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IAEA chief due in Tehran ‘within hours’

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Grossi will fly to Tehran this weekend for talks that may ease a standoff between Tehran and the West just as it risks escalating negotiations on reviving the Iran nuclear deal, diplomats said on Saturday.

Three diplomats who follow the IAEA closely stated Grossi’s trip before next week’s meeting of the IAEA’s 35-nation board of governors was confirmed.

Two added that Grossi would arrive in Tehran early on Sunday and meet the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Mohammad Eslami.

The IAEA informed its member states this week that there had been no progress on two central issues: explaining uranium traces found at several old, undeclared sites and getting urgent access to some monitoring equipment so that the agency can continue to keep track of parts of Iran’s nuclear programme as provided for by the 2015 deal.

Separate, indirect talks between the United States and Iran on both returning to compliance with the nuclear deal have been halted since June. Washington and its European allies have been urging President Ebrahim Raisi’s administration, which took office in August, to return to the talks.

Under the 2015 deal between Iran and major powers, Tehran agreed to restrictions on its nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions against it.

President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the deal in 2018, re-introducing painful economic sanctions. Iran responded as of 2019 by breaching many of the deal’s core restrictions, like enriching uranium to a higher purity, closer to that suitable for use in nuclear weapons.

Western powers must decide whether to push for a resolution criticising Iran and raising pressure on it for stonewalling the IAEA at next week’s meeting of the agency’s 35-nation Board of Governors. A resolution could jeopardise the resumption of talks on the Iran nuclear deal as Tehran bristles at such moves.

Source: Reuters

 

African Union suspends Guinea after coup

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The AU on Friday announced the suspension of Guinea’s membership in the bloc after the military ousted President Alpha Conde last Sunday.

In a Twitter post, the African Union Political Affairs Peace and Security said that the country has been suspended from all AU activities and decision-making bodies.

It also called on AU Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki to engage with all shareholders in the region.

Conde, 83, was deposed and detained on September 5 by soldiers led by army Col. Mamadi Doumbouya, who announced the takeover on state television and the dissolution of the National Assembly and constitution.

He was re-elected for a third term in October 2020 in polls marred by violence.

He first came to power in 2010 in a vote seen as the first democratic election since the former French colony gained independence.

Source: Anadolu News Agency

Israeli arrests 4 Palestinians who escaped maximum-security jail

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Israeli police captured in the early hours of Saturday two more Palestinians who escaped from a maximum-security prison earlier this week, bringing to four the number of prisoners recaptured.

Authorities have identified the two persons as Zakaria Zubeidi and Mahmoud Al-Arida. The two were reportedly found at a truck garage in northern Israel.

Two more Palestinians remain at-large.

Earlier on Friday, authorities announced they caught the first two of six Palestinian escapees.

In a statement, a police spokeswoman said the two were captured on Mount Precipice, a Christian holy site near Nazareth.

The two men captured were members of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad, Israeli media reported. Police did not provide their identities.

Israel had launched a massive manhunt for the six prisoners who made a daring jailbreak on Monday from the high-security Gilboa prison through a tunnel dug beneath a sink in a cell.

Earlier on Friday, Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem took to the streets in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners and protested against their punishment.

Five of the six men who escaped on Monday belong to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, while one of them is a senior member of Fatah’s armed wing. The six inmates have either been convicted or are suspected of planning or carrying out deadly attacks against Israelis.

Israel has promised to capture all of the men, and officials say they will investigate any lapses that allowed their escape.

Palestinians have warned Israel against causing harm and endangering the lives of prisoners allegedly detained after they escaped from the prison.

Source: Al-Jazeera

Iran’s Leader Congratulates Flotilla on Accomplishment of Mission

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In a message, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khameni expressed his gratitude to the commander and personnel of the 75th Armada of the Navy following its return home from a historic mission in the Atlantic Ocean.

“I express my congratulations on the mighty and honourable return of the 75th flotilla of the Naval Force of the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran from a daunting naval mission across the Atlantic Ocean, which was conducted for the first time in the country’s navigation history,” said the Leader.

“By God’s grace, today the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Army is on the scene with its watchful, brave and untiring personnel, and stands ready for making endeavours to secure the lofty objectives of the Islamic Revolution,” he added.

“Maintain and upgrade these capabilities,” Ayatollah Khamenei noted.

“Convey my greetings to the commander and every single staff member of the flotilla,” he said.

The flotilla, which includes Sahand Destroyer and Makran port ship, had been dispatched to the high seas to ensure security for commercial ships of Iran as well as other countries.

The Armada has now arrived in Iran’s territorial waters.

Russia summons US envoy over alleged election interference

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The ambassador declined to provide any comments to reporters. He stayed in the foreign ministry for about 20 minutes and then left.

A diplomatic source later disclosed that Sullivan was summoned over American interference in the elections.

At the same time, the US embassy stated that the envoy visited the ministry to meet Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and discuss President Joe Biden’s approach to stabilizing relations between Moscow and Washington.

“On Friday, September 10, Ambassador Sullivan met with Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov to discuss a range of bilateral matters in support of President Biden’s desire for a stable, predictable relationship with Russia,” Spokesman Jason Rebholz said. 

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova also added that the reason was the US meddling.

“I read three versions of the summoning of the US ambassador to the Russian Foreign Ministry. After all, the foreign ministry summoned him, and the foreign ministry knows the real reason for that. There is only one reason — interference in the Russian elections. We hope that this will be reported by US diplomats to Washington. And not the way it is written in the press release from the US embassy, completely out of touch with reality,” Zakharova noted.

Previously, Moscow suggested that Russia and the US may develop several legally and politically binding documents on strategic stability, as the two countries have sought to reach an agreement on the issue since the Geneva summit in June.

The summit was held to resolve pressing issues between the sides despite tense Russia-US ties.

President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart issued a joint statement stressing that both nations plan to launch a comprehensive bilateral dialogue on strategic stability and begin consultations on cybersecurity and arms control.

There is no doubt about attempts to interfere in the elections in Russia, but there is a system that hedges these attempts, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

“For us, there is no doubt that they will try to interfere in the elections. Thank God, the system is well-tuned in terms of a system that hedges these risks,” Peskov told reporters.

“There are indeed risks, we must be clearly aware of this,” he added.

Source: Sputnik

Official: Iraqi PM to visit Iran on Sunday

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The visit will mark Al Kadhemi’s first meeting with Raisi since he took office last month, and comes ahead of Iraq’s October 10 legislative polls.

Al Kadhemi will raise “issues of security, energy, and relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran” with Raisi, a government source said, requesting anonymity.

Oil-rich Iraq has been caught for years in a delicate balancing act between its two main allies, the United States and neighbouring Iran.

The Islamic republic exerts major clout in Iraq through allied armed groups within the Hashed Al Shaabi, a powerful state-sponsored paramilitary network.

Iraq is highly dependent on Iranian imports, and the Islamic republic supplies a third of Iraq’s gas and electricity needs. However, Baghdad currently owes Tehran six billion dollars for energy supplied.

Baghdad has also been brokering talks since April between US ally Riyadh and Tehran on mending ties severed in 2016.

Last month Iraq hosted a summit of regional leaders, attended by the foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia as well as French President Emmanuel Macron.

Sunday’s meeting is also expected to address the issue of visas for Iranian pilgrims travelling to Shiite holy sites in Iraq.

Iraqi authorities late on Thursday announced new quotas for foreign pilgrims for the Arbaeen pilgrimage in the Shiite shrine city of Karbala later this month.

Al Kadhemi’s office announced that 60,000 Iranian pilgrims would be allowed to attend, up from 30,000 previously announced.

The number of visas issued to foreign pilgrims permitted has dropped sharply in the past two years due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Al Kadhemi, who came to power in May last year after months of unprecedented mass protests against a ruling class seen as corrupt, inept and subordinate to Tehran, had called for early parliamentary elections in response to demands by pro-democracy activists.

Source: Agence France-Presse

Taliban kills ex-VP’s brother in Panjshir

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 The strategic valley is Afghanistan’s last remaining holdout where anti-Taliban forces seem to be working on forming a ‘guerrilla movement’ to take on the Taliban.

Source told Aamaj News Azizi was arrested and shot on Thursday in Rokha district in Panjshir.

His brother Saleh did not flee from the country like former President Ashraf Ghani. He became one of the leaders of resistance against the Taliban. His exact location remains unknown.

The Taliban announced this week that Panjshir, the last stronghold of the anti-Taliban resistance movement National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), was under the group’s control.

However, resistance leader Ahmad Massoud insisted the fight continued and called for a national uprising. Massoud’s calls were met with rallies across the country in support of his movement.

The Taliban fighters are tightening their control over Panjshir region by denying residents food and executing civilians, witnesses disclosed.

The witnesses told The Washington Post the Taliban killed at least eight civilians who were “neither supporters of the resistance or the Taliban”.

NRF Spokesman Ali Nazary said on Friday the Taliban has expelled thousands of people from the Panjshir province and is committing ethnic cleansing.

“The Taliban have expelled thousands of people from Panjshir,” he added.

They are committing ethnic cleansing & the world is still watching and ignoring this situation,” Nazary wrote on his Twitter page.

He also called on the international community to stop the war crimes in Afghanistan.

The TOLOnews TV channel reported on Friday a humanitarian crisis and hunger are looming for the residents of Panjshir province where a resistance was organized to counteract the Taliban that seized power in the country.

According to its sources, following the beginning of military actions, the Taliban blocked roads to the province, there is no power or phone connection in the region. According to the sources, 

“Panjshir’s residents will encounter serious problems and a threat of hunger if the situation doesn’t change,” the sources declared

Raisi: Iran can overcome problems by relying on domestic capabilities

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IFP Editorial Staff
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“The United States and Western countries have never solved any problems of nations and will not do so, just as they made the honorable people of Afghanistan miserable for 20 years,” the Iranian president said on Friday night at the end of a one-day trip to South Khorasan province.

Raisi said he believes that there is no unsolvable problem in the country and that all challenges can be met by Iranian people.

“Since I entered the executive branch, I have come to believe more in this and I strongly believe that all problems can be resolved by youths and people with faith,” Reisi noted.

The president also Emphasized that the distribution of resources in Iran should be fair, adding that the best way to achieve fair distribution is budgeting based on spatial planning.

Poll: Americans say 9/11 changed US for worse than better

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According to a poll by Washington Post and ABC News, 46 percent of Americans believe that their country has been changed for the worse following the terrorist attacks that occurred in New York City, and at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on September 11, 2001.

The number easily exceeds the 33 percent who said the US has changed for the better.

The results found by the survey also differ vastly from those of a similar poll carried out just one year after the attacks.

In a 2002 poll, 67 percent of Americans maintained that the event has changed the country for the better.

9/11 was a series of strikes that killed nearly 3,000 people and caused about $10 billion worth of property and infrastructure damage in the United States.

Iran trying to up visa quota for Arbaeen pilgrims

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Amir Abdollahian however said another million-strong march on the shrine of Imam Hussein is impossible due to the strict Covid restrictions and the need to protect the health of pilgrims. 

Local media soures say, Iraq had earlier increased the visa quota for Iranians from 40 thousand to 80 thousand upon orders from Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi. 

This came after Iranian government officials held talks with the Iraqis over the matter. Iraq has capped the number of visas for foreign pilgrims participating in the Arbaeen ceremonies lest they should bring about a super spreader event amid the Covid pandemic. Arbaeen marks the 40th day after the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussein at the battle of Karbaka by the army of tyrant of the time Yazid.  Each year, millions of Iranians participate in Arbaeen mourning ceremonies in the Iraqi city of Karbala.

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