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Many injured by Yemeni ‘drone shrapnel’ in Saudi Arabia

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Saudi air defense forces have intercepted and downed a drone launched towards the airport, according to state-run Ekhbariya channel.

In recent weeks, the Houthis carried out several missile and drone attacks targeting the UAE, a member of the Saudi-led coalition that has waged a war against Yemen.

Also on Thursday, Yemeni forces announced they have successfully shot down a spy drone belonging to the Saudi-led coalition of invaders over the northwestern province of Hajjah.

In a statement, the spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, said the reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) had been brought down by a surface-to-air missile in the skies of Hajjah’s Harad district.

The statement, carried by Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network, added that the spy drone, which was of Chinese-made CH-4 type, had been performing hostile actions.

Saudi Arabia and its allies launched a war against the Arab world’s most impoverished nation in March 2015. The war has been seeking to restore power in Yemen to Riyadh’s favorite officials.

The death toll of the war, now in its seventh year, will reach an estimated 377,000 by the end of 2021, according to a recent report from the UN’s Development Programme.

The fighting has seen some 80 percent of the population, or 24 million people, relying on aid and assistance, including 14.3 million who are in acute need.

Iran says threats to be reciprocated as US sets deadline for nuclear talks

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IFP Editorial Staff
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“The dignified people of Iran has proved over the history that it will reciprocate honor and respect and will respond to threats with resistance, perseverance and reciprocal language.” said Amir Abdollahian.

“Today, in Vienna, the American and western sides face a great test before the international community. We are attending the negotiations with seriousness, planning and initiatives. We are determined to get a good agreement,” he said.

“The time when the negotiations end will be determined by the western parties’ will to undertake their commitments to remove sanctions and the return of all sides to their own obligations.”

The eighth round of the Vienna talks on revival of the Iran nuclear deal and removal of all anti-Iran sanctions resumed Tuesday in Vienna.

The next day, the White House renewed its talk about deadlines facing the talks.

“A deal that addresses the core concerns of all sides is in sight but if it is not reached in the coming weeks, Iran’s ongoing nuclear advances will make it impossible for us to return to the JCPOA,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.

The Biden administration has talked about a February deadline for the talks to produce results.

While Iran has expressed optimism about an agreement, it has vehemently rejected any deadlines.

Tehran says it will accept an agreement in Vienna only when the western sides undertake to remove all sanctions in a verifiable manner and when the US offers guarantees that it will not unilaterally withdraw from the nuclear deal again.

 

 

IRGC urges explication of Iran’s achievements as antidote to enemy’s media warfare

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“In compliance with what the great Leader of the Islamic Revolution laid out and his emphasis, it should be pointed out that the battle line of the revolution is the combined, complicated and smart war by the enemy, which is using every facility, capability and arena, to control and rein in the revolution and turn its survivability into attenuation and death, by changing facts and distorting truths and fabricating upside-down accounts of the history of the Islamic revolution,” the IRGC said in a statement.

The IRGC also called on all people and officials to “explicate and clarify” the facts on the past 43 years to neutralize the war waged by the enemy to inspire doubt among people to weaken “the principles and basis of the Islamic revolution”.

The IRGC also stressed that it will work to improve its defensive capabilities using domestic potential, which it said has been “a strategic advantage” of Iran. The force warned that it will consider negligence in this regard as helping the “psychological warfare” and combined operations of the enemy against the revolution.

Iran marks the 4rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution that toppled the US-backed Pahlavi regime, on Friday.

Raisi meets foreign envoys on eve of Islamic revolution anniv.

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During the meeting, the envoys conveyed messages of congratulation of their respective governments on the anniversary of the Islamic revolution and called for the expansion of relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Also during the meeting, Raisi thanked the envoys and other foreign officials and called on them to convey Iran’s message of peace and friendship to their countries.

Raisi also underlined the need for international cooperation to expand the culture of peace and friendship among countries and nations around the world.

“Iran’s approach to its ties with world countries, especially its neighbors, is not a tactical issue and is rather a strategic issue,” the president told the foreign envoys and officials.

“The clear and express message of the Islamic revolution is rejection of hegemony and its acceptance, calling on world powers not to interfere in the domestic affairs of independent nations, defending the subjugated and maintaining own right to independence and determining one’s own fate in domestic and foreign policy,” he said.

Turkey rules out change to Palestine policy due to normalization with Israel

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He was speaking to state broadcaster TRT Haber, underlining comments he made earlier this week that Turkey will not turn its back on its commitment to a Palestinian state in order to broker closer ties with Israel.

On Tuesday, Cavusoglu underscored that Turkey will not turn its back on its commitment to a Palestinian state in order to broker closer ties with Israel.

Ankara, which supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has condemned Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and its policy towards Palestinians, while Israel has called on Turkey to drop support for Hamas.

“Any step we take with Israel regarding our relations, any normalization, will not be at the expense of the Palestinian cause, like some other countries,” Cavusoglu told reporters in Ankara, referring to the rapprochement between Israel and some Persian Gulf countries that has angered Turkey.

“Our position there is always clear,” he continued, noting, “These ties normalizing a bit more may increase Turkey’s role regarding a two-state solution as well, as a country that will be in touch with both countries, but we will never turn back on our core principles.”

Ties between Ankara and Tel Aviv hit their nadir in 2010 following an Israeli naval raid on a Turkish aid ship, the Mavi Marmara, en route to deliver humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip. The raid resulted in the death of 10 activists.

In 2013, Turkish-Israeli relations entered a period of normalization after then Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued an apology to Turkey, and the Tel Aviv regime paid $20 million in compensation to the Mavi Marmara victims.

Turkey and Israel reappointed ambassadors as part of the reconciliation deal in December 2016.

Relations broke down again in 2018, after Turkey, angered by the United States moving its embassy to the occupied al-Quds, once more recalled its ambassador from Israel, prompting Israel to also recall its envoy.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Herzog would visit Turkey in mid-March, the first such trip in years, adding the two countries could discuss energy cooperation.

“Police battling criminals, offsetting hostile plots along borders”

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Brigadier General Hossein Ashtari made the comments during an address to police staff in the southeastern city of Iranshahr, in the province of Sistan and Balouchestan that borders Pakistan and Afghanistan.

He said foreign presence in our neighboring countries had a destructive effect on regional security.

“Every day, commandos and personnel of the police, along all borders, especially in the southeast and in Sistan and Balouchestan Province, are constantly battling and countering drugs trafficking, entry of arms and moves by criminals, and all of these are due to the foreign presence in the region,” he said.

“The world arrogance, led by the US, committed numerous crimes in the region through their 20-year presence in our neighbors Afghanistan, which is our friend, under the pretext of establishing security and countering terrorist groupings there.”

Ashtari stressed that the foreign presence “not only failed to establish security, whatsoever, it also created insecurity” leading to the “humiliating” withdrawal of Americans from Afghanistan.

“Our enemies, since the early days after the victory of the Islamic revolution, have sought to create insecurity in the region, but the police vigilance, alertness and brilliance, … offset all their plots,” he said.

The general added that police and armed forces in the province have used intelligence surveillance and other capabilities to prevent many crimes and hostile actions aimed at creating insecurity for the local residents.

Terrorists and smugglers frequently use Iran’s borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan to infiltrate the country. This sometimes leads to bloody clashes that have taken the lives of Iranian security personnel over the past years.

Iran’s biggest water supply project comes on line

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Few villages and towns in the Sistan and Baluchestan Province were connected to the national water supply network until before the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran.

Based on the figures announced by the Energy Ministry, less than 7% of the rural population enjoyed the blessing of potable water in 1978, but the figure grew more than ten-fold to 70.5% in 2021.

Back in 1978, just over 100 villages had access to piped water while the figure crossed the 3,000-mark in early 2021.

And just less than 600 kilometers of water supply network were available in 1978 while the figure jumped to more than 16.500 kilometers in 2021.

Despite the great development of the national water distribution network, Sistan and Baluchetan Province still has the lowest rate of access to piped water in the country and over 2,500 provincial villages still are not connected to the national water supply network.

Nevertheless, the new project will supple water to 1,751 villages there, making it the largest water supply project in the province’s history.

The project comes with a price tag of Rls. 40 trillion.

Iran police seize around 1k kilograms of illegal drugs

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IFP Media Wire
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The prosecutor of Jiroft County in southeastern Kerman Province Hossein Salami reported that a drug trafficking team were apprehended in the south of the province on Wednesday.

“In an intelligence operation on Wednesday, the members of the drugs trafficking group were identified,” Salami added.

The Jiroft prosecutor stated that more than 930 kg of various illegal drugs were confiscated, saying a trafficker was also arrested during the operation.

Furthermore, a residential unit was shut down along with the seizure of a vehicle.

According to him, the drug traffickers intended to transport a consignment of narcotics from the eastern borders of the country and then distribute the drugs throughout the other provinces, but they were arrested before they could carry out their plot.

Iran Daily: New missile display of power at critical time

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IFP Editorial Staff
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New missile display of power at critical time

“[Military] field and diplomacy are advancing shoulder to shoulder and spare no legal and legitimate action to protect the rights of people, whether at the time the Zionists used empty warnings to threaten the Islamic Republic of Iran with military attack or during the current times when Americans are trying to impose meaningless deadlines to force Iran into giving up on [its demand] for full and effective removal of sanctions, under the pretext of time running out,” Iran Daily wrote.

The analysis said the missile adds to the show of power by Iran by the recent Great Prophet drills and simulation of an attack on Israel’s Dimona nuclear site.

Iran unveiled its new ballistic missile dubbed Kheibar Shekan on Wednesday. It is a solid-fueled missile with a range of 1450 kilometers. The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), which designed the missile, said it is capable of maneuvering before hitting the target to dodge missile defense shields.

Biden pledges US support for Saudi Arabia amid Yemen attacks

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IFP Media Wire
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Biden reaffirmed the United States’ “commitment to support” Saudi Arabia against the Yemen’s retaliation during a phone call with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, according to a White House readout of the conversation.

Biden also alleged “full support for UN-led efforts to end the war in Yemen.”

Saudi Arabia and its allies launched a war against the Arab world’s most impoverished nation in March 2015. The war has been seeking to restore power in Yemen to Riyadh’s favorite officials.

The death toll of the war, now in its seventh year, will reach an estimated 377,000 by the end of 2021, according to a recent report from the UN’s Development Programme.

The fighting has seen some 80 percent of the population, or 24 million people, relying on aid and assistance, including 14.3 million who are in acute need.

The war has enjoyed nearly uninterrupted American arms, logistical, and political support.

Last year, Biden raised hopes of ending the US involvement in the military campaign by announcing an end to Washington’s assistance for Saudi Arabia’s “offensive operations” in Yemen, as well as “relevant arms sales”.

Later, however, his administration gave the go-ahead for a $650 million sale of air-to-air missiles to Riyadh, as well as a $500 million helicopter maintenance deal.

The American president’s pledge of support to the kingdom came less than a week after the White House sent Frank McKenzie, the US general in charge of the American forces in the West Asia region, to the United Arab Emirates—Riyadh’s main ally in the Saudi-led coalition—to verify Washington’s backing for Abu Dhabi against Yemeni counteroffensives.

Saudi Arabia’s official news agency, SPA, also reported, “His Majesty cited the kingdom’s support to efforts by the United States to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, and stressed the need to work together to counter the destabilizing activities of Iran’s proxies in the region.”

Iran has repeatedly stressed it has not been and is not after atomic weapons.

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