failed to achieve what they had planned during the recent war and cowardly aggression [against Gaza],” he stressed.

However, the Iranian diplomat once again reiterated that the Palestinian people would never allow any party to achieve its “illegitimate interests”.

“Palestine’s fate will be determined by its own people… The US unjust actions will not help solve the crisis without weighing up the realities,” Kanaani added.

In response to a question about the US move to send its warships to the West Asia region, he asserted that Washington has never carried out a measure to boost regional security and has always played a destabilizing role.

The spokesman rejected Iran’s role in decisions made by the Palestinian resistance groups, saying they are merely showing a “natural reaction to the US unconstructive role in support for the Zionist regime’s crimes and the US illegal presence in the region.”

“Iran always remains committed to security and stability in the region,” Kanaani pointed out.

Yemen fires ballistic missiles toward US destroyer in Gulf of Aden: CENTCOM

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Yemen's Houthi

In a statement, the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) said that the destroyer was targeted early Monday morning local time after it aided the tanker ship Central Park that had been seized in the Gulf of Aden.

“The missiles landed in the Gulf of Aden approximately ten nautical miles from the ships,” the statement added.

“There was no damage or reported injuries from either vessel during this incident,” it claimed.

The Central Park was carrying phosphoric acid and had an international crew of 22, The Associated Press reported. It sent a distress signal prompting the US aircraft USS Mason to respond.

The tanker ship sails under the Liberian flag and is managed by London-based Zodiac Maritime, which is part of Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer’s Zodiac Group.

Earlier this month, the Yemeni Armed Forces seized a vehicle transport ship also linked to Israel in the Red Sea off Yemen.

They have threatened to attack Israeli ships in the waters off Yemen and launched drone and missile strikes targeting the occupied territories in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Israel waged a war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas resistance group conducted Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

Since the start of the aggression, the Tel Aviv regime has killed nearly 15,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and left vast swathes of the coastal enclave in ruins.

It has also imposed a “complete siege” on the coastal sliver, cutting off fuel, electricity, food and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.

Iranian mom gives birth to huge 6.9 kg baby, the heaviest ever recorded in Iran

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Baby Iran

An obstetrician and gynecologist of the Razavi Hospital where the baby was born, said on Sunday that the mother, who delivered her fifth baby, was around 100 kg (220 pounds) and had a history of uncontrolled gestational diabetes.

The baby was born a few days ago but the parents asked the officials at the hospital for privacy.

Deylaman destroyer joins Iran’s Caspian fleet

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Iran Destroyer

Deylaman is the latest version of the Jamaran destroyer, with updated equipment to search, identify, monitor, counter and destroy any air, surface and subsurface threats.

During the ceremony, General Bagheri said the construction of the destroyer under tough circumstances, while the country is reeling from harsh Western-imposed sanctions, is a “source of pride and hope.”

“By adding this capability to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Navy in the Caspian Sea, we will have more stable security in the north of the country and increasing cooperation with other armies in the region,” he stated.

Iranian Navy Chief Rear Admiral Shahram Irani also said during the ceremony the latest high-tech achievement in the country’s defense industry was made possible through round-the-clock efforts by Iranian experts, industrialists, and knowledge-based companies.

The destroyer is tipped to ensure the safety of shipping in the Caspian Sea and enhance the training skills of the Iranian forces, Rear Admiral Irani said.

In other comments, he said the Iranian Navy has planned to hold two joint drills with other countries in the north of the Indian Ocean in the coming months.

Joint CSTO air defense system de facto created: Russia

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Russia Fighter Jet

The defense alliance, which has been around since 2002, currently unites Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.

“In fact, [the joint air defense system] has already been created, created at the bilateral level,” Shoigu told broadcaster Rossiya 24 on Sunday.

“We have an agreement… with each of the states, with Armenia, with Kazakhstan, with Kyrgyzstan, with Tajikistan and, of course, with Belarus,” he explained.

The minister stressed that the joint air defense system is equipped well and has the appropriate hardware, “and we periodically conduct exercises and keep it in combat-ready condition”.

“If there’s a need to formalize [the existence of the system] in some document, we’ll do it,” he added.

Last week, Russia’ President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow had supplied two divisions of S-300 air defense systems –comprising eight launchers– to the Central Asian state of Tajikistan as part of the effort to create a joint air defense shield with members of the Russia-led defense alliance.

“In general, we are ready to continue and complete this work regarding CSTO as a whole,” Putin stressed.

Hamas attack originally planned for April: Report

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Hamas Group

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) caught wind of the planned assault, detecting the early signs of Hamas preparations, soldiers with the 8,200 signal intelligence unit told Israel’s Channel 12 TV. The data reportedly prompted the IDF to increase its alert level, which led to the Palestinian group abandoning the initial plan.

The IDF eventually considered the intelligence warnings to be a false alarm, the report added. Hamas, the sources claim, focused on internal security and kept most of its members in the dark about subsequent plans, including the timing of a new incursion, scheduled for October 7.

According to Israeli media reports, surveillance units on the border with Gaza alerted the IDF to “unusual” Hamas training exercises some three months before the October attack, but their concerns were reportedly dismissed as “fantasies.”

The Financial Times also reported, citing sources, that Israeli border sentries had compiled a detailed file on the then-looming Hamas attack and presented it to the highest-ranking intelligence officer in the southern command, weeks before it took place. The document reportedly contained “specific warnings”, namely plans to breach the border at multiple points and seize local settlements, according to the outlet.

The IDF neither confirmed nor denied the existence of the ignored intelligence, when approached by the FT. Earlier, Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz cited an unnamed female soldier who blamed institutionalized sexism in the ranks for the lack of attention to reports from its border sentries.

The October 7 attack by Hamas killed some 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians. Tel Aviv responded with heavy bombardments of the Gaza Strip, followed by a ground operation. The death toll on the Palestinian side has since surpassed 14,800, according to officials in the Gaza enclave.

European countries divided on Russia sanctions: Report

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The European Union

The bloc’s executive arm recently proposed curtailing trade with nations currently able to re-export goods from the bloc to Russia – thus helping the sanctions-hit country bypass penalties imposed by Brussels over the Ukraine conflict.

The measure, which could be included in a 12th package of sanctions on Russia, targets the sale of what the European Commission considers to be high-priority items, like semiconductors that can be used in weapons production. It reportedly obliges the buyer to deposit a sum in an escrow account to ensure compliance with the requirements.

According to documents seen by the news agency, at least half of the deposited amount would be transferred to a trust fund for Ukraine, while contracts would be terminated if the sanctions were breached.

However, diplomats from some large EU countries – which were not named by Bloomberg – have reportedly expressed concerns about the measures, raising doubts about their legality, and whether the insistence on guarantees and clauses from importers is viable.

According to the agency’s sources, the member states are also pushing to narrow the scope of the proposed clauses and the list of items targeted by the measures that, according to them, could put EU businesses at a competitive disadvantage.

Other members, including the Baltic countries, back the proposals, the unnamed people told the agency.

Brussels has so far imposed eleven rounds of penalties on Russia in response to Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine.

The latest proposals reportedly include measures to cut off Moscow’s access to commercial revenues by restricting exports to Russia, including a ban on the sale of certain chemicals, lithium batteries, thermostats and motors for drones, as well as machine tools and machinery parts that can be used to produce weapons. The package may also impose a complete ban on the sale of Russian diamonds and jewelry.

US cannot make decisions for Gazans: Iran president

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Iran and Turkey Presidents Raisi and Erdogan

The Iranian president made the remark in a Sunday phone call with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

During the conversation, Raisi stressed that the US is “the killer of the people of Gaza” and any intervention by Americans in determining the future course of developments in the Palestinian territory “would mean continuation of this country’s crimes against Palestinians”.

Noting that Americans are accomplice in “the Zionist regime’s horrendous crimes and massacre of the oppressed people of Gaza,” Iran’s president said the US has no credit in the public opinion of nations.

“Americans have no right to intervene in any decision-making [process] for the people of Gaza and any step they take in this regard is doomed to fail,” Raisi continued.

He added, “The people of Gaza must [have the right to] make decisions about the future of Gaza through Hamas as the legitimate and legal government of this territory, which has been elected through people’s votes.”

The Hamas resistance movement was elected by the people of Gaza to form the government through a popular vote in 2006, which was held a year after the Israeli regime was forced to withdraw from the territory.

Following the regime’s recent devastating war on Gaza, some American officials have suggested that after the war, the territory should not be ruled by the movement.

Nearly 15,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s latest act of aggression against Gaza, which was launched through unwavering military and political support of the US.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the Iranian president touched on the country’s ties with Turkey, calling those relations “friendly, historical, and based on good neighborliness as well as religious values and common interests of the two nations.”

Raisi also described further expansion of the two countries’ cooperation and relations in various political, economic, and cultural fields as important, saying relations between Tehran and Ankara could serve as a “model of interaction” among Muslim countries.

For his part, Erdogan described bilateral relations as “favorable and constructive”, calling for their promotion to a “premium and exceptional” level.

The Turkish head of state also indicated Ankara’s readiness to hold a meeting of the two countries’ Supreme Economic Cooperation Council.

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