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Pentagon says Daesh leader killed in US strike in Syria

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Al-Agal’s death was announced on Tuesday by the Pentagon’s Central Command (CENTCOM), the military command covering the Middle East.

CENTCOM said that the strike took place outside Jindayris in northwest Syria, an area currently under the control of Turkish-backed forces.

A deputy of al-Agal was also targeted in the strike, and was seriously injured, according to a CENTCOM statement.

“The removal of these ISIS leaders will disrupt the terrorist organization’s ability to further plot and carry out attacks,” CENTCOM spokesman Col. Joe Buccino stated, adding, “ISIS continues to represent a threat to the US and partners in the region.”

The US has carried out a number of strikes and raids on senior IS personnel in northwestern Syria in recent months.

An alleged top leader of the group was detained by US forces in a raid last month, while overall IS commander Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi killed himself with a suicide vest during a raid by US special forces in the area in February.

While small groups of IS militants remain active in Syria, the group’s power and influence has been all but destroyed in recent years. While IS once commanded vast swathes of territory in Iraq, Syria and North Africa, a military campaign by the Syrian government and Russia, as well as an air campaign by the US and its allies, successfully crushed the organization from 2015 onwards.

Iranian FM: Tehran must enjoy economic benefits from any deal

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Hossein Amirabdollahian

Amirabdollahian was referring to Iran’s stance on the outcome of any agreement to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, JCPOA. He was speaking at the International Affairs Institute, IAI, a think tank in Italy.

The foreign minister said there are no provisions in the wording of the JCPOA that can be interpreted and everything is clear in the agreement.

Amirabdollahian then criticized the US withdrawal from the JCPOA, lamenting the fact that former US president Donald Trump got Washington out of the deal with impunity.

He said the EU trio only said Trump was a bad man while “we didn’t care if Trump was bad or not and what mattered for us was to be able to enjoy economic benefits of the JCPOA.”

The Iranian foreign minister said the European countries once criticized Iran for “driving a wedge between Europe and the US, but we did not negotiate to cause divisions between you and we were only seeking to protect our own interests.”

He added that Iran believes there must not be any inconsistency between nuclear surveillance and economic benefits on the part of Iran.

Amirabdolalhian reiterated that Tehran is not making any demands beyond the JCPOA and it only wants guarantees that it will enjoy economic benefits of a deal.

He underscored that foreign companies must do business with Iran after the revival of the JCPOA without facing any sanctions.

The foreign minister said Iran has kept the door of diplomacy open and will continue efforts to reach the finish line in the talks.

Dormant for several months, pandemic shifting into higher gear in Iran

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COVID in Iran

According to the official tally for Tuesday, at least 3,588 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, and 386 of them had to be hospitalized.

Seven patients also died of the disease during the past 24 hours.

Those figures were increasingly up from a couple of weeks ago when merely dozens of cases and no deaths were registered daily.

According to experts, the reemergence of the pandemic is due to the fact that the new subvariants of Omicron are resistant to vaccines and therefore highly contagious.

On Monday, Dr. Mehrdad Hagh Azali, a top infectious disease specialist and a member of Iran’s coronavirus taskforce committee, said the new subvariants, namely BA.4 and B.A5, were the leading cause of the new surge.

Iran’s Deputy Health Minister Dr. Kamal Heidari also said the subvariants had spread to Iran from the United States and Europe.

So far, 150,742,572 doses of different COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Iran, including 28,013,941 third booster shots.

COVID-19 has killed 141,451 Iranians as of Tuesday, according to the Iranian Health Ministry. Over seven million people have also recovered.

Russia’s first transit train enters Iran to cross into India

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Transit train in Iran

The transit container train entered Iran via the Sarakhs railway border during a ceremony attended by Vice President Mohammad Mokhber and the ministers of oil, industries, agriculture and roads and urban development.

Mokhber said during the ceremony that given Iran’s position in the region, using the transit capacity is a definite strategy and economic policy of the administration of President Ebrahim Raisi.

He added that the transit capacity and its economic benefits had been forgotten in the past.

The vice president also pointed to the importance President Raisi atatches to foreign policy for the purpose of boosting and increasing trade exchanges and communications with neighbors.

Mokhber said Iran’s transit capacity will initially increase to 8 million tons and then to 20 million tons with efforts by the ministry of roads and urban development.

He noted that Iran is even capable of increasing this capacity to 300 million tons.

The Iranian vice president went on to say that revenues from the transit capacity can be very high while it’s also very important for Iran politics-wise and in terms of international relations.

Ex-president Rouhani: Japan’s Abe took ‘great strides’ in deepening Iran ties

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Hassan Rouhani

Hassan Rouhani issued a message on Tuesday to condemn the assassination and offer condolences to Japan over Abe’s murder, as the Japanese people turned out in their thousands to bid farewell to the former prime minister, who was shot dead on Friday during a campaign rally.

“Mr. Abe traveled to Iran at the height of [former US president] Trump’s economic war against the Iranian nation, just like his father, who visited Iran in his capacity as Japan’s foreign minister for mediation during the war imposed [by Iraq] on Iran,” he said.

He said during Abe’s term in office, “great strides” were made in bolstering historical Iran-Japan relations through mutual visits.

Abe was assassinated on July 8 by a former Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force sailor while delivering a campaign speech in Nara ahead of the 10 July election.

On Tuesday, crowds packed pavements lined by police as Abe’s hearse left central Tokyo’s Zojoji Temple.

Iran and many other world countries extended heart-felt condolences to Japan over the tragedy.

UN chief says “shocked” by number of Palestinian children killed by Israel

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United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres

Guterres stated in the annual “Children and Armed Conflict” report that Israeli troops killed 78 Palestinian children, maimed another 982, and detained 637 in 2021.

“Should the situation repeat itself in 2022, without meaningful improvement, Israel should be listed,” Guterres warned in the report, referring to the UN’s “List of Shame” of those committing grave violations against children.

The UN chief added he was “shocked” by the killing and injuring of Palestinian children by Israeli forces in airstrikes on densely populated areas and through the use of live ammunition, and “at the continued lack of accountability for these violations.”

He also expressed serious concern about the excessive use of force, urging “the Israeli forces to exercise maximum restraint… in order to protect lives”.

Guterres also called on “Israel to investigate every case in which live ammunition was used”.

Referring to the issue of the Palestinian children held in Israeli jails, Guterres stressed the need for Israel to adhere to international standards regarding the detention of children, and to end administrative detention of kids, as well as ill-treatment and violence in detention.

Under the administrative detention, Israel keeps Palestinians without charge for up to six months, a period which can be extended for an infinite number of times. The detention takes place on orders from a military commander and on the basis of what the Israeli regime describes as ‘secret’ evidence. Some prisoners have been held in administrative detention for up to 11 years.

Palestinians and human rights groups say the administrative detention violates the right to due process since evidence is withheld from prisoners while they are held for lengthy periods without being charged, tried, or convicted.

In a letter to UN rights chief, Iran urges release of Hamid Nouri from Sweden jail

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Michelle Bachelet

Kazem Gharibabadi made the demand in a letter to the UN high commissioner for human rights.

Gharibabadi also demand the immediate release of Nouri and reparations for the damage caused by his illegal detention.

He referred to the dire conditions under which the Iranian national is held in custody, urging Michelle Bachelet to pursue the case as her responsibility is to protect the rights of nationals of world countries.

He noted the Sweden is a signatory to a number of international agreements including the 1963 Vienna Convention governing consular relations and is obliged to respect human rights.

The Iranian Judiciary deputy chief said Nouri was detained by virtue of an arrest warrant issued by the Swedish prosecutor based on unfounded allegations by a number of the MKO terrorist group.

Gharibabadi said since his arrest, the Iranian national has been held in solitary confinement, which shows the arrest was arbitrary detention in the first place.

In his letter, Gharibabadi said Nouri’s family travelled to Sweden twice but were denied a meeting with him.

Nouri was arrested in 2019 while visiting Sweden on a tourist visa.

Iran MP: Russia’s Putin due in Tehran next week; talks to focus on economy

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Russian President Vladimir Putin

Mohammad Reza Pour-Ebrahimi, who chairs the Parliament’s Economic Commission, said on Tuesday, “Planning for the development of Iran-Russia economic cooperation will be a priority in the consultations” between Putin and President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran.

He said Russia had grown more serious for deepening economic relations with Iran compared to the past.

The legislator pointed to Raisi’s recent visit to Moscow and said the agreements reached during that trip “opened a new page” in trade ties between Iran and Russia.

The sanctions imposed by America and Europe on Russia in the aftermath of the war against Ukraine made Moscow more reliant on economic ties with Iran, he said.

During a trip to Tehran next Tuesday, Putin will also attend a trilateral meeting with the leaders of Iran and Turkey, as part of the Astana format of meetings for Syria-related talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Iran says its initiatives keep open window of diplomacy in nuclear talks

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IFP Media Wire
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Hossein Amirabdollahian

“If window of diplomacy is still open, that’s because of Iran’s dynamic initiatives,” Amirabdollahian tweeted late Monday.

“POTUS cannot impose US’ one-sided views through accusation & sanction. Diplomacy is not a one-way street,” he added.

US President Joe Biden claimed in an opinion piece published Saturday by The Washington Post that Iran had been diplomatically isolated during his 18 months in office.

“With respect to Iran, we reunited with allies and partners in Europe and around the world to reverse our isolation; now it is Iran that is isolated until it returns to the nuclear deal my predecessor abandoned with no plan for what might replace it,” he stated.

Biden also boasted over a US-led vote against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors on June 8.

“My administration will continue to increase diplomatic and economic pressure until Iran is ready to return to compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, as I remain prepared to do so,” he wrote.

“Reaching final agreement needs US’ acceptance of realities, flexibility & initiatives,” Amirabdollahian responded on Monday.

Iran insists that the nuclear talks must lead to the removal of all American sanctions that were imposed against Tehran following Washington’s unilateral withdrawal from the landmark agreement in May 2018. Tehran has also demanded credible guarantees that Washington will not abandon the deal again.

Iranian envoy: Tehran enjoyed zero benefits from JCPOA

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran Daily

Abbas Bagherpour described the sanctions as inhumane and economic terrorism.

Bagherpour criticized the administration of US President Joe Biden for continuing down the path of his predecessor by failing to abandon Trump’s heinous legacy.

He was referring to the huge number of sanctions Trump imposed on Iran as part of his so-called maximum pressure campaign following his withdrawal from the JCPOA in 2018.

He also spoke of the JCPOA revival talks, adding Iran showed maximum flexibility in the negotiations and even put forth new initiatives to break the deadlock in the talks.

Bagherpour added that Iran is still ready to roll back its nuclear moves if the other sides return to full compliance with the nuclear deal in a verifiable manner.

He noted that the US failure to make political decisions in this regard is to blame for the continued stalemate in the JCPOA revival talks.

He also outlined Iran’s cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency over the past years, describing it as active and matchless.

Bagherpour underlined that despite Iran’s cooperation, the IAEA’s response was neither appropriate nor constructive.

He added that the IAEA anti-Iran resolution was shocking to the Islamic Republic.

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