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Russia warns against ‘raising stakes’ on JCPOA

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Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov says Moscow intends to raise the issue at the upcoming meeting with US Special Representative for Iran Robert Malley, scheduled for Wednesday.

“We warn our Western colleagues against further raising stakes in terms of developing some formulations ‘condemning’ Iran that could be included in a hypothetical resolution of the IAEA Board of Governors,” Ryabkov old Sputnik on Wednesday, pointing to a number of leaks on the matter in US media outlets.

“We know that the Western circles are engaged in some coordination on this topic. In our upcoming conversation with Robert Malley, we will outline our position,” Ryabkov added.

The Russian diplomat emphasized the need to exercise restraint and keep looking for compromise persistently yet patiently.

Russia notes that Iran’s nuclear program keeps developing but believes this process could be reversed if the negotiations in Vienna are resumed, Ryabkov stated.

“Iran’s nuclear program is developing. I emphasize that Iran’s actions in this area are reversible, a return to the ‘original settings’ of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is possible. To do this, it is necessary to resume the negotiations in Vienna as soon as possible,” he continued.

Ryabkov noted he will meet with Malley later on Wednesday to discuss the resumption of the negotiations in Vienna aimed at restoring the JCPOA.

“Today, I will hold consultations with US special envoy for Iran Robert Malley in Moscow. We will focus on the situation around the task of resuming the negotiations in Vienna, as the pause is protracted,” Ryabkov stated.

Ryabkov expressed hope that the US will have a balanced and responsible approach and will not complicate the situation further with its statements and deeds.

The top diplomat also told TASS it is unacceptable to depart from the negotiating positions that were achieved in the Vienna talks on Iran’s nuclear program.

“It is unacceptable to depart from these negotiating positions. Attempts to revise what was agreed in Vienna would be counterproductive and we will keep sending signals about that both to Iran and our colleagues from the Western group,” he pointed out.

Ryabkov pointed out that Moscow maintained close contact with all parties to the negotiation process, holding teleconferences and consultations through embassies. 

“We have a deep partnership with China. China’s position on the Iran issue is similar to ours. We are content with how our countries are pursuing a policy aimed at finding a comprehensive solution to the task of restoring the JCPOA. We will try to make every possible effort to encourage our Western colleagues to do the same. Consequently, consultations with the US envoy are part of these efforts,” Ryabkov concluded.

Talks involving Iran and five world powers (Russia, the United Kingdom, Germany, China and France) on restoring the original nuclear deal have been taking place in Vienna since April. The agenda includes issues related to the lifting of US sanctions on Iran, Tehran’s implementation of its nuclear obligations and the United States’ return to the JCPOA. The deal’s participants are also holding separate consultations with the US, which don’t involve Iran. The delegations initially planned to complete the work in late May.

Afghanistan neighbors in talks over ongoing situation

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has said the six-way talks are aimed at exploring ways of giving aid to the Afghan people and restoring stability to Afghanistan. 

He said the Iranian foreign minister outlined Iran’s policy during the teleconference. According to Khatibzadeh, Amir Abdollahian blamed the US occupation for the dire situation in Afghanistan.  

The foreign minister also said Afghanistan’s current officials must do their best and neighbors should also help establish a lasting peace in Afghanistan. 

Amir Abdollahian reaffirmed Iran’s position that the crisis in Afghanistan has no military solution, just as the country’s history has shown that’s the case. All Afghan groups must join hands to resolve the crisis through dialogue.  

The foreign minister added it’s Iran’s policy to give priority to the Afghan people’s will and Afghanistan can achieve stability through the establishment of an inclusive government based on the country’s ethnic fabric. 

Amir Abdollahian also stressed the need for giving humanitarian aid to Afghans in this critical period.

Iran has been making efforts to help resolve disputes between different Afghan factions following the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban. 

Iran says only Afghans themselves can decide their future through dialogue, adding the Afghan crisis has no military solution.

 

Hacker claims stolen info of 7mln Israelis

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IFP Media Wire
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The attacker stated he stole the data from the CITY4U website, which is used by local authorities in Israel to process payments such as property taxes, fines and utility bills.

The National Cyber Directorate announced it was investigating the hacker’s claims, but that the document leak was likely old information.

The attacker first claimed to have hacked Israeli municipalities on Sunday in a post on the Telegram messaging application. Starting Monday, he released images of documents he noted backed up his claims, including Israeli identity cards, driver’s licenses and tax bills. The documents were sent out on Telegram and online hacking forums.

The attacker offered the data for sale without disclosing the asking price, and hinted he may reveal more information in the coming days.

If this is the truth – it could be one of the biggest and most significant hacks in Israeli history.

The alleged attack appears similar to a hack of Israel’s Shirbit insurance company last year and comes amid a global uptick in ransomware attacks.

In the Shirbit attack, a hacking group calling itself Black Shadow broke into the insurance firm, stealing client details and demanding a ransom or it would publish the data to the internet. The company refused to pay and the hackers later said they had sold the information on the dark web.

Sources, The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post

Saudi security chief fired over embezzlement

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported that dismissal of Al-Harbi comes as part of a royal decree that includes 19 other officials which it did not identify.

The decree was issued based on official reports that Al-Harbi “committed numerous violations and breaches with the aim of seizing public money and personal interest”.

Al-Harbi stands “accused of committing a number of crimes, including forgery, bribery, and abuse of power, with the participation of 18 people from the public and private sectors”.

The royal order also directed the kingdom’s official Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority to complete investigations into him and everyone involved in the matter, without giving further details.

Iran workers call for a ban on foreign-made home appliances

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The petition was put on display during Iranian Parliament’s open session on Wednesday. 

The petition reads, “We, Iranian workers and engineers at home appliance companies, have managed to make Iran self-sufficient in the field under sanctions and very difficult circumstances and are able now to meet domestic demands. We here announce our firm opposition to the return of foreign products”. 

The signatories also warned officials not to endanger jobs and livelihoods of Iranian workers. 

Figures show some 300 thousand Iranians directly work in the field of home appliance production while 1.5 million others are indirectly involved in the field. Iran has achieved self-sufficiency in production of home appliances. 

Reports say foreign manufacturers of home appliances are likely to return to Iran after they left the country amid mounting US sanctions under former president Donald Trump. 

An Iranian MP recently called for barring South Korean companies LG and Samsung from returning to the Iranian market. 

Meanwhile, a source close to the Iranian home appliances guild union says the US is pave the way for the return of Samsung and LG to Iran so that they pay back South Korea’s debt to Iran through supplying the Iranian market with home appliances. South Korea has failed to pay back its debt, blaming its failure to do so on anti-Iran US sanctions.

Moscow ready for talks on JCPOA as Biden Iran envoy in Russia

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IFP Media Wire
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“Russia stands ready to maintain dialogue with our US counterparts on JCPOA,” Russia’s Permanent Representative to the Vienna-based international organizations Mikhail Ulyanov wrote on Twitter on Wednesday, commenting on media reports about President Joe Biden envoy’s upcoming visits to Moscow and Paris to discuss the issue.

The US Department of State announced on Tuesday that US Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley and a small delegation will be traveling to Moscow and Paris from 7-10 September for consultations with Russian and European partners “on Iran’s nuclear program and the need to quickly reach and implement an understanding on a mutual return to compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action”.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov also informed that he will hold consultations with Malley on Wednesday and Thursday in Moscow.

“We have consultations planned. They will be held today and tomorrow morning. We have been planning them for a rather long time in order to discuss the whole situation and look ahead. There are many problems, and, frankly speaking, now is one of those moments when it’s extremely important not to make a mistake,” he noted on Wednesday.

Talks between Iran and the five involved countries (Russia, the UK, China, France, and Germany) have been going on in Vienna since April. Their aim is restoring the original nuclear deal, which implies the removal of US sanctions imposed on Iran, compliance with nuclear obligations by Tehran, and the United States’ return to the accord. Representatives of the JCPOA members are also holding separate consultations with the US delegation without Iran’s participation. All the delegations involved initially hoped to complete the work in late May, after which they revised the date to early June.

Source: TASS

Two killed, several wounded in anti-Taliban protest in Afghanistan’s Herat

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IFP Editorial Staff
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The bodies were brought to the city’s central hospital from the site of the protest, a doctor, who asked not to be named out of fear of reprisals, told AFP.

“They all have bullet wounds,” he added.

The Ashwaq news agency also reported on Tuesday that the Taliban militants, which took over Afghanistan, detained Kabul activists demonstrating against Pakistan’s presence in their country.

The Afghan agency posted a video on Twitter showing police and military vehicles taking away the detained activists, while some shots rang out.

The news agency also reported that the radicals arrested several journalists who were covering the protests in Kabul. 

The TOLOnews TV channel mentioned that one of its cameramen was among those detained, while the channel’s Director Lotfullah Najafizada called on the Taliban to immediately release the journalist.

As Najafizada previously tweeted, hundreds of Afghans marched in Kabul on Tuesday carrying slogans criticizing Pakistan. The activists shouted anti-Pakistani slogans, accusing Islamabad of interfering in Afghan internal affairs.

Iran: Stability top priority for Afghanistan

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani also said in a twitter post that, “Failing to pay attention to the necessity for the formation of an inclusive government, foreign intervention and resorting to military tools instead of dialog to address the demands of ethnic and social groups are the key concerns of the friends of Afghan people.”    

The comments by the top Iranian security official come a day after the Taliban announced the formation of a caretaker government weeks after they swept to power as U.S.-led foreign forces left the war-hit country.

Taliban are now engaged in a military operation to bring the Panjshir valley under their control. That’s where head of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan Ahmad Massoud and his forces have been refusing to surrender to the Taliban.

Iran has condemned the attack on the valley and wants the situation to be resolved through talks.

Scotland restarts drive for independence vote

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IFP Media Wire
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Sturgeon has told civil servants to start making a new case for independence, which offers people “an informed choice on Scotland’s future” in the Scottish government’s first legislative programme since last month’s cooperation deal with the Scottish Greens.

Bills to set up a national care service and reform the Gender Recognition Act, as well as proposals for private sector rent controls by the end of this year, all featured in Sturgeon’s plan for the year to come in Holyrood.

The legislative programme follows the Scottish election campaign in May and is a look into her plans to fulfil the pledges made both in the SNP manifesto and in the pact signed with the Greens this summer. Sturgeon recommitted to one key plank of the power-sharing deal to hold a referendum on independence within the first half of this parliament and before the end of 2023.

Stating that the “immediate priority of this government is to lead Scotland out of the pandemic”, Sturgeon also pledged measures to tackle the country’s continuing stark rates of child poverty, including a delivery plan for “wraparound childcare”, offering care for families on low incomes before and after school and during holidays.

It also made good on the SNP manifesto commitment to increase the Scottish child payment from £10 to £20 a child a week “as early within the life of the parliament as possible”.

Sturgeon also announced pilots of a four-day working week, backed by a £10m fund for participating companies, work to develop a minimum income guarantee, a consultation on Scots law’s controversial not proven verdict and a miners’ pardon bill to provide a collective pardon for those convicted of certain offences during the 1984-85 strike.

But the programme, which is akin to the Queen’s speech in the Westminster parliament, was dismissed by Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar as “a plan that isn’t good enough, it isn’t bold enough and it won’t do enough”.

“Barely a week goes by without someone from the government’s frontbenches declaring something mundane, re-badged or self-serving as ‘historic’,” he said, adding, “But the dire truth is that despite the SNP’s rhetoric, the only thing historic today is the levels of child poverty on our streets, the numbers waiting for treatment in our hospitals, and the depth of the economic crisis facing Scotland.”

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton raised particular concerns about a centralized social care service, describing it as “a gimmick and a ministerial power grab. Scottish Liberal Democrats stand with the RCN and other stakeholders who believe these proposals will distract from and delay implementation of other important reforms”.

While Cole-Hamilton criticized Scottish Greens for “giving up any premise of opposition”, they insisted that they had “heavily influenced” the programme, pointing to commitments to dedicate at least 10% of the transport budget to active travel by 2024-25 and £1.8bn over the course of the parliament to net zero buildings.

Source: The Guardian

Iran enjoy easy win over Iraq in 2022 World Cup qualifier

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iran opened the scoring in Doha’s Khalifa International Stadium with captain Alireza Jahanbakhsh’s thunderous header just three minutes into the match.

In the 69th minute, Mehdi Taremi made it 2-0 when he received a long ball and slid it low between the Iraqi goalkeeper’s feet.

And in the 90th minute, Substitute Ali Gholizadeh scored the last goal for Iran.

Team Melli (the National Team) were hailed for their result and performance. They are consolidating their position at the top of group A, now with six points.

Iran beat Syria 1-0 on Thursday.

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