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Iraqi forces start second phase of Operation Strong Resolve against Daesh

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Iraqi Army Anti-Terror Operation

Operation Strong Resolve began in the presence of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustapha al-Kadhimi.

The Iraqi forces are going after the remaining pockets of Daesh in Anbar, which has been a hotspot of their terrorist activities since 2014.

Kadhimi was briefed on the command of Operation Strong Resolve and the Rapid Reaction Force. He later visited the headquarters of Hashd al-Shaabi in Anbar province.

Qasim Muslih, commander of the Anbar offensive, told the prime minister that 12 thousand PMU fighters and four brigades of the volunteer force are participating in Operation Strong Resolve.

The first phase of the offensive began on March 28 and 30 in Kirkuk and Diyala Provinces in the north and east of Iraq.

Daesh terrorists have carried out a number of terrorist attacks in parts of Iraq recently. The group overran huge swathes of land in Iraq back in 2014 and made the city of Mosul the capital of its so-called caliphate. But in a matter of several months, it was defeated by an alliance of Hash al-Shaabi and Iraqi army forces who were assisted by Iran.

Iran’s anti-terror icon late General Qassem Soleimani played in key role in the defeat of the terrorists. He was assassinated in a drone strike directly ordered by former US president Donald Trump in early January 2020.

Jerusalem Archbishop: Israelis committing crimes

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Israeli Forces Aqsa Mosque

“Unfortunately, the occupiers have turned the Old City of al-Quds and the streets surrounding the Church of the Holy Sepulchre into military barracks,” Archbishop Atallah Hanna said in an interview with Al Mayadeen.

He said the Israelis were preventing Christians, whether Palestinian or foreign, from reaching the church. “This is a blatant violation of the sanctity of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and of Christians.”

Israeli forces were entering the church — “the holiest site for the world’s Christians” — with their weapons, trampling on its sanctity, the Christian archbishop said.

Some priests had been beaten at checkpoints, he added. He called for help from all Muslim and Christian organizations.

“We shout at all of those who speak of freedom and democracy and human rights: ‘Where are you when these things take place in al-Quds, whether at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre or the al-Aqsa Mosque?!’” he said.

The Israelis, he said, are attempting to prevent Christian religious ceremonies in al-Quds and frighten people with their weapons.

“These are crimes that they commit in broad daylight against all Christians.”

Last week, Israeli forces stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds, using sound bombs and rubber bullets to suppress and scatter worshipers.

Some 152 fasting Palestinians were injured in the assault. Strict restrictions on mvoement have since then been in place.

Iran-Afghanistan border crossing temporarily closed

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran-Afghanistan border crossing

The Dugharun border crossing, in Iran’s northeast, was closed on Saturday morning after reports of scuffles between the Taliban and the Iranian guards at the site.

Iran’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan Hassan Kazemi-Qomi later told Tasnim News Agency that Taliban forces violated Iran’s border while attempting to build a road in the area, prompting Iranian guards to intervene.

He explained that Afghan officials were contacted at the Taliban ministries of defense and the interior and were told that those activities had to stop and that any future action be discussed in a border commission.

In the meantime, shipments of cargo at the crossing have been relocated to parking spaces away from the crossing as a matter of precaution.

Customs services are also not in operation at Dugharun, although a small number of personnel are at the site to handle emergency cases.

Iran’s Leader sends message of condolence to survivors of Afghanistan attacks

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei

Iran’s Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan Hassan Mortazavi and an accompanying delegation conveyed the Leader’s message to the families of the victims of the recent attacks inside Afghan territory on Saturday.

A wave of bombing attacks has been sweeping Afghanistan in recent days.

On Thursday, a bomb attack targeted a mosque in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, killing at least 31 worshipers and injuring more than 80 others. The Daesh terrorist group claimed responsibility for that attack.

On Tuesday, two blasts outside a school in a Hazara community neighborhood of Kabul killed at least 20 people and wounded more than two dozen others.

The Hazara community has been repeatedly targeted in several large-scale kidnappings and killings across Afghanistan in the past.

In May last year, at least 85 people — mainly girl students — were killed and about 300 wounded when three bombs exploded near their school in the Shia-dominated Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood of Kabul.

Separately, at least four people were killed and 18 wounded in a Friday blast in Kunduz, another northern Afghan city. Bombing and other assaults have significantly decreased in Afghanistan since the Taliban’s takeover of the country in August last year, as the United States and other foreign forces withdrew.

But several attacks are reported each week throughout the country, including some claimed by Daesh.

Iranian president warns of surge in Takfiri threat to regional countries

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Terror Attack in Afghanistan

While strongly condemning the recent terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, the Iranian president underlined the necessity of providing security for all Afghan people, including those in schools, mosques and religious places.

Raisi also stressed that the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan have a responsibility to identify and punish the terrorists behind the attacks.

The president said the Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to use all its capacities to counter the threat of Takfiri terrorists and prevent such incidents from happening in the future.

He noted that Iran is also prepared to offer healthcare services to people wounded in the attacks.

A number of bomb attacks have happened in Afghanistan in recent days, killing dozens of civilians, mostly Shia Muslims. A Shia school and also mosques were among the locations hit by the bombings claimed by the Daesh terrorist group.

Iranian teacher goes to school every day on boat

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Iranian Teacher Tareq Achrash

Mr. Tareq Achrash has to sail to the school in Maqtoe village which is surrounded by water.

People in this hamlet have no access to internet and land routes nor is there a healthcare center for the 23 households living there.

The story of Mr. Achrash has now gone viral on social media and people in Iran are praising him for his sacrifices.

The teacher says when he was employed by the Ministry of Education, he was sent to another village named Atish that was also impoverished but had land access to other parts of Iran.

However, Maqtoe’s kids, he says, had no teacher and they had to go to Atish by boat.

According to Mr. Achrash, once the boat carrying the children capsized and that prompted parents to stop sending their kids to school.

“That was when I decided to go to Maqtoe to teach the 18 students living in the village so that they wouldn’t give up school”, he says.

Mr. Achrash has been highly praised by Iranians because he braves all dangers by going to school on boat every day throughout the school year.

During the Covid pandemic the school did not shut down because the students studying there have no cell phones. They say they are highly anxious to attend Mr. Achrash’s class and do their best to be good pupils.

22 more people die of Covid in Iran

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IFP Editorial Staff
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COVID in Iran

The daily caseload was 608 including 140 hospitalizations.  This is the lowest daily caseload in Iran in over a year.

The downward trend in deaths and infections has been mainly attributed to a nationwide vaccination drive that has seen over 148 million doses of vaccine administered over the past year.

More than 26 million people are triple-vaxxed.

The decline in Covid deaths and infections is also confirmed by the decreasing number of red cities and the rise in the number of blue cities. The two colors respectively denote the highest and lowest risk from the Coronavirus.

The Health Ministry on Friday said the number of red cities has decreased from 55 to 2 and that of orange cities has fallen to 48 from 84. According to the Health Ministry, the number of yellow cities has increased from 274 to 323 and blue ones from 35 to 75.

210 tons of roses harvested in Iran’s northeastern town

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Rose Iran

Some 66 hectares of land was used at a farm in Davarzan, in Iran’s Khorasan Razavi Province, to plant roses, which produced an average of more than three tons of roses per hectare, according to Alireza Delbari, a local farming official.

The total harvest of this year, Delbari said, registered an increase of 25 tons compared to the last year. He said three facilities were available in the town to produce rosewater, in a traditional process known as golabgiri.

The official said that Davarzan was a hub of farming medicinal herbs, producing a range of plants such as capsicum, satureja, dill, herb-Sophia, sesame, caraway, thymes, fennel, Viper’s buglosses, peppermint, roses, liquorice, and alhagi.

Farmlands in Davarzan covered 20,000 hectares, including 3,000 hectares of gardens, he said, adding that 4,750 people were involved in farming, gardening, and animal husbandry in the town.

Davarzan is located 310 kilometers to the west of Mashhad, the provincial capital of Khorasan Razavi.

Iran’s top court suspends death penalty against ranger convicted of murder

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran Court

Jamshid Mohabbat-Khani, who commands the protection unit of the Department of Environment (DOE), said on Saturday that top tribunal had accepted an appeal by defendant Boroumand Najafi for a trial de novo in the case.

In August 2020, Najafi, along with four of his colleagues, opened fire on an off-road vehicle used by illegal hunters in a protected area in the western province of Kermanshah.

One of the poachers, hit by a bullet fired by Najafi, was critically wounded and later succumbed to his injuries.

Najafi was convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to death by the Third Branch of the Kermanshah Provincial Criminal Court. The penalty was later upheld by the Supreme Court.

Iran’s Raisi: Israel, Daesh oppressing Muslims in Quds, Afghan mosques

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi

Speaking at a mourning ceremony marking the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Ali on Saturday, Raisi highlighted the first Shia Imam’s advice for followers of Islam to stand against oppressors.

“Today, we are witnessing two [instances] of oppression and big crimes being perpetrated against Muslims; one by the Zionist regime against Palestinian worshippers and the other at the hands of Daesh, a group crafted by the West and the Zionists, against the oppressed Afghan people,” he said.

Raisi reminded Afghanistan’s current rulers of their duty to protect all Afghan people, including Shia Muslims, against terror threats.

“We want the Afghan rulers to defend the lives of this country’s Muslim people who get martyred at mosques while fasting and stop the savages who launch cowardly attacks on the [the people’s] lives and security,” he said.

As Muslims mark Ramadan worldwide, Daesh has claimed responsibility for a set of deadly attacks on both Shia and Sunni mosques in Afghan cities in recent days that have left dozens of people dead or injured.

In turn, the Israeli military has stepped its raids of al-Quds, assaulting Muslim worshipers and escorting the settlers desecrating the holy site.

The president hailed the upcoming International Quds Day as a symbol of solidarity among Muslims, expressing hope that a strong unity in the Islamic world will eventually set the stage for the liberation of Quds from decades of Israeli occupation.

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