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Iranian president warns against unsafe buildings following Abadan tragedy

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi

He ordered the interior minister and the minister of roads and urban development to urgently identify unsafe buildings and get their owners to strengthen them.

The president said owners of unsafe buildings who refuse to strengthen them will be dealt with legally because their refusal to do so endangers the lives of citizens.

President Raisi once again offered condolences to the families who lost loved ones in the Abadan building collapse and demanded that those responsible for the tragic incident be brought to justice.

Prior to the president’s remarks, Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi gave a report on his 6-day presence at the site of the building collapse in Abadan.

29 people have so far killed and around 40 others remain missing following the tragic building collapse in Abadan.

Iranian national football team to hold friendly match against Uruguay

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Iran Football Team

Kamranifar said following the cancellation of the match against Canada for political reasons, the Iranian football federation tried to find a suitable rival to prepare for the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar and held talks with several countries including Paraguay and Senegal.

He added that even Senegal was supposed to travel to Tehran for the friendly match but they failed to do so.

Kamranifar said given the cancellation of the Uruguay-Mexico match, Iran held talks with Uruguay and the two teams will face off on June 11 or 12.

Earlier, Dragan Skočić, manager of Team Melli criticized at Iran’s football federation over what he called lack of planning for a preparatory camp and friendly matches several months ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2022.

Meanwhile, Iranian international Sardar Azmoon described Team Melli as the messiest national teams of the world. Azmoon made the comment in a story he posed on his Instagram account.

Iran predicts injection of 4th Covid vaccine shot in months

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COVID Vaccine

The official said citizens over the age of 70 and those with health conditions like heart and kidney diseases or diabetes as well as people with chronic diseases of the immune system must show up at vaccination centers to get the fourth shot of the Covid jab.

Thanks to the nationwide vaccination campaign, Iran has been experiencing a downward trend in Coronavirus deaths and infections.

The number of daily deaths has been single-digit in the country for the past two weeks.

Officials also believe that apart from the vaccination process, people’s observance of health protocols can be credited for the declining number of deaths and infections

Israeli settlers, army troops storm al-Aqsa Mosque ahead of flag march

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Israeli settlers Al Aqsa Mosque

The Israeli settlers entered the compound through the Moroccan Gate on Sunday morning, according to the Arabic-language Arab48 news website.

In the meantime, Israeli troops were stationed at the main praying building of al-Aqsa Mosque, which sits on the southern side of the complex, besieging Palestinian worshipers inside the scared site.

The settlers then performed Talmudic rituals at the site, which is venerated by Jews, Christians and Muslims.

The development comes as thousands of extremist Jewish Israeli settlers are due to hold a far-right march through Muslim areas of the holy city amid Palestinian warnings it could trigger serious confrontations.

Earlier, Israeli military forces had raided the predominantly Palestinian neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber in southern East al-Quds, according to Palestinian media outlets.

The raid prompted a group of young Palestinians to throw lit Molotov cocktails at the Israeli troops, who, in return, fired stun grenades and live bullets to disperse the crowd.

The Palestinian al-Quds TV satellite channel also said an improvised explosive device struck a checkpoint in the village of al-Jalma, which lies north of the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

According to Shehab news agency, extremist Jewish settlers once again attacked the homes of local Palestinians in al-Huwara neighborhood of northern al-Quds.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society stated that 30 Palestinians were injured during clashes with Israeli settlers in Huwara neighborhood as well as Kafr Qaddum town, located 13 kilometers (8 miles) west of Nablus.

Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said clashes also broke out between young Palestinian men and Israeli forces at the entrance to Jamain area south of Nablus.

Israeli forces have already detained nearly 100 Palestinians ahead of the planned far-right Israeli Flag March.

Around 20 Palestinians were arrested in al-Quds between Wednesday and Thursday, and another 80 inside the Israeli-occupied territories.

“The arrests have mostly targeted Palestinians who have been arrested in previous waves of protests in al-Quds, and Palestinians who have been banned from entering the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, all of which we see as preparation for reactions to the settlers’ flag march on Sunday,” the al-Quds detainees’ families committee spokesperson, Amjad Abu Asab, said.

“Israeli authorities usually arrest Palestinians whom they consider to be active during expected [counter] protests,” Abu Asab added.

The so-called Flag March, which attracts hundreds of Jewish settlers and far-right extremists, celebrates the Israeli regime’s capture of East al-Quds in the 1967 war.

Meanwhile, Israeli officials are expected to allow extremist lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir to visit the al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday amid soaring tensions around the contentious Flag March.

Earlier this week, Ben-Gvir had informed the Knesset of his plan.

On Saturday evening, a group of young Israeli settlers held a rehearsal of the march, walking together through Hagai Street in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of al-Quds, waving Israeli flags and chanting slogans, as police escorted them.

Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of Hamas, warned the Palestinian resistance movement is ready to face any possible scenario as tensions are high in the occupied al-Quds ahead of the far-right and provocative Flag March.

“All options are on the table, and we are ready for all scenarios. We are dealing with the Israeli occupation, which has existed for so long and has now reached its end,” he said in a statement issued on Saturday evening.

“The occupying Israeli regime wants to use (the so-called) Flag March as part of attempts aimed at undermining the achievements of Operation al-Quds Sword, and cracking down on the status quo that followed the battle,” he added.

“We have many options to confront the Flag March and attempts meant to desecrate the al-Aqsa Mosque compound,” Haniyeh pointed out.

The head of the political bureau of Islamic Jihad movement, Mohammed al-Hindi, also stated Palestinians will spare no effort to confront the Israeli occupation’s plans, underscoring that all possibilities are on the table.

Hindi told Lebanon’s Arabic-language al-Mayadeen channel in an interview that Israeli authorities have mistakenly underestimated the capabilities of Palestinian resistance movements, and are currently suffering from the repercussions of Operation al-Quds Sword.

He pointed out that the issue of Palestine is not simply confined to Palestinians and Arabs, but rather a global matter that has been raised at international forums.

Hindi noted that Israel serves as the arm of the United States and the West in the Middle East, and that Washington seeks to subjugate and dominate the entire region.

Dozens still missing since collapse of tower block in Iran’s Abadan

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran building collapse

Sadeq Khalilian briefed media on Sunday about the search operation underway at the site of the collapse, saying 29 bodies have so far been retrieved, three of whom remain unidentified.

“Based on the preliminary statistics and reports by families, 38 people remain missing,” he said.

“We continue searching for the remaining bodies and will do our utmost to pursue every single request made by families based on documents and recover the bodies,” the official said.

He said all locations where there is a high possibility that people may have been trapped have been identified and the process of removing the debris will be focused on those spots.

A large section of the 10-story Metropol building that was under construction crashed to the ground on Monday, making it one of the deadliest such disasters in the country in years.

The search is said to be moving slowly and carefully because of the risk of the adjacent buildings collapsing.

The incident happened due to the building’s weak structures. Officials have pledged to identify and punish all those who failed to follow up on construction violations.

Judiciary officials say the DNA test results show the owner of the building is among the dead.

‘Besides Turkey, other countries involved in dust storms, making regional fund a must ‘

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Air pollution

In an interview with the Iranian Labor News Agency, ILNA, Abdolreza Faraji Rad, who is a former senior diplomat, says a trilateral meeting with the presence of Iran, Turkey and Iraq is the first step to find a solution for the problem.

He says, however, that for a permanent solution, a joint secretariat and fund should be established with the presence of all involved countries in the region.

Faraji Rad says dam-construction by Turkey, and its impact on wetlands in Iran, is just part of the problem, but one cannot downplay climate change and desertification in other countries due to lack of rainfall.

But the analyst noted that focusing on Turkey would only delay things and lead Ankara to withhold cooperation on the issue of the dams it has built and those it is planning to construct.

He said a blame game will solve no problem so Iran should avoid emphasis on a meeting in Tehran and under Tehran’s leadership because time lost on such discussions only makes finding solutions more difficult, especially seeing that Iran does not have good relations with some of the countries involved in the dust phenomenon.

Analyst: Israel trying to throw wrench in Iran-Saudi talks

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran Saudi Flags

Sabah Zangeneh told ILNA that with a pause in the Vienna negotiations in revving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, US officials have shifted their attention to other Middle Eastern issues, especially attempts to secure a normalization of ties between Riyadh and Tel Aviv.

Zangeneh, Iran’s former representative to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), said Washington’s attempts to set the stage for talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia have overshadowed Tehran-Riyadh negotiations.

“In fact, the main obstacle to the [resumption] of Iran-Saudi ties are destructive attempts by Israel to prevent that”, an approach that has supporters inside the US, he said.

Earlier, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said he may meet his Saudi counterpart soon in a third country, amid “minimal but good” progress in Iraq-mediated talks between the two sides.

However, an unnamed Saudi Foreign Ministry official later rejected that statement in an interview with Reuters.

Commenting on the development, Zangeneh said the “daily developments in the region are unfolding in a way that Saudi Arabia does not see it harmful if such a meeting takes place at a later time, especially when there is no ceasefire in Yemen.”

Iranian police seize major drug consignment in Sistan and Balouchestan

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran Police

Local Police Chief Brigadier General Ahmad Taheri says the narcotics were confiscated after armed skirmishes between police commandoes and smugglers.

Taheri said that several security teams were keeping watch on routes in Hirmand and Nimrouz in the north of the province and Saravan and Iranshahr in its south and ambushed the smugglers, before they were forced to abandon their vehicles and escape.

He added that six smugglers were arrested in the subsequent pursuit operation by the security forces.

Iranian security forces confiscate tons of narcotics every year in ambush operations against drugs traffickers.

Iranian police have lost around 4,000 lives in the fight against drug traffickers over the past four decades.

Tehran has called for international assistance to its push to choke off drug trafficking through its territory. It says European countries, which would be the destination of the drugs Iran pays heavy costs to block, should share the financial burden of the struggle

Iran extends census of illegal Afghan migrants for two weeks

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Afghan migrants in Iran

Deputy Interior Minister for Security and Law Enforcement Majid Mirahmadi said the two-week extension would give more time to Afghan migrants to join the census and receive six-month residency permits.

The extension, he said, was meant to allay the concerns of Afghan migrants and prevent overcrowding at the registration centers.

The official said the census, which is aimed at gathering precise data on the number of Afghan nationals in Iran, has been widely welcomed.

The Iranian government and people have been hospitable to the Afghan people for decades, hosting some 3.6 million documented and undocumented Afghan refugees who left their country due to war and harsh living conditions.

Iran has been facing a new influx of refugees from Afghanistan since the country came under the control of the Taliban in August last year.

This is while the Iranian nation is facing unilateral US sanctions and the international humanitarian bodies are keeping silent on such inhumane bans.

Tehran has repeatedly criticized the international community for insufficient aid for the Afghan refugees in Iran.

Iran says opposed to Turkish military operation on Syria-Iraq border

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh

“Such action will violate the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of the targeted countries, and will complicate the situation and escalate tensions,” Khatibzadeh stated.

He added that the Islamic Republic understands Turkey’s security concerns and believes that the only way to alleviate those concerns is dialog, respect for bilateral agreements with neighbors, as well as the agreements reached within the framework of the Astana negotiations.

The Astana talks were initiated by Iran, Russia and Turkey in 2017 to find a solution to Syria’s crisis that began in 2011.

The Iranian diplomat noted that developments in recent years have shown that military action does not only help resolve existing problems but will lead to humanitarian consequences and complicate the situation in the region.

Khatibzadeh also announced Iran’s readiness to help de-escalate the situation and avert conflicts that only leave victims among civilians and defenseless people.

On Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his country will soon launch an attack on Kurdish groups based in northeastern Syria.

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