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Rights groups call all on broadcasters to boycott Beijing Olympics

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In a joint letter to NBC Chief Operating Officer Jeff Shell and executives at other networks, the groups said outlets “are at serious risk of being complicit in China’s plan to ‘sport wash’ the severe and worsening human rights abuses and embolden the actions of the Chinese authorities”.

By broadcasting Beijing 2022, media outlets will “legitimize these abuses and promote what is being widely described as the ‘Genocide Games’,” the groups claimed in their letter.

NBC Universal did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In 2014, NBC inked a deal to pay $7.75 billion for the rights to the Olympics through 2032.

The China’s Foreign Ministry has repeatedly denied accusations of oppression of ethnic minorities and other human rights abuses.

“Genocide must be a red line that cannot be crossed, no matter the cost,” the groups wrote in their letter.

Lhadon Tethong, co-chair of the International Tibet Network, called out broadcasters like Canada’s CBC, Britain’s BBC and ARD in Germany as media outlets that receive public money and should not cover the Games.

“It is unconscionable that NBC, CBC and other broadcasters plan to help Chinese leaders project a rosy image of an ‘Olympic Games as usual’ while they are carrying out genocide against the Uyghurs, and engaging in a massive campaign of repression against Tibetans and so many others,” Tethong stated.

The Beijing Games are slated to begin in February.

Source: The Associated Press

Phase 3 of Clinical Trial of Iran’s COVID-19 Fakhra Vaccine Begins

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammadreza Ashtiani made the comment while inspecting the process of the construction of a factory that would produce the Fakhra vaccine in Tehran.

He underlined phases one and two of the clinical trial of the vaccine have successfully been conducted.

“After receiving the necessary permits from the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, phase three of the clinical trial of the Fakhra vaccine began, and the vaccine has received the necessary permit for emergency and public use and will be offered for public vaccination in the coming days,” he explained.

“In the meantime, the construction and preparation of the Fakhra Vaccine Production Factory done by experts in the defense industry are in their final stage, and we hope the factory will become fully operational in the near future for the mass-production of vaccines,” he added.

The top general institutes affiliated with the defense ministry have a capacity of producing some 1 million doses of the Fakhra vaccine on a monthly basis.
“When the necessary infrastructure is finalized in December, we can multiply production,” the defense chief noted.

Iran Strikes Terrorists HQ in Iraq’s Kurdistan, killing senior leaders

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The attack was successfully conducted on September 8, 2021 by the Missile Unit of the Aerospace Division of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in cooperation with the Drone Unit of the Ground Force of the Iranian Army.

Following the strike, the IRGC released an announcement confirming the attack.

“Terrorist groupings affiliated with global hegemony had conducted evil acts in recent months from Iraq’s Kurdistan region against Iranian border areas,” read the announcement.

“They had dispatched numerous terrorist groups in a bid to create insecurity, commit acts of sabotage and disrupt the security and tranquility of the brave people of the provinces of West Azarbaijan, [Iran’s] Kurdistan and Kermanshah,” it added.

“They had received deadly blows in Marivan and Kamyaran border areas during operations over the past weeks thanks to the vigilance and preparedness of the IRGC’s Ground Force troops, and accordingly, the IRGC put on its agenda a mission to [further] punish and deal with the aggressors,” the announcement read.

It said the ringleaders’ meeting venue and the terrorists’ training centre were successfully attacked after they failed to heed serious warnings from officials in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, who had told the terrorists that Tehran was determined to tackle their anti-Iran terrorist acts.

“Based on reliable and documented reports on the operation, this centre of conspiracy against Iran’s national security was destroyed, and dozens of senior leaders and key operatives of the terrorist group were killed,” according to the announcement.

The IRGC warned that it will give more crushing responses to any evil acts and terrorist moves.

Taliban urges UN to remove its leaders from sanction list

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The Taliban group urged Washington to release about $10 billion of Afghanistan’s frozen funds in American banks, according to acting Minister of Refugees Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani.

Haqqani reportedly made the remark in his address to university lecturers and industry workers living abroad.

The Taliban has also urged Washington to release billions of Dollars in international aid allocated for Afghanistan’s post-conflict recovery.

It also called on the international community, with the United Nations at the helm, to remove the names of Taliban leaders from blacklists, according to the report.

Washington froze the assets of the Afghan government, as well as its gold reserves, in US banks last month.

Source: Shamshad news

Palestinians injured as Israel attacks pro-prisoner rallies

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Demonstrators take part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank September 8, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

Israeli forces attacked rallies held in the West Bank in support of Palestinian prisoners, who have come under Tel Aviv’s crackdown following a recent successful jailbreak by six of the inmates.

“One hundred Palestinians have been injured in clashes with the Israeli military in the districts of Beita and Huwara near the city of Nablus in the West Bank,” the organization stated on late Wednesday.

On Wednesday, all Palestinian movements and groups called for clashes with the Israeli military to support Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.

Israeli forces Wednesday overnight detained relatives of the Palestinian prisoners on the run after their brazen escape from a high-security jail, according to the Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS). According to Palestinian media outlets, the Israeli forces raided the homes of the escaped prisoners and began to arrest their relatives. Clashes erupted between the Palestinian youth and Israeli troops after the invasion.

A former commander of the Palestinian resistance group Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade in Jenin and five members of the Islamic Jihad group managed to tunnel their way out through their cell’s drainage system to escape from the maximum-security jail in the predawn hours of Monday.

It was the biggest Palestinian escape from an Israeli jail since 1987, when six members of the Islamic Jihad broke out of a heavily-guarded jail in Gaza.

The escape, which marks a humiliating defeat for Israel, has prompted Tel Aviv to launch a massive manhunt in the occupied West Bank and to conduct air raids against the besieged Gaza Strip.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called the escape a “grave incident”, while Palestinians celebrated it on social media.

Palestinian resistance groups, including Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, also hailed the jailbreak as a “heroic act” and a “powerful blow to the occupation forces”.

Source: WAFA news agency

COVID-19 Deaths, Cases Falling in Most Iranian Provinces

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IFP Editorial Staff
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“The COVID-19 disease is following a completely downward trend in 21 provinces across the country,” said Deputy Health Minister Alireza Reisi.

“Eight provinces have passed the peak of the disease, and the growing trend of the diseases has halted in three provinces,” he added.

“In two weeks’ time, the number of hospitalized patients, which currently stands at around 3,700 per day, will drop below 3,000,” he explained.

The official said efforts should gather pace to further immunize the society by vaccinating citizens who have not received the coronavirus jab, so far.

“The next peak in the coronavirus disease in the country is projected to strike in November. But if people are vaccinated, we will not see a large number of deaths among patients any longer even if the number of infections increases,” he explained.

“The first objective of vaccination is to decrease the number of fatalities among patients, and the second goal is to implement the smart quarantine plan,” he said.

He added the number of inoculation centres in the country is to increase to avoid long queues at vaccination centres.

Iran registered nearly 27,000 new cases on September 9, 2021, bringing the total caseload in the country to well over 5.2 million.

As many as 538 patients lost their lives in the same day, taking the overall death toll from COVID-19 to more than 112,000.

Chinese navy ‘expels US warship from territorial waters’

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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) announced Wednesday it had expelled a US guided-missile destroyer that trespassed in China’s territorial waters near the Nansha Islands in the South China Sea.

PLA Southern Theater Command Spokesperson Tian Junli said in a statement that the US military’s act had seriously undermined China’s sovereignty and security interests.

Calling Washington “a risk maker” to the security of the South China Sea and the “biggest destroyer” of the region’s safety and stability, Tian warned that the theater command will “remain on high alert”.

“We will resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security, as well as peace and stability in the region,” he added.

Source: CGTN

Iranian Daily Berates Foreign Interference in Afghanistan

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Kayhan wrote in an article that Iran is opposed to foreign interference in Afghanistan and supports the establishment of a national government based on the vote of all ethnic and religious groups.

Iran also wants the rights of all to be respected in Afghanistan, the newspaper added.

“In Iraq, too, the Islamic Republic of Iran adopted the same approach and left the occupiers in stalemate,” Kayhan added.

“And when terrorists launched a proxy war, Iran did not get involved directly; rather, Iran mostly had an advisory role aimed at mobilizing the general public to defend the country; Iran has done the same in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, too,” the daily explained.

“Of course, Afghanistan has key differences with Iraq and even Syria in terms of demographic, ethnic and religious makeup,” the paper said.

“Anyway, what is surprising and raises eyebrows is the question why some individuals whose signature motto has been ‘neither Gaza, nor Lebanon’ have suddenly come to call for Iran’s intervention in Afghanistan,” Kayhan wrote.

“Of course, it is important in its own right that these few but vociferous individuals are, by kicking up a fuss, trying to create the impression that they represent the public opinion,” the newspaper said.

This comes as Iran has condemned in the strongest terms the Taliban attacks against the Panjshir Valley, saying the Taliban must live up to their commitments, while expressing concern about the news emerging from the province.

The Taliban claimed on Monday that it had taken complete control of Panjshir, three weeks after taking over the country’s capital, Kabul. The Panjshir-based National Resistance Front disputed the claim.

Blinken: US ‘getting closer’ to abandon nuclear deal

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IFP Media Wire
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“I’m not going to put a date on it but we are getting closer to the point at which a strict return to compliance with the JCPOA does not reproduce the benefits that that agreement achieved,” Blinken told reporters in Germany in response to a question on the point at which it would no longer be possible to return to a deal.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a strongly-worded report Tuesday saying monitoring tasks in Iran have been “seriously undermined” after Tehran suspended some of the UN agency’s inspections of its nuclear activities.

After Ebrahim Raisi took over as new president of the country, Iran had also suggested that talks aimed at reviving the stalled Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) were unlikely to resume for two to three months.

Germany found the delay signalled by Tehran “far too long”, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas stated.

The German FM added he had telephoned his new counterpart in Tehran to get him to “return more swiftly to the negotiating table”.

Nevertheless, Maas noted Berlin still expects the new Iranian government to continue to support results from negotiations that had taken place so far.

Raisi became Iran’s president in early August, taking over from Hassan Rouhani, the principal architect on the Iranian side of the 2015 agreement.

The 2015 deal offered Iran an easing of western and UN sanctions in return for tight controls on its nuclear programme, monitored by the UN.

In retaliation for former US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal three years ago and his subsequent imposition of swingeing sanctions, Tehran in effect abandoned most of its commitments under the deal.

But Trump’s successor President Joe Biden wants to bring Washington back into the agreement.

Source: Agence France-Presse

Iran Urges Intl. Community to Make Israel Join NPT

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IFP Editorial Staff
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“At the regional level, unfortunately, the Israeli regime is in possession of different types of weapons of mass destruction and plays a destructive role in the Middle East,” said Majid Takht-Ravanchi in a ceremony marking International Day against Nuclear Tests where he welcomed efforts to enforce the NPT.

“We want the international community to make this regime joint the NPT unconditionally and allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to monitor its nuclear facilities,” he added.

Israel is widely believed to possess at least 80 nuclear warheads. This as Tel Aviv has not joined the NPT and does not allow international inspection of its nuclear sites. 

Majid Takht-Ravanchi said nuclear non-proliferation should top the agenda of the international system as it is only the non-proliferation and full destruction of nukes which can guarantee that such weapons will not be used.

He touched upon the 25th anniversary of the conclusion of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty as well as the importance of this day in commemorating the victims of atomic tests and the protection of the environment, decrying the US government’s role in that regard.

“Having conducted 1054 out of a total 2000 nuclear tests carried out since 1945, the United States has done the largest number of such tests so far compared to other countries,” he said.

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