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Tehran confirms IAEA chief visit to Iran

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Kamalvandi said Grossi will meet the AEOI’s head Mohamams Eslami on different issues including Tehran’s cooperation with the IAEA on Sunday.

Kamalvandi said Grossi will leave for Vienna after talks with Eslami. Reuters has cited the IAEA as saying that the agency informed member states this week there had been no progress on two central issues regarding explaining uranium traces found at several old, undeclared sites and getting urgent access to some monitoring equipment so the agency can continue to keep track of parts of Iran’s nuclear program as provided for by the 2015 deal.

Iran has said all its nuclear activities are legal and within the framework of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It also says it won’t allow IAEA inspections of its sites beyond the Safeguards Agreement.

Meanwhile, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has warned the IAEA over the consequences of its “unconstructive” attitude towards Tehran. Raisi said the IAEA approach could derail talks to fully revive the Iran nuclear deal.

Western members of the agency must decide whether to push for a resolution criticizing Iran over the IAEA’s claims at next week’s meeting of the agency’s 35-nation Board of Governors. A resolution could endanger talks on the nuclear deal.

Why Iran carried out missile strike in northern Iraq?

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The IRGC issued a statement following the attack, saying the missile strike was in response to the group’s frequent dispatch of its terrorist cells to Iran’s West Azarbaijan, Kurdistan and Kermanshah provinces where they did acts of sabotage and wreaked havoc on people in those regions.

The Iranian website Mashreghnews on Saturday quoted a media outlet close to terrorist groups in the region as saying the attack dealt a heavy blow to the Democratic Party of Kurdistan.

IRGC ground forces commander Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour said Tehran had earlier called on the authorities in the Iraqi Kurdistan region to prevent such terrorist groups from approaching Iran’s borders. Mashreghenws said the missile strike by the IRGC sends a strong message to enemies of the Islamic republic and their mercenaries that they are all within the reach of Iran’s weapons.

According to the report, the attack also shows that Iran will not hesitate to use force to deal with any terrorist group attempting to disrupt security in the Islamic Republic and that neighbors must either join Iran in fulfilling the task or stand by watching Iran take care of that.

Mashreghnews also said Iran’s missile attacks on the enemies have also served as a show of Iran’s military might and have at the same time inspired fear in the Israeli regime, which keeps threatening Iran with war.

Iran aims for over two million vaccinations per day

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“The increase in imports and the simultaneous increase in daily vaccinations have created calm and allayed people’s concerns to a great extent and we hope that daily vaccinations will soon surpass 2,000,000 people a day,” President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi said during a meeting of National Task Force Against Coronavirus in the capital Tehran on Saturday.

Also referring to the indigenously manufactured COVID-19 shots, the president added that domestic manufacturing will continue until the country’s needs are met.

Iran seems to be moving past its fifth wave of the outbreak of the deadly respiratory disease.

On Saturday, Iran’s Health Ministry reported 444 new fatalities and over 16,600 new cases of the disease.

Official figures show over 113,800 Iranians have died from the coronavirus so far. This as many sources say the real figure is much higher. 

Iran recently stepped up vaccine imports and is intensifying its domestic production too.

The Islamic Republic is also producing COVID-19 shots jointly with Cuba, Russia, and Australia.

Informed source: Ahmad Massoud is inside Afghanistan

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Ghassem Mohammadi told Iran’s Fars News Agency that Massoud is in a safe place in Panjshir and fighting against the Taliban is continuing. 

Mohammadi said the Taliban entered Panjshir Friday and have captured major roads in the region but popular local forces are in full control of the valleys there.  

He noted that the Taliban was under a siege by the local combatants but managed to break the siege with air coverage by Pakistani warplanes. According to the source, Pakistani jet fighters fly over Panjshir at nighttime. 

Mohammadi said many families have left Panshir though. 

He quoted sources in neighboring countries as saying that 40 thousand pro-Taleban forces entered Panjshir that include four groups. Mohammadi claimed these groups include the Taleban themselves, the Haqqani group fighters, al-Qaeda, and Daesh terrorists. 

He also alleged that Pakistan and Qatar fund the Taleban. 

The Taliban took over Afghanistan in the lead-up to the US withdrawal from the country last month. All parts of Afghanistan fell to the group fast in a matter of days. But the Panjshir valley which is under the control of the group known as the National Northern Front is still resisting the Taliban.

Raisi says will not allow excessive import of home appliances

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He hailed Iranian factories including those manufacturing home appliances for turning threats into opportunities as the country remains under U.S. sanctions.

“The same thing is happening in home appliance factories which have made good progress. They (the enemies) prevented goods manufactured by Korean factories from entering our country, and limited their production and distribution offices in Iran. This resulted in opening home appliance factories which now meet the needs of the country….but some are talking about importing Korean goods again,” the Iranian president said on Friday during a trip to South Khorasan province.

 “We will not allow excessive imports that will adversely impact production in the country,” the Iranian president noted.

The Iranian president’s comments come as some reports say foreign manufacturers of home appliances could decide to return to Iran after they left when former U.S. president Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 and imposed unilateral sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

 Tens of thousands of Iranians working at home appliance manufacturing companies signed a petition recently calling on the government to ban imports of foreign goods.

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

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