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Iran attends quadrilateral meeting on Afghanistan

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Women in Afghanistan

Araghchi, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Pakistani Defense Minister Muhammad Asif held talks for the third time on the situation in Afghanistan.

The meeting was held on the sidelines of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Friday.

In the quadrilateral talks, the Iranian, Chinese, Russian and Pakistani officials reviewed the latest situation in Afghanistan and issued a statement with 19 points.

Araghchi strongly criticized the destructive role of the US and NATO in Afghanistan and stressed that Washington and other NATO members must be held accountable for the current disastrous situation in Afghanistan, the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s website reported.

He then pointed to the consequences of the US’s 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, saying the US intervention and its long-term military presence in Afghanistan has brought nothing but misery and insecurity.

He added the US intervention in Afghanistan took the lives of a large number of innocent Afghans, damaged their health and increased terrorism, drugs, corruption, poverty and displacement.

Araghchi stated that the US and its allies left Afghanistan in 2021 in disgrace but they left behind chaos for Afghanistan and its neighbors.

It should not be forgotten that the US and NATO allies are responsible for many problems with which Afghanistan and its neighbors grapple today, the Iranian minister said.

He further expressed serious concern about the economic and humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, saying terrorist groups, especially Daesh offshoots, are taking advantage of the current situation to gain more influence.

He stressed that Iran, as a close neighbor of Afghanistan, has been severely affected by the flow of refugees and illegal immigrants, adding that since the withdrawal of the US in August 2021, the massive migration from Afghanistan has put enormous pressure on Iran while the nation is under illegal sanctions.

Iran hosts more than six million Afghans and spends over 10 billion dollars annually to meet their needs, Araghchi stated, saying the international community must provide continuous support to the main host countries such as Iran.

“That humanitarian aid for refugees must be impartial and unconditional and without political interference,” he added.

The Iranian minister also criticized the unilateral US sanctions that have adversely affected efforts to get humanitarian aid to Afghan refugees, saying this action is inhumane and illegal.

The frozen assets of Afghanistan must be unlocked unconditionally, and sanctions must not hinder its economic recovery, he underlined.

Araghchi warned against the security situation in Afghanistan and said terrorist groups like Daesh and al-Qaeda threaten not only the people of Afghanistan but also the security of the region.

The neighboring countries cannot allow terrorism and violent extremism to take root in Afghanistan, he noted.

The Iranian minister emphasized the need for cooperation with the Afghan authorities in fighting terrorism, adding, “We must step up our efforts to this end and form a united front against these destructive forces. Our message must be clear: Terrorism has no place in Afghanistan and the broader region”.

He also stressed the need for a common commitment to improve humanitarian, social and economic conditions in Afghanistan, noting, “We must not let political motives keep us from providing vital aid to the people of Afghanistan… our Western partners must understand that depriving an entire population of their basic needs will not promote human rights and will not improve the situation of women and girls.”

Araghchi finally voiced Iran’s readiness to play a more active role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan and called for more cooperation on the part of the international community in fighting drugs, terrorism and tackling the issue of migrants.

US charges several Iranians with hack of Trump campaign

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IFP Media Wire
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Cyber attack

Prosecutors on Friday unsealed charges against Masoud Jalili, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri and Yasar Balaghi.

They each face 18 counts, including aggravated identity theft, material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, wire fraud, and conspiracy to obtain information from a protected computer.

The men “prepared for and engaged in a wide-ranging hacking campaign” that targeted current and former U.S. government officials, members of the media, political campaigns and others, prosecutors added.

The scheme began around January 2020 and continued through at least this month, according to the charging papers.

“Such activity is part of Iran’s continuing efforts to stoke discord, erode confidence in the U.S. electoral process, and unlawfully acquire information relating to current and former U.S. officials that could be used to advance the malign activities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),” the indictment reads.

The plot is also part of ongoing efforts to avenge the death of General Qassem Soleimani, according to the indictment. Soleimani was assassinated in January 2020 on orders approved by then-President Trump.

Trump’s campaign was hacked earlier this summer, but the issue was not made public until August, after reporters contacted the former president’s team who announced they were approached by a man claiming to be named Robert who said he had internal campaign documents.

The indictment notes the men used fake online personas to “trick” several victims.

The FBI previously indicated Iran made similar attempts to hack the Democratic campaign of President Joe Biden, before he dropped out of the race. Vice President Kamala Harris was also targeted, but the effort was unsuccessful.

The agency added Iran attempted to share stolen information from the Trump campaign with Biden’s campaign — and continues to send material to media outlets — but there is no evidence the president’s campaign engaged with them. Harris’s campaign previously condemned the effort and said similar emails were ignored.

Prosecutors say hackers also targeted current or former officials at agencies including the Department of Defense, State Department and the CIA, in addition to current or former members of Congress, White House staffers and several journalists.

In a statement, FBI Director Christopher Wray called the hacking effort “brazen behavior” by Iran to interfere in the presidential election. Iran previously denied involvement in the hacking campaign.

“Today the FBI would like to send a message to the Government of Iran: You and your hackers can’t hide behind your keyboards,” Wray stated.

“If you try to meddle in our elections, we’re going to hold you accountable. If you try to attack our infrastructure or commit violence against our citizens, we’re going to disrupt you. And as long as you keep attempting to flout the rule of law, you’re going to keep running into the FBI,” he added.

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations has refuted as ‘baseless’ the claims that Tehran has been interfering in US presidential elections.

Zelensky leaves US without permission to use weapons to strike deep inside Russia

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Biden Zelensky

The president posted a video to Telegram that says he presented the US with his “victory plan” during the trip to America.

“We have now tasked our teams to flesh out every step, every decision,” he said in the video.

“Everything that is key for Ukraine, the partners now have on their table. Everything is being considered: the long range, a defense package, sanctions against Russia, steps about Russian assets,” he added.

Earlier, Politico reported, citing sources, that the United States was still discussing the possibility of allowing strikes deep inside Russia with Western weapons, even though the Pentagon expressed a view that the move would not likely bring strategic benefit to Kiev.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that such a move would directly involve the US and its allies in the conflict, given that Kiev is unable to fire sophisticated weapons without Western assistance and targeting data.

Iranian analyst: Israeli PM speech at UN ‘deceitful, shameful’

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Netanyahu UN

Ahmad Zeidabadi, a reformist analyst mostly focusing on Middle Eastern issues, in his Telegram channel censured the Israeli premier for his speech about Gaza and Lebanon which “was completely warlike and devoid of any softness.”

He slammed Netanyahu for not even mentioning “the continued occupation of the West Bank, the establishment of Jewish settlements in this area and the violation of the Palestinians’ rights, about which there is a complete consensus in the international community.”

Zeidabadi also raised the alarm for Iranians, warning, “Meanwhile, Netanyahu disclosed his final destination in the region. He specifically targeted Tehran. Apparently, his ultimate goal is to spread the fire of the war to Iran.” He was referring to the Israeli assassination of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31.

Addressing the annual gathering, a belligerent Netanyahu said, “There is no place no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach and that’s true of the entire Middle East.”

Scores of diplomats walked out on his speech at the UN to protest against the bloodbath in Gaza and the carnage in Lebanon

In another post on the regional developments, Zeidabadi blamed the international community’s silence, writing, “The situation on the surface shows Netanyahu’s rebellion and self-indulgence in his attack on Lebanon, but there is a sense of coordination and perhaps agreement between him and many countries in this regard.”

Israeli strikes on Beirut ‘clear war crime’: Iran

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Nasser Kanaani

“Besides amounting to egregious violation of the rules and regulations of the international law and Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the savage attacks serve as an open and undeniable war crime,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Friday.

The official reminded that the atrocity had been committed with “the bombs [that had been] gifted to the wayward and obstinate regime by the US”.

“Therefore, the American regime is undoubtedly an accomplice beside the Zionist regime and should be accountable,” he added.

Earlier in the day, the Israeli regime targeted residential neighborhoods in the Haret Hreik area in Beirut’s southern suburbs, completely destroying six buildings and killing several people.

The attacks came as part of the regime’s escalation against Lebanon that has been targeting the country since October 7, when Tel Aviv launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

The escalation has taken a deadlier turn since Monday, claiming the lives of more than 700 people across the country.

“Today’s attacks by the child-killing Zionists against Beirut indicates the depth of the grudge that is held by the criminal Zionist gang against the Lebanese resistance and their desperation and frustration at confrontation with the courageous forces of the Lebanese Islamic Resistance on the battlefield,” Kanaani noted.

The official also considered continuation of the Israeli crimes against the people of Palestine and Lebanon to be a clear sign that the US and some other Western countries’ invitation towards ceasefire was nothing but “open deceit” aimed at buying time for the regime to keep up the deadly aggression.

The spokesperson also put continuation of the aggression down to the international community’s inaction in the face of the atrocities.

Kanaani, however, expressed confidence about the Lebanese people and resistance’s eventual victory in the face of the regime.

“The Zionists will not be able to achieve their sinister and illegitimate goals by intensifying their crimes [against Lebanon],” he noted.

The official finally reasserted the Islamic Republic’s support for Lebanon’s people, government, and resistance in the face of the Israeli atrocities.

Pezeshkian calls Israel’s attack on Beirut ‘state terrorism’

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IFP Media Wire
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Masoud Pezeshkian

“The Zionist regime’s attacks of today against the Dahiyeh area in Beirut were egregious and unobscurable war crimes that once again revealed the nature of the regime’s state terrorism,” Pezeshkian said in a statement on Friday.

“The crimes committed by the Zionist regime against the people of Palestine and Lebanon are a sign of the international community’s inability to stop the machinery of state terrorism, proving this regime is the greatest threat to regional and international peace and security,” he added.

The Iranian president called for a unified global response, particularly from Muslim nations, to “condemn this crime”.

“The Islamic Republic’s administration will pursue the Zionists’ recent crime, and will stand by Lebanon’s people and the Axis of Resistance,” he noted.

Israel carries out multiple air strikes targeting residential apartment buildings in southern Beirut in attack described as “unprecedented”, and children are reported among those killed as rescuers dig through rubble.

Israel’s military launches waves of attacks on Beirut after dismissing global calls for a ceasefire with Hezbollah, intensifying a bombing campaign that has killed more than 700 people in Lebanon since Monday.

Iran says Israel used US-made 5,000-pound bunker-buster bombs in Beirut strike

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IFP Media Wire
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Lebanon War

The top diplomat made the remarks on Friday during a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York.

“Just this morning, the Israeli regime used several 5,000-pound bunker busters that had been gifted to them by the United States to hit residential areas in Beirut,” he said.

“One cannot disregard the US’s complicity in the crime,” the official noted.

Earlier in the day, Israeli warplanes struck at least six residential structures in Dahiyeh’s Haret Hreik neighborhood, killing at least six people and wounding some 90 others.

The regime kept on the raids on Saturday, when it targeted several buildings in the al-Hadath and Laylaki neighborhoods in the same area with at least 15 airstrikes.

The attacks came as part of the regime’s escalation against Lebanon that has been targeting the country since October 7, when Tel Aviv launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

The escalation has taken a deadlier turn since Monday, claiming the lives of more than 700 people across the country.

Araghchi stated the Security Council and the international community’s failure to stop the genocide had now emboldened the Israeli regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his henchmen to “harbor the dream of repeating [Gaza’s] massacres in Lebanon and drag the entire into a full-scale war.”

“The criminal Israeli mafia is rather being rewarded” as a result of the international inaction “and its crimes being normalized before our eyes,” he added.

Araghchi reiterated that “Israel’s warmongering relies on US military support and political backing …. Therefore, the United States is implicated in every aspect of Israel’s atrocity”.

The US provides most of the bombs that the regime’s drops on Gazans. It also uses its influence and veto power as a permanent member of the Security Council to prevent the body from either holding the regime accountable or taking it to task for its atrocities.

Araghchi called on Washington to simply withhold the support from the regime if it truly laments the loss of human life in Gaza as it claims it does.

“The council must act now to stop Israel’s cruel plan to exterminate an entire nation of people who, for eight long decades, have been under brutal occupation and suppression.”

Elsewhere in his remarks, Araghchi warned the American people that Netanyahu was trying to involve the US in a war with the entire region as means of both prolonging his political longevity and influencing the results of the country’s upcoming elections.

He concluded his remarks by saying that continuation of the regime’s bloodletting would also cause the people of the region to realize its nature as a “nasty element” that is part of a “colonial project planted in our region to embroil it in interminable cycles of wars and violence”.

At least 2 killed, dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes on Beirut, fate of Hezbollah chief unclear

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IFP Media Wire
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Lebanon War

At least two people were killed and 76 injured by several Israeli airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Lebanese Health Ministry said Friday.

The ministry added this was a preliminary casualty count. Rescuers continue to search through the rubble and the ministry “expects the casualty count to rise in the coming hours”.

Six buildings were completely destroyed by several Israeli strikes, state news agency NNA reported. Video from the immediate aftermath of the explosion showed a massive crater that dwarfed the rescuers navigating the rubble nearby.

Images of the aftermath of Israeli strikes on Beirut suggest 2,000-pound bombs were used.

Lebanon’s Health Minister, Firass Abiad, said there had been a “complete decimation” of four to six residential buildings as a result of the Israeli strikes on Beirut on Friday.

Abiad told the New York Times that the number of casualties in hospitals was low so far because people were still trapped under the rubble, adding, “They are residential buildings. They were filled with people. Whoever is in those buildings is now under the rubble.”

Israeli officials claim Nasrallah was the target of the raid in the Lebanese capital Beirut, stating the Israeli military is working to verify whether he was killed in the attack.

When asked whether the Hezbollah leader is alive or dead following a massive Israeli strike in Beirut, a Lebanese security official told CNN: “We wait.”

But, citing a source close to the group, Reuters reported that Nasrallah is alive. A close source to Hezbollah also told AFP that the resistance leader is “fine”.

Najib Mikati, the caretaker Prime Minister of Lebanon, stressed that the Israeli attack on Beirut shows that Tel Aviv “does not care” about global calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon.

The raid marked a major escalation by Israel, which has been gradually expanding deadly strikes on Lebanon in recent days.

Last week, thousands of pagers and other devices exploded in Lebanon. At least 37 people were killed and more than 3,000 were wounded in the blasts. At least 45 people, including top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil and other senior commanders of the Radwan special forces unit, were also killed and dozens more wounded in an Israeli air raid in Beirut last Friday.

Then on Monday, Israel began launching hundreds of air strikes that have killed more than 700 people across Lebanon this week, including children and women.

Additionally, more than 118,000 people have been displaced, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). However, Lebanon’s minister in charge of the crisis response estimates that the actual number of displaced people is more than 250,000.

Hezbollah has responded with rocket and missile attacks on a number of sites across the occupied territories.

On Thursday, Tel Aviv rejected a US and French proposal for a temporary 21-day truce between Hezbollah and Israel.

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Israel will fight until “total victory” in its continuing war on the Gaza Strip and promised to continue attacks on Hezbollah, as hopes faded for a ceasefire that could head off an all-out regional war.

Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed more than 41,500 Palestinians and wounded more than 96,000 others since October 7, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

Iranians hold countrywide rallies against Israel

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Iranians hold countrywide rallies against Israel

The demonstrations were held after the Friday prayers throughout Iran where the protesters had placards bearing slogans against Israel and its western supporters.

Iranians hold countrywide rallies against Israel

At the end of their rallies in Tehran, the protesters issued a statement, saying the Israeli regime’s targeting of Hezbollah commanders shows the apartheid entity is bent on broadening the war across the region.

The ralliers also demanded that the UN stop Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians and the Lebanese and pave the way for the Palestinian people to determine their fate through a referendum or peace will not be restored in the Middle East.

Iranians hold countrywide rallies against Israel

The experience of the past year and the shameful silence of the UN Security Council and international organizations toward the Israeli regime’s crimes shows that international institutions actually serve the interests of arrogant powers and the Zionist regime, said the demonstrators.

The protesters reaffirmed Iran’s support for the cause of Palestine and vowed that the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh by Israel would not go unanswered.

Iran FM Says Ending Occupation Only Way to Peace in Palestine

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IFP Editorial Staff
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Araqchi made the remarks in a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Ministerial Committee on Palestine held on Thursday in New York.

Referring to the escalation of violence and human rights violations against Palestinian civilians by the Israeli regime during the past year, the foreign minister said the number of those killed in Gaza is approaching the 42,000 mark, 70 percent of whom are innocent children and women.

Iran FM Says Ending Occupation Only Way to Peace in Palestine

Araqchi pointed out that the developments in Palestine prove that the efforts to destroy the Palestinian resistance and Hamas, as a liberation movement, have not been successful.

He also touched on the situation in Lebanon, saying, the Israeli regime’s strikes on Lebanon and breaching the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are worrying and have put the lives of innocent civilians at risk.

The Iranian foreign minister demanded the NAM Ministerial Committee on Palestine show its support for the Palestinian nation’s legitimate struggle by presenting meaningful proposals and measures, including an immediate and lasting ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon, lifting the siege on Gaza, the release of Palestinian inmates, and the necessity for a complete Israeli pullout from Gaza.

The top Iranian diplomat said, “We suggest that all Palestinian people, whether in their own homeland or outside of Palestine, decide about their future through a referendum. We are confident that through this mechanism we can achieve a lasting peace in which Muslims, Christians, and Jews can live together in peace and harmony.”

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