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Coronavirus death toll in Iran remains single-digit

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COVID in Iran

“A sum of 142 new patients infected with COVID-19 have been identified in the country based on confirmed diagnosis criteria during the past 24 hours,” the Iranian Health Ministry’s Public Relations Center said on Thursday, and added, “65 patients have been hospitalized during the same time span.”

It further announced that the total number of COVID-19 patients has increased to 7,609,491.

“Unfortunately, eight patients have lost their lives in the past 24 hours, increasing the number of the dead to 146,144,” the ministry noted.

It expressed satisfaction that 7,360,831 coronavirus patients have recovered or been discharged from hospitals so far.

The center went on to say that 528 cases infected with COVID-19 are in critical conditions.

It added that 56,428,581 coronavirus diagnosis tests have so far been carried out across the country.

The health ministry public relations warned that 9 cities are orange, 213 cities are yellow, and 226 cities are blue.

President Raisi: Palestine most important issue for Islamic world

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Ebrahim Raisi

During separate meetings on Thursday, Raisi, who is in Syria on a two-day visit, said that Palestine and the issue of liberating Quds should not be forgotten.

He said the enemy was using full force to counter Palestinians’ rights and therefore Muslims, too, had to use all in their power to restore the rights of the Palestinian people and liberate Quds.

Raisi said the Islamic Republic was pursuing the issue of Palestine as its top foreign policy priority and “we are of the opinion that all equations in the Islamic world boil down to this matter.”

“By waging composite warfare, enemies are seeking to have the Palestinians believe that their destiny and life hinge on the presence of the Zionist regime, and that this regime’s survival is undoubtable and has to be accepted by Muslims,” he said.

“They forced some governments to restore relations with the Zionists, but what actually happened was the regime reneging on its promises and continuing to violate Palestinians’ rights and to commit murder and plunder,” he said, referring to the normalization of relations by some Arab governments with Israel.

Raisi said unity among resistance forces and regional and Islamic countries was most critical to precipitate the “defeat” of Israel.

“We believe the destruction of the Zionist regime, the signs of which can be seen, is very near,” he said.

The season of tulips in western Iran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Season of tulips in Iran

The color of the flowers varies based on their breeds, but they usually stand out in red.

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Ankara says US seeks revenge against Turkey for failed coups during upcoming election

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President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“We know that the US was behind the coup attempts in Turkey and they want revenge for the failed coups. We also know that they want to take revenge on Erdogan for destroying the system of power the US had built [in Turkey] since 1960s,” Soylu said in an interview for Haberturk.

“The US carried out coups in Turkey in 1960, in 1971 and in 1980, as well as on February 28, 1998. Furthermore, they are involved in the Gezi park rallies [in Istanbul in 2013]. The US and the West infiltrated Turkish bodes of power and controlled state officials. Erdogan destroyed this system, so they want revenge. It is the US in particular who develop the coup plans,” the Turkish minister continued, adding that Washington uses the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, as well as the FETO organization, which Ankara holds responsible for the 2016 coup attempt (both organizations outlawed in Turkey).

The Turkish Minister of the Interior has become one of the most prominent figures of the ongoing electoral campaign. He accuses the US and the West of interfering in the pre-election situation in Turkey in order to oust Erdogan on almost daily basis.

Erdogan and opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu are considered the key candidates for the presidential office. In order to win in the first round, a candidate must secure at least 50% plus 1 vote. Many experts consider such outcome unlikely. In this case, the second round will take place on May 28. The candidate that secures more votes wins.

Israeli troops kill three Palestinians in WB’s Nablus

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Israel Palestine

In a statement released on Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry initially said the facial features of two of the victims were completely distorted due to the intensity of the shooting, making it difficult to identify them.

Palestinian eyewitnesses stated that Israeli forces stormed the al-Yasmina neighborhood of Nablus Old City earlier in the day and opened fire at a Palestinian house.

The occupation troops used Energa anti-tank rifle grenades during their raid and prevented medical staff from approaching the area.

Two of the Palestinian victims were later identified as Moath Masri and Hassan Katnani, with the Israeli army claiming that they were responsible for last month’s shooting attack in the Jordan Valley which killed three settlers.

The third victim was also identified as Ibrahim Jeber, who the Israeli army claimed had aided Masri and Katnani in hiding.

Meanwhile, Israeli minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant issued a statement, rejoicing over the murder of the three Palestinians.

The Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement, however, asserted that the latest Israeli crime added another black page to their record.

It also urged the brave Palestinian people to keep engaging the occupying enemy and seek revenge for the blood of their martyrs.

Tensions have been running high between Israel and the Palestinians over the past year, with the Israeli military conducting violent raids in the occupied West Bank.

Syrian people, clerics welcome Iranian President Raisi at holy shrine near Damascus

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Syrian people, clerics welcome Iranian President at holy shrine near Damascus

President Riasi is in Syria on an official two-day visit.

Video shows two Asiatic cheetah cubs in Iran in good health

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Asiatic cheetah cub

The female felines can be seen in the video walking and playing inside an enclosure.

Azar and Touran were born last year. They are being kept in the Touran protected reserve.

Cheetahs, the world’s fastest land animals, once stalked habitats from the eastern reaches of India to the Atlantic coast of Senegal, but are now an endangered species and have practically disappeared from North Africa and Asia.

Another Asiatic cheetah cub in Iran, a male called Pirouz, which had captured the hearts of the Iranian people and achieved celebrity status, tragically died of kidney failure in February.

Iran’s Labor Ministry fires social insurance chief over contentious comments

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Iranian People

The Ministry’s PR department said in a statement Sajjad Padam, the director-general of the department of social insurances, was dismissed from office because of his “controversial and untrue statements” regarding the government’s inability to pay retirees’ salaries.

Padam had claimed, “We will soon be forced to sell the islands of Qeshm and Kish and Khuzestan so that we can pay the salaries of retirees.”

His comments sparked widespread anger and criticism in the country.

Reacting to the statements, the spokesman for the Iranian administration, Ali Bahadori Jahromi, criticized the statement and said, “We will be proud to sacrifice our lives for every inch of the Iranian soil. Anyone who has an economic problem or any other issue should spend from his own pocket to solve it.”

Israel says discussing possible direct Haj flights to S. Arabia

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IFP Media Wire
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Hajj

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said on Wednesday that a request was submitted and “this issue is under discussion.”

“I cannot tell you if there is any progress,” he stated in an interview with Israel’s Army Radio, according to the Reuters news agency.

“But I am optimistic that we can advance peace with Saudi Arabia,” he added.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s predecessor, Yair Lapid, said in March that as prime minister in 2022, he had gotten Saudi consent for the direct flights. Saudi Arabia has not confirmed this.

Muslims from Israel and Palestine currently travel to Saudi Arabia through a third country. Since 2020, Saudi Arabia has allowed Israeli airlines to use its airspace to fly to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, countries with which it has normalised relations.

Israel and Saudi Arabia have no diplomatic ties, but the two have been making incremental progress towards normalising them since 2020 as part of a US-sponsored push for Israel to reconcile with its Persian Gulf neighbours.

Several thorny issues have impacted this progress.

Saudi Arabia has insisted that Palestinian goals for statehood should be addressed first. The kingdom currently does not recognise Israel as a state.

Meanwhile, the United States and Israel have been uneasy with Riyadh’s recent thawing of relations with Iran.

US says has engaged with Syria on case of missing American journalist

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Austin Tice

Austin Tice, a former US Marine and a freelance journalist, was kidnapped in August 2012 while reporting in Damascus on the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He was 31 at the time.

His family believes he is alive and still being held in Syria. The identity of Tice’s captors is not known, and there has been no claim of responsibility for his abduction.

President Joe Biden last year said Washington knows “with certainty” that Tice has at times been held by the Syrian government. Syria’s government has denied kidnapping or holding Tice.

“We’re extensively engaged with regard to Austin – engaged with Syria, engaged with third countries – seeking to find a way to get him home. And we’re not going to relent until we do,” Blinken stated in a Washington Post interview on Wednesday.

The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday reported that the Biden administration has renewed direct talks with Syria over Tice’s case and those of other Americans, citing Middle East officials familiar with the efforts.

When asked about Tice, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said she could not confirm any meetings.

State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel in a briefing said the United States has pursued every channel to seek Tice’s release.

“We have pursued every channel we can to seek his safe return to his family and will continue to do so, and that includes discussing the case with a number of countries in the region,” Patel told reporters.

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