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Dozens killed in bomb blast in Shia mosque in Afghan Mazar-e-Sharif

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Blast Shia mosque in Afghan Mazar-e-Sharif
A wounded Afghan man receives treatment at a hospital after he got injured in a bomb blast at a Shia Mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif on April 21, 2022.

The mosque, dubbed Sedeokaan, is the biggest mosque used by Shia Muslims in Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan.

Reports say the bomb detonated during the mass prayer and the victims are worshippers.

The head of Abu Ali Sina Hospital in the city says many of the wounded were taken to this hospital but noted that he was not aware of the exact number of casualties. The number of deaths could rise because some of those injured are in critical condition.

Meanwhile, Iran’s Consulate General in Mazar-e-Sharif in a statement strongly condemned the explosion.

It also wished divine forgiveness for the victims and patience for their families. Similar attacks targeting Shia Muslims in Afghanistan have also been either claimed by Daesh or blamed on the terrorist group that’s operating in parts of Afghanistan.

On Tuesday, another bomb attack hit a boys’ school in a Shia neighborhood of Kabul and killed a number of people, mostly students.

Iran has called on the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan to go after those behind such terror attacks and bring them to justice.

Sattari in Russia to promote Iran’s knowledge-based products

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Iran’s Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari

Sattari, along with the Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Kazem Jalali and a group of Russian and Iranian officials took part in a forum on Thursday aimed at enhancing Iran-Russia cooperation in the field of knowledge-based goods.

Directors of Iranian knowledge-based companies and technologists talked to Russian officials about ways to quickly remove barriers and significantly increase the exchange of such products.

Sattari noted that during this trip, he is following up on exports by creative companies, adding that cooperation between the two countries should be increased to develop the market for the products of these firms.

Both countries have high scientific and technological capacities and we must make good use of this opportunity, Iran’s vice president for science and technology added.

“A new generation of entrepreneurship has been created in Iran over the past 10 years and knowledge-based companies have reached the stage of full growth and maturity. These companies operate in the field of technology and are a new generation for the development of exports to Russia and the transfer of technology between the two countries,” Sattari explained.

During the conference, the parties agreed to hold reciprocal visits of experts and companies in the near future to get acquainted with the production and rules of conducting clinical trials and registration of medicines in Iran and the Russian Federation.

Sattari was accompanied by directors of firms active in the fields of communications and information, biotechnology, medicine and medical equipment, creative industries, digital economy and agriculture.

23 killed by Covid in Iran

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COVID in Iran

The tally also showed 1,413 new Covid infections had been logged. The new cases include 169 hospitalizations.

The downward trend in Covid deaths and infections in Iran has held in the past couple of months.

This comes amid a nationwide vaccination campaign that has seen nearly 149 million doses of vaccine given to people across Iran.

Most Iranians have received two shots of vaccine. This is while officials insist that they get their third shot, known as booster. Currently, only more than 26 million people out of the 85 million have got their boosters.

The Iranian officials say getting triple-vaxxed is a must because it can prevent a resurgence of Covid in the country.

Iran now says it is self-sufficient in production of Covid vaccine and that it’s capable of exporting the jabs to other countries.

Israeli troops fire tear gas, rubber bullets in new raid on al-Aqsa

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Israeli Forces

Israeli police used force and firepower against Palestinian worshipers, forcing some of them, including women, to go inside the building and wait for the extremist Israeli settlers to finish their tour, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.

According to the Red Crescent about 20 Palestinians were injured as a result of Israeli attacks in al-Aqsa.

Crowds of settlers were allowed by the police to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Jewish Passover holiday, which coincided with the holy month of Ramadan, leading to great violence against Palestinian worshippers over the past few days.

On Wednesday, more than 1,000 Israeli settlers stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque, provoking more tensions, as the top preacher of the mosque, Sheikh Ekrima Sa’id Sabri, warned the Tel Aviv regime that such repeated storming of the holy site is “playing with fire.”

From Gaza, Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced the repeated incursions by Israeli settlers, calling on the Palestinian people to continue their mobilization in al-Aqsa Mosque to protect occupied al-Quds and thwart the occupation’s malicious plans.

Hamas also called on the international community to assume its responsibilities and stop its double-standard policy in dealing with our Palestinian people and their just cause with the double standards policy.

Moreover, pro-Palestine solidarity marches have been held around the world, with protesters demanding that their respective governments stop the ongoing Israeli aggression against Palestinians.

Back in May last year, frequent acts of violence against Palestinian worshipers at the al-Aqsa Mosque led to an 11-day war between Palestinian resistance groups in the besieged Gaza Strip and the Israeli regime, during which the regime killed at least 260 Palestinians, including 66 children.

Biden exploiting Trump’s sanctions to arm-twist Iran: Report

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US President Joe Biden

An article published on the website of Noor News — which is affiliated with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) — on Wednesday, said the Biden administration is falsely claiming that Iran is making demands that “go beyond” the Iran nuclear deal.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price has been indicating repeatedly that an Iranian demand that the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) be taken off an American list of foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) “goes beyond” the Iran deal and necessitates negotiations that also go beyond the agreement, the article said.

This is while under the 2015 Iran deal — to which the US hopes to return with indirect negotiations with Iran in Vienna — any further US sanctions on Iran would have been prohibited, meaning that Trump’s bans, including his FTO designation of the IRGC, were illegal under the deal itself. Therefore, an Iranian demand to cancel that designation does not “go beyond” the agreement, it said.

The article indicated that the Biden administration was now acting in bad faith by using the Trump sanctions to ask Iran to either settle with less than it is due under the 2015 deal or agree to negotiations “beyond” the pact — which the Islamic Republic has said will never happen.

By engaging in the media hype about “Iran making extra demands,” the Biden administration is hoping to put the onus on the Islamic Republic, the article said.

“Iran will never negotiate its defensive and regional might, which guarantee its authority and security, and the West has to forget about such excessive demands that go beyond the JCPOA forever,” it said, using an abbreviation to refer to the Iran nuclear deal.

Israel raids Gaza for second time in a week

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Gaza Strip

The raids took place before dawn on Thursday. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

Witnesses told Al Jazeera that the attacks damaged several houses near one of the targeted sites in the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

Earlier in the night, a rocket fired from Gaza struck southern Israel, causing slight damage to a house but no injuries, Israeli police confirmed. Four more rockets were also fired from Gaza, the Israeli military added, following its raids on the besieged coastal enclave, but were intercepted by air defence systems.

No Palestinian faction claimed responsibility for the rocket launches.

In a statement, Hamas, the group that governs Gaza, said Israel’s bombing will only encourage Palestinians to “resist the occupation and step up their support for Jerusalem and its people”.

A surge of violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory has raised fears of a slide back to wider conflict, after last year’s 11-day Israel-Gaza war, in which more than 250 Palestinians in Gaza and 13 people in Israel were killed.

In March, Israeli forces killed at least 29 Palestinians in raids on the West Bank after 14 people in Israel were killed in street attacks.

Israeli riot police also stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque compound – a site revered by Muslims and Jews – last week, wounding at least 158 Palestinian worshippers.

Tensions this year have been heightened in part by the Muslim holy month of Ramadan coinciding with the Jewish celebration of Passover.

Palestinians accuse Israel of encroaching at Al-Aqsa by allowing Jewish worshippers into the sacred compound. They say the move is a violation of a centuries-old policy under which non-Muslims may visit, but not pray.

Israeli leaders have announced they are ensuring freedom of worship for all religions in Jerusalem.

Al-Aqsa is the third holiest site in Islam and is also revered by Jews as the location of two ancient temples.

Palestinians want occupied East Jerusalem, including its Muslim, Christian and Jewish holy sites, as the capital of a future state.

Israel, which annexed East Jerusalem in a move not internationally recognised after capturing the area in a 1967 war, regards all of Jerusalem as its eternal capital.

UN agrees to reopening of Sana’a International Airport after 6 years: Yemeni govt.

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Sana’a International Airport

A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority in Sana’a, Mazen Ghanem, said the UN had notified the National Salvation Government that it had agreed to a first commercial flight from the Sana’a International Airport to the Queen Alia International Airport in Jordan.

Ghanem said the flight would take off on Sunday, April 24, at 8 am local time.

A military coalition led by Saudi Arabia invaded Yemen in 2015. Shortly afterwards, the aggressor regimes imposed a blockade on the country, including bans on flights to and from the Sana’a International Airport.

Earlier this month, however, the warring sides declared a two-month truce in what was seen as a major breakthrough in Yemen’s seven-year conflict.

The truce was brokered by UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg, who said while announcing the ceasefire on April 1 that some flights from the Sana’a airport “to predetermined destinations in the region” would become possible under the agreement.

Yemeni sources say the Saudi-led war has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis.

Yemen’s economy and basic services have also collapsed as a result, leaving 80% of the population of around 30 million reliant on aid.

The war was meant to remove the Houthi Ansarrulah movement from power. The National Salvattion Government now in place is affiliated with the Houthis.

UK hoping for final deal in Vienna, looking to enhance economic ties with Iran

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Nuclear Negotiations in Vienna

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the spokesperson told IRNA’s reporter during a briefing that the sanctions on Iran were hindering trade but a final agreement in the course of the negotiations in Vienna would remove those obstacles and “would enable us to enhance our economic ties with Iran,” the Iranian news agency reported on Thursday.

London is looking to establish a “constructive relationship” with the Iranian government, the spokesperson said.

Iran and five of its international partners — including the UK — have been negotiating in the Austrian capital since 2021 to revive a landmark nuclear deal that was originally reached in 2015.

The Iran nuclear deal faced setbacks when the United States, a former party to the deal, withdrew unilaterally under ex-President Donald Trump in 2018.

Soon after taking office, however, the administration of US President Joe Biden expressed an intention to return to the pact. Since then, the US has been negotiating with Iran via the remaining parties to the agreement in order to rejoin.

Earlier this year, the negotiating parties took a break to allow political decision making.

Asked about the state of the negotiations in Vienna, the spokesperson for the British prime minister’s office said London believed that the negotiations had concluded and “a good agreement” was in hand.

First Qadr night marked at Imam Khomeini mausoleum in Tehran

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Qadr Night Iran

Another Iranian movie enters Cannes Film Festival

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Leila Hatami Imagine Ali Behrad Cannes Critics’ Week

The movie, which stars Iranian actress Leila Hatami and actor Mehrdad Sediqian, has entered the prestigious festival’s Critics’ Week.

“Imagine” is Behrad’s first long movie, whose shooting has taken place in the Iranian capital, Tehran. It will be Iran’s first presence in the Critics’ Week in 20 years.

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